Trade-off analysis between fired heater safety logic and operability: Challenges of excessive safety instrumentation

is a Operation Engineer within Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Refinery Department, specializing in naphtha block hydroprocessing and reforming units. He is a professional chemical engineer with 12 yr of industry experience, and an active member in international engineering bodies such as Engineers Australia and IChemE, UK. He earned an MS degree in chemical engineering from the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, and an MBA degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan, Pakistan.

Andres Rodriguez is a Process Engineering Manager at Saudi Aramco. He has more than 24 yrs of extensive experience in the oil and gas industry, with specialized knowledge in various refining units, including sulfur recovery, hydrodesulfurization, amine regeneration, sour water stripping, diesel hydrotreating and gasification processes. Throughout his career, Rodriguez has worked across multiple countries, including France, Canada, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. In the past decade, he has played a key role in the design, commissioning and startup phases of the Jazan refinery project. He has earned an MS degree in chemical refining and an MBA.

Muhammad R. Hafeez is a Lead Process Engineer with Saudi Aramco’s Engineering Department, specializing in crude and vacuum distillation, diesel hydrotreating and flare processes. He is a chemical engineer with 18 yrs of hands-on experience in refinery operations management and commissioning and startup of new facilities. He is a certified Taproot lead investigator and holds a NEBOSH certification in process safety management.

is an Operation Engineer within Saudi Aramco’s Jazan Refinery Department, specializing in naphtha hydroprocessing, reforming, and aromatics extraction and processing units. He is a chemical engineer with 10 yr of industrial experience in refining and petrochemicals facilities. Ghadeer earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and an MS degree in refining and petrochemicals from the IFP School in Rueil-Malmaison, France.