Avinashkumar Karre

Mr. Karre is presently leading EPC projects as a Senior Process Engineer with Worley (formerly Jacobs Engineering) since 2011 and previously worked with Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and British Gas Exploration (BGEPIL, now Shell) for 3 years in the refining and oil/gas industry. He has been involved in all phases of both new and retrofit multi-discipline projects, from initial design concepts through detail design, construction, and operation. He has expertise in grassroots process design, process debottlenecking studies, process feasibility studies, and process safety analyses (HAZOP). Industry experience includes refining, petrochemical, chemical, water treatment, energy, and natural gas industries. Mr. Karre’s expertise includes the development of material and heat balances (H&MB) using process simulations (such as PRO-II, Promax 4.0, Aspen HYSYS), PFDs (process flow diagrams), P&IDs (Piping and Instrumentation diagrams), utility drawings, hydraulics, sizing relief valves, network hydraulics, flare header modeling, sizing control valves, equipment design (pumps, heat exchangers, columns, vessels, trays). He has worked for various energy and refinery projects such as FCC Units, Sulphur, and Tail Gas Plants, Crude and Vacuum Distillation Units, Fischer-Tropsch plants, Amine Treatment Unit, Naphtha Hydrotreaters, Saturated Gas Plant, Naphtha Splitters, and Hydrocracker Units. His expertise includes EPC projects and Fischer-Tropsch catalyst development in Chemical and Oil Refining projects with an installed cost of over US $300 MM. Apart from the full-time work, Mr. Karre is contributing to the oil/gas, chemical engineering, and petroleum research industry by actively participating in peer-review of several scientific journal papers, judging, publishing several scientific articles, and presenting at several technical conferences in chemical/ oil/gas/ petroleum fields.