FRED WILDEMAN, P.ENG.

V.P. ENGINEERING

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree, Chemical Engineering: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 1972

Professional Registrations

Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta
Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC

Areas of Technical Proficiency

Fred has close to 40 years' experience in the oil and gas industry and has been involved in hundreds of facilities, from the minute to some of the largest in the world, as well as countless facility troubleshooting and de-bottlenecking projects. Fred is responsible for process design and engineering for power co-generation plants; conventional oil and gas; CO2 recovery; EOR; NGL fractionation and storage facilities; and oil / NGL pipelines.

As a registered engineer in both Alberta and British Columbia, Fred has taught courses on dehydration, fractionation, plant operations, etc. His skill at communicating complex technical subjects to plant operators is unsurpassed.

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Experience Summary

Process Engineer
Develop heavy oil systems to improve oil recovery with propane, propane-gas and butane injection. Design butane and condensate blending systems for pipeline hydraulic improvements.

Conventional oil expertise includes troubleshooting, design and associated EOR projects that involve N2, ethane and CO2 floods. Experience designing facilities that manufacture high quality fracoil from condensate and oil streams.

NGL expertise in upstream recovery using refrigeration, cryogenics, lean oil and silica units. Expertise includes the design, operation, troubleshooting, and advanced control of downstream fractionation facilities.

Cryogenic facilities expertise in numerous process configurations associated with C2+ or C3+ recovery. Experience in N2 removal from natural gas streams as well as in BAHE design (with detailed sizing knowledge).

Gas processing expertise in all aspects of facility design, operation and troubleshooting of all unit operations contained in gas processing facilities, including the development of client product allocation systems for plant reporting and accounting. Client engineering and process operator training is occasionally provided.

Process Control
Expertise includes full spectrum from local pneumatics to advanced control techniques used in fractionation and cryo plants, including compressor control.

Process/Mechanical Design and Review
Process and mechanical design expertise includes evaluating design alternatives, developing preliminary process designs for facilities, and providing the initial design, sizing and operating philosophies for major processing equipment and utility systems. Work also includes creating operating guides and reports and conducting HAZOP studies.

Troubleshooting
Trouble shoot operating issues for numerous types of equipment, monitor process unit performances, conduct efficiency studies, and simulation and optimization analysis for process systems and equipment

Educational Trainer
Conduct training courses for operators, students (master level), and industry engineers on various aspects of gas processing.