Associates
CV: JAMES E. LITTLE, P. ENG.
3019 Cochrane Road NW, Calgary, Alberta T2M 4J4
Phone (403) 366-2388 email: jimlittle@shaw.ca
INTRODUCTION
Chemical Engineer with over thirty years experience in oil sands and bitumen processing including process design, project management, training and facilitating.
EDUCATION
B.Sc. (Honours) - Chemical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 1968
Certificate of Management Development (equivalent to first year MBA), University of Alberta, 1977
Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education (CACE), University of Alberta, 2002
Ordinary National Certificate, Chemistry (equivalent to SAIT diploma), Alloa Technical College, Scotland - 1963
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (life member).
PATENTS
Held US and Canadian Patents for Controlled Quenching of Hot Petroleum Coke (expired)
PUBLICATIONS
Estimating Pressure Drops Using Square Root Charts (Chemical Engineering)
INVENTION DISCLOSURE (current)
Mobile Floating Primary Separation Vessel (for removing bitumen froth while leaving the sand behind at the mine face)
POSITIONS HELD
1987 2006 SYNCRUDE CANADA LTD.
Process Development Engineer.
Principle Facilitator (see attached)
Project Manager
Product Quality Coordinator
Catalyst Coordinator
Technical Supervisor (Tank Farm)
1985 1987 HUSKY OIL OPERATIONS LTD.
Staff Process Engineer
Staff Project Engineer
1980 - 1985 LAVALIN
Manager, Research and Development, Lavalin Ocean Systems Limited
Manager, Business Development, Lavalin Ocean Systems Limited
Manager, Business Development, Partec Lavalin Inc.
Project Manager, Partec Lavalin Inc.
1968 - 1980 SUNCOR INC.
Project Manager
Project Engineer
Operations Engineer
Process Engineer
1959 - 1963 BP. CHEMICALS (UK.) LIMITED
Laboratory Technician
EXPERIENCE
Syncrude Canada Ltd. Fort McMurray, Alberta
Dry lime flue gas desulphurization
Nitrogen production
Over the fence hydrogen supply
Aromatic saturation
Sterically hindered (ultra low) sulphur in dibenzothiophenes in the diesel cut
Syncrude/Criterion catalyst alliance
Catalyst loading and shutdown / turnaround logistics
Chlorides management (site wide)
Synthetic crude oil product quality assurance. Resolved customer's synthetic crude oil quality issues
Integration of major mine development projects
Designed H2 plant steam/air heating system to operate at -45 C
Air quality monitoring stations
Tank Farm
Hydrotreating naphtha in diesel hydrotreater
Flare line eductor
Designed source tracking vehicle to trace spurious odours
Developed the company's Standard Practice for research projects.
Co-ordinator of the Fort McMurray R&D seminar.
Wrote the SSB Processing Guide to assist marketing synthetic crude oil
Facilitated UE-1 expansion (Decision Analyses, Risk Assessments, Pre Start-up Safety Reviews). Also outside Syncrude viz. CONRAD, Oil Sands Road Map, RCMP/Community Integration, Wood Buffalo Environmental Association, Provincial Food Inspectors (see attached).
Simulator for training panel operators
Instructor: risk assessments, situation appraisal, root cause, decision making, problem solving. Developed, Facilitated and Instructed courses on Facilitating, Priority Setting, Jim's Fix Up Technique, New Unit Start Up Integration, Pre Start-up Safety Reviews and Incident Investigation
Company lecturer to the final year mining students at U of Alberta three years in a row.
Company liaison with the Kepner Tregoe organization.
Synthetic Crude Oil Marketability Task Force
Presentations and tours; RDTV news
Husky Oil Operations Ltd.
Delayed Coking - provided conceptual design, supervised pilot plant and project managed the DBM to +/- 10% estimate.
Lavalin Ocean Systems Limited
Business Development - marketing offshore services
Research and Development of underwater tools and techniques
Remote operated underwater vehicles for construction, inspection and wellhead servicing
Partec Lavalin Inc.
Business development - engineering, procurement and construction
Project management - crude oil processing, refrigeration, compression, refinery expansion, oil sands, nitrogen, sulphur
Process - rehabilitation assessment of a mothballed 60 MSCFD hydrogen plant
Suncor Inc.
Bitumen recovery from oil sands tailings sludge
Retrofit of electrostatic precipitators
400 tonnes per day sulphur recovery unit
Recovered and purified sulphur block
Ultrafiltration of tailings
Deterrent for migrating birds
"Lost" pipeline location
Creek re-route
Pipeline rupture and post rupture rehabilitation of right-of-way (included liaison with provincial government)
Dredge, booster pump station and 18" pipeline for 17,000 gpm tailings slurry transfer
Operations - sulphur and coking units.
Process engineering design changes during commissioning - sulphur, coking, hydrogen units
BP. CHEMICALS (UK.) LIMITED
Laboratory - analysis of polyethylene, cumene, phenol, acetone, methanol, ethylene units. Testing cargo quality in outgoing coastal tankers.