KHALID's CV
KHALID ALAWANI
Lead Panel Operator | Gas Storage & Export Operations
Profile summary
Strategic Lead Panel Operator with 13 years of experience spanning 4 organizations, specializing in DCS and SCADA systems, LNG operations, and marine loading. Fluent in Arabic, English, and Hindi, bringing trilingual capability to complex industrial environments. Directs control room activities, manages tank farm operations, and oversees process parameters while maintaining strict compliance with HSE protocols. Committed to ensuring plant stability, safety, and operational efficiency across gas storage and export facilities.
Career highlights
Control Room Operations: Directs control room activities and monitors DCS and SCADA systems, managing process parameters, alarms, and interlocks within safe operating limits.
Field and Marine Operations: Shaped field operations strategy for ADNOC Gas starting in 2021, steering plant stability and troubleshooting activities while coordinating marine loading and export functions across the site.
Tank Farm Management: Managed tank farm operations, custody transfer, and product quality while ensuring strict compliance with PTW, LOTO, and HSE procedures.
LNG Processing and Safety: Managed LNG operations and marine loading support, overseeing cryogenic transfer and system monitoring activities to ensure facility safety.
Key skills
Professional experience
- Operates and monitors DCS and SCADA systems from the control room, ensuring stable plant operations.
- Manages process parameters, alarms, and interlocks within safe operating limits.
- Handles process upsets and abnormal conditions, maintaining plant stability.
- Executes startups, shutdowns, and ESD scenarios from the panel.
- Coordinates with field teams to ensure safe and efficient execution of operations.
Shaped field operations strategy for ADNOC Gas starting in 2021, steering plant stability and troubleshooting activities while coordinating marine loading and export functions across the site.
- Managed tank farm operations, custody transfer, and product quality while ensuring strict compliance with PTW, LOTO, and HSE procedures.
- Supervised field execution during simultaneous operations, maintenance, and shutdown activities.
Directed LNG operations and marine loading support, overseeing cryogenic transfer and system monitoring activities to ensure facility safety. Provided continuous startup and shutdown support for industrial production processes.
- Executed cryogenic transfer protocols and system monitoring tasks across daily facility operations.
Steered gas processing workflows and field monitoring activities, reporting to plant leadership to maintain operational readiness across processing units. Guided safety compliance procedures throughout daily operations while enforcing health and environmental protocols.
- Monitored plant operations and field conditions to maintain functional support for processing units.
- Processed passenger check-in and boarding tasks using airline systems while maintaining high accuracy.
- Aligned ground operations with security and flight crews to preserve on-time departure metrics.
Languages
Arabic · Native
English · Fluent
Hindi · Professional