Houston GPA Educational Sessions
March 23, 2016
Overview of Process Safety Engineering
by Kindra Snow-McGregor
This educational session provides an overview of process safety engineering fundamentals for hydrocarbon processing facilities, with emphasis on the upstream oil and gas sector. References will be made to historical incident data bases and the most frequent equipment involved in incidents.
MRS. KINDRA SNOW-MCGREGOR is the Technical Director for the Oil and Gas Technical Division of PetroSkills | John M Campbell. She has MS and BS degrees in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and 18 years of experience in the oil and gas Industry. She has been with the company for over 7 years, and has served in a number of positions including manager of consulting, senior staff engineer, and discipline manager for the Oil and Gas Processing Discipline. Her most recent accomplishment was serving as one of the primary editors on the 9th edition of 'Gas Conditioning and Processing', which are the reference volumes for our flagship course G-4. Her particular areas of expertise include gas conditioning (amine and dehydration), NGL extraction (NGL recovery from gas), NGL fractionation and storage, process optimization, sulfur handling, and process safety. Prior to joining John M Campbell & Company in 2008, she served as technical manager, process manager, and held lead process engineering roles in the oil and gas engineering, procurement and construction business. She has served as the technical lead on several significant projects in the industry for clients such as BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas and XTO. She has been actively involved in industry groups for many years, such as the Gas Processors Association, and the Rocky Mountain Gas Processors Association. Currently she is on the GPSA Engineering Data Book Editorial Review Board, and prior to this role, served on the GPA Technical Research Committee, Sub-Group 2, for over 11 years. She has published seven technical papers at international conferences, served as project coordinator for GPA research report 221, and is a co-inventor on two technology patents in the gas processing industry.
Schedule:
7:45 Hot Buffet Breakfast starts
8:15 Educational Session begins
11:15 Educational Session ends
11:30 HGPA Luncheon called to order and lunch begins