RESUME

Raymond L de Weever
HOME: (297)5853331
Santa Lucia 5-M
Cell: (297)5640261
ARUBA, West Indies.
Email: Weekoo@setarnet.aw
Nationality: Netherlands.
Present work place: Valero Aruba refinery

Qualifications & Work summary: Twenty five years of Petrochemical

and refining experience. Present job title is Senior Inspection
engineer and also supervisory role in NDE coordination as well as
quality control (QC) inspection in routine maintenance and
projects. One of the two company owner/user R-stamp NBIC
inspectors (OU-976). Experience in representing the company as
the 3rd party inspector in numerous major projects. Worked also in
process engineering in the field of boiler feed water/process
water treatment management.
Personal: Date of birth is May 24, 2957. Age is 52. Education is
mechanical engineering obtained in 1983 at the University of the
Netherlands Antilles. Physical condition: in good health a
general physical done this year was okay.
Certifications: Level 2 certified in UT, PT, RT, MT and IR. Level
3 certified in UT, ASNT-TC1A # 144942. Certified inspector in
API-510,570,653 and 936. National Board Inspector OU-976. Level 2
Radiographic film interpretation.

Professional Work Experience: April 2002 to present, Company

Valero Aruba Refinery. Function: Refinery Senior Inspection
engineer for routine maintenance and turnaround inspection
engineering issues such as addressing remaining life assessments
of corroded/ damaged pressure equipment and piping parts using
API-579 methodologies and risk ranking. Coordinator of complete
refinery wide PMI (Positive Material Identification) program of
piping systems exposed to high temperature sulfidation attacks
and high temperature hydrogen attack. This included two third
party inspection companies and NDE technicians with a total
budget of approx. 5 million dollars to execute and complete the
projects. Ninety five percent of all lower grade Nonconformance
issues were replaced during planned shutdowns. Presently setting
up refinery wide CUI (corrosion under insulation) inspection
program using specialized NDE techniques for piping and pressure
equipment. In charge of daily UPIPE activities with two dedicated
NDE crews for wall thickness measurements on piping/ pressure
equipment. As Quality Control coordinator/ inspector, main
accomplishments were third party inspector of new convection bank
fabrications for crude heaters at sites in Spain and Mexico. Main
focus concerning Quality Control inspection for the replacement
of low alloy outlet headers of the hydrogen heaters. In respect
to NDE side: Setup of tank shell plate UT inspection with use of
scorpion tank crawler system, completed so far 25 tanks. Eddy
current inspection of non-ferrous heat exchanger tubes during
planned turnarounds. UTSW of piping welds and pressure equipment
nozzles. Arrangement of all specialized NDE work during scheduled
shutdowns. As part of other engineering responsibilities executes
updates/batch calculations in our risk based dbase based on
inspection results and applied NDE inspections and calculated RBI
future inspections.

January 1984- February 2002: Company: Refinery ISLA SA (PDVSA)

started in 1986 as inspector during turnarounds. Worked for
approx. 16 years in mechanical/ civil inspection during
turnarounds of the following units: HDS, Crude, Vacuum, HF Alky,
sulfur recovery and FCCU units. Inspector in pressure vessels,
piping and heaters. Leading inspector during the HF-Alky and FCCU
units in refinery ISLA and Maraven PDVSA refinery in Punto
cardon, Venezuela. During the FCCU shutdowns was the main project
inspector with the revamps of the cyclones, dip leg upgrades of
the regenerators and reactors. New air grid system upgrades and
installation of new refractory systems RESCO AA22 and RS-17 in

the risers and down comers and equipment and in the HF Alky
fractionator section in replacement of the top cone section. In
2001 was the crude unit inspector for revamp of the crude tower
with 317L new trays due to processing of synthetic crude stock
from Venezuela. Main focus in the refinery Isla with replacement
of lower grade material with stainless steel 317L of hydrocarbon
piping processing high TAN crude ( Naphthenic acid attack )which
also included the main transfer lines. During the last 5 years at
ISLA refinery, senior mechanical inspector with two junior staff
inspectors reporting to me. The units responsible for were: 10
units FCCU, HF Alky, HDS and their attached units.