Suradech Kongkiatpaiboon
Process safety & digital engineering
I help hydrocarbon facilities run safer and closer to their limits, combining 16 years of process design, relief-system authority and plant troubleshooting with the data and AI tools that prove where the margin is.
Tools I've built
Working prototypes that turn plant data and engineering standards into decisions operators can act on.
Stabilizer column monitor
Replays 16 months of historian data through a tray-hydraulics model calibrated to the vendor rating, finds the bottleneck, tests optimisation moves and trains operators on flooding and weeping upsets.
Case study and live app →Design assurance toolkit
OCR and parsing tools that read relief-valve datasheets, drawings and vendor bids, check them against the required specification, and write engineer-ready Excel outputs.
Case study →More work
AutoAD: automatic anomaly detection
Finds the system root cause behind unplanned shutdowns so production recovers faster.
Condensate RVP prediction with ML
Machine-learning prediction of Reid vapour pressure to optimise offshore condensate production.
Offshore sand management
Sand detection and removal technology paired with in-house IT tools to unlock high-sand reserves.
Compressor profile optimisation
Lower compression profiles to cut fuel-gas consumption and emissions.
Well unlock
Digital tools to find bottlenecks across wells, flowlines and remote compressors and unlock hydrocarbon reserves.
Automated Aspen HYSYS
Python framework that builds and runs HYSYS models from code, integrated with online process models.
SPE podcast chatbot
Scrapes and transcribes SPE podcasts, builds a recommendation system and serves it through a chat bot.
Sea wave height prediction
Data-science model to predict offshore sea wave height.
Where engineering fundamentals meet data
Process safety & relief systems
Alternate Local Technical Authority for process and flare/relief design. Relief-valve sizing, flare system assessment and gap closure to CCPS, API 520/521 and ASME.
Process design & debottlenecking
Conceptual to FEED topside design, HYSYS/HTRI simulation, H&MB, PFD and P&ID, HAZOP. Brownfield debottlenecking and shutdown recovery.
AI/ML for operations
Anomaly detection, machine-learning soft sensors, causality analysis and simulator automation. Product owner from idea to deployed tool.
Teaching & mentoring
Curriculum evaluation committee for chemical engineering at Chulalongkorn University, guest lectures, and mentoring 60+ early-career engineers.
Sharing what works
Open to invited talks, guest lectures, mentoring and research collaborations on process safety and digital engineering.
University governance
Member, Curriculum Evaluation Committee, Chemical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University.
Guest lecturer
Invited speaker for chemical engineering seminars.
Conference speaker
Invited talks at APOGCE, OTC Asia, GOTECH and Seeq Conneqt, reaching audiences across Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and APAC.
Industry committee
Session manager, SPE 2025 Water Injection Workshop.
Mentoring
Mentor to 60+ early-career engineers and data professionals through data science development, Python and Seeq advisor programmes (2020–2023).
15 SPE & OTC papers
Conference papers in the OnePetro library (SPE and the Offshore Technology Conference) on process safety, digital engineering and sustainability. Each title links to its DOI; copy a citation in SPE style or as BibTeX.
- 2026OTC-36708Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2026 · DOI ↗Pressure safety valves are a last line of defence offshore, but their sizing records, datasheets and maintenance history were spread across disconnected spreadsheets and systems, so compliance gaps went unnoticed.
- 2026OTC-36360Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2026 · DOI ↗
- 2026OTC-36312Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2026 · DOI ↗Engineers lose time searching the technical literature for case studies relevant to their work.
- 2025SPE-226402SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025 · DOI ↗SPE has published more than a hundred technical podcast episodes, but there was no easy way to search them or find the right one to listen to.
- 2025SPE-226340SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025 · DOI ↗Pressure safety valves are often the last barrier against loss of containment, yet design verification keeps finding valves that were sized wrongly.
- 2025SPE-226338SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2025 · DOI ↗Sand from offshore wells erodes chokes and piping and damages produced-water injection pumps, yet most locations have no sand sensors to show whether desanders are working.
- 2025SPE-224612SPE Gulf Oil and Gas Technology Conference (GOTECH), Dubai, UAE, 2025 · DOI ↗Wellhead choke valves take the largest pressure drop in the production system, and when they erode the result can be a loss of containment.
- 2025SPE-224468SPE Gulf Oil and Gas Technology Conference (GOTECH), Dubai, UAE, 2025 · DOI ↗Production forecasts in industry still lean heavily on Arps decline curves, which assume a well's operating conditions never change.
- 2024SPE-221211SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Perth, Australia, 2024 · DOI ↗Most emissions dashboards report fuel burned and gas emitted, which only tells you about a problem after it has happened.
- 2024SPE-221168SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Perth, Australia, 2024 · DOI ↗When a compressor trips or a process drifts, engineers usually work out the cause by scrolling through hundreds of sensor trends by hand.
- 2024SPE-221149SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Perth, Australia, 2024 · DOI ↗Unmanned remote compressors on wellhead platforms trip often, and each unplanned shutdown costs production and needs a boat trip to restart.
- 2024OTC-34967Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024 · DOI ↗Operators need to know condensate Reid vapor pressure (RVP) to keep exports safe without over-heating the stabilizer and giving away liquid yield, but the platform's online analyzer was unreliable.
- 2024OTC-34959Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024 · DOI ↗Three offshore processing hubs each had their own nearby control room, their own tools and their own way of working, which slowed optimization and kept teams in silos.
- 2024OTC-34684Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024 · DOI ↗Getting the most value out of offshore condensate means balancing heat input, vapor-pressure specification and how much of the C4–C5 fraction ends up in gas versus liquid.
- 2023SPE-215265SPE/IATMI Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), Jakarta, Indonesia, 2023 · DOI ↗Finding the bottleneck between a well and its unmanned remote compressor (choke, flowline or compressor settings) used to depend on engineers manually checking each case.
Recognition
"PSV Insight", a proactive relief-valve monitoring and compliance tool.
"Facilities for Tomorrow: Innovating for a Sustainable Future".
High-sand reserve unlock project.
Compressor profile optimisation to reduce fuel gas.
Sea wave height prediction model.
Well unlock project.
AutoAD anomaly detection tool.
16 years at Chevron
From asset engineer to technical authority, across operations, greenfield design and digital transformation of offshore gas and oil facilities in the Gulf of Thailand.
Senior Process Engineer | Alternate Local Technical Authority
- Alternate Local Technical Authority for process and flare/relief design: CCPS, API 520/521 and ASME applied to 2,000+ relief valves across multiple offshore assets.
- End-to-end digital product owner integrating AI/ML for process optimisation, debottlenecking and enterprise-scale flare assessments.
- Lead process engineer for flare optimisation and facility topside reuse.
Lead Process Engineer / Digital Translator
- Remote compressor optimisation and anomaly detection; greenhouse-gas leading indicators; compressor profile optimisation.
- Machine-learning model for condensate RVP; heat-exchanger monitoring and tube-bundle design improvement.
- Adequacy checks of gas processing equipment for compression-profile changes and an asset transfer.
- Automated Aspen HYSYS modelling framework and pipeline-network modelling automation.
Lead Process / Facilities Engineer: greenfield offshore development
- Conceptual, pre-FEED and FEED topside design for a central processing platform with FSO, and an FPSO alternative.
- Process simulation (HYSYS, HTRI), relief and flare sizing, pipeline-network optimisation, H&MB, PFD, UFD and P&ID.
- Lead process safety and piping engineer through conceptual and pre-FEED; HAZOP and value-improving practices.
- Led design improvements saving more than $50MM.
Process Engineer: facilities engineering (process safety)
- Led flare and relief gap assessment and closure across six offshore fields (2,000+ relief valves).
- HIPS design for gaps needing major modification; gap prioritisation workshops.
- Acoustic-induced vibration champion; HAZOP revalidation and brownfield troubleshooting.
Asset Engineer: major offshore processing complex
- Lead process engineer for a $30MM gas compressor debottlenecking project.
- Chemical optimisation saving $2MM+ per year and adding 5,000+ bpd.
- Led shutdowns and recovery after an export-pipeline incident; high-CO₂ management and topside modifications.
Education
Master of Professional Studies, Data Analytics
Penn State University · 2020 – 2022
Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Chulalongkorn University · 2006 – 2010
Certifications
- Deep Learning Specialization
- TensorFlow 2 for Deep Learning
- Applied Data Science with Python Specialization
- Excel Skills for Data Analytics and Visualization
- Digital Translator Mentor
Let's talk process safety, digital tools or a guest lecture
The quickest way to reach me is email or LinkedIn.