Michael Sabatini, PE – Owner – Michael Sabatini has 19 years’ experience in process engineering consulting for the upstream oil and gas industry. Throughout his career, he has worked with engineering and operations for a multitude of production company clients to improve operability and safety for new and existing facilities. Experience early on with overpressure analysis allowed for many hours studying existing brownfield facilities, analyzing all processes to ensure that the facility was protected against excessive overpressure which can lead to vessel rupture and hazardous fluid release.
He has found that transparency is the key to process safety consulting. An engineer must know the API codes related to safety and which aspects are required or recommended. Before an owner-operator makes expensive safety upgrades to an existing facility which may also include downtime, they will want to understand why they should do so and the risks they are taking by ignoring the issue.