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Thermal oxidizer reliability
CPP Gundih
Integration of a redundant treatment train within an operating gas-processing facility.
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Design basis, simulation cases, material criteria, and brownfield interfaces.
Nicky Leonard NasutionClear thinking.
Clear thinking.
Real-world impact.
Engineering depth. Responsible leadership.
A clearer path through complex energy systems.
Process Engineer & Engineering Lead
IPM · ASEAN Engineer · Indonesia
15+ yearsAcross onshore and offshore energy systems
Design → DeliveryFrom feasibility and FEED to commissioning
IPM · ASEAN Eng.Professional engineering credentials
PerspectiveTechnical depth.
Technical depth.
A wider perspective.
My work connects the discipline of process engineering with the realities of operating energy assets. Across Indonesia’s onshore and offshore facilities, I have led work from feasibility and FEED through commissioning and operational improvement.
I focus on making complex decisions clearer: understanding the whole system, aligning disciplines, and keeping design intent connected to field experience.
Beyond project delivery, I contribute through technical publications, professional communities, teaching, and mentoring the next generation of engineers.
Selected experienceComplex systems.
Complex systems.
Clear responsibility.
A selection of engineering assignments spanning reliability, brownfield integration, facility optimization, and project delivery.
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Thermal oxidizer reliability
Offshore concept development
Poleng platforms AW · CW · BW
Assessment of reactivation and production concepts across interconnected offshore assets.
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Separation and compression cases, energy demand, and CAPEX/OPEX inputs.
Well-to-facility delivery
Cepu Zone 11
Flowline development across production cases, terrain, construction, and start-up constraints.
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Hydraulics, operating envelopes, commissioning, and post-start-up review.
Condensate sulfur removal
Treatment development
A two-step treatment study connecting laboratory performance with commercial requirements.
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Reported study result: 13,580 ppm total sulfur reduced to below 1,000 ppm.
Heat exchanger reactivation
Offshore facilities
Review of an idle exchanger for safe return to service within legacy-asset constraints.
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Operating cases, materials, safeguards, and integration readiness.
New well flowline
NKT-1 TW · North Kedungtuban
Translation of a new well’s production basis into a documented, executable flowline.
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Design parameters, specifications, technical evaluation, and field supervision.
Project summaries describe professional capabilities and selected responsibilities. Confidential facility documents and construction drawings are not reproduced.
Project spotlight · LIMITLESS
Rethinking compression.
Unlocking mature-field potential.
The challenge
An operating constraint in a mature offshore field prompted a closer look at how the existing production system could support further oil and gas recovery.
The engineering approach
LIMITLESS explores a series compressor reconfiguration strategy. The team examined the connected system, identified the bottleneck and investigated how existing compression assets could work differently to support the field.
Sharing the work
I represented PT Pertamina EP Cepu at FFPM 2026 in Bandung, where our team presented LIMITLESS to the industry’s engineering and production-facilities community.
Recognition
LIMITLESS was selected as a finalist in the IAFMI Innovation Award 2026 and received the Most Favorite Innovation Award at FFPM 2026.
The engineering lesson: understanding an existing system more deeply can reveal opportunities to get more from the assets already in place.
Production Facilities Learning HubLearn the system.
Learn the system.
Build your judgment.
Watch, read, test, and apply. Explore nine learning modules with videos, illustrated articles, mind maps, quizzes, and practical engineering cases.
Production facilities / Episode 01From Well to Sales: The Whole Machine, in Order
The journey from a mixed wellstream to saleable oil and gas, and the four variables that help explain the whole chain.
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Production facilities / Episode 02Inside the Three-Phase Separator: One Stubborn Equation, Drawn in Steel
Density, residence time, and three control loops: the quiet vessel whose performance shapes every downstream system.
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Production facilities / Episode 03A Factory in the Sea: How an Offshore Platform Actually Works
Why space, weight, logistics, and emergency response shape the production facility at sea.
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Visit my YouTube channel ↗Engineering, explained.
Production Facilities / Season 1From the well
From the well
to the bigger picture.
Explore how production facilities work, one system at a time. Start with the full journey from well to sales, then go deeper into separation, compression, flow assurance, and treatment.
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How an Oil & Gas Production Facility Actually Works: From Well to Sales
Inside the Three-Phase Separator: No Filters, Just Physics
How an Offshore Platform Actually Works
Compression: The Machine That Liquid Kills
Hydrates: The Ice That Plugs Pipelines at +20°C
Sour Gas: From Poison to Product
The Oil Train: From Wet Crude to a Sold Barrel
Produced Water: The Biggest Stream Nobody Sells
Short perspectives · 10 YouTube Shorts
An oil & gas plant is not chemistry. It is four variables. ↗The most expensive machine on site can be destroyed by a glass of liquid ↗Ice that forms at +20°C ↗Surge: the moment a compressor fights back ↗The gas that switches off your sense of smell ↗Why you depressurise a hydrate plug from both sides ↗The one part on a wellhead designed to be destroyed ↗Drying crude oil with ten thousand volts ↗Burn exactly one third: how poison becomes product ↗How a separator splits oil, gas and water with no filter and no moving parts ↗
More teaching: Engineering Class IATEK · 2022 ↗
Foundations & contributionBuilt through practice.
Built through practice.
Renewed through learning.
Education & development
Professional Engineer Program
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Master of Engineering
Energy & Environmental Technology & Management
Universitas Sriwijaya
Bachelor of Engineering
Chemical Engineering · Universitas Sriwijaya
Senior Management Development Program
Pertamina Corporate University
Professional contribution
IAFMI
Journal editor and member
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IATMI
Professional member
IATEK UNSRI
Secretary General
Teaching, mentoring & industry dialogue
Sharing technical knowledge and connecting industry practice with emerging engineering talent.
Published work · IAFMI JournalFrom field experience.
From field experience.
To shared knowledge.
Selected technical papers I have authored and co-authored, sharing practical approaches to plant optimization and mature-field performance.
Issue 18December 2025
Offshore production · LIMITLESSRevitalizing Marginal Offshore Wells Through Pressure Optimization: The LIMITLESS Method
How pressure optimization and existing offshore infrastructure can help restore flow from marginal wells and extend mature-field potential.
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Gas processing · Energy recoveryThermal oxidizers: safer operation and energy recovery
A plant optimization case study exploring extractive heating thermal oxidizers in gas processing, with a focus on operational safety and energy conservation.
Read in IAFMI JournalIn the field & in conversationIdeas shared.
Ideas shared.
Connections made.
Selected moments from conferences, classrooms, and the engineering community.
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01 / 05Recognition & research
HYSTORM: Best Technical Paper at IATMI 2026
A shared framework for evaluating hydrogen storage and transport pathways across Indonesia.
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02 / 05Engineering innovation
LIMITLESS at FFPM 2026
Reconfiguring existing compression assets to unlock mature-field potential, recognised with the Most Favorite Innovation Award.
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03 / 05BKK PII webinar
Engineering through 40 years of changing field conditions
Sharing how surface facilities adapt as reservoirs mature, from changing production conditions to brownfield decisions.
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04 / 05Teaching & dialogue
From Carbon to Green
A practitioner’s perspective on decarbonisation, shared with students and faculty at Universitas Jambi.
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05 / 05Presentation & collaboration
Sharing LIMITLESS at Joint Convention Semarang
Presenting mature-field innovation, chairing technical sessions, and receiving the Best Presenter professional award.
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