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Thermal oxidizer reliability
CPP Gundih
Integration of a redundant treatment train within an operating gas-processing facility.
Design basis, simulation cases, material criteria, and brownfield interfaces.
Engineering · Leadership · EnergyClear thinking.
Clear thinking.
Responsible
leadership.
Nicky Leonard Nasution
Process Engineer & Engineering Lead. Connecting technical depth with sound judgment to deliver safer, more reliable energy systems.
15+ yearsAcross onshore and offshore energy systems
Design → DeliveryFrom feasibility and FEED to commissioning
IPM · ASEAN Eng.Professional engineering credentials
01 / 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.
02 / Selected experienceComplex systems.
Complex systems.
Clear responsibility.
A selection of engineering assignments spanning reliability, brownfield integration, facility optimization, and project delivery.
Thermal oxidizer reliability
Offshore concept development
Poleng platforms AW · CW · BW
Assessment of reactivation and production concepts across interconnected offshore assets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
03 / Articles & perspectivesThe engineering
The engineering
behind the facility.
Nine illustrated essays on production facilities, paired with original YouTube episodes.
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.
Read article ↗
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.
Read article ↗
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.
Read article ↗04 / Watch & learn
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.
Watch the opening episode ↗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 ↗
05 / 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
IATMI
Professional member
IATEK UNSRI
Seminar, workshop & training committee
Teaching, mentoring & industry dialogue
Sharing technical knowledge and connecting industry practice with emerging engineering talent.
Contact meLet’s start
Let’s start
a conversation.
Connect with me for engineering discussions, professional collaboration, and knowledge sharing.