Commissioning & First-Start Support
Systemisation, completion checks, punch-list closure, pre-commissioning, first start, performance testing and handover.
Public capability profile
Bojan Zigic
Freelance commissioning specialist with more than 15 years of direct international oil and energy experience across 49 countries and six continents.
ContactCore expertise
Fired Equipment & Combustion Recovery
Burners, pilots, flame stability, draft, fuel/air balance, BMS permissives and structured troubleshooting.
E&I, PLC/HMI & BMS Validation
FAT/SAT, loop and logic checks, cause/effect, interlocks, trips, instrumentation and field validation.
Plant-Specific Technical Training
Initial, refresher, troubleshooting and start-up training for operators, panel/DCS operators and maintenance crews.
Commissioning Handover
Readiness, start-up, coached operation, competency development and documentation handover.
Refresher & Competency Training
Role-specific refreshers, abnormal-condition scenarios, troubleshooting preparation and requalification support.
Site & Vendor Coordination
Technical coordination during installation, commissioning, recovery and acceptance activities.
Training approach
Training is created around the client’s actual equipment, process configuration, control philosophy, procedures and operating problems. The aim is to help personnel understand system interactions, abnormal conditions, consequences and why procedures exist—not only memorise steps.
Representative experience
Hydrogen and gas-processing plants; refining and petrochemical units; hot-oil and fired-heater systems; incinerators; DEG regeneration; sulfur recovery; utilities; offshore and process facilities.
Representative assignments include Air Products La Porte HyCo-4, Singapore NEXBTL, Lugo DEG regeneration, Falcão Phase 2 GRDU, Pančevo refinery modernisation, and a 2026 burner-system readiness and pre-commissioning visit in Managua, Nicaragua.
Transferable commissioning experience
Prepared to apply established commissioning experience in data centres, nuclear, subsea and infrastructure projects. These are sectors ready to be entered, not sectors presented as previous lead-project experience.