Company

Engineering judgement, backed by software we build ourselves.

An engineering and technology company in Doha with reach across geographical locations around the world, working where process safety, process control and optimisation meet.

About Cerasus

Who we are

200+years of cumulative hands-on experience operating refineries and petrochemical plants
13 · 8engineering services · software applications
Globalreach across geographical locations, from Doha

Cerasus Technologies QFZ LLC is an engineering and technology company registered in the Qatar Free Zones, Doha, with reach across geographical locations around the world. Behind it stands a team with more than 200 years of cumulative, hands-on experience operating major refineries and petrochemical plants — people who have run the units, led the studies and lived with the consequences of every decision made on a control-room floor. That experience is why we know exactly where the pain points in the process industry lie: the errors, mistakes and gaps that slip past routine checks and leave an operation exposed to hidden risk.

Our purpose is to remove those gaps at the source. Through our engineering services — FEED and basic engineering, process studies and simulation, PSV validation, HAZOP/LOPA/SIL, consequence analysis, alarm management, loop tuning, APC, process safety audits, PSM implementation and technical training — and through the AI-based technologies we build ourselves, we surface the information that matters in an operating plant and put it in front of the Operations team while there is still time to act. The result is a plant where the right people see the right signal, early enough to act correctly, and where potentially risky operations are eliminated before they can become incidents. Every engagement is delivered against the applicable API, IEC, ISA and CCPS standards, wherever in the world the plant is.

Two divisions, one team

Services and technology, from the same engineers.

Engineering Services

FEED/BEP, process studies and simulation, PSV validation, PHA (HAZOP/LOPA/SIL), consequence analysis, audits, PSM, alarm management, loop tuning, APC, monitoring and training.

All 13 services
Technology Division

Nine AI-enabled engineering applications for PHA, relief, consequence modelling, electronic logbook and shift handover, loops, monitoring and APC, predictive intelligence, safety KPIs and incident investigation.

All 8 technologies
Abdul Samad, Founder & Technical Manager, Cerasus Technologies
Abdul SamadFounder & Technical Manager · Cerasus Technologies QFZ LLC
Founder & Technical Manager

Abdul Samad

A Chemical Engineer with over 35 years in the operation and engineering of major refineries and petrochemical plants, Abdul Samad promoted Cerasus Technologies to deliver practitioner-grade process safety, control and optimisation engineering — together with the software behind it — to process plants worldwide. A CCPS Certified Process Safety Professional, an IEC 61508/61511 Functional Safety Engineer and a TÜV-certified HAZOP Leader, he leads every engagement personally, from HAZOP facilitation to APC commissioning.

CCPS
CCPSC — Certified Process Safety ProfessionalAIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety
FS
Functional Safety EngineerIEC 61508 / IEC 61511 safety lifecycle
TÜV
HAZOP LeaderTÜV-certified facilitation of HAZOP / HAZID studies
Technology & Sales Manager

Maahib Shaikh

Maahib Shaikh leads technology development at Cerasus. An early adopter of AI and an expert programmer, he heads the Technology Division — the team behind CeraPHA Studio, CeraVent, CeraPulse, CeraPID, ProcessVision, CauseIQ, Kairos and CeraImpact — taking each application from engineering specification to release across desktop, web and cloud editions, and leads sales of the Cerasus technology portfolio.

AI
AI adopter & programming expertLeads technology development across the Cerasus portfolio
TD
Technology DivisionProduct engineering, releases and support for the Cerasus Technologies
Maahib Shaikh, Technology & Sales Manager, Cerasus Technologies
Maahib ShaikhTechnology & Sales Manager · Cerasus Technologies QFZ LLC
How we work

What every Cerasus engagement has in common.

Standards first

Every scope names the API, IEC, ISA or CCPS basis it is delivered against.

Plant-usable outputs

Registers, drawings, databases and models your team keeps using — not shelf reports.

No compromise on safety

We say what is not acceptable rather than what is convenient.

Software from practice

Our tools exist because we needed them on real projects.

Registration

Cerasus Technologies QFZ LLC

Registered in the Qatar Free Zones, Doha, and operating across geographical locations around the world in process safety, process control and optimisation — engineering services and AI-based software.

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Tell us about the unit and the problem.

Send a short brief — plant, service of interest and what you need to achieve — and a Cerasus engineer will respond with a proposed scope and next steps.

Prefer email or phone? sales@cerasus.ai · +974 5506 2743