CV, Engineering Manager - Refinery / Oil and Gas

Career Summary

Chemical Engineer with more than 26 years of experience in Engineering Management / Project Engineering in Refinery and Oil and Gas industry.

Currently working as PMC Engineering Manager on a EPC Project for ZADCO to set up a New Oil Train as part of Zirku Island Capacity Enhancement Project.

Experienced in working in environments where ‘Incident Free’, ‘Process Safety’ and “People Safety” have been of utmost priority.

Executed and worked on Projects, ranging from FEED to EPC / LSTK and PMC roles for world-wide reputed Clients viz. Shell, Exxon Mobil, Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas, Pluto LNG, Woodside, ADNOC, Reliance, IOCL.

Expert in leading a multi-cultural, multi-discipline project team spread across different locations in the world and working on workshare mode.

Complete understanding of engineering design, procurement, and construction with particular emphasis to Technical Integrity and Assurance systems, Project Management systems, Quality and Change Management.

Experienced in Access, Select, FEED, Basic and Detail Engineering for Refinery Units, LNG,GTL plants and Off-sites facilities including Crude, Product and Intermediate storage, Export Jetty and Despatch Terminal, Waste water treatment and Waste Management facilities.

Adept in Communication and Team player with strong leadership, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.

Other skill includes Project Management, Project Controls, Procurement Management and EPC Project Management.

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Worley Parsons

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Engineering Manager

– PMC

Jan’16-Till Date

Engineering Manager

Jan’16-Till Date

Engineering Manager working as part of the Integrated Project Management Team and fully responsible for complete engineering and supervision of the EPC contractor.

Project is part of ZADCO plan to increase crude oil production from Upper Zakum field to 1 Million barrels per day. Current project designed to ramp up production to 750 Thousand barrels per day.

Developed plans and procedures for effective, kick-off, management and monitoring of the project.

Project put “ON HOLD” and Investment decision is pending.

SNC-Lavalin Group

Qatar Kentz

Qatar

Senior Project

Engineering Manager

Jul’11-Dec’15

Qatar Petroleum – Hazardous Waste Incinerator : FEED

Project Manager

Dec’14-Dec’15

Project Manager fully responsible for the FEED contract for Hazardous Waste Incineration Project.

This project will provide the fist Hazardous Waste Incineration facility in the whole of Qatar and will cater to the Hazardous wastes generated in Qatar till 2030.

The facility was designed to meet European Emission norms with the best available technology adopting BATNEEC principles.

Qatar Gas Wastewater Recycle and Reduction : EPIC

Engineering Manager

Jun’14-Nov’14

Engineering Manager fully responsible for the EPIC contract for Wastewater Recycle and Reduction Project valued in excess of US$ 140 million.

Completed HAZOP and 30% Model Review and Finalised Plot Plans during the first 6 months.

Resourcing and managing a team of more than 50 engineers – 80,000 manhours.

Engineering carried out in 3D environment for this brownfield project.

Sub-contractor selection for Membrane Biological Reactors (MBR), RO, Ultrafiltration and Deoiler packages.

Interfacing with client for finalization of tie-in locations spread across 15 operating units.

Qatar Shell GTL Project

Engineering Manager

Jul’11-May’14

Engineering Manager and responsible for all engineering delivery as part of the Contract for the Provision of Engineering Design, Construction Supervision and Procurement services with Qatar Shell for their Pearl GTL plant.

Pearl GTL is the biggest GTL plant in the world producing Liquid fuels from Natural gas utilising Shell technology.

Responsible for all activities under this contract including engineering and leading the team of engineers and designers for multi-discipline engineering covering Access, Select, FEED and Detail Engineering, Procurement support and Construction Supervision.

Works includes engineering for both greenfield and brownfield projects and are awarded under separate work packs.

Fully conversant with Shell DEPs, MESC, Procedures and Standards, Work Practices, Design Integrity Checks, Flawless Project Delivery and Decision Gate Approvals for Project Investments.

Reliance Industries,

India

Senior General Manager – Projects

Mar’11 – Jun’11

LDPE Plant Project

Plant Project Manager

Reliance Industries is setting up a 400 KTPA LDPE plant as part of their Petrochemical complex at Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.

Responsible for licensor evaluation (LyondellBasell / ExxonMobil / Sabtec) and recommendation in consultation with the other stakeholders for management approval.

Also, responsible for Detail engineering contractor / EPC contractor selection and finalising project execution methodology for management approval.

Foster Wheeler,

India

Project Engineering

Manager

Aug’08 – Feb’11

IOCL Paradip Refinery Project : EPCm

Dy. Engineering Manager

Apr’09-Febr’11

Indian Oil Corporation Limited is setting up a 15 MMTPA grassroot refinery at Paradip, Orrisa state in India and Foster Wheeler is the PMC and the major EPCm contractor.

Responsible for complete engineering of 4 refinery units viz. Alkylation (ExxonMobil), Isomerisation (UOP), Sulphur Recovery (Black & Veatch) and Spent Acid Recovery (Monsanto) units including Licensor and Client co-ordination. Other responsibility included resource plans, budget controls, Procurement Support and Change Management

Work executed at Kolkata with initial work set-up and executed out of Reading, UK.

Total manhour for above portion of engineering was 435,000 in India and peak manpower was 175. Engineering progressed to 60% by November 11 and then handed over to EPC contractor. Balance period in PMC role.

Sriracha Clean Fuels Project : EPC

IEC Workshare Manager

Jan’09-Mar’09

ExxonMobil project at Esso Thailand Refinery at Sriracha, Thailand to meet the revised specification of automotive fuels. Responsible for effective workshare, project setup, engineering and procurement functions at IEC. Work primarily executed from KEC and will extend till December 2010 involving about 167,000 man hours.

Woodside LNG Train V As-Built Project

Project Co-ordinator

Nov’08- Dec’08

Worked as Project Co-coordinator (for last 2 month of project duration) for preparing as-built documentation for Woodside Burrup Ltd LNG Train V Project located at Karratha, Australia. The work involved preparation of as-built drawings / documents based on mark ups received from site and delivering all as-built in time to get the financial incentive. Work carried out from KEC and involved about 32,000 man hours.

LNG PLUTO Project : EPC

Area Project Engineer : Common Areas

Aug’08- Nov’08

Worked as Area Project Engineer for PLUTO LNG Project of Woodside Burrup Ltd at Karratha, Australia. This is a workshare Project with FWEL and involved around 500,000 man hours. Common Areas work was carried out from both KEC and CEC and involved about 30,000 man hours. Also had additional responsibility of overseeing all Electrical and Instrumentation deliverables from IEC.

Essar Oil Limited,

India

Joint General Manager –

OSBL , Refinery Expansion

Group

Sep ‘07 -Jul ‘08  

Vadinar Refinery Expansion Project

Crude Tank Farm and Product Tank Farm and Product Blending System, for Refinery Expansion in Phases at Vadinar, Gujarat, India – Preparation of Design Basis, Basic Engineering and MR preparation

Design Basis for Export Jetty, SBM and cross country pipeline configuration for refinery crude import and product evacuation.

Design Basis of Despatch terminal for refinery product evacuation – Rail and Road.