Profile Summary : Offering a career of nearly 36 years chronicled by well-earned success in executing projects from Concept-to-Launch with focus on Project Scope and rendering end-to-end solutions across multiple industries such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals and Utilities Plants, Power, Aluminium and Steel
Keen strategist with a flair for adopting latest technology, systems in compliance with quality standards with expertise in swiftly ramping up projects with competent cross-functional skills and on time execution
Proven competency to enhance the production & process operations optimize resource & capacity utilization; escalate productivity & operational efficiencies; while curtailing costs & expenses
Gained a vast exposure for working with premium clients such as KNPC, BP Hazzan, BP Iraq NV, ZADCO, PDO, OOCEP, Dragon Oil, Gazprom, CAIRN Energy and PETRIXO Oil & Gas for multimillion-dollar projects.
Wealth of technical expertise in International Standards & Procedures including API, ASME, ANSI, NACE, ASTM Codes and Industry Standard Engineering Practices
Proven track record of utilizing process-oriented approach towards the accomplishment of cost, profit, service and organizational goals
Worked in India, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, UAE and Malaysia.
Soft Skills
Education
MBA (Finance and Oil & Gas Management) from S.N Educational Research and Examination Board, Coimbatore, India in 2012
B.E. (Mechanical) from University of Madras (Government College of Technology), Coimbatore in 1985
12th from St. Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli in 1980
Career Timeline
Work Experience
April 2016 – Still date Arabi Enertech KSC, Kuwait as Manager Construction
Dec 2011 - Feb 2016 Petrofac International Ltd., Sharjah as Project Engineer
Jun 2010 - Nov 2011 Aqua Engineering GmbH - (Ovivo Water) as Site Manager
Key Result Areas:
Spearheading complete plant/project operations right from planning, organizing to achieving the production targets
Streamlining activities from conceptualization to execution including finalization of technical specifications, procurement / supply of raw materials, stage inspections, progress monitoring & manpower planning
Deploying various methodologies to analyse processes, recommending modifications to minimize escalations & rejection, realize operational efficiencies, control costs and cycle-time
Implementing various techniques for waste reduction, entailing identification of opportunities, energy audits, analysis of data, conduction of tests and implementation & post audits schemes
Directing installation & commissioning of various mechanical equipment & plant machines and tracking project progress and taking steps for mitigating any risks
Identifying the contract requirements and preparing contract agreement / tenders for purchasing the resources required for process enhancement of the plant
Taking stringent quality measures including preparation / maintenance of necessary documents to ensure compliance with standards and customer requirements
Highlights:
Played a key role in improving raw material quality by taking initiatives such as verifying material specification, codes & standards and material test certificates
Evaluated methods for BP Hazzan TEG package, ZADCO-UZ750 project as well as facilitated improvements in project work which included packages & ensuring equipment’s delivery within scheduled time
Initiated successful development & implementation of material selection mechanism as well as cost reduction of material specification by verifying activities related to material control systems along with design selection & quality control activities
Recognized for increasing in-plant capability by spare parts reduction of 10% through effective maintenance; was appreciated for the same in Aluminium Casting plant by reducing the waste to 10%
Successfully handled audits for Quality & Environmental Management System, OHSAS areas of Aluminium Casting plant
Accomplished successful installation & commissioning of Alba Line 5 using Safe Start-up system and successfully achieved 5% process cost saving with enhanced production for plant during Alba Line 5 Safe Start up in 77 days
Acquired extremely important statutory approvals from concerned authorities including Quality & Environmental Management System, OHSAS and Plant safe operation practice
Turned around the company from losses to a path of profitability with profits through effective project delivery
Previous Experience
Dec 2011 - Feb16 -Petrofac International Ltd., Sharjah as Project Engineer.
Apr’01-May’10 -Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Kingdom of Bahrain as Senior Mechanical Engineer
Aug’97-Mar’01 -ETA ASCON, Dubai as Senior Project Engineer / Site Manager.
Feb’96-Jul’97 -For Mott Ewbank Preece, Bahrain (Mott MacDonald U.K) as Mechanical Engineer
Seconded to Power Project Dept. Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Bahrain.
Sep’93-Jan’96 -Sasakura Engineering Company (Japan) Ltd. Bahrain as Mechanical Engineer / Project
Engineer
Jul’92-Aug’93 -Al Tawfeeq Maintenance Services, Bahrain as Contracts Manager
Sep’91-June’92 - Klockner GmbH, Bahrain as Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer
Apr’90-April’91 -Saudi Real Estate Company (SRECO), Bahrain as Installation Engineer
Apr’88-Mar ’90 -A.A. Naas Industrial Services, Bahrain as Mechanical Engineer / Supervisor
Jun’87-Mar’88 - Gitanjali Tubes Limited, Madras, India as Works Engineer
Nov’86-May’87 -Bhilai Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) as Trainee Engineer
Jun’85-Oct’86 - General Engineering Works, Trichy- Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd (BHEL) India as
Production Engineer
Trainings
SAP, MS Project, MS Office and BuildMe
PMP Training 35 Hours completed -Grey Campus
TQMI - Total Quality Management Internal Auditor
ISO 9000:2000E Quality Management System
ISO 14001:1996 Environmental Management Systems
OHSAS 18001 – Occupational Health & Safety Management System
ALBA 5 Star Safety System & Risk Assessment Course (Auditing)
Fire Sprinkler System Design Course - FM Global Insurance Consultants, UK
Alba Line 5 Safe Start up Team Member for 77days - ALBA Training Dept.
Hear Recovery Boilers & Desalination plant Operation & Maintenance Training by Sasakura /CCT /Technip
ALBA Desalination Plant Operation & Maintenance Training by WEIR ENTROPIE, France.
ALBA Distillate Water Post Treatments Plant Operation & Maintenance Training by ONDEO SA.
Aluminium Cast House Plant Operation and Maintenance Trainings – ALBA Training Dept.
Advanced Project Mgt. & Best Practices for Engineers – ALBA Training Dept.
Award received from ALBA Good Suggestion Scheme and GOLD cards.
Optimized Maintenance Strategies & BuildMe - Petrofac Training Dept.
Diploma in International Trading & Marketing – Exports Training Institute of Trade, India.
HSE Fundamental, Occupational Health Industrial Hyg. & Envirmental Management System Training- JGSK Training Dept.
Hazardous of H2 & Ahamadi Refinery Safety course - JGSK Training Dept., Kuwait.
IT Skills
SAP for Project & Maintenance Planning and Spare Parts & Material Management - 10 years working Experience.
Microsoft Projects and Microsoft Office suite of Applications
BuildMe – Asset Integrity Material Management Software
Technical Skills
Power and Water Engineering: Gas Turbine, Heat Recovery Boiler (HRSG), Auxiliary Boiler and Seawater Desalination Plant – RO, MSF & MED types and Utilities plants (Air Compressors and Seawater Intake system).
Aluminium Smelter Engineering (ALBA): Aluminium Reduction, Casting and Water treatment. Worked in Alba-Cast House Reliability Engineering, Power Project Developments and Calciner & Marine Maintenance Departments (HRSG & Seawater desalination & Seawater pumping and Intake system maintenances).
Oil & Gas Project Engineering & Maintenance: TEG package equipment of Heat Exchanger, Rebolier, vessels, tanks, pipelines, structures Engineering, fabrication and assembly. Process plant maintenance activities. Plant Asset Integrity Management
Professional Affiliations
Life Membership with Fellowship in The Institution of Engineers (FIE), Kolkata, India.
Executive Committee Member of the Institution of Engineers (India) – Bahrain Chapter (IEIBC) from 2001 to 2010. (Conducted varies seminars and AMIE Exams in Bahrain)
ANNEXURE:
ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS:
1. For Arabi Enertech KSC, Kuwait
EPC Standby Service Contractor for KNPC – Kuwait National Petroleum Company, KSC.
Title: 1. Clean Fuel Project - Mina Al- Ahmadi Refinery.
Role: Manager Construction
Key Result Areas: Total Project Value: 15.79 Million USD
Joint Venture of JGC - GS E&C - SK E&C for Brown Field Revamping Project of piping work spool fabrication and erection field at Fuel storage tank of Oil handling system area 061 at KNPC Al-Ahmadi Refinery.
In-charge of Shop fabrication of spools, SHU Retirement spools and pipe supports, filed erection and commissioning works. Piping transportation and controlling equipment’s and man-hours.
Tie-in connection totally 197 nos. spool fabrication work of exiting refinery with new piping connection.
Total Piping spool fabrication at yard and field 215,700 inch diameter.
Preparing the Project Extension Claim, Work Disruption claim and Addional work claims and submission to Client.
Coordination of materials and progress claims.
2. Clean fuel project - Mina Abdulla package. Total Project Value: 14 Million USD
Project costing and tendering work for packages of Replacement of Existing black oil piping to white oil services and construction of new IRT (Inter Refinery transfer) lines.
New IRT 24” Pipe line will be connected through Mina Abdullah Refinery, Mina Al-Ahmadi Refinery, and Shuaiba Refinery totally 6 Km long (Inter Refinery transfer)
Existing Black Oil lines 3 nos. to be removed and install new line in Shuaiba Refinery to Oil Pier area totally 16 Km long.
Project Planning and material Purchasing and Sub-contracting ordering through KNPC work for packages.
2. For Petrofac International Ltd, Sharjah : (www.petrofac.com)
a. Onshore Engineering & Construction (OEC), Sharjah: Station at Fabrication Shop, Malaysia
Title: BP Hazzan Project, Central Processing Facility, Oman
Role: Field Expediting Engineer / Construction Manager – Malaysia
Key Result Areas:
Field Expediting of Glycol Dehydration Packages (TEG) for Train 1 & 2 at Malaysia
Glycol Dehydration Skid Design and Engineering coordination to PROSERNAT (M) Sdn. Bhd and TEBODIN
Engineering Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fabrication of Vessels and Heat exchanger by Jutasama and Skid structural & piping Fabrication by AMC, Malaysia
b. Onshore Engineering & Construction (OEC)
Petrofac Emirates LLC, ICAD-1, Abu Dhabi Business Hub, Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Title: ZADCO - UZ 750 - Islands Surface Facilities Project -EPC 2
Role: Field Expediting Engineer – Country UAE
Key Result Areas:
Coordination of project packages Field expediting of Engineering design documents & approvals, fabrication and project progress monitoring as below packages:
c. Engineering Consulting Services: Petrofac, Sharjah, As a Project Engineer
Title: Yibal Khuff Gas & Budour Integrated Project, Petroleum Development Oman LLC
Preparing Project Proposal & Documents ITT Submission and Project Execution Plan & scope & schedule review.
Project Planning, Cost Time Resource development, Man-hours codes & Mobilization plan, Histograms etc.
d. PETRIXO OIL & GAS LLC, Dubai, UAE
Client: Petrixo Biofuel Refinery, Fujairah, UAE.
Role: Project Engineer
Key Result Areas:
Project Management control of planning, Design coordination & progress reporting
e. Petrofac Facilities Management (PFMI) - Plant Asset Management, Sharjah.
(A specialized Oil & Gas Asset Integrity Management, Reliability & Maintenance Consultancy)
ZADCO, PSIM Project, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Role: Project Engineer / Consultant
Description: Risk Based Inspection (Zirku Island, Upper Zakum Super Complex, Satah, Arzanah, Umm Al Dhalkh)
Key Result Areas:
Data population for the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) of static equipment’s, pipelines and PSVs form the P&IDs, process data, GA & fabrication drawings, inspection of NDT and RT & UT evaluation reports
f. Development of Documentation for the Bhogat Operations
Client: CAIRN Energy, India
Developing maintenance activities of Generic Maintenance Strategies (GMSs), Specific Maintenance Strategies (SMSs), Preventive Maintenance Routines (PMRs) for mechanical / Electrical Rotating Equipment’s. and O&M details
g. Title: Musandam Gas Plant (MGP) & Abu Tubul Gas Plant - Oman
Client: Oman Oil Company Exploration & Production LLC (OOCEP), Oman
Key Result Areas:
Develop and implement CMMS systems on two new build facilities of Gas Plant (MGP) & Abu Tubul Gas Plant.
Develop maintenance activities for the preparation of GMSs, SMSs, PMRs & reviews of Vendor O&M developments
h. Title: Dragon Oil, Turkmenistan - Asset Management Projects
Key Result Areas:
Work on the material management – develop equipment spare parts and site support requirements for installation for the final Asset tagging of equipment’s
Work on building and validating the maintenance database in the BuildMe software
i. Title: Badra Maintenance Service Contract, Iraq
Client: Gazprom Neft Badra B.V., Iraq
Key Result Areas:
Develop maintenance and O & M inspection manuals for all the systems Trains
Develop maintenance strategies (GMSs, SMSs & PMRs) for plant equipment’s- gas turbines, compressors, generators, Pumps, Well heads X Tree & Hydraulics system, HV & LV distribution, HVAC, E & I , their routing & mapping.
Petrofac Facilities Management - Offshore Projects & Operations (OPO), Sharjah
Title: Inspection, Maintenance & Repair Contract of Rumaila Oil Field “ROO" A Joint Venture of PETROFAC & CPECC
Client: BP – Iraq NV, Southern Oil Company in Iraq
Role: Project Coordinator – Visited Site Rumaila Oil Field, Basra, Iraq
Key Result Areas:
Project coordination with site Iraq and Engineering & Procurement departments for preparing design, specification, GA drawings, project proposals and approvals for piping material, mechanical equipment’s & control valves
Technical, PO and supplier coordination with Emerson, Metso Automation, Flowserve, Tyco Valves, Fortune Eng., Brady PSVs, WEIR Eng., Petro pipe, Lockwood, Technofit, Swagelok, Addos Klinger, KOSTCO, Smith International, Al Masood Oil Services, Tareeq Al Hareer, etc.
3. For Aqua Engineering GmbH – Ovivo Water, Sharjah Branch, UAE (www.ovivowater.com)
Client: Federal Electricity and Water - Al-Zawrah Central Power Plant, Ajman, UAE
Role: Site Manager - R.O. Seawater Desalination Projects
Title: 7 MIGD Seawater R.O. Desalination Plants at FEWA, Al-Zawrah Power station.
Removal /Relocation of 3 MIGD Seawater R.O. Plants from FEWA Fujairah to Al- Zawrah, Ajman
Key Result Areas:
Responsible for the project engineering design, preparation of specifications, drawings, and project proposals
Familiar with pumps (KSB/ABB, Grundfos), pressure vessels (Codeline), Membranes (Hydranutics), pressure exchangers (ER), DM Filters, Atlas air compressors, Blowers, US Johnson Screens, Valves, Victaulic couplings
Sea Water Intake On/off shore marine work of Johnson Intake Screen and HDPE piping work installation and Brine outfall GRP lines – offshore Civil works
Plant design layout & Piling engineering coordination with sub-contractors manufacturers, suppliers and client
Fabricate and Install steel tanks & structures, dual media filters – rubber lining, stainless steel, super duplex steel, carbon steel, HDPC, GRP, PVC piping and coordinate for the FEWA inspection
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Kingdom of Bahrain (www.albasmelter.com)
Title: ALBA Infrastructure & Engineering Department & Alba Cast House Production Department:
Role: Senior Mechanical Engineer
Key Result Areas:
Aluminium production process study and review of design and quality of the final product of billet, slab, standard & T-ingots and Properzi bars packing, loading molten Aluminium metal transportation and pouring into furnaces
Responsible for the Cast House Reliability Engineering & all projects completed within agreed specification.
Project feasibility studies; Design, engineering, specification, drawing, project proposals and approvals
Estimation and approval of project Blitz, CEP, MMP, capital expenditure and RFT using by SAP Project Management
Responsible for Cast House production & maintenance, safety projects, plant and process modification & Improvements
Investigate and resolve accidents, plant safety related problems and implement risk assessments and ‘Safety Good Suggestion’ scheme as part of project implementation
Implement ALBA’s 5 Star Safety, ISO 9000: 2000E Quality and ISO 14001:1996 Environment Management Systems.
Implement OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management System and Plant Auditing coordination.
Equipment & Products Handled in Projects:
Gas furnace 70 tons, VDC casting m/c, continuous casting properzi m/c, continuous casting lines, lifting cranes/ hoist, saw m/c, water treatment plant, cooling towers, hydraulic oil, gas, air & chemical piping system
Ancillary equipment; e.g. sow, launders, filter box, Aluminium dross handling & waste disposals, raw material handling, gas burners system and modified hand tools designs & plant improvements and special painting works
Title: ALBA Calcining & Marine Department, Seawater Desalination Maintenance
Role: Supervisor Mechanical Maintenance
Key Result Areas:
Ensure that the coke kilns exhaust flue gas is connected to the Heat Recovery Boilers and the resulting steam is used for the MED desalination plant.
ALBA port-jetty from alumina, coke and liquid pitch raw material conveyor and storage handling system.
Coordinate the plant design, engineering, erection & commissioning along with Technip & Tebodin consultants
Set up preventive maintenance & planning systems for Greenfield Project in the SAP Maintenance Management
Equipment & Products Handled – Water, Coke, Alumina, and Liquid Pitch of Maintenance Work:
o Seawater desalination: MED type by Weir Entrope, France. TCD 4 x 2.346 and a total of 9.46 MIGD. Water production = 10750 m3 x 4 = 43,000 m3 / day and Heat recovery boilers 2 x 120 ton supplied by CCT, Italy
o Seawater Intake system from Technip, Germany. Capacity: 3 x 10,000 m3 KSB pumps with 12 intake screens and compressed air back wash systems
ETA ASCON - Power Project Division, Dubai, UAE (www.etappd.com)
Title: MEW 3M/96 Desalination Plant (total 10.5 MIGD) in Ras Al-Khaimah, Fujairah & Ajman
Gas Turbine Project: One GE Alstom 160 MW – Al Nakheel Power Station, RAK
3 MIGD Brackish water R.O. Plant Rehabilitation and Modification Projects, MEW, Ajman
Client: Federal Electricity and Water & Consulted by Tractabel, (Belgium)- DUBAI
Role: Senior Project Engineer / Site Manager
Description: The conversion of existing GE gas turbine power plant to combine the cycle with the heat recovery boilers
supplied by CCT, Italy and produce MED desalinated water
Key Result Areas:
7 x 1.5 MIGD (10.5 MIGD in total) seawater desalination plant MED-(TVC) by Sasakura Eng. Company Japan, 5 x 80 Ton/h heat recovery boilers, and 3 x 35 Ton/h Auxiliary boilers by CCT Italy and utilities plant
Design plant layout and foundations (feasibility study) of the power stations in RAK, Fujairah and Ajman
Familiar with pumps KSB, pressure vessels, evaporator, condenser, boilers, filters, air compressor, and blowers. US Johnson Screen, valves and SS, Super duplex, HDPE, GRP, uPVC piping, Chlorine and chemical dosing equipment’s.
For Mott Ewbank Preece (Mott MacDonald Consultants, U.K) Bahrain (www.mottmac.com)
Title: ALBA Pot Room 3, 76 Pot Cell Expansions- Reduction Lines-3.
Title: ALBA Gas Turbine Power Station – 4
Clients: Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Kingdom of Bahrain
Role: Mechanical Engineer
Key Result Areas:
76 pot cell, gas beam, anode beam, and anode clamps, steel structures & Aluminium bus bar fabrication QA/QC inspection, assembly & commissioning. Auditing QA/QC reports according to ISO 9000
Erection of Gas Turbine (GT-13E2 series 160mw) by Alstom-ABB and BOP of the plants
Responsible for related civil works, structural steel & piping fabrication and Urea ducts and erection
Erection of Urea reactor, reclaimer, compressor and pumps alignments
For Sasakura Engineering Company (Japan) Ltd. Bahrain (www.sasakura.co.jp)
Title: Ministry of Power and Water, Bahrain
Title: Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Refinery, Bahrain
Role: Mechanical Engineer / Project Engineer.
Key Result Areas:
Installation of the 8th train of R.O. desalination plant at Ras Abu Jarjur with a capacity of 8,000 m3/day
Installation of the R.O plant at Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Awali with a capacity of 400 m3/ day
Installation of sea water desalination plant no. 4 (MED) for BAPCO with a capacity of 1635 m3/day
Rehabilitation of the MSF desalination plant nos. 1 & 2 multi-stage flushing (BAPCO) with a capacity of 2 MIGD
Project planning, engineering, supervision, testing & commissioning of the plants
Equipment’s erection of pumps KSB, Ebara, Honda and pressure vessels, membrane – DuPont, Evaporator, condenser DM filters, air compressor, blowers, valves and SS & super duplex piping, Chlorine and chemical dosing
For Al Tawfeeq Maintenance Services, Bahrain (www.altawfeek.net)
Role: Contracts Manager
Individual handling of Mechanical division, business development and Maintenance Project feasibility studies.
Handle engineering, tendering, negotiations & contact finalization for various projects BAPCO, BANAGAS & ALBA.
For Klockner GmbH, Bahrain:
Title: Alba Pot Line 4 Smelter Expansion (Carbon & Reduction Departments)
Clients: BECTEL Consultant & Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Kingdom of Bahrain
Role: Quality Assurance & Quality Control Engineer
Key Result Areas:
Responsible of QA.QC activities for steel & piping fabrication, welding, painting and erection works of 5,500 Tons.
Structural Building and structural steel and Alumina Silos – 12,500 T capacity, 20 m dia and 26 m high -2 nos
One (1) Coke Silo – 5,000 T capacity, 25 m dia and 26 m high
For Saudi Real Estate Company (SRECO), Kingdom of Bahrain:
Title: Saudi Arabian Embassy – Building Services
Role: Installation Engineer
Key Result Areas:
Undertake installation of building steel structural fabrication, erection and A/C duct and piping, firewater sprinkler system, plumbing works and utilities.
A.A. Naas Industrial Services, Kingdom of Bahrain. www.nassgroup.com
Title: NEI – Power Projects, UK - Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C., Kingdom of Bahrain
Bahrain Petroleum Oil Company and Bahrain Natural Gas Company’s projects
Role: Mechanical Engineer / Site Supervisor
Key Result Areas:
In- charge of Steel Fabrication Workshop: Steel structure & piping fabrication and QA/QC, manpower, progress & maintenance work, and tanks, Silo, piping works for ALBA, BAPCO and BANCO projects Fabrication works
Alba Power Station-2: The conversion of existing ALBA - GE gas turbine power plant into combine cycle with heat recovery boilers supplied by NEI – Power Projects, UK (Seconded to NEI-ALBA site work)
Responsible for the erection of gas turbine generator building structural steel extension & Column strengthening. Gas exhausts chimney/duct, damper, expansion joint, painting works, insulation, erection & modification work
Installation of five (5) HRSG Boilers of 42 tons: Economizer, Evaporator supper, heater and LP & HP drum assembly, Steam Turbine, pumps, tanks, stacks, condenser, pipe-racks and related pipe work welding and erection works. Boiler ducts and GT casing Insulation Installation works. Plant commissioning and handover
Structural Steel and Pipe line Fabrication, Water Treatment Plant commissioning and ALBA, BAPCO and BANCO projects.
Experience in INDIA
For Gitanjali Tubes Limited, Madras, India
Role: Works Engineer
Workshop in-charge for design & fabrication of structural steel, pipeline works and tanks
Estimating and quoting for mechanical works
For Bhilai Steel Plant, Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), India www.sail.co.in
Role: Trainee Engineer
Maintenance Technics of heavy equipment’s, raw material transportation – rail, conveyor handling
Awareness of steel process, blast furnace, steel rolling & wire mills, continuous-casting process, coke oven process, chemical handling, Power station maintenance activities
For General Engineering Works, Trichy - Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd, (BHEL), India
Clients: BHEL Projects, Trichy, Tamilnadu
Role: Production Engineer
Responsible for the workshop & projects – structural steel design, fabrication and installation of ‘Nuclear Dust-free Glazed Cabin Project’ for BHEL
Fabrication of Aluminium / glass doors, windows and false ceiling works at BHEL
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