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| Ref # |  | JS185494 |
| Year of birth | | 1957 |
Permanent/Home Location/Address |
| City or Town | | Mannarkkad |
| State | | Kerala |
| Country | | INDIA |
Current Location/Address |
| State | | 5-Ga, Joong-Gu, 100 998 |
| Country | | SOUTH KOREA |
Languages |
| Primary Language | | Fluency |
| English | | Read, write and speak fluently |
Nationalities |
| Main Nationality | | INDIA |
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Experience Classification |
| Job Function | | Years Experience |
| PMC Engineer | | 5 |
| Piping Engineer | | 15 |
| Piping Designers | | 10 |
| Industry | | Years Experience |
| Engineering | | 30+ |
Qualifications |
| Highest Qualifications | | Degree |
| Qualification | Subject | Establishment/Country | Year |
| Degree | Mechanical Engineering | Calicut University, India | 1992 |
| HND/Diploma | Mechanical Engineering | State Board of Technical Education Kerala, India | 1978 |
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Work Locations |
| Are you willing to move or relocate? | |
| Yes - I will relocate internationally | |
Availability |
| Start Immediately? | | Available Now |
Ideal Next Job |
| Looking for work in a Project Management and Consultancy contract / role in the Engineering of major projects in Middle East / africa / Kazaksthan on a single status basis |
Required Salary & Conditions |
| US $ 150000 per annum |
Employment History |
| Total Years of Work Experience: | | 31 |
| Commenced Full Time Work: | | 1981 |
| Job Title: | | Lead Piping Engineer |
| Duration | | From : 2010 To: |
Summary |
Snapshot
Thirty years of experience in Piping and Plant Design in the Project Management Consultancy (PMC) projects, Detailed Design and Feed Engineering Projects for Fertilizer Plants, Chemical Plants, Refinery and Gas processing Plants.
Sound knowledge of engineering techniques, industry standards, principles, practices and related construction methods.
Significant experience in Piping and Pipeline Engineering, Detail Engineering, Tendering & Negotiation
Strong relations management, communication skills with ability to network with Project Members, Consultants, Contractors with consummate ease
Familiar with the International Codes, Standards and Specification including API, ASME, ANSI, ASTM, AWWA, AWS, MSS-SP, NFPA and BS.
Have the ability to motivate cross-cultural teams in optimizing their performance levels.
Core Competencies
Project Management Consultancy
Develop the evaluation criteria for the EPC contractor’s bids and evaluate them.
Reviewing of the basis of design, specifications, data sheets, and drawings of technical bids.
Establish the list of discipline deliverables. Control and monitor the progress of these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
Reviewing of EPC contractor’s Engineering Procedures, Specifications and Standards.
Provide technical advice / clarification to queries to the EPC contractors.
Monitoring project status during the course of periodic project review meetings as per the technical details.
Plant Design & Piping Engineering
Lead and supervise a team of engineers and designers for the production of piping engineering deliverables for Front End and Detailed Design Projects.
Developing and checking plot plans, equipment layouts, piping general arrangement drawings, pipe support drawings and isometric drawings and performing engineering calculations.
Preparing designs in PDS; studying all types of drawings (P&ID, Isometrics, Support detail Drawings) and specification of the job in advance and listing down the scope of work.
Managing detail designing of piping works (conceptual design, detailed calculations, component selection, plan drawings, material selection).
Overseeing development of Overall Plot Plan, Equipment Layout, Pipeline Material Specifications, Pipeline Routing Study, Vessel Nozzle Orientation and Platform Details, Plant Design Review.
Techno-Commercial Functions
Preparing detail specifications for purchases requisitions and to fully define project construction requirements.
Developing tender documents based on Detail Drawings and Specifications to obtain firm construction bids from Contractors and Equipment Vendors.
Prepare the Technical Bid Evaluations and Technical Recommendations.
Site & Construction Management
Coordinating all construction activities including providing technical inputs for methodologies of construction & coordination with site management activities.
Implementing QA / QC procedures, Total Quality Management principles and checks.
Overseeing installation and commissioning of equipments, followed by plant trial runs meeting targeted performance/ quality & quantity parameters and thereafter handing over of the Project
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Work Experience |
Since May 2010: Mott MacDonald LLC, Abu Dhabi, UAE as Lead Piping Engineer (PMC)
Mott MacDonald LLC is multi-disciplinary consulting engineering company serving oil and gas companies in the UAE, and beyond, and is part of the Mott MacDonald Group, which provides management and engineering services worldwide.
About Project:
Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company – Takreer, UAE, own and operate an existing refinery in the Ruwais industrial complex. They are planning a new refinery to be built to the west of the existing refinery at Ruwais, the Ruwais Refinery Expansion Project.
The whole project is divided as seven packages and awarded as separate EPC contracts. Package 7 is the jetty is proposed to export products from the Ruwais Refinery Expansion Project. The scope of work included the three berths for 20,000 dwt to 330,000 dwt product tankers. It accommodates safely the range of vessels required for all of the products during loading and support the pipe work supplying the products to the loading platforms. The key features of the jetty are the approach trestle, with a sea arm and shore arm, consisting of a roadway and a pipe track and a service platform, with control building.
G S Engineering and Construction Company, Seoul, South Korea is the EPC contractor and Mott MacDonald is the Project Management consultant and is working through the Detailed Engineering, Construction and Commissioning.
Role:
Ensure recognized engineering practices applicable to piping design are adopted.
Ensuring technical integrity of the discipline’s deliverables through the implementation of checking and design assurance activities.
Manage interfaces within the discipline and with other disciplines and with third parties.
Resolution of discipline technical issues.
Review of stress analysis calculations
Squad checking of deliverables.
Execute engineering activities specific to the Piping area such as 3D Plant Design reviews.
Oct’ 06 – Mar’ 10: WorleyParsons Limited, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia as Lead Piping Engineer (PMC)
WorleyParsons is a leader in downstream hydrocarbons with a widely recognized reputation for its high quality project services to the Power, Oil and Gas, Refining, Petrochemicals and Chemicals sectors globally. WorleyParsons has the track record and systems necessary to pursue and deliver large-scale and complex projects.
About project:
The Ma’aden Phosphate Company is a joint venture of Ma’aden with SABIC. Ma'aden is the "Minerals wing" of the Saudi Govt. Ministry of Oil and Minerals. SABIC is the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals and is the largest public company in the Middle East.
The Ma’aden Phosphate Company is building a fertiliser complex consists of phosphoric acid plants, sulphuric acid plants, an ammonia plant, DAP granulation plants, a co-generation plant and a desalination plant, and other infrastructure at Raz Az Zore in Saudi Arabia. Following are the plants and EPC contractors involved in the project. A common PMC team managed all of these activities.
Following are the details of the Plants (Name, Capacity and the EPC contractor). Di-Ammonium Phosphate Plant, 2250 mtpd per train (3 trains), Dragdas Spain. Phosphoric Acid Plant, 1,460 mtpd per train (3 trains), Litwin, Italy. Sulfuric Acid Plant, 4,500 mtpd per plant (3trains), Ototec, Germany. Ammonia Plant, 3,300 mtpd, Samsung, South Korea. Power Plant, 130 MW, Hanwa, South Korea. Desalination Plant, 40,000 m3 per day, Hanwa, South Korea. ISBL, interconnecting all plants, WorleyParsons, Melbourne. Seawater Cooling system, 160,000 m3/hr, WorleyParsons, Perth.
Role:
Develop the evaluation criteria for the EPC estimates Bid evaluation and evaluate them.
Reviewing of EPC contractor’s proposals, documentations and drawings.
Reviewing of the basis of design, specification, data sheets, requisitions, technical bid evaluations, and drawings.
Reviewing of engineering procedures, specifications and standards.
Participate in the project, client and vendor meetings.
Execute engineering activities specific to the Piping area such as 3D Plant Design reviews.
Establish a list of discipline deliverables. Control and monitor the progress of these deliverables to an agreed schedule.
Provide technical advice / clarification to queries to the EPC contractors.
Provide Field Engineering Support to the Construction.
Provide technical direction, control and supervision for engineering and design within the discipline.
Ensuring all relevant HSE requirements are addressed in the design.
Ensuring technical integrity of the discipline’s deliverables through the implementation of checking and design assurance activities.
To deliver the disciplines design deliverables within the man-hour budget.
Planning of the execution of the discipline’s activities to maintain project schedule.
Manage quality and consistency within the discipline across all areas through the development of discipline related work procedures.
Manage interfaces within the discipline and with other disciplines and with third parties.
Support the Engineering Manager in resolutions of multi-discipline issues.
Coordinate change control and technical query process within the discipline.
Jun’ 03 – Sep’ 06: TR Engineering LLC, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman as Senior Piping Engineer
It is a, global engineering-construction organization, with its Head office at Madrid Spain. The Middle East office is at Muscat and provides Engineering, management, and directly related services to clients in this region.
About projects:
Mukhaizna Oil Field development of Occidental Oman (OXY)
Occidental Mukhaizna LLC, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, is the operator of the Mukhaizna field at Oman. Oxy signed a service contract TR Engineering for the development of the north oilfield.
Oman Refinery Company Refinery Revamp and Isomerisation project.
Responsible for the piping design and for the piping deliverables. This major revamp is for enhancing the refining capacity from 86000 BPD to 106000 BPD.
De-bottlenecking of Daleel Production Station for Daleel Petroleum Company.
Daleel Petroleum Company planned to upgrade and expand the existing gathering and central production facilities. The processing capacity is to be increased from 9200 BPD to 25000 BPD, by De-bottlenecking and installing additional processing facilities in the station
Northern Oman Gas Project pipelines for Occidental of Oman, Inc.
The Scope of this pipeline project is to route wet gas from various fields to the plant at Safah where the gas will be treated to produce a sales quality gas. The main 16” pipeline will transport sales gas from Safah to OGC BVS-05 on the Fahud to Sohar pipeline. The pipeline length is approximately 93.8 km. The 12” Wadi Latham to Safah Far West facilities is approximately 58 km, which transports wet gas from Wadi Latham to Safah Far west facilities. The 4” Al Barakah to Wadi Latham wet gas pipeline is approximately 16 km, which also transports wet sweet gas from Al Barakah to the 12” Wadi Latham to Safah Far west facilities pipeline.
Role:
Preparation of all project deliverables.
Attending the kick off meetings, weekly progress meetings and technical review meetings,
Manage discipline resources for their area of responsibility
Progress reporting of discipline deliverables.
Resolution of discipline technical issues.
Interfacing with procurement
Respond all the comments from the client.
Keep the records of the job.
Close liaison with the other groups, including Process, Civil, Instrumentation and Electrical.
Accuracy and quality of all drawings, reports, specifications, schedules and calculations issued on the project
Jul’ 01 – May’ 03: Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia as Senior Engineer - Plant Design and Piping
Bechtel is a global engineering and construction organization. It provides premier technical, management, and directly related services to develop, manage, engineer, build, and operate installations for customers worldwide.
Role:
Preparation and checking of the project deliverables which included plot plans, equipment layouts, piping general arrangement drawings, engineering calculations, pipe support drawings and isometric drawings and ensure that they conform to the required configurations, dimensions, and materials.
Preparation and review of studies and reports.
Prepares letters to vendors and clients Reviews cost estimates and quantity take offs.
Preparation of tender documents of piping packages (turnkey),
Bid evaluation, review of drawings prepared by vendors.
Site visits and data collection.
Provide construction support and interprets design drawings and specifications
About project:
Various Saudi Aramco General Engineering Projects
Jun’ 97 – Jul’ 01: FACT Engineering and Design Organization (FEDO), Cochin, India as Senior Design Engineer - Piping
It is a division of Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd., with extensive experience in providing services for a wide range of process industries like refineries, chemicals, acids, fertilizers and petrochemicals, in the areas of design, purchasing, construction supervision, inspection and expedition for the construction of large fertilizer plants, petrochemical plants, and refineries.
Role:
Designing piping deliverables such as plot plans, equipment layout drawings, piping general arrangement drawings, pipe support drawings, isometric drawings with bill of materials.
Estimating and consolidating of bill of material
Preparing technical procurement specification, evaluation and preparation of technical recommendations.
Conducting stress analysis of piping systems and spring support selection.
Supervising piping construction activities with the responsibility of field engineering, stores management, area management and construction planning as and when required.
About projects:
Additional Crude Tankage Project for Cochin Refineries Ltd; Cochin
900TPD Ammonia Plant for FACT - Cochin With Basic Technology From Haldor Topsoe - Denmark.
Nov’ 95 – May’ 97: Saudi Consolidated Engineering Company, Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Mechanical Engineer
SCEC is a General Engineering Consultant to Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco). SCEC provides Consultancy Services in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation fields. The activities include the preparation of preliminary design, detailed working drawing, technical specification, reports and bill of quantities.
Role:
Coordination and management of General engineering projects.
Review of material submittals and shop drawings
Checking of plant piping drawings and pipeline drawings.
Checking of bulk material take offs, Pipe Support drawings.
Checked calculations for assumptions, analytical method, mathematical accuracy, completeness, compliance with design criteria, adequacy of design and relevance of quoted codes and standards.
About projects:
Various Saudi Aramco General Engineering Projects as a Project Engineer
Apr’ 81 – May’ 95: FACT Engineering and Design Organization (FEDO), Cochin, India as Design Engineer_ Piping
Role:
Selection of supports for piping,
Bulk material quantity take offs and compilation,
Preparation of material requisitions, specifications and procurement documents.
Site visits for data collection and field modification.
Construction support and construction supervision as and when required.
Revamped Ammonia plant and plant of a refinery including
Identifying areas / systems for revamping, tie in / hook-up points at site, design of pipe systems for modified sections, preparation of site sketches and final drawings for Tie-ins and demolition.
Involved in scheduling and controlling of tie in jobs for the minimum shut down time and in the site construction supervision, quality assurance and site management.
Major Projects Worked Include:
Ammonia Plant Revamp Project for Madras Fertilisers Ltd, Madras, Basic Technology from Haldor Topsoe.
Solvent De-waxing revamp Project for Barauni Refinery, India.
Oil Terminal for Bharat Petroleum Corporation at Cochin and Mangalore.
Apr’ 81 – May’ 95: FACT Engineering and Design Organization (FEDO), Cochin, India as Junior Engineer
Role:
Administering and directing work of designers and draughtsman for getting the required production with quality to meet the project milestones.
Reviewing and checking calculations, drawings and design documents prepared by designers for quality, accuracy, neatness, functionality and satisfactory completion.
Major Projects Worked Include:
Cross Country Pipe Line for Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Irimpanam, Cochin, India.
Apr’ 81 – May’ 95: FACT Engineering and Design Organization (FEDO), Cochin, India as Designer - Piping
Role:
Preparing plant layouts and study drawings from which detailed construction drawings are completed.
Undertaking construction of major portions of design as directed.
Drafting and checking piping general arrangement drawings, key plans, support & isometric drawing with required bill of materials.
Preparing design calculations used for the projects.
Compiling and maintaining drawing files and records.
Attending site problems and in prepare necessary field sketches for modifications.
Major Projects Worked Include:
2 X 1350 TPD Ammonia Plant for Kribhco-Hazira, with basic technology from MW Kellogg.
40,000 MTPA Phenol and 24,000 MTPA Acetone Plant for Hindustan Organic Chemicals (HOC), Cochin, with basic Technology from UOP - USA.
50,000 MPTA Caprolactum Plant 225000 MTPA Ammonium Sulphate Plant For FACT -Cochin, with basic technology from Stamicarbon - Netherlands and Chiyoda - Japan.
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