Profile
Well-organized, innovative, proactive, schedule driven and result oriented civil engineering professional having international experience in the field of Civil and Structural Design & Engineering (both Greenfield and Brownfield projects). I have varied experience in Oil & Gas, Power Plants and Marine.
Major strengths are good communication and negotiation skills. Attitude is flexible and adaptive with an ability to perform under crunch situations.
Experience aided with strengths has enabled to work independently and as a team member with excellent leadership qualities in diverse environment.
SYNOPSIS:
Experienced Civil Structural Engineer: Specialized in Oil & Gas, Projects in Sour Gas environment, Infrastructure and Power projects. Worked in various capacities and stages of projects: Conceptual design/ Feasibility studies, defining scope of work, basic design, FEED, detailed design, construction support and troubleshooting, recruitment, employee gap analysis, training and development of trainees and managing multiple consultants and contractors. I am conversant with international codes and standards BP ETP, API’s, Shell DEP, Euro code, ACI and BS.
Work Experience
1. 12 Aug 2013 to till date BP Group Limited
Civil Engineering Team Leader
2. 06 Aug 2011 to 11 Aug 2013 ADCO (Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations)
Senior Civil Engineer
3. 01 Aug 2006 to 31 July 2011 Kuwait Oil Company, Kuwait
Engineer Civil Design
4. 04 April 2006 to 31 July 2006 Hydro Tasmania Consulting
Specialist Hydropower Engineer
5. 01 Nov. 2002 to 03 April 2006 Halcrow Consulting Limited New Delhi
Senior Design Engineer
6. 02 Jan 2001 to 31 Oct 2002 Hope Technologies Limited
Engineering Manager
7. 10 March 2000 to 01 Jan 2001 IDEA Limited(Design wing of Jaypee Ventures Limited) , Delhi
Senior Design Engineer
8. 21 April 1999 to 08 March 2000 Saudi Archirodon Limited, Saudi Arabia.
Civil Structural Engineer
9. 25 June 1996 to 19 April 1999 Sahara India Limited, Delhi
Design Engineer
Professional Qualifications
Master of Engineering (Civil Design) from M. N. National Institute of Technology Allahabad 1997
Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the Institution of Engineers -India 1992
Software Experience
Staadpro ‘Structural analysis and design’.
GTStrudl ‘Structural analysis and design’
MathCAD ‘For Machine foundation and other calculations’.
Frameworks Plus ‘3D modeling and detailing of Structures’.
MS Project ‘Project Planning, resource management etc.
Unwedge and Phases ‘Analysis and design of Underground Cavities, tunnels etc’.
MS Office, Microstation and AutoCAD.
Codes and Standards Used
BP ETP, Shell DEP, API, BS, Eurocode3 and ACI.
Work and Financial Management Software Experience
Maximo ‘Work flow Management’.
Backbone ‘BP’s integrated management platform which runs on SAP’s ERP- enterprise resource planning software integrated with Maximo and primavera meant for standardization and integration for control on Governance, Risk Management, Integrated planning, Quality Management and Knowledge management.
ACET ‘Integrity Management: for recording ‘inspection findings’ and anomalies and management of repair order and work order thereof’.
Work Experience
12th August 2013 to till date
For BP Caspian Limited as ‘Civil Engineering Team Leader’
Key Responsibilities:
Manage Civil & Structural Team and engineering consultants to ensure timely delivery of the engineering deliverables with adherence to codes and standards.
Preparation of conceptual, basic design and review of detailed civil structural design of plants.
Define scope of work, advice on design concepts, specific design criteria, design standards and specifications.
Audit design at predetermined milestones of the design phase and endorse drawings, specification and other technical documents.
Factory Acceptance Test Visits: Carryout FAT visits as required for ensuring compliance with technical specification and international standards, prepare FAT reports accordingly.
Evaluate modification requests involving a wide variety of civil & structural works. Liaise with concerned departments. Analyze relevant data to verify validity and feasibility of the modification requests.
Participate in value engineering studies, detailed technical evaluation, and safety audits of various plant areas or equipment.
Review various requests for engineering support raised by users that may involve carrying out conceptual designs, evaluating consultants, design packages, inspecting suspected problem sites or providing recommendations.
Support project groups during engineering, construction and commissioning. Ensure that correct standards and procedures are adhered to.
Keep up-to-date with International Standards and codes to ensure that Company’s standards areupdated and that the most appropriate equipment and materials are used.
Review and endorse/approve civil engineering standards, design philosophies and practices.
Coordinate Technical Meetings and attend various technical, design, & progress meetings with contractors, consultants,
Participation in project review meetings and risk assessment studies.
Annual Budget estimation for the civil and structural discipline design consultancy, geotechnical investigation and survey works along with cost-benefit statement and prepare justifications for approval.
As DofA (Delegation of Financial Authority) approve the expenditure and manage annual team budget for Civil and Structural activities.
Green field and Brown field Projects:
Produced Water Enhanced Capacity Project consists of mainly machine foundations, produced water tank and pipe racks.
Sangachal Oil Terminal Engineering Assessment: Oil Terminal foundations are subsiding owing to poor soil conditions. Monitoring and Interpretation of differential movements of foundations for adequacy check of pipe racks, skid foundations and oil storage tanks under additional stresses due to differential movement of foundation and accordingly recommend for modifications in the structures and other remedial works.
Marine subsea supply base expansion project Baku (A 27000m2 Harbor Expansion Project, $130m): Basic Civil Design and prepared scope of works.
Sangachal Oil Terminal- Subsequent to partial failure of one structure under heavy wind: participated in root cause analysis. Reevaluated Structural Design of all main structures at Sangachal Terminal according to latest Seismic and wind load codes and advised remediation works. This area is seismic prone zone and high wind area.
Shah Deniz (SD2) $15 billion ->16 billion m gas processing/year capacity Project – Cost benefits analysis for foundation selection for various structures of SD2 project.
Resolved civil and structural Interface issues with other discipline of SD2 project with existing Sangachal Project (550 hectare). The interface problems were above 100 and were resolved and recorded through management of change process.
Pipeline- River crossing remediation works; mainly protection weir at u/s and d/s side of pipeline crossing, riprap, gabions and culverts. Contribute in revising exiting BP ETPs (Engineering Technical Practices), Performance standard and Integrity management standards.
6thAugust 2011 to 11th August 2013
For ADCO (Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations)
Green field and Brown field Projects:
BuHasa Gas Lift network FEED stage design and estimation
BuHasa Field Development (for period 2013-2050) Conceptual Study: Developing options and defining scope of civil work for bidding.
BQ Gathering Station EPC scope – Review of detail engineering submittals of machine foundations, transmission lines tower and pile foundations, control buildings, industrial sheds, pipe racks, substation buildings, transformer bays, equipment support systems, transmission tower and foundation, MSM and MPFM support systems and ancillary structures. The subject field has high hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas content.
Resolve operations technical queries and defining scope of work for plant modification requests.
Nature of works
Large scale new Oil Plant Design / Plot Plan, grade plan, flow line corridor and earthwork optimization.
Elevated Substation Buildings.
Control and Administration Buildings.
Elevated and Underground Pipelines.
Equipment support systems.
Industrial Steel Buildings. Telecom Tower and Flare stack.
Tanks and Machines Foundations.
Overhead Line Towers and pile foundations.
‘Pipe support systems’ Pipe racks, Pipe sleepers and pipe supports- isolated/combined.
Transformer bay design, spillage collection systems,
Civil Infrastructure/hydraulic design/ Drainage design /permanent and temporary Roads.
Various modifications and extensions in existing Oil & Gas Projects.
Special measures in the design for suitability in Sour Gas environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Preparation of conceptual, basic and detailed civil design of plants.
Define scope of work, advice on design concepts, specific design criteria, design standards and Specifications.
Audit design at predetermined milestones of the design phase and endorse drawings, specifications and other technical documents.
Evaluate modification requests involving a wide variety of civil & structural works. Liaise with concerned departments. Analyze relevant data to verify validity and feasibility of the modification requests.
Participate in value engineering studies, detailed technical evaluation, and safety audits of various plant areas or equipment.
Review various requests for engineering support raised by users that may involve carrying out conceptual designs, evaluating consultants, design packages, inspecting suspected problem sites or providing recommendations.
Support project groups during engineering, construction and commissioning. Ensure that correct standards and procedures are adhered to
Prepare tender and contract documents for civil work.
Advise on selection of materials including pre-qualification and recommendation of suppliers and evaluation of tenders.
Keep up-to-date with International Standards and codes to ensure that Company’s standards are updated and that the most appropriate equipment and materials are used.
Review and endorse/approve civil engineering standards, design philosophies and practices.
Participate in the preparation of the EMPD business plan as applicable to the civil discipline.
Participation in Layout review meetings,
Participate in HAZID and HAZOP studies.
1st August 2006 to 31st July 2011
For Kuwait Oil Company
Key Responsibilities:
Preparation of statement of requirements (scope of project), basic civil and structural design and costing for BP and AFE, and project schedule.
Front End Engineering Design and Preparation of Tender Documents and participation in Tender evaluation, selection and approval.
Recommendations for Geotechnical Investigations, interpretation of reports and design of foundations accordingly.
Review/Check and approve Contractor/Vendor’s submittal: ‘Civil and Structural design calculation, drawings and material approvals in line with technical compliance and suitable for sour gas environment.
Follow-up and coordinate with contractors for ensuring timely material delivery, inspection, testing and storage at site.
Supervise, coordinate and follow-up during throughout construction, inspection and installation.
Ensure own discipline engineering and design work are successfully delivered and appropriate reviews conducted.
Coordinate for carrying out detailed investigations for any incidents/ accidents during project execution phase.
Verify that engineering tasks are carried out by the Contractor in compliance with the Contract requirements, safety philosophy, recognized engineering practices and project specifications and standards.
Coordinate for arranging periodic meetings amongst the project team members for expeditious finalization and resolution of issues.
Prepare and issue progress reports for the assigned projects periodically. Present the overall status to the management and implement management’s views/comments.
Coordinate for design changes during construction and finalization of new requirements. Resolve day to day obstacles related to project site and design.
To check and verify progress of construction work and verifies invoices with comments for processing for payment.
To conduct risk assessment for critical construction activities to ensure that all risk factors are known and identified more importantly considering very high sour gas (H2S- Hydrogen sulphide) content and appropriate preventive and corrective measures have been done for the safe execution of the tasks.
To carry out /reviews system analysis studies in the civil discipline for Oil and Gas Plants.
Take part in the negotiation of changes to the baseline schedule, variation orders etc.
04 Apr 2006 to 31st July 2006
Hydro Tasmania Consulting Australia as Specialist Engineer
Project: Tolukuma Hydroelectric Project Australia:
Key Responsibilities:
Structural design of various components of power house.
Preparation of design report submittal, incorporating client’s comments and getting it approved.
lst Nov 2002 to 03 Apr 2006
Halcrow Consulting (I) Limited as Senior Design Engineer
Key Responsibilities:
Basic and detailed Civil/Structural Design of various types of structures.
Recommendations for Geotechnical Investigations, interpretation of reports and design of various components of the projects and layout design accordingly.
Hydraulic calculations for water conductor systems (Open Channels, Tunnels etc.), Head loss calculations and energy studies.
Design of Rockfill dam, weir, barrage, spillway, flip bucket, plunge pool, forebay, penstock pipe and inlet & outlet structures.
Hydraulic design and optimization of Desalting Basins and discharge arrangements.
Stage Discharge analysis of the schemes and reservoir peaking storage analysis/calculations.
Surge Shaft analysis and design.
Slope protection measures; retaining walls, riprap, soil stabilization.
Temporary Diversion works design and drafting method statement for river diversion works.
Design of shotcrete and rock bolt requirements and lining of the tunnels and underground cavities.
Financial modeling and Feasibility studies of the infrastructure projects.
Preparation of Prefeasibility, Feasibility and Detailed project Reports.
Due diligence of BOT projects.
Supervision of a team of engineers and CAD technicians.
Bids preparation for consulting services.
Projects:
330MW Srinagar power project :
100 MW Sainj power project
100 MW Tidong power project
60 MW Sorang power project
20MW Patikari power project
5MW Kurpan power project
5MW Neogal power project
5MW Iqu power project
3MW Hurla power project
Significant Achievement:
Developed program for Anchor Block design and Surface Penstock pipe ‘design & optimization’.
2nd Jan 2001 to 31 Oct. 2002
Hope Technologies Limited, as Engineering Manager
Project: 200 MLD UASB Sewage Treatment Plant for Kanpur City
Key Responsibilities:
Structural Design of cylindrical gas holder tank, UASB reactors, inlet screen grit chamber and collection outlet, sludge sump, mechanical degritter, reactor wall and deflector beam, division and distribution boxes, office and laboratory building.
Preparation of design reports, participation in design review meeting and implementation of owner engineer’s comments and get the design report and drawings approved.
10th Mar 2000 to 1st Jan 2001
International Design Engineering Associates Limited, as Senior Engineer:
Project: 450MW Baghlihar Hydropower Project
Key Responsibilities:
Hydraulic and structural design of Inlet and outlet structures.
Structural Design of Liquid retaining structures.
Retaining wall design and slope protection measures.
Coordination with Site Managers and providing field engineering support to projects.
21st April’ 1999 to 8th March’ 2000
Saudi Archirodon Limited As Civil Structural Engineer (Project site)
Project: Jetty and 3 X 350MW Shoaiba Power Plant in Saudi Arabia
Key Responsibilities:
Reinforcement check: Heavy machine foundations for turbo generator and auxiliary equipment.
Quantity estimation of Dredging, Land reclamation and shore protection measures.
Supervision of Soil Improvement measures, including providing sand columns, soil replacement and soil treatment.
Reinforcement check and concreting of Sea Inlet/outlet structures.
Supervision of Sheet piling, deep excavation and concreting of underground seawater pump house.
25th June’ 1996 to 19th April ’1999
Sahara India Limited- Design Engineer
Projects:
Sahara India TV Studio –Noida
Amby Valley Sahara Lake City Project Pune
Sahara Shahar Housing Project-Lucknow.
Sahara Trade Centre-Lucknow
Rashtriya Press-Noida
Nature Of Experience
Civil and Structural Design of mutistoried residential buildings and shopping malls.
Drainage Layout design of housing and industrial projects.
Underground and surface water tanks
Machine foundations
Soil stablized and Slope protection measure
Retaining walls
Machine foundations
