Operations Manager
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Experience Summary
RAKESH SHRIVASTAV
A Chartered Manager with more than 17 years experience in offshore Oil &
Gas field with expertise in Operations, Shutdown planning, Brownfield
projects, Asset Integrity, and Interface management.
Awards received
* I have been awarded Chartered Managers status by Chartered Management
Institute, London.
* In Chief Executive's Innovation Award (BG Group) 2011, Management of C1
Barge campaign for Panna Brownfield projects was Commended.
* Panna Clamp-on project was nominated as one of the three finalist's for
the Chief Executive's Innovation Award (BG Group) held in November 2008
in Hampton's Court Palace, UK.
* In Chief Executive's Innovation Award (BG Group) 2005 TTC project of
Stick building Process Gas Compressors on Tapti Platform was Highly
Commended.
* Awarded Chief Executive's Innovation Award (BG Group) in 2003 for
innovation on our oil export system at Panna which resulted in reduction
in shutdown time by 50%
* Was awarded "Personal Best"award in the company for the work on gas
dehydration which enabled them to increase the gas production and
handling capacity to 116% of the design capacity.
* Awarded a certificate of merit for the work during the commissioning of
Tapti Process Platform.
* Secured a rank of 805 in the entrance examination for the admission to
Indian Institute of Technology. This examination was taken by nearly
200000 candidates.
Feb 2002 - To Date BG Group
Positions Held
Designations Period Location
Operations Superintendent May 2011 - To Date Aberdeen, UK
Brownfield Manager Nov 2007 - May 2011 Mumbai Office
Field Operations Manager May 2010 - July 2010 Oman
Commissioning Manager Mar 2007 - Nov 2007 Tapti
Offshore Installation Manager Oct 2004 - Mar 2007 Panna Mukta
Construction Coordinator Feb 2004 - Oct 2004 Mumbai Office
Offshore Installation Manager Sept 2003 - Feb 2004 Tapti
Assistant Manager Feb 2002 - Sept 2003 Panna Mukta
July 1995 - Feb 2002 Enron Oil & Gas India Ltd.
Designations Period Location
Assistant Manager Nov 2000 - Feb 2002 Panna Mukta
Senior Prodn. Engineer Jan 1997 - Nov 2000 Tapti
Prodn. Engineer July 1995 - Jan 1997 Panna Mukta
Professional Experience
Operations Superintendent:
. Managing ICE team to support offshore operations of Everest field.
. Managed operations through critical construction phase on erection of
Bridge Landing Platform for Flotel.
. Planned and executed pit stops and production outages for Everest.
. Involved in planning and scheduling for activities to be undertaken
during Flotel campaign.
. During the Flotel campaign managed to reduce the safety critical backlog
manhours from 16000 to 3000 manhours. Replaced 46 piping wraps by new
spools.
. Planning for a major shutdown of Everest platform of 50 days during the
winter period.
. Regularly updated and managed communication with Partners.
. Involved with HSE during their offshore inspection of Everest.
Brownfield Manager:
. Created a Brownfield projects delivery team and delivered the Brownfield
projects as C1 barge campaign (275 personnel capacity) safely and brought
a step change in Brownfield Project delivery (93% v/s 40% full project
completion at campaign end year on year). This has now been accepted as an
excellencein Brownfield projects delivery and has set the template of
campaign approach in delivering Brownfield projects.
. Successfully planned and executed a shutdown of Panna facilities
involving 400 personnel. The jobs involved Projects Tie-in, Maintenance of
SBM, Asset Integrity and HSSE related jobs.
. Managed Brownfield Operations projects of Multiphase meters, Barge
bumpers installation at PD and PE and Converting manual Upper Master
Valves to actuated ones at Panna Mukta fields.
. Successfully managed Panna Brownfield project: This project involves
installation of Crude Oil Surge Vessel without any platform outage,
extension of production header at PPA, installation of HIPPS at PPA and
Splitting the flow in PPA production header.
. Successfully managed Zero Flare project: This project involves installing
process compressor to recover LP flare gas and Dry Oil Tank vapors.
. Guided the asset as Asset Techincal Authority for Commissioning.
. Involved in BG projects as an Operations Interface Manager.
o HYDRA: This project involved installation of two (PK and SWP) minimum
facilities platform in Panna field. These platforms are instrumentated so
that the visit frequency to these platforms could be reduced to once in 3
months.
o Tapti Phase II Compression project: This project involves addition of one
more stage to exisiting two Process gas compressors and also addition of
one Process Gas Compressor module on TCPP platform.
o Gas Lift project: This involved installing gas lift facilities using
compressed gas from PPA on four satellite platforms.
o Water dumping project: This involves installing produced water processing
and facility to dump water in a well at satellite platforms PB and PC to
reduce the backpressure on flowing wells as well as reduce the production
header temperature at PPA.
. After Panna hot oil heater (HOH) incident, Installed a modular crane on
the platform, managed the demolition job of the old HOH, coordinated the
installation of new HOH and assisted the platform in the start-up of
platform in wet gas mode and later in normal mode.
. Panna Clamp-on project: In Panna field due to drilling of infill wells to
increase production we were running out of the well slots available in the
existing well head platforms. Existing well head platforms were
retrofitted to provide 'clamp-on' facilities with 3 slots in PB and 4
slots in PF to facilitate drilling new wells. This was achieved in a
record time of 4 months from concept to installation.
Offshore Installation Manager (OIM) at Tapti:
. Commissioning, Handing Over and Start-up of NRPOD project which comprised
of a Process platform (TCPP) and one satellite platform (MTA) in Tapti
field. Supervised the operations team offshore to commission all equipment
related to offshore processing facility. Hydrocarbon flow from the
facility was achieved ahead of targetted schedule.
. Developed subordinates and fresh joinees into a competent workforce and
building systems.
Offshore Installation Manager at Panna Mukta:
. As an OIM managed operations in Panna Mukta field during one of the
busiest times in BGEPIL history. EPOD (Commissioning and Start-up of PH
and PJ unmanned platforms) and PCE projects were executed during this
period. Zero LTI was achieved during the complete tenure as OIM inspite of
massive hook-up and construction jobs in offshore
. Panna Capacity Enhancement (PCE) project was executed during my tenure as
an OIM, it involved enhancing oil processing capacity of platform by 40%,
gas processing and compression capacity by 54% and water handling capacity
by 33.33%
. In 2007, 7 days Panna platform shutdown was taken for platform capacity
enhancement. This involved vessel internal modifications of six process
vessels, installation of additional process equipments and one Process Gas
Compressor module at PPA.
. Managed and trained a multi-disciplinary team comprising of nationals,
expatriates and contractors from different trades in offshore processes,
practices and safety systems.
. Successfully launched the first Behaviour Based Safety process in BGEPIL,
called SIMAP at Panna Mukta field
Construction Coordinator & OIM at Tapti:
. Tapti Temporary Compression Project involved installing decks and
assembling of two Process gas compressors, enhancing capacities of
existing facilities and installing additional processing equipment on a
live gas platform. This project was completed in 9 months
. Trained local hook-up and construction contractor in working the BG way
Assistant Manager at Panna Mukta field:
. Liquid Recovery project was undertaken on Panna platform and this
resulted in additional recovery of 2500 Bbls of condensate. This involved
debottlenecking of existing system, installation of new process equipments
and installation of blowdown system at PPA.
. Installation of local gas lift system at a satellite platform PB.
. Hookup and construction of flow arms and flow back of the new wells being
drilled by two rigs for two years.
. Installation of three clamp-on well slots on well head platform MA.
. Managed daily operations of the platform in addition to the ongoing
project activities.
Senior Production Engineer at Tapti field:
1. Involved with the Project Management team in commissioning of Tapti
Process Platform. It was the first gas processing installation in India in
the private sector. Responsible for Commissioning, Startup and Operation
of South Tapti Alpha unmanned platform. Involved in setting up a new
Operations and Maintenance System on the Tapti Process platform after
commissioning in 1997. The platform operated without any unplanned
shutdown for 6 years
2. Involved in successfully debottlenecking Tapti process platform and
operating plant at 200 MMSCFD of gas increase of 20% above the maximum
operating capacity of the platform.
3. Succesfully carried out troubleshooting of gas dehydration and
condensate processing problem at Tapti platform which had caused reduction
in gas processing capacity by 60 MMSCFD.
Production Engineer at Panna field:
4. Worked with the Operations team at Sagarlaxmi (an Early Production
System). The platform was involved in production of oil from a sour gas
field. The job involved:
1. Manpower planning, resource mobilization and supervision of daily plant
and wellhead activities relating to sour oil and gas handling.
2. Process parameter monitoring, troubleshooting and rectification of
process related problems as and when required and coordination with
wellhead team from the centralized control room.
3. Well testing, data collection, well behavior study, flow pattern study
and preparation of well property charts and their analysis.
4. Safety equipment maintenance, status reports preparation and conducting
mock safety drills in the capacity of a Safety officer.
Education
Jan 2006 - June 2008 Chartered Management Institute, London
Post Graduate Diploma in Management
Jan. 1997 - Dec 2000 Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi
Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma in Finance
1990 - 1995 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay
5 Year Integrated Master of Technology in Chemical Engineering
5. CPI : 7.72/10.0, Major CPI : 8.33/10.0
6. Dissertation title "Gas Absorption in Reactive Slurries"
Trainings
o Managing Projects the BG way conducted by BG Advance
o Introduction to Reservoir Engineering conducted by TRACS, UK.
o Management of major emergencies conducted by RGIT Montrose at Scotland,
UK
o Artificial Gas Lift and EOR measures conducted by Weatherford in Houston,
USA.
o Advanced fire fighting and Survival at sea conducted by MFETC at
Montrose, UK.
o I have successfully completed certificate courses organized by
Weatherford International and Operational Services Inc. (USA)
o Helicopter underwater escape at Montrose, UK.
o Attended workshops on Team building, creativity, performance appraisal,
behaviour Based Safety and Presentation skills at Mumbai.
o Natural Gas processing by J.M.Campbell held in Mumbai
Extra Curricular Activities
I am a member of Chartered Management Institute, London.
I am a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers International and also a
member of Technical Interest Group of SPE on Gas Processing.
I am a member of Corrosion Society of India and attended a course on
Pipeline Corrosion conducted by NACE International (India Branch).
I enjoy playing Cricket, Table Tennis and Volleyball and my favorite
leisure activity is reading Non-fiction books.
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