MOHAMMED ALI SHAIK

New Riggae, Block #*, Street #17, Building # 29, 6th Floor, Flat # 18, Kuwait

Email: ac3dny@r.postjobfree.com • Phone: +965-******** / 69007166

Educational Qualifications

B.E., Electronics Instrumentation & Control Engineering, K.S.R.M college Of Engineering, A.P, Sri Venkateswara University, 2002-2006, First Class- 78.6 %

H.S.C. From Bharathi Junior College, Kadapa Affiliated to Andhra Pradesh Board in 2002

S.S.C. From St Joseph English Medium High School, Kadapa Affiliated to Andhra Pradesh Board in 2000

Career Profile

A committed Instrumentation & Control Professional with leadership qualities, expertise in process automation, project execution, designing, construction, commissioning & maintenance management, with 11 years’ experience in Refinery, Petrochemical, Oil & Gas and Power Industries.

Professional Experience

Sr No.

Organization

Designation

From

To

1.

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) thru Alkhorayef, Kuwait.

Instrument Engineer

July ’2012

Till Date

2.

Kuwait Gulf Oil Company & Chevron (Joint Operations- Wafra, Kuwait) thru IMCO Kuwait.

Instrument Supervisor

Jan ‘2011

July ’2012

3.

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) thru Almeer Kuwait.

Instrument Sr Foremen

Jan ’2009

Dec ’2010

4.

Petrochemical Industries Company(PIC, Shuaiba) thru Tri Alpha co, Kuwait

Service Engineer

Jan ’2007

Dec ’2008

5

Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (APGENCO) A.P- India

Instrument Engineer - Trainee

Apr’ 2006

Dec ’ 2006

OVERALL JOB PROFILE:-

Currently working as an Instrument Engineer for KOC- Large Scale Thermal Plant on behalf of Alkhorayef Co, Kuwait (KOC ID: 198099)

Review - P&ID, Datasheets, I/O List, Control Narrative, Cause and Effect Matrix

Review - Instrument Indexes,ranges and Alarm set points and logic drawings

Review - junction box grouping & cable schedule, wiring drawings, loop drawings.

Conduction of FAT & SAT

Assistance for the selection of Instrument and Control Systems.

Review of TBE (Technical Bid Evaluations)

Review vendor technical and/or commercial quotations for conventional systems and make technical recommendations-contractors & vendors

Compressor Controls, Anti-surge Controller – CCC 3+ Controller

Invensys I/A Series DCS with FCP Controllers - Overview & Troubleshooting

Emerson DeltaV DCS with Foundation Field Bus- Overview & Trouble shooting

Co-ordinate with the Planning dept. to carry out various maintenance activities

BENTLY NEVADA Vibration System 3500

Control systems for -Distillation Controls, Furnace/Heater Controls, Air Compressor controls, Gas Compressor Controls, Boiler controls, and various other systems.

Up-gradation of the Compressor Control Panels from Relay Logic to PLC Systems.

Liaison with design, construction & operations group.

Conduction of FAT & SAT for various systems.

Conducting SAT for the, Allen Bradley PLC Systems for the LSTP (N).

Conducting SAT for the Triconex ESD System/DeltaV DCS Systems.

Conducting Instrument loop & functional Testing, Logic testing & Interlock checking.

Management & supervision of Sub-contractors & vendors.

Management & supervision of commissioning technicians to complete the pre-commissioning & commissioning scopes and act.

Identify and plan the control and instrumentation scopes of work and load into document management system

Provide input into project planning and execution

Identify and communicate impacts of Instrumentation and Control work on other disciplines.

Conduct basic interdisciplinary checks.

Assign work and deliverables to our team with clarity on scope, quality and schedule

Update and assess progress, issue regular weekly reports and, when required suggest plans to recover slippage, correct inefficiency and to take any resulting agreed actions

Assume other duties as may be required by the company from time to time

Commissioning works of the EOCENE Plant and Bitumen Plant.

Commissioning of Gathering Centres.

Commissioning of LFPP.

Commissioning LSTP (N).

Commissioning of VRU. Supplied by Tarpon, Canada.

Developed PLC Programmes of Allen Bradley RS Logix 5000.

Achieved Zero Downtime for two consecutive Months

To monitor & control the maintenance activities as per the planned schedule.

Carry out day to day preventive, corrective and break down maintenance activities on instrumentation and control systems in assigned field.

Calibration of all the Process Field Instruments like Pressure, Temperature, Level, Flow, Analyzers and Analytical instrumentation.

Commissioning of Analytical Instrumentation.

Participated in the HAZOP STUDY. WORKS

Manage the running of RCA & FMEA

Review obsolete equipment spares and preparation of alternative spares specifications

Troubleshoots various process/systems/equipment operational problems and consults with supervisor and colleagues as required.

Meeting Project requirements and taking responsibility for the entire project during its execution phase.

Plan test accurately and coordinate with team members for work activities.

Analyzing performance test requirements and develop test plans and debug to understand test objective requirements.

Applying, designing and developing automated testing strategies

Analyzing and verifying best automated and manual test approaches and execute acceptance, integration, installation and system testing.

Involvement in product design to guarantee adherence of test coverage for meeting requirements.

Coordinating with program and development management teams.

Handling performance of testing.

Representative Projects

Client Name : KUWAIT OIL COMPANY KOC-North Kuwait, Heavy Oil, RATQA.

Company : ALKHORAYEF PETROLEUM CO, Kuwait

Position : Instrument Engineer

Area Focus : LSTP (NORTH), CSS, NCW PILOT PROJECTS.

Period : July 2012 to till date

Roles and Responsibilities:

Supervision of team members to carry out preventive and corrective maintenance work for the field instruments located in Well Head areas, Inlet Manifold Headers, Coolers, and Heat Exchangers. Production Separators, Test Separators, Instrument Air Compressor, Storage Tanks, Export Facility, OTSG’s, Water Treatment Plant, Water Injection etc.

Perform / Supervision of scheduled maintenance, inspection and calibration, troubleshoot and assist in reliability improvement Investigation, repair faults and testing of field instrument and control equipment’s.

Allocation of work and time link for field crews to execute the maintenance activities as per Preventive & Corrective Work Orders (WO).

To take regular back up of application programs, alarm reports and history reports from various Basic Process Control System (BPCS) as per KOC Compliance.

RCA’s (Root Cause Analysis) for equipment and spares failures follow up and documentation.

Participate in Job Safety Analysis (JSA) process and review conclusions.

Apply STOP WORK techniques and working practices during daily activity.

Document review and updating of Maintenance Procedures and modification work packs etc.

Prepare Daily maintenance equipment status Logs and update the status.

Participating in MOC review process and crosscheck with field and control system.

Support commissioning and optimization of new and modified plant.

Testing and official witness acceptance of construction and vendor modifications.

Manage instrument maintenance priorities, vendor performance and fault tracking system.

Critical and essential spares inventory monitoring and follow up with Material Maintenance Management System.

Monitor performance and troubleshooting of faults occurring in the systems like Allen Bradley PLC, Factory Talk view HMI and Fire & Gas System – Honeywell.

Permit and isolation audits, control and monitor permits and long term Isolations.

Technical Support for Operation and Maintenance team to keep plant wide control system and instrumentation in healthy condition.

Commenting/technical advice on designs/drawings/specifications forwarded by Engineering & Services or Project department for final approvals.

Review and implement the major & minor project modification jobs.

Client Name : JOINT OPERATIONS (KUWAIT-SAUDI)

Company : IMCO, Kuwait

Position : Instrument Supervisor

Area Focus : Sub Centre’s (SC) and Main Gathering Centre (MGC)

Period : Jan 2011 to June 2012

Roles and Responsibilities:

Worked as an Instrument Supervisor to look after the Process Control Instrumentation jobs in Heaters, DE salters, Production Separators, Test Separators, Gas Scrubbers, K.O Drums, Shipping Tanks, Shipping Pumps, and H.P & L.P Flares of Gathering Centre.

I have exclusive hands on experience in the field of erection, commissioning, pre-commissioning, start up and maintenance of Instrumentation systems in oil & gas industries. Loop checking, preventive maintenance, calibration for all major parameters like pressure, temperature, level, flow. and also diagnoses problems or potential problems with control systems of pneumatic, electrical and electronic and shutdown start up sequence checking, monitoring the status in DCS (version6.1.1) good command in repairing and understanding of P&ID and logic Diagrams related to Interlocking and Emergency shutdown system. I worked on ESD SYSTEM for Heaters and motors tripping by PLC

1 Handle the shift and Breakdown.

2 Servicing and maintain spare.

3 P.M. activity done as per P.M. Schedule.

4 Daily reports of instrumentation

Having worked with following field instrumentation:

Transmitters: Maintenance, Calibration (zero-span setting), trouble shooting of Various Transmitters (Make: Rosemount, Yokogawa, Honeywell, foundation field bus all Rosemount TX. E+H, etc.) Of following types which involves calibration, installation and also worked on 375/475 Hart/FF communicator.

Level – DP, Radar, Displacer LEVEL Troll, Capacitance, etc.

Flow – DP, Vortex, Magnetic, Ultrasonic, turbine, Target, Thermal Mass, coriolis etc.

Pressure – Standard, Capillary type, Diaphragm Seal type, etc.

Temperature – RTD, Thermocouples, R to I, Simplex, Duplex, etc.

Control Valves: Stroke checking, I/P converters, Positioner Calibrations, Hydro test, Passing Test, overhauling of control valves (Make: Fisher, Masoneilan, MIL, Valtek etc.)

Analyzers: Preventive Maintenance, routine checking, calibration, maintenance of Gas Detector(Honeywell), Oxygen(Rosemount Analytical 3000 series), Moisture Analyzers.

Vibration monitor: Bently-nevada 3500 series

Having knowledge of: level switch, magnetic switch, capacitance switch, Proxy switch, solenoid valve, safety barrier, Micro switch, Temp scanners, limit switch, Alarm annunciation, PH transmitter, YOKOGAWA make controller(UT-37,UT350), compressor Interlocks, Radar Type Level Transmitters.(Rosemount 5300 / 5400 series)

Familiar with DCS & PLC hardware functions and network architecture.

Having worked on following Instrumentation Control Systems which involves loop checking, range & graphic verification, cause & effect testing by simulation and trouble shooting.

D.C.S. Foxboro I\A series ( Version 6.1.1 ) having approx. 700 I/O’s and 125 close loops 100 open Loops Supported with AP-20 CP-30, WP-30 based, Sequence, ladder logic, Trip Logic.

TRICONEX E.S.D. systems Version V9-v10

DCS DeltaV foundation field-bus version9.3 (make: Emerson process management)

Allen Bradley’S PLC : RSLOGIX 5000

SIEMENS - Simatic S7-300

Dresser-rand control system compressor LCP (Make: Allen Bradley Control Logix)

Client Name : KNPC MINA AL-AHMADI REFINERY-KUWAIT

Company : ALMEER, Kuwait

Position : Instrument & Control Sr FOREMEN

Area Focus : SRU, H2S REMOVAL, TGT, BTCR & EOCENE UNITS.

Period : Jan 2009 to DEC 2010

Worked as an Instrument Sr Foremen to look after the Process control Instrumentation jobs in the Refinery’s different units like Sulphur Recovery Unit(SRU), Tail gas treating(TGT), Hydrogen Sulphide Recovery (HSR) & Sour Water Treatment (SWT) Units, Eocene and Bitumen Units.

Key Responsibilities

Supervising Field Maintenance Team of 5 personnel to carry out all instrumentation jobs like Preventive, Break-down & Corrective maintenance.

Monitoring of work practices to ensure the Safety & integrity of Plants.

Co-ordinate daily scheduled preventive & corrective Maintenance jobs.

Fault diagnosis of breakdowns and prevent reoccurrence.

Major Systems & Field instrumentation involved are as follows

Allen Bradley PLC, Bentley Nevada 3300 series vibration Monitoring system, Emerson Mod plus controller.

Rosemount make smart transmitter (3051), MTL temperature transmitter, Foxboro Transmitters, ARCA & Fisher make control valves, Auma & Rotork make motorized valves, and Rosemount make coriolis mass flow meter (Micro Motion), VORTEX flow meters, Level troll, Rosemount Radar level transmitter, RADAR MASTER Etc.

Experience in handling the Tankage Areas.

Responsible to achieve procurement, follow up, smooth erection & commissioning of field

Instrumentation & control system for the upcoming projects which involve activities like-

Refurbishing of pneumatic & electronic instruments.

Co-ordination with Instrumentation contractor, detail engineering consultant.

Co-ordination with various departments to execute instrument jobs effectively with

Respect to quality, safety, cost & time of completion.

Co-ordination with contractor for functional test & calibration of instruments.

Scheduling & executing erection, testing & commissioning activity of instruments in

Coordination with process.

Follow up with vendors to get timely deliveries of materials.

Support to instrument technician/operator during pre-commissioning & commissioning.

Client Name : PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, SHUAIBA-KUWAIT

Company : TRI ALPHA Kuwait

Position : Service Engineer

Area Focus : Analytical Instrumentation

Period : Jan 2007 to DEC 2008

Worked as a Service Engineer in Petrochemical Industries Co, Kuwait to look after the Analytical Instrumentation jobs in the plant.

Key Responsibilities:

Preventive, Corrective & break-down maintenance, repairs and calibration of all the analytical instruments .Below mentioned is the list of the instruments under my responsibility.

Gas chromatographs. Make -Perkin-Elmer, Chrompack (CP9001), Analytical controls.

ICP Optical emission OPTIMA 2000DV, Make -Perkin-Elmer and Ultima 2 make -Horiba Jobin Yvon.

Analyzers H2S/SO2, NOX, CO, CO2, Dust etc.-Make S.I.R. (Sistemas Instalaciones Redes) S.A., Environment etc.

Ion Chromatograph, Make –Lachat Instruments.

Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Make-Perkin-Elmer, Shimadzu-Japan.

Portable Gas Chromatograph, Make -Inficon, USA.

UV-Visible Spectrophotometer, Make –HACH, Shimadzu-Japan.

Distillation units and Digestion units for Total Nitrogen analysis, Make Buchi and Gerhardt.

Sieve Shaker units, Make -Fritsch, Germany.

Kinematic Viscometer,Density meter,Ph. meter,Conductivity meter,Flash point, Oxygen,Co2 analyzers, Ion analyzers, Karl-Fisher titrator for moisture analysis.

Maintenance of all pneumatic and gas supply lines to the instruments.

Maintenance of inventory configuration and procurement coordination for spare parts, new instruments, Sampling cylinders, Standard gas cylinders, solutions.

Maintenance of all instrument-related documentation in accordance with ISO 9001, ISO 14001.

Client Name : APGENCO, INDIA

Company : RTPP

Position : Instrument Trainee Engineer – Maintenance

Area Focus : Ash Handling Unit

Period : Apr 2006 to DEC 2006

Key Responsibilities

Carry out all instrumentation jobs like Preventive, Break-down and Corrective maintenance plus plant modifications jobs & new projects.

Carry out the installation, commissioning and effective maintenance & calibration of critical process control Instruments.

Ensuring compliance with ISO quality standards and handling the related documentation.

Carrying out the all jobs of shutdown.

Configuration of I/O’s in the DCS system, detail specification of tag, creating wiring diagram, graphics and assigning the trends, generating Interlock of logic as per process requirements & testing them. Also troubleshooting & fault finding in system.

Hands on experience on all instrumentation related to Compressors, H.T. Heaters, High temperature Reactor, Gas Turbines, columns, Utility area like Cooling towers.

Major Systems & Field instrumentation involved are as follows

Yokogawa Centum-CS DCS, Siemens PLC(S5-115U, 100U), Bentley Nevada 3300 series vibration Monitoring system, Yokogawa make Micro controllers, Woodward Governor's 505 Digital Controller equipped for Turbine Generator.

Software Skills:

Design Tools : Auto Cad, IN tools (SPI), C, and C++.

Planning Tools : MS – Project.

Simulation Tools : Allen Bradley RS Logix 5000.

Graphics Creation : Factory Talk View

COURSES:

Underwent Safety Training Course with IDEA GATE in Alkhorayef.

Underwent training on Well Pilot Controller, VSD and RED EYE water cut in WEATHERFORD-KUWAIT.

Underwent PLC Training Allen Bradley in Wafra Joint Operations.

Underwent training on Basic Firefighting, Material Safety, Hazardous chemicals storage and handling precautions, Kuwait.

Underwent training course on P.L.C and SCADA at A.T.I, Hyderabad.

Underwent training course on D.C.S at Yokogawa, Bangalore.

Underwent training course on Embedded Systems at Annamacharya College of Engineering, India.

PERSONAL DETAILS

PASSPORT NO :- J3505745

MARITAL STATUS :- MARRIED

CHILDREN :- SON- 01 & DAUGHTER – 01

VISA STATUS :- TRANSFERABLE

LICENSE :- KUWAIT & INDIA VALID AVAILABLE

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