Project Management

Project Management / Procurement /Contract Management

Raj Singh, BE, PMP

Downstream Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Nuclear Facilities

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: +966-*********, +966-*********

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SUMMARY

Experienced in the project engineering & management, procurement, construction and commissioning for small,

medium and mega projects. Downstream Oil & Gas, Petrochemical and Nuclear (reprocessing and remediation)

projects with an emphasis on meeting and exceeding world class safety and quality expectations. Adept at working

with multidiscipline organizational environment and multi-cultural team members. Have managed work for EPC

contractors, Engineering consultancy services companies as well as owner companies.

Areas of expertise include technical and commercial aspects gained while working with integrated multi-national EPC

companies, partnerships and joint ventures as a solution integrator. Skills consist of developing contracting strategies

and contract negotiations; Interface management, project assessments (including risk assessments; constructability

reviews, construction readiness reviews, operations readiness reviews); partner and subcontractor selections; project

execution and troubleshooting; feasibility studies, conceptual and detailed cost estimates; assist in making informed,

tactical commercial decisions to deal effectively with key objectives, risks, and other issues encountered in worldwide

operations.

Background includes over 16 years’ experience (about 4 years on international assignments) in project management &

engineering, procurement, contracting, subcontracting and construction assistance on Gas treatment, Sulphur

recovery, Tank Farm, Hydrotreater, Styrene Butadiene Rubber, Polypropylene and Nuclear recycle and remediation

projects in Middle East, Europe and India.

EDUCATION

• Master in Business Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, 2013- Pursuing

• Executive General Management Program, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India, 2011-12

• Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, India, 1993-97

Certification:

• IPMA Level C: Project Management, Since 2012, International Project Management Association, Switzerland

• PMP: Project Management, Since 2009, Project Management Institute, USA

KEY EXPERTISE

• FEED, Detailed Engineering & Value Engineering

• Techno commercial Analysis and Risk Management

• Interface Management

• Contract and Scope change Management

• Subcontracting, Procurement and Supply Chain Management

• Project Management Trainer

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

PETROFAC INTERNATIONAL, Al Khobar, KSA

Senior Project Engineer April 2013 to Present

• Close out of action items resulting from various reviews during FEED and Detail Engineering.

• Generate TDR (Technical Document Register) as a level 4 schedule and ensure that all relevant data required

for construction is contained in it. Monitor the issue of drawings as per the forecast dates mentioned in the

TDR, identify any discrepancies and bring it to the attention of the Lead Engineer. Take corrective actions

wherever required in the case of missing data from either the client or vendor.

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• Prepare and review project specific and other procedures to ensure comprehensive cover of all project

activities as per the contract requirements.

• Coordinate project related activities with other departments and sections to ensure effective integration of

tasks and minimize potential delays.

• Team member for development of procurement and subcontracting strategy and negotiation.

• Co-ordinate, in conjunction with the Project Management Team, the development and establishment of the

project planning package together with the mechanisms for monitoring subsequent progress against that plan.

Ensure that corrective action is agreed and implemented at the appropriate level as and when variations from

plans occur.

• Review Engineering drawings, documents and deliverables relating to area of functional responsibility to

assess constructability and consistency with contract requirements.

• Identifying the gaps in project execution and develop and implement fit for purpose solutions to attain project

objectives.

• Review all contract documentation to assess feasibility of construction, identify any potential areas of difficulty

and take note of any variations required in the construction.

• Ensure timely submittals of the contractual deliverables to client, and incorporation of relevant client’s

comments.

• Participate in the finalization of work to be outsourced to sub contractors including bid evaluation and terms of

contract. Monitor the performance of the sub contractor once the contract has been awarded.

• Monitor and review the receipt of vendor deliverables including compliance with vendor specifications and

ensure that all equipment is delivered within the procurement plan.

• Manage and Control scope creep / variations during project execution and target fit-for-purpose solutions.

• Assisting project risk management effort in order to safeguard project milestones.

TECNIMONT ICB, Mumbai, India

Project Management / Procurement /Contract Management

Raj Singh, BE, PMP

Downstream Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Nuclear Facilities

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: +966-*********, +966-*********

Deputy Chief Engineer – Project Engineering May 2008 to

April 2013

• Review the contract in terms of scope of work, obligations to the client, schedules, possible areas of

concerns, action plans, prepare the agenda for the kick off meeting with the client and collect relevant

information from various disciplines.

• Interface with other Company if required as per Contract wherein the project engineer ensures any co-

ordination required with other organizations which is achieved by transferring engineering documents, sorting

out queries etc between the other Company and Tecnimont in concurrence with the Client

• Follow up with clients on approvals and instructions, attend client meetings and liaise with client on all issues

of the project deliverables.

• Interface with the suppliers to resolve technical issues and incase of any deviations understand the reasons

thereof and decide the feasibility of continuing with the existing arrangement.

• Co-ordinate with the Engineering discipline who will prepare and issue deliverables such as material

requisition, technical bid evaluation and purchase requisition as required for procurement activities as well as

Deliverables like Drawings, Procedures, calculations etc.

• Monitoring the project risk register and follow up on mitigation plans with the respective action parties.

• Monitor the progress of the project as per the project plan and the client’s requirements and take corrective

action whenever required.

• To monitor and control the engineering design modification in order to minimize impacts on project cost and

schedule.

• To lead project design review meetings ensuring the follow-up and to drive all the multidiscipline activities with

a special focus on activities with impacts on the construction and commissioning.

• To actively participate in the meetings on constructability and feasibility.

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BHABHA ATOMIC RESEARCH CENTRE, Mumbai, India

Scientific Officer – E: Sept’ 1997 to May 2008

• Coordinate between development team of design package and detail engineering consultant.

• Interface with site to resolve site queries in terms of material not received, non conformance reports,

drawings, who then discusses and analyses the same with the engineering, procurement and expediting

teams as required to arrive at workable solutions for site.

Project Management / Procurement /Contract Management

Raj Singh, BE, PMP

Downstream Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Nuclear Facilities

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: +966-*********, +966-*********

• Supervise the preparation of the Engineering Document Register (EDR) for process activities, including the

preparation of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID’s), Process Block Flow Diagrams (BFD’s), Process

Flow Diagrams, Preliminary Equipment Layouts, Equipment Data Sheet Sketches and other required layouts,

diagrams and documents.

• Supervise the preparation of Start up and Operations Manuals. Prepare Operational Test Procedures (OTP’s)

and provide support to commissioning teams.

• Interface and provide clarification, guidance and technical support to construction sites and commissioning

engineers provide startup assistance as required.

• Interact with Quality Assurance for quality issues; strictly ensure compliance with Company’s Quality

procedures. Coordinate Internal and External audit requests; facilitate audit procedures of engineering

systems within the department.

• Provide document training to assigned personnel regarding operation of equipment and systems within the

facility and assess their ability to operate those systems and equipment

• Overseeing plant production and managing facility equipment, safety compliance and environmental health

and waste managing as the nuclear plant engineer.

MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Jazan Refinery and Marine Terminal Project

Client: Saudi Aramco

Location: Saudi Arabia

Scope: Lead Project Engineer, Project Management Team

Project Cost: USD $1.4B

Year: 2013 – current

Saudi Aramco is constructing a 400 MBD grassroots refinery and hydrocarbon terminal facilities in Jazan Economic

City (JEC) in South-West Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea coast. The strategic location of the refinery within JEC will

leverage the existing distribution assets for product transfer to the demand centers of the region. Jazan Refinery

will be a semi-conversion refinery that processes 400 MBD of crude oil either as 100% Arabian Medium crude or as a

mixture of 50/50 AM/Arabian Heavy crude supplied from the Eastern province.

In addition the refinery will upgrade 45 MBD of Jiddah Refinery intermediate feedstock (Naphtha, Distillate, and

Vacuum Gas Oil) to refined products.

The Tank Farm & Loading Arm scope includes:

• All construction works, testing, start-up and commission of the tanks and associated structures and

utilities;

• Detail Design and construction of Eighty eight (88) tanks and eleven (11) spheres;

• Blending system;

• Scraper traps and associated piping and tie-ins;

• Truck loading facility;

• Effluent treatment system;

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• Utilities;

South Pars Phase 12 Project

Client: Petropars Ltd

Location: Iran

Scope: Senior Project Engineer, Consortium Project Management Team

Project Cost: Plant: USD $1.3B

Year: 2010 – 2012

Petropars Ltd (PPL) is developing the SOUTH PARS Phase 12 Project for National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in

IRAN. This project includes offshore facilities (wells, platform and subsea pipelines) and Onshore Facilities for the

processing of the reservoir fluid.

The total capacity of the Phase 12 Onshore Facilities is 3000 MMSCFD of reservoir fluid. The reservoir fluid will be

processed to produce approximately 2850 MMSCFD of the lean sweet gas to be delivered to IGAT 6 and to produce

120000 bpd of desulphurized stabilized condensate.

Alternatively, the lean sweet gas from the South Pars Phase 12 development will be limited to 950 MMSCFD and two

thirds of the wet sour gas will be diverted to the nearby IRAN LNG complex.

The scope of work for Tecnimont led consortium (Tecnimont, Nargan, Dorriz & Gamma) included:

• Gas treatment facilities consisting of:

- H2S/ partial CO2 removal from gas.

- Dehydration unit, using TEG

- Dry gas dew pointing by chilling and NGL extraction

- Mercaptans removal by molecular sieves

• Export gas compression to IGAT 6 pipeline

• MEG regeneration and injection unit

• Sulphur recovery producing liquid and further solidification and export

ADDITIONAL PROJECT EXPERIENCE

PROJECT: 141-KTY-STYRENE BUTADIENE RUBBER (SBR) PLANT

CLIENT: RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED LOCATION: HAZIRA, GUJRAT COUNTRY: INDIA

DESCRIPTION: Lump Sum Contract for carrying out detail engineering activities based on Licensor BEP, providing

procurement assistance and support for construction management services. Reliance industries are developing a 141

KTY Styrene Butadiene Rubber Plant at Hazira. The basic engineering was developed by Polimeri Europa.

PROJECT: 3 MMTPA HEAVY COKER GAS OIL HYDROTREATING UNIT

CLIENT: MRPL LOCATION: MANGALORE, KARNATKA COUNTRY: INDIA

DESCRIPTION: Lump-sum turnkey basis Contract for provision of of engineering, procurement, construction and

commissioning (EPCC) services for the CHTU based on Licensor (UOP) Basic Engineering Package. The cost of the

project is approximately US$80 million. The project is part of the complex “Phase – III Refinery Project”, developed by

MRPL at Mangalore.

PROJECT: PP (450,000 TONS/YEAR), BASELL "SPHERIPOL" TECHNOLOGY + PDH (455,000 TONS/YEAR), UOP

"OLEFLEX" TECHNOLOGY

CLIENT: PROPILSUR LOCATION: JOSE - ESTADO ANZOATEGUI COUNTRY:

VENEZUELA

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DESCRIPTION: Contract was “Front End Engineering Design” execution for a PP PLANT + PP LOGISTICS of

capacity 450,000 Tons/Yr. & OSBL Facilities (Buildings) Plus Cost Estimate for PDH-PP integrated plant, including Utilities

& Offsite.

PROJECT: Nuclear Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Remediation projects.

CLIENT: Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India LOCATION: Tarapur &

Kalpakkam COUNTRY: INDIA

Project Management / Procurement /Contract Management

Raj Singh, BE, PMP

Downstream Oil & Gas, Petrochemical & Nuclear Facilities

Email: *********@*****.***

Cell: +966-*********, +966-*********

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION, TRAINING & ACHEIVEMENT

• Champion for Saudi Aramco Project Management Pitfall Prevention tool from Petrofac.

• “Train the Trainer” program by Tower Watson.

• In-house Training program on project control using Primavera at Maire Tecnimont.

• Training program in Elementary Italian language at Milan, Italy.

• Training program on coreworx.

• Authored and presented the paper “Perspective of Thorium Fuel Cycle in Nuclear Program” in Chemical

Engineering Congress (CHEMCON), 2002 at Bhubaneswar, India.

• Training program in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai.

• As part of final year engineering curriculum, Project on the Management and mitigation of hazard in post

accident scenario at the Fertilizer Corporation of India, Sindri Plant.

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