Senior Piping Designer

Muniraj Dharman

SENIOR PIPING DESIGNER

Phone: 00971.50.7918947 Email: **********@*****.*** Abu Dhabi, UAE

Objective

To gain a challenging employment that will utilise my professional skills offering advancement opportunity to fulfil my career.

Career Summary

20 years of experience in equipment and piping design for projects in the petroleum refining, petrochemicals and offshore installations which of more than 3 Months of site experience of refining and LNG facilities installations execution. Excellent knowledge in computer skills of latest engineering software’s like PDS and Smart Plant.

Skills & Expertise

Experienced in basic and detail engineering of piping design with individually working capabilities of the following activities,

Solid experience of 3D conceptual design of piping system using soft ware’s Smart Plant, PDS and PDMS.

Experienced in basic piping study & preparation of piping general arrangement drawings based on P&ID’s and Equipment plot plans.

Experienced in preparing preliminary materials take-offs, valve and instrument MTO based on P&ID’s.

Experienced in preparing nozzle orientation drawing and vessels clips for equipment platforms and pipe supports drawings considering operational and maintenance aspects.

Experienced in preparing manual isometric sketches with bill of materials.

Experienced in checking of piping isometrics, GAD’s and Plot plans as per project standards & specifications.

Familiar with pipe support concepts. Experience in preparing special pipe supports.

Experienced in study of steam/condensate manifolds for steam tracing and Jacket piping..

Experienced in vendor drawing reviews. Preparation of TQs/Comments on the Vendor Documents (Equipment Drawing, Spring Support Drawing, Special Valve Drawing etc.) .

Involved in Safety Reviews.

Experienced in site surveys for Piping Tie-ins.

Familiar with engineering software 3D design tools like Intergraph Smart Plant 3D, PDS, Pelican forge support modeller, Smart plant Review.

Interface/co-ordination with Stress Group for Critical Lines/Critical Stress Systems, other Functional Disciplines.

Familiar with drafting tools like Micro Station, AutoCAD etc.

Employment History

Sl. No

Organisation

Position Held

From

To

1

Technip, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Sr. Piping Designer

Jan 2002

till-date

2

ADCO, Abu dhabi, UAE.

Piping Draughtsman

Aug. 2001

Oct. 2001

3

ZADCO, Abu dhai, UAE.

CAD Draughtsman

May. 2000

Mar. 2001

4

SPIC-SMO, Chennai, INDIA.

Draughtsman Piping

Jan. 1996

May. 1999

Professional Experience

From Jan 2002 to till date

TECHNIP, ABU DHABI, U.A.E. (A Technip Group Company)

a)UMM LULU PHASE II FULL FIELD DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PACKAGE 2

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Work involves developing plot plans, 3D Piping modelling, Support Modeling, Isometric Extraction,Review & Issuing.Vendor drawing reviews, Inter-discipline coordination.

b)Upper Zakum 750K Project P-7511 Sub-Sea Pipelines,Cables,Offshore Structures & Brown Field (EPC-1) Zakum Development Company (ZADCO).

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Working as Area Designer for North,South,West & Central Island. Work involves developing plot plans, 3D Piping modelling, Support Modeling, Isometric Extraction,Review & Issuing.Vendor drawing reviews, Inter-discipline coordination.

Position: Sr. Piping Designer

c)Satah Full Field Development Project (SFFD) – Zakum development Company (ZADCO).

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Responsible for offshore portion of Satah full field development project. Worked as Area Designer for

WELLHEAD PLATFORM-01,02,03,06,08.Involves 3D Piping modelling, Support Modeling, Isometric Extraction,Review & Issuing.

Position: Sr. Piping Designer

d)UZ750 – Artificial Islands Project – Zakum development Company (ZADCO), UAE.

Project type: FEED

Responsibilities: Worked as Area Designer for North, South and West Islands. Work involves plot plans development of various options including Initial production phase, work package #4 and #5. Other major activities include various piping studies with modularization concept, Smartplant 3D modelling activities with designers.

Position: Sr. Piping Designer

e)BAPCO – Replacement of Steam Turbo Generators at No.2 Power Plant (Baharain Oil Company)

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: 3D Piping modelling, Support Modeling, Isometric Extraction,Review & Issuing.Vendor drawing reviews,

Inter-discipline coordination.

Position: Sr. Piping Designer

f)IRP-II – Inter Refinery Pipelines-II – TAKREER – ADNOC Group – Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Project type: FEED

Responsibilities: Involved in studies of developing Piping Layouts and Plot plan & Site Survey of Existing Plant.

Position: Sr. Piping Designer

g)Qatar Gas 3 & 4 Onshore Project, (QG3&4) – Qatar Liquefied Gas Company, Qatar.

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Worked as area leader for inter-connecting pipe rack and flare knockout drum area detail engineering. Work includes basic piping study, material take-off, PDS 3D modelling of Equipment and Piping, preparation of battery limit drawings; inter discipline coordination, vendor drawing reviews, etc.

Position: Piping Designer

h)Qatar Gas (II) Development Project, (QGII) – Qatar Liquefied Gas Company, Qatar.

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Worked as area designer for Slug Catcher area. Work includes basic piping study, 3D modelling of Piping and equipment using PDS, material take-off, vendor drawing review, equipment and piping modelling, stress comments incorporation, modelling of supports using pelican forge software, issue of fabrication isometrics, preparing piping layout drawings from PDS etc.

Position: Piping Designer

i)North East Bab Oil Fields Development Project, Phase-1 (NEB) – ADCO, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Worked as piping designer Al Dabb’iya, Rumaitha Central Process Plants and Oil Producing wells (Clusters). Work includes checking of piping and pipeline isometrics, extraction of piping general arrangement and layout drawings and clash checking using PDS, 3D model reviews, site coordination etc.

Position: Piping Designer

From August 2001 to October 2001

ADCO ABUDHABI –U.A.E.

ABUDHABI ONSHORE COMPANY

a)ADCO ASAB

Project type: Asbuilt Drawing Survey

Responsibilities: Responsible for site mark-up sketches and updation of site drawings.

Position: Piping Draughtsman

From May 2000 to March 2001

ZADCO ABUDHABI –U.A.E.

ZAKUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

b)ZADCO OFFICE

Project type: Asbuilt Drawing Updations

Responsibilities: Responsible for site mark-up sketches and updation of site drawings.

Position: CAD Draughtsman

From January 1996 to March 2000

SPCI-SMO LTD., CHENNAI. INDIA.

a)Petro araldite (IMPACT-CIBA)

Project type: Detail Engineering

Responsibilities: Work includes the design and development of plot plan, equipment layouts, piping study, and study of nozzle orientation of amine regenerator, pipe support detail drawings and preparation of isometric sketches.

Position: Draughtsman Piping

b)Sea water system (SFCL-Jebel Ali Dubai)

Project type: EPC

Responsibilities: Work includes the design and development of plot plan, equipment layouts, piping study, and study of nozzle orientation, pipe support detail drawings and preparation of isometric sketches.

Position: Draughtsman Piping

Assignments / Site Experience

Zakum development Company, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

(Between Dec 2011 to Oct 2012)

Visited the above fields varies times for site surveys, the longest being 2 weeks.

Adco Asab Site Abudhabi, UAE.

(From Aug 2001 to Oct 2001) – 3 months

Worked with Field engineering division & site Office.

Adma-OPCO Zakum West Super Complex.

(Between Dec 2011 to Oct 2012)

Walk-thru for Site Survey.

Education

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (RVD University)

Trade Diploma in Mechanical Draughtsmanship (1993 – from National council for Vocational training, India)

Internal Training

Piping Design Layout Training (1996 – SPIC (Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd-India).)

Intergraph PDS (1998 – Southern Petrochemicals Industries Corporation Ltd-India.)

Plant Design System (2003 – Technip Abu Dhabi)

Quality Assurance (2004 - Technip Abu Dhabi)

Basics of Stress & Supports Analysis (2006 - Technip Abu Dhabi)

Intergraph Pelican Forge support modeller (2008-Technip Abu Dhabi)

Smart Plant 3D (2008 – Technip Abu Dhabi)

Concepts of Offshore Plot plans and Piping Design (2009 – Technip Abu Dhabi)

Material handling (2009 – Technip Abu Dhabi)

Software Expertise

Plant Design System (PDS)

(Modules include Piping Designer, Equipment modelling, piping Support Designer, Interference Manager, Drawing Manager, Isometrics Drawing Manager & Report Manager)

Smart Plant 3D

Smart Plant PID

Plant Design Management System (PDMS)

Pelican Forge Support modeller

Smart Plant Review and Orthogen

Micro Station J, AutoCAD and Auto Plant.

Ms Office 2007 (including word, excel, PowerPoint)

Other Activities

Faculty for teaching Autocad software for new people at Technip Abu Dhabi.

Administrator for Autocad & Microsation at Technip Abu Dhabi.

Member of Experts network for SP3D and Micro station and Autocad at Technip Abu Dhabi.

Personal Information

Date of Birth : 22nd Mar 1977

Marital Status : Married

Nationality : Indian

Languages Known : English, Hindi, Tamil

Passport Number : N2949928 Valid till APR 2026

Contact number : 009**-**-******* (UAE)

009**-**-******* (UAE)

0091-9940176150 (India)

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