Engineer Chemical Engineering

I was born and raised in India and received my B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Bombay) in Yr-2007. Upon receiving my degree, I joined BG Group in the Operations department as Process Engineer. BG Group was acquired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in Yr-2015. I’m a IChemE chartered process engineer and over the last 13 years in the upstream & midstream oil & gas industry, I’ve worked in onshore and offshore assets in India, Trinidad & Tobago and Kazakhstan, with varied challenges like 5%+ H2S, pressures up to 550 barg, ambient temperatures <-30 degC and remote offshore logistics. I’ve worked in both office and plant/site locations. My recently completed assignment in KPO Kazakhstan gave me an opportunity to work and deliver in a multi-cultural, non-operated, JV environment (work force from 15+ countries) where I developed skills like delivery through others, stakeholder management and mentoring & coaching local national staff. Also, I worked as TA (Technical Authority) level3. My engineering skills are built on a strong foundation of field operations, brownfield projects, Process Safety and people management. Previously I have worked as Deputy OIM (Offshore installation manager) for Tapti offshore platform in India.

My long term career aspiration is to grow in processing engineering discipline and achieve technical expertise levels of SME, PTE, TA etc. In short term broadening assignments are helpful. Awards & Recognition

- Awarded SRA (Special Recognition Award), in Oct’19, by KPO Kazakhstan, for my contributions towards the asset’s biggest Turnaround

- Team of Tapti offshore platform won the BG Group Operations Excellence award (people’s choice) in Yr- 2015 when I was in-charge of production, operations & maintenance

- Awarded the “Golden Hard Hat” in Q3 2014 by BG Group for extra-ordinary contribution towards safety SKILLS & COMPETENCES ACQUIRED

OPERATIONS &

PROJECTS

PROCESS ENGINEERING PROCESS SAFETY

Knowledge

Level

Opportunity framing,

Operations readiness,

commissioning, startup

Technologies- Gas treating, Liquids treating,

Dehydration, NGL extraction, Condensate

Stabilization, Caustic treating, hydrates

Calculations - heat exchangers, separators,

columns, pumps, compressors, lines, control

valves, orifices, relief & blowdown etc

WRFM, Wells, Utilities & Water.

Deep understanding of interaction between

the different plant unit operations

Plant monitoring & troubleshooting, design

reviews, HYSYS & Flarenet, Operating

Envelopes

MAH, LOPA,

HAZID, SIL,

Taproot RCA,

Incidents

investigations

Skill

level

Asset Management Excellence

(AMS), Control room& Field

operations, Safe Isolations, Start-up

and shutdown, Management of

Change (MoC)

Emergency response, Manage Staff,

Deliver through others,

Brownfield projects execution

Process

Safeguarding

HEMP, HP/LP

interfaces,

HAZOP, Risk

assessment, 5-

why analysis, SCE

DEEPAK FARMANIA, CEng MIChemE

DOB: 15th August 1984

+91-916*******, ********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/farmania/

LEADERSHIP & SOFT SKILLS

• Ability to gather and analyze data

• Communication skills – to present complex data in simplified manner

• Managing multiple projects / jobs in hand

• Delivering results through others; Influencing without authority; relationship building

• Ability to make informed decisions, find solutions and deliver in challenging environment

• Internal and External stakeholder management

• Working in multilingual, multi-national workforce in a JV environment

• Supervising and managing multidisciplinary teams

• Coaching sub-ordinates; have been in mentorship roles for graduates RECENT KEY TRAININGS

• Technical Safety Engineering (TSE) - 101 (Shell, June 2018, Bangalore India)

• Advanced Flare and Relief systems (Shell, Aug 2018, Houston, USA)

• Shell SOU e-learning courses – AMS, ALARP, DCAF, DEM1&2, DEPs, Introduction to Technical Standards. Senior Process Engineer, Karachaganak (KPO), Aksai, Shell Kazakhstan (Feb’2016–March’2020) Karachaganak Petroleum Operating BV (KPO) is a consortium of 5 companies with 3 production facilities – KPC, U-2 and U-3. It’s a complex JV with sour environment. Production ~ 240,000 BOPD and 1.6 BSCFD with 800MMSCFD in re- injection. Worked in the capacity of Technical authority level three (TA3) in the organization.

• Process Safety related activities -

o HAZOPS - Participation in multiple HAZOPS and later reviewing, prioritizing and closing out the actions. o Safety critical elements (SCE)– Wrote a SCE identification procedure and then reviewed approx. 230,000 CMMS tags. Wrote performance standards for ESD system, Flare and Depressuring, Blanketing systems o Miscellaneous - Cumulative Risk Visualization, Shutdown & Blowdown system testing, Alarms rationalization. o Relief valves – developed relief scenarios, checked contractors calculations, led risk assessments

• Concept Engineering / Opportunity framing–

o Studied the KPC Caustic Neutralization Unit to identify key concerns. Wrote a concept select report and presented the risk to the senior management. Coordinated various TAs inputs to develop the case to have a project. Sought approvals.

• Technology/Processes experience – Calculations, operations support & troubleshooting; MOCs review - o Hydrocarbon dew pointing by JT valve, DRIZO & Glycol dehydration, Desiccants, MEG hydrate inhibition, Condensate stabilization & Splitting, MEROX, Amine sweetening, Caustic neutralization o Utilities – Steam boilers & deareators, Tilted plate separator, Induced Gas floatation, backwash, sour stripper o Separators, Compressors & Pumps, Heat exchangers, Columns, Flare & drain system

• Process engineering work carried out –

o Operating Envelopes - Developed complete operating envelope for an operating facility (Unit3) for systems like – separators, dehydration, heat exchangers, compressors etc. o Process calculations & Simulations– HYSYS simulation, Flare net modelling, HYSYS Depressuring utility o Design / proposed modifications review - Technical evaluation of process changes in the raised MOCs as TA3 o Multidisciplinary activities – Scoping, design reviews, Industry practices usage, package specifications

• Coaching, Motivating and Developing Local national staff o Carried out more than 20 coaching sessions in 3 years on wide range of topics o Mentored 1 process engineer and 1 process safety specialist. Deputy OIM (Offshore Installation Manager), Tapti offshore, BG E&P India (Jan’2015–Jan’2016) Led a team of Maintenance & Process Operations Engineers and technicians (of almost 30+ people) in safely running an offshore oil and gas setup of 2 processing platforms and 5 remote wellhead platforms. 80mmscfd sweet gas and WORK EXPERIENCE

15,000 BOPD condensate.

• Lean operating model & Brownfield projects experience– Led a team of various disciplines and interfacing with various departments, to successfully conceptualize, design, plan and execute various brownfield projects to run 2 processing platforms in integrated and optimized manner. Key projects were – o Water dumping project – Water breakthrough had occurred in one of the wells. The well was connected to test separator of the wellhead platform and water was re-injected in another well. o Black start-up - Developing plan, procedure and maintenance schedule to ensure readiness for a black startup.

o Production enhancement projects - Wells acid stimulation & unloading program; Compressors bundle replacement and anti-surge valves modifications; station recycle valve installation; operations and maintenance philosophies revision; managing production threats (e.g. – slug flow; IA failure; export gas quality, low fuel gas pressure, summer)

• Technical Reviews & Audits – Part of the team conducting technical reviews of all brownfield projects and production optimization tasks. This included LOD1 level internal audits of work processes and systems followed. Multiple roles, Tapti & Panna offshore, BG E&P India Ltd (August 2010 –Dec’2014) Did multiple roles related to Wells, Operations & Engineering. Also for 2 years, led a team of 4 engineers and 6 operators to run a plant. Active engagement in Commissioning / start-up support, process monitoring & troubleshooting, conducting performance test runs, etc. Deep understanding of interaction between the different plant unit operations

• Technologies experience – Glycol dehydration, Amine sweetening (AGRU), fixed bed gas sweetening, 2 & 3 phase separation, compression, gas lift in wellheads, drains, flare, water treatment (skim pile, hydro cyclones, flash separator), oil export to tanker via SBMs, hot oil heating system.

• Process troubleshooting – I was responsible for troubleshooting and providing operations support for running the systems like glycol dehydration, amine sweetening, 3 phase separation, flare & produced water treatment. Later on led the team as lead engineer and ensure operations within safe operating envelope.

• Managing Threats & Opportunities - Identifying improvement projects and lead the team to the best solution;

• WRFM

o Production optimization at field level; Coordinating with base office for various well behaviors analysis. o Plan and schedule daily production, well intervention and maintenance activities in 10 well head platforms. Also managed related logistics (by air and water) within the field.

• Control room & Field Operations – Led various startups and shutdown sequence through DCS operations from control room

Process Engineer, BG E&P India Ltd & BG Trinidad & Tobago (July 2007 –July 2010) Part of the engineering team supporting operations department.

• Operating modes - Identified various operating modes for newly commissioned offshore gas processing platform

• Technical monitoring - Monitoring key parameters & coordinating with operations team for daily plant issues

• MOCs - Processing and studying Requests for Modifications (RFMs) and support MOCs raised.

• Simulations - Maintained steady-state HYSYS models for each operating facility. REFERENCES

- Mr Martin Spahl – AI Technical Manager, KPO, Shell Kazakhstan (******.*****@*****.***; ******@***.**)

- Christian Viladegut – Principal Process Engineer, Shell Bangalore, India (*********.*********@*****.***)

- Matthew Swatton – Process Engineering Manager, BGC, Shell Iraq (*******.*******@*****.***)

- Mr Vivek Shaileshbhai Shah –Process Engineering Lead, BSP, Shell Brunei (*****.*.****@*****.***)

- Andrew Wiper – VP, Integrated Asset Improvement, Shell, The Hague (******.*****@*****.***)

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