Project Manager Asset Management

Friday Ani

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Dynamic Seasoned professional and business Leader with track record of top quartile results – Consistently delivering strategic cross functional business outcomes, working across organizational boundaries to align multiple stakeholders, and consolidating diverse interests while delivering on the strategic objectives of the business units.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Mar 2024 – Present

Production Special Projects Manager, SPDC -Shell Nigeria

Reporting to the Shell Deputy Managing Director, Spearheaded the divestment/acquisitions and associated scope projects for the SPDC Production function leading to the early cutover plan actualization for the line.

Achieved business continuity plans for the new buyers by the deployment of new tools, technologies and processes to replace Shell proprietary applications and ways of working for post transition sales cutover to the new operator.

Communicating Transition programs and plans with SPDC function leveraging effective stakeholder management and interface management with Shell global Deal team on divestment.

Project lead West gas abatement workstream. Achieving 95% plant availability and reliability for SPDC West Asset Gas Abatement project focused of key rotating equipment uptime ensuring the FYIP project handover to the West Asset team this March 6th, 2025. I was awarded an SRA-special Recognition Award for delivering on this project.

Aug 2023 – Feb 2024

Asset of the Future Project Deployment Manager, Shell International Netherlands / Canada

Delivered the strategic Asset of the Future (AoF) people workstream for improved organizational efficiency and reliability.

Achieving organizational efficiency aligned with the integrator mode job profiles.

Developed the critical performance framework for Transformative complex change deployment entrenching performance improvement culture and organizational agility for efficiency and high productivity of staff.

Organizational re-design and efficiency: Achieved average of 32% full time employment (FTE) reduction in the organization for Shell Americas -Gulf of Guinea (GoM), Canada and HH1 Netherlands.

Oct 2018 – Jul 2023

Project Operations Readiness / Maintenance & Integrity Lead, Shell Japan/Shell Canada

Championed the project and asset Operations Readiness Assurance Commissioning and Startup (ORACSU) strategies for LNG Canada. Ensured reduction of reworks to less than 2%.

Entrenching human factor Engineering in Project design enhancing safety and operability.

Championing the Quality areas especially the Operability and maintainability scopes for the project and flaws register management.

Conducted the 3-Dimensional review of the project design ensuring the quality of the design integrity and conformance to appropriate safety and Engineering standards for LNG plants.

Delivered the integrated operations and maintenance manual and requisite work instructions for the project.

Design and safety reviews of the project and key packages like the GE-LMS100 etc., such as the Hazard Identification HAZID, Hazard operability HAZOP, Technical Integrity Verification TIV, 3D-Dimentions reviews, mechanical handling studies, emergency response preparedness reviews, Constructability reviews etc.

Delivered the (IOM) Integrated Operations and Maintenance manuals and other Asset Operations Readiness (AOR) deliverables including supporting the setting the Asset of the Future organizational framework to the facility.

Reliability: Developed maintenance strategies to optimise unit costs and maximize plant uptime/ availability. Led the project Reliability centered maintenance and Manage Equipment Care scopes of Asset management systems AMS.

Turnaround interval optimization studies to ensure the plant design meets production promise and safety in operations.

HSSE: Prepared the safe work procedures for the Asset OR and other critical safety and integrity procedures like the grating management procedure and Flange management manual for LNGC.

Coordinated the deployment of e-vision version 9 incorporating the isolation module into ePTW.

Anchored the project safety day event with the leadership and employees and championed the drop object safety campaign and deepened the learnings into the design reviews on Lifting with tripods over gratings.

Quality Engineering Management: Responsible for the Operability and maintainability Quality Management in the project EP phase for Risk management and driving the close out of the associated flaws to bring the project risks to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). Led the review of flaws register mitigation plan and responsible for critical Quality areas to address the Risk areas that will affect achieving the project objectives.

Deployment of new Technology: Project manager for deploying of the Flange management AMS system and support other Asset Management System AMS processes deployment.

Contract Management: Responsible for the operate phase support services framework implementation plan for values realization through contracts such as specialized Long-term Agreement (LTSA) Operate phase contracts such as Main Cryogenic heat exchanger (MCHE) by Linde.

Work Instructions: Asset Subject matter expert Subject Matter Expert SME for critical operations and Process Automation and Control Optimization PACO work instructions development and review in Procedure Accelerator for LNGC as part of Asset Readiness towards operate phase.

Commissioning and WC-SURU: Championed PACO pre-commissioning activities and other critical packages in the module yards in China and Kitimat BC-Canada. Identification and critical equipment/systems that can impact start up and developed mitigations to ensure WC-SURU Key Performance Indicators KPIs.

Nov 2016 – Oct 2018

Head Operations Readiness, Shell Nigeria

Championing and reinforcing Operations Readiness and Assurance Commissioning and startup (ORACSU) requirements in Shell Nigeria projects.

Conducting various Assurance reviews and Audits towards smooth startup and Ramp-up of new projects / facilities

Delivered the ORACSU Scope for over 10 key projects in SPDC/ SNEPCO e.g., BTIP – Bonny Terminal, Southern swamp (SSAGS), Forcados yokri (FYIP), Adibawa, Umuechem, etc. Ensuring that necessary operations and maintenance and integrity inputs are captured in the project documents at early stage of the project and followed up to delivery.

Reliability in project scopes- leading critical studies and reviews for project deliverables. Reviewed Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM) studies and Maintainability studies for SSAGS/FYIP and drove the evaluation of the 90-day Reliability run performance with the Corporate Reliability team for Otumara AGS project before the handover.

Led various project reviews like Pre startup assurance audits (PSUA), Pre startup safety reviews (PSSR), operations readiness reviews (ORR), maintenance and reliability Studies (MAROS) etc.

Developed and follow through Operations readiness work execution flow schemes (ORWEFS), Commissioning and startup (CSU) plans and completion documents.

Focal point for Flawless Project Delivery (FPD) Q4- Quality plans and actions for operability and maintainability of the facilities.

Developed the Performance Standards PS requirements for Technical Integrity Verifications TIVs and integrated operations and maintenance manuals / work instructions.

Review and optimization of 2 year running spares with $3m savings for SSAGS/FYIP projects.

Deliver the Competence management deliverables for the projects including training plans to meet the competence matrix of asset team members for the project.

Lead the Bonga North Offshore prestart up HSE review and PSSR enabling the project startup. on schedule.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2016

Maintenance Execution and Turnaround Manager, Shell Nigeria

Steering major maintenance execution and turnaround events.

Achieving 99% plant availability.

Achieving 100% Technical and Asset integrity of the Assets

Leading critical high business impact root cause analysis and following though key finding recommendations to prevent repeat failures.

Championing condition monitoring scopes and Equipment surveillance systems

Delivering planning and execution excellence of maintenance strategies with lowest operation cost achieved for 4 years in a row 2012-2016.

Delivered minor modification and debottlenecking projects to optimize production and comply to new regulatory requirements.

Contract Management Excellence: Major contract and key (O&M) operations & maintenance, and various facilities Maintenance Contract Holder / Owner.

Stakeholder Management: Chairman of the SHELL Joint Venture (JV) /Government regulatory body NAPIMS Sub-committee on Facilities operations and maintenance budgeting and plan performance reviews. Delivering business value from effective stakeholder management of JV/Non-Operated Ventures (NOV). Achieving shell share funding from partners for four consecutive years with impactful positive cashflow performance.

Reliability: Led various business high impact root cause analysis (RCA) and remedial actions workstreams/activities

Drove the Asset integrity and reliability programs for the asset embedding the Operations Reliability Improvement Program culture and condition monitoring techniques towards plant availability to support the production targets thereby driving maintenance related deferment to less than 2% within a year.

Execution excellence: Executed key Turbine and compressor Major overhauls – Siemens, Solar 8k, 12k, 24k 30k, 40k etc. Dresser Rand, Ariel compressors, Sulzer pumps; Waukesha Engines booster compressors, gearboxes etc.

Championed the gas quality improvement and reliability project for SHELL revamping the gas quality measuring instruments in the facilities which enable SHELL to deliver on her DOMGAS commitments to Nigerian government and eliminated revenue loss from domestic gas sales.

Chaired the root cause failure analysis (RCFA) on Okoloma 33kv HV fire incident and subsequently carried out the repair and set up the Central Electrical support maintenance intervention team for SHELL Companies in Nigeria comprising of expatriates and local engineers to avoid a repeat of such incidents.

Initiated and led the flowline integrity management system (FIMS) workstream to helped reduce operational leaks from pipelines to less 2% in 2 years from above 10%.

Offshore: Led the re-entry rejuvenation project for Sea Eagle FPSO and Fabric Maintenance to support production post militant attack on the vessel.

Turnaround Planning and Execution: Development of Turnaround scope and scope optimization, Communication plan and closeout reports including After action reviews. Conducted the Gbaran 2015 Turnaround assurance reviews (TARs), resource planning, Execution preparedness readiness reviews and Scope creep challenge. TA event included- commissioning of the Gbaran condensate Spiking project, Eastern gas gathering system loop line tie-in to Trans Niger pipeline which resulted in debottlenecking the export capacity of Gbaran Ubie gas supply to NLNG eliminating the high condensate liquid level in the single tank constraint.

Apr 2009 – Jul 2012

Production Unit Manager, Shell Nigeria

Led a team of 100+ team and managed oil and gas facilities safely with high productivity and cost efficiency- flow stations, gas plants, compressor stations & Power generations facilities.

Delivering top quartile performance in production reliability and cost efficiency.

Embedding strategic Asset management and operational strategies to meeting asset KPIs. Developing and delivering the Asset reference plan and growth forecast activities.

Achieving 99.6% of the asset IPSC-Integrated production system capacity targets.

Leading stakeholder and contract management ensuring meeting of Asset production and safety Key Performance Indicators -KPIs.

Operations Management & Business Leadership: Champion Efficient workflows and setting the annual strategic goals of the district in line with the overall business gaols of the company and delivered Top Quartile TQ performances in Production Reliability (>97%), Technical Integrity (>98%) & District Unit operating cost -DUOC (<$2.5/bbl.) from ageing wells with high water cut.

HSSE Leadership: Sets and drives the delivery of the district HSSE targets and set up appropriate measures to de-risk the safety exposures of the district in alignment with the overall company strategic HSSE goals towards minimizing the process safety and personal safety of the personnel and that of the facilities.

Champion the Global Processes deployment & Continuous Improvement e.g. Accuflow well testing pilot project; other production optimization studies, new technologies deployment etc.

Drive the People and Competence development in the team leading to upskilling of the Technicians and operators enabling top quartile plant availability and production performance.

Value realization and efficiency via effective Contract Management and support Services provisions.

Achieved excellent Stakeholder Management and Government Relations leading to zero downtime from community or industrial actions in the districts.

Other roles held previously

Role

Key responsibilities

Organization

Date

Bonny Terminal Integrated Project ORA support

ORA and CSU scopes delivery

Shell Nigeria

2008-2009

Head of District Maintenance Ekulama

District MRTA deliveries

Shell Nigeria

2006-2008

PEB Asset Support Leader

Asset support for PEB assets

Shell Nigeria

2005-2006

Instrument Team Leader Soku GP

Delivered PACO MRTA/projects

Shell Nigeria

2003-2004

Instrument/ DCS Engineer

AKOGEP offshore project PACO scopes

Total Energies EP

2003-2003

Senior Instrument Supervisor / Commissioning Engineer

NLNG Trains maintenance and LPG plant PACO commissioning

NLNG

2001-2003

Project Engineer Electrical/Instrument

Obigbo AGG Node: EPC, Construction, Commissioning, and startup

DAEWOO NIG Ltd

1999-2001

Instrument Supervisor/ Trainer

Instrument equipment servicing and PACO personnel training scopes

NAFCON

1995-1999

Education

Oct 2010 – Aug 2013: M. Tech Petroleum Technology – Curtin University, Perth Australia

Nov 1998 – Jan 2000: M. Eng Electrical Engineering – University of Port Harcourt Nigeria

Oct 2004 – May 2006: PGD Post graduate diploma- Business Administration- ESUT Enugu Nigeria

Nov 1987 – Oct 1992: B. Eng -Electrical / Electronic Engineering – ESUT Nigeria.

Feb 2024 – Dec 2024: Diploma – Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) - CDI Calgary Canada.

Jan 2022 – Present: DBA- Strategic Leadership- GGU San Francisco USA. - In progress (pending dissertation completion)

Skills:

Professional Engineer, Certified Project management professional (PMP), Certified Maintenance and reliability professional (CMRP), Certified Safety practitioner (NEBOSH)

Lead Auditor ISO 9001 Quality management

Maintenance execution, Turnarounds and Reliability

Asset Management and Operations Excellence and Operations Management efficiency

Transformation, Complex change deployments and continuous Improvements/ Lean practitioner

Project management and Risk Management

Planning and proficient in Primavera P6, SAP, PACER ERP applications

Auditing and Assurance Reviews- Technical and Operational Safety assurance audits

Contract Management and Budget planning

Stakeholder management and Non-Operated Ventures NOV interfacings

Technical Authority – Maintenance Reliability Turnarounds MRTA and Operations

HSSE – (HFE)-human factor Engineering, Operational Safety, Incident investigation (TRIPOD-BETA) and Root Cause Failure Analysis RCFA skills

Coaching and Opito competency assessments

DEI- Diversity, Equity and Inclusive and sustainability program Champion

Emergency Response and Management of Major Emergencies MOME

Skill Pool MRTA; Primary discipline -Process Automation Control Optimization PACO;

Secondary Disciplines- Operations readiness Commissioning and Startup ORACSU; Project Engineering

Professional bodies: FNSE, COREN, IEE, IEEE, APEGA; SPE; SMRP & PMI

Industry: Energy, Upstream- Onshore/Offshore, Downstream, Midstream-LNG, Manufacturing

Languages: English

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