Jignesh Thakkar

• Organizing Bi-monthly Business partners’ HSE meeting and awareness campaign.
• Carrying out the tracking, analyzing and follow up for the close out directorate traffic violations data.
• Worked with NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive material) unit and supervising the various radiation survey and decontamination activities in regards to the drilling and production operations related wastes.
• Review of critical NORM SOPs from contractor, suggesting necessary changes in line with the KOC HSEMS and legal requirements.
• Design and review of daily decontamination activity report, arranging various logistics and critical operational resources in order to ensure smooth operations.
• Guiding the management from NORM perceptive in order to ensure compliance in line with local and international requirements.
• As a member of the KOC team carried out FAT and commissioning of the various types of decontamination machines like Mobile wash pad, Tubing machine, Flow line machine and High pressure jetting unit.
• Headed the HSE unit of deep drilling group in order to enhance and improve the HSE performance of the group.
• Monitoring and analyzing the HSE performance for the teams and support the Team Leader on improvement.
• Conduct awareness session on the ERP, Crisis Management Plan & Well Control Emergency Plan.
• On hand experience of HSE support for deep HPHT (high H2S) well control emergency at Incident management unit and active well control site including well capping and snubbing operations.
• Inspection of the well site location for ensuring of proper restoration of the waste pits.
• Prepared and implemented emergency response and evacuation plan for the relief well.
• Perform HSE inspections of drilling and workover land rigs & the camps.
• HSE inspections of the new drilling/ work over well sites.
• Participating in the pre-spud inspection checks and pre-spud meetings.
• Participation & Implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment and Quantitative Risk Assessment for the different oil & gas projects.
• Facilitation and participating in the Hazards identification & risk assessment for normal drilling & relief well drilling including follow up on the control measures in order to bring the risk to ALARP level.
• Incident/accident investigation and follow up on the close out of the recommendations.
• Implementation of corporate HSE management software called “HSE Live” at the rig site.
• Base HSE support to the team on the implementation of KOC HSEMS & corporate HSE initiatives.
• Providing inputs for the new drilling rig tenders and review of CVs of contractor safety personnel.
• Coordinating on HSE issues with blowout well control specialist M/s Wild Well control on daily activities.
• Coordination in selection and follow up for compliance to Process Safety Management (PSM) KPI for the group.
• Participated in the HAZOP study for the new exploratory field development project and managed pressure drilling (MPD) project as drilling HSE.
• Coordinating and onsite support with well control snubbing operations contractor M/s Boots and Coots on daily activities.
• Follow up with the field HSE supervisors and business partners on the close out of action items of different HSE inspections/audits.
• Collection, reporting and statistical analysis of the team and group’s HSE data and KPIs.
• Supporting the team on preparation and submission of different HSE projects for internal or external workshops and conferences.

Dewanchand group was providing the drilling rig services to the Oil and Gas industries in India and Gulf.
Key Responsibilities: -
•Development and implementation of QHSE Management system in line with ISO 9001 and OHSAS 18001 guidelines.
•Induction and training of the new joiners and HSE Officers on the health, safety and environmental aspects.
•Supervising the activities of field HSE Officers and enhancing their HSE skills.
•Coordinating for the disposal of the Hazardous waste.
•QHSE audits and inspection of the 3 nos. of 2000 HP land rigs and 2 nos. of 1100 HP mobile drilling rigs.
•Incident/ accident investigation and follow up on the corrective/preventive actions.
•Preparation and implementation of Contract HSE Plan.
•Ensuring compliance with the contractual & statutory HSE requirements.
•Preparation and implementation onshore Emergency Response Plan.
•Preparation of Monthly HSE MIS.
•Inspection and clearance on the purchasing of critical HSE materials.

Geokinetics is the USA based MNC providing 2D, 3D & transition zone seismic services to the oil & gas industries worldwide.
Projects Completed:
 2D Seismic Survey - Cairn Energy, Bihar, India.
 3D Seismic Survey - Chevron, Moulvibazar, Bangladesh.
Key Responsibilities: -
• Implementation of corporate and project specific HSE management system in compliance with the applicable legal requirements for the seismic survey activities.
• Preparing project environmental management plan (EMP) in line with project EIA and RA studies and ensuring compliance with the same.
• Inspection of the field camps, accommodations, drilling locations etc. for the compliance with environmental requirements.
• Implementation of STOP safety cycle, imparting training and carrying out HSE induction.
• Submission of daily, weekly and monthly HSE reports to client and corporate office.
• Co-ordination and execution for the disposal of the Hazardous and Non-hazardous wastes.
• Preparation of the final environmental report for the seismic survey project.
• Acting as a focal point for all the Environment related issues for the seismic project.

Niko is the Calgary; Canada based Exploration and Development Company carrying out onshore and offshore activities in India.
Key Responsibilities: -
•Inspection of process plant, drilling/workover locations & well sites to identify the HSE concerns.
•Inspection of offshore platforms & shore based production facilities and follow up on the corrective actions on different HSE findings.
•Dealing with storage, handling and final disposal of hazardous wastes viz; drill cuttings, synthetic oil based mud, used oil, medical wastes etc.
•Coordinating Joint HSE committee meetings, organizing safety educational and promotional campaigns to enhance HSE culture among the employees.
•Imparting HSE orientation & trainings to new personnel.
•Preparation and submission of the applications and periodical reports to the legal authorities.
•Ensuring compliance with the licenses/permits issued by DGMS, Pollution Control Board, Ministry of Environment and Forest and World Bank for onshore and offshore operations.
•Tracking the upcoming HSE legislations, compiling the applicable requirements and updating the senior management on such issues.
•Carrying out incident/accident investigation and advising management on necessary measures to prevent its recurrence.
•Conducting pre job safety meeting, JSA and providing HSE clearance for the daily activities requiring permit to work.
•Review and implementation of Environmental Impact Assessment and Risk Assessments reports for the different field projects.
•Execution of environmental parameter monitoring for ambient air, exhaust stack, noise and produced/ formation water including water portability.
•Carrying out Emergency drills and imparting training to the employees on different emergency scenarios.
•Corporate document custodian for Quality & HSE documents.
•Prepared hyperlinked electronic version of HSE manual

P D Technology Services Group was engaged in providing Directional Drilling, MWD and Wire line services to the Oil and Gas Industries worldwide. It has been taken over worldwide by Weatherford international.
Key Responsibilities: -
•Ensuring complete compliance to client’s HSE requirement by way of imparting oil field trainings through approved training institutes.
•Preparation of annual HSE budget.
•Liasoning with Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB), Mumbai for obtaining permits/licenses for import/use of radioactive sources.
•Carrying out hazardous waste management audit for sub-contractor’s facility.
•Regularly conducting the audit of logging tools work-shop & implementing different EH & S initiatives.
•Providing the corporate advised training on WHMIS, TDG and H2S alive.
•Inspection of the radioactive sources storage and use locations as a company radiation safety officer (RSO).
•Preparation of the tender submission documents for EHS sections.

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) is engaged in the construction of heavy civil engineering works like thermal and nuclear power plants, dams, tunnels, industrial projects, Oil and Gas pipeline constructions etc.
Key Responsibilities: -
• Development and Implementation of ISO 14001 - EMS, ISO 9001 -QMS & OHSAS-18001.
• Designed the system for Significant Environmental Aspects determination & Hazards Identification.
• Executing resource conservation exercise via waste minimization & energy conservation Initiatives.
• Identifying the applicable legal & other requirements, preparation of the corporate legal register & ensuring the compliance of the same.
• Implementation and continual improvement of Integrated Management System at HCC.
• Conducting the training programs at head office & project sites for implementation of Quality, Environmental & Safety Management System.
• Participation in the Integrated Management System audits, preparation of audit reports, uploading in the online audit software and follow up for the close out of audit findings.
• Participation in energy management system audits.
• Implementation of domestic waste treatment & disposal system for corporate office building.
• Conducting statistical analysis of the HSE leading and lagging indicators thereby providing inputs for the management review meetings.