Durai Gopal, Senior Production Control Room Operator

Durai Gopal

Senior Production Control Room Operator

Wood Group PSN

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Senior Production Control Room Operator at Wood Group PSN
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • October 2001 to January 2018

DCS/Panel) in Amerada Hess though Wood Group, Sendje Ceiba- FPSO, and Equatorial Guinea- West Africa.
My duties and Responsibilities as a Production Control Room Operator, FPSO- SENDJE CEIBA.

-Sub sea Well heads operation to all topside process facilities.
-Monitoring all the Process operations through DCS.

Sub sea Cameron system for the Wellheads and maintaining its targets as per Production supervisor,

-Controlling and operating the Sub Sea MULTI-PHASE pumps ( FRAMO PUMPS) and adjusting its parameters for stabilize and optimizing the production.

-Plant restart up after ESD/PSD. Remains in the PCR during Emergency drills and monitoring the CHANNEL 1 and updating the event to onshore HSE personal.

- Emergency drill announcement through GPA.

- Monitoring the Fire and Gas system, if required any Inhibits for maintenance work with valid Work Permits and as per the SSIC (Safety System Isolation Certificate) list.

-Conducting the Well Testing Programmed as per Production supervisor / Operation Engineer 's Instruction.

Conducting the Wet Deluge testing with the valid Work permit provided by Safety Officer, and management approval.

Close monitoring the Fire and Gas system, Matrix panels for ESD/PSD /cause and effect diagram, Deluge and all safety system, Reported to Production Supervisor / OIM if find anything wrong, and put the notification to maintenance/Instruments

. Long time Isolation tags verify with Field and Control Room.

Cross check the PTW and all other documents.
-Optimizing the production rates with instruction from Production supervisor and Operation Engineer

- Making the Notification using through SAP for any maintenance job and attending the YTT (yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) meeting with OIM, all

Departments Supervisors, Lead Operator, in the day evening.

-Proper guidelines given to Field Operator on system start up and shutdown.

- Making Permit to work (PTW) and preparing Process and Mechanical Isolation statements as per P&ID diagrams. And signing the Area Authority.

- Making Midnight reports like DPR, Totalizers, ODR ( Online Daily report) and all other subsidiary reports for Production supervisor and send to clients.

-Communicating with ROV during the sub-sea operations.

-Give more importance to House Keeping and removal of the garpages from the field, give instruction to field operator for deck wash with soap solution.

- Communicate with LAB for adjusting the chemical rates.

-Optimizing the Production rates and Water injection rates as per instruction by Production supervisor/ Operation manager from onshore.

- Giving ON JOB training to National operator and verifying their competency.

-Communicating with Cargo Control room operator during the time of Offloading and making report.
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PRODUCTION OPERATOR at OFS INDUSTRIES (P) LIMITED
  • India
  • to

DND, TVC, GGS and BGT Fields. Gas supply to GAIL. (Gas Authority of India Limited)
Job TYPE: Rotational 28/28 Schedule from 1996 to 2001.
•Roles and Responsibilities:
• Operation and Maintenance pressure vessels. ( Two and Three Phase separators)
•Plant startup and shutdown activities.
•Controlling and Monitoring through SCADA SYSTEM.
•Handling and routine checking of various process equipment.
•Glycol Dehydration and Gas Regeneration unit.
•Collecting the Well Head data from the wells.
•Change Bean (Choke.) to maintain the Flow line pressure and supply to GAIL.
•Making Midnight report and all other subsidiary report.
•Well Change over for testing the wells and making Well test report.
•Pig Launching from GGS field and receiving in DND gas processing complex.
•Follow up PTW system.
•Fire and Gas system. Cause and Effect chart checks.
•Chemical injection system. ( Methanol and Corrosion Inhibitor)
•Housekeeping and cleaning the process module.

Attitude
•Able to Operate under pressure and keen to accept responsibility.
•Proceed on own initiative & judgment with minimum supervision.
•Strong Leadership and team skills.
•Completion of routine works and solves complex problems with little assistance.

at ONDEO NALCO
  • to

Production /Process Training in OFFSHORE. FPSO, SENDJE CEIBA.
•SULPHATE REDUCTION SYSTEM (SRS) : Water well services LTD. (For KVAENER PROCESS SYSTEMS, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

•FRAMO SUB SEA MULTIPHASE PUMPS : FRAMO ENGINEERING. NORWAY.

•PURITECH FINE FILTERS. : ABB OFFSHORE SYSTEM AS.

•SOLAR TURBINE OPERATION AND CONTROLS: CATERPILLAR.

•ALSTOM TURBINE OPERATION & CONTROL : SIEMENTS UK.

•CAMERON SUBSEA & SURFACE CONTROL : CAMERON CONTROLS USA.

•SUBSEA MULTIPHASE FLOW METER (MPFM) : FRAMO ENGINEERING AS.
•CLAMPON ULTRASONIC SAND MONITORING : CLAMPON AS, BERGEN, NORWAY.

•SYSTEM OPERATING PROCEDURES (SOP) : WOOD GROUP EG, WEST AFRICA.
SYSTEM OPERATING MANUALS (SOM)
LIFT GAS COMPRESSION, GAS INJECTION
COMPRESSION, FUEL GAS AND UTILITIES,
GLYCOL DEHYDRATION AND REGENERATIONS.
•LAB ANALYSIS TRAINING :

Education

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
  • at Department of Technical Education, Macro College of Engineering and Technology
  • January 1991

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Languages

English
Expert
Tamil
Native Speaker
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Solar Turbine Technical Training (Training)
Training Institute:
HESS
Date Attended:
January 2009
Hydrates. (Training)
Training Institute:
MSI Kenny USA
Date Attended:
February 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Sub Sea MPP training. (Training)
Training Institute:
Framo Engineering AS. Norway.
Date Attended:
August 2007
Duration:
24 hours

Hobbies

  • playing cricket.
  • Reading books.