Shaji Panikathu, Automation Engineer

Shaji Panikathu

Automation Engineer

Occidental Petroleum Corporation ( OXY )

Location
Oman - Muscat
Education
Bachelor's degree, Process Tuning and Analysis
Experience
27 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 1 Months

Automation Engineer at Occidental Petroleum Corporation ( OXY )
  • Oman - Muscat
  • My current job since November 2010

Supporting Operations and Maintenance of Oil, Water, Steam and Utility plants, to run it in minimum down time. 1, 40, 000 Barrel production Oil plant having 70 ENFAB Boilers, 13 Solar GTGs and 13 Heat Recovered Boilers, 2 NEM 9E Boilers.

Support for Instrumentation and Electrical maintenance job.

Attending Process and Operational meetings.

Tripping and Cause Analysis with Operational, Electrical and Integrity team.

Supporting for the Engineering for implementing the new projects and modifications, MOCs.

Working in a live plant by complying all the HES policies.

Working with Proscient ISSOW permit system and IBMs Maximo for asset management.

DCS Engineer at Emerson Process Management Singapore (Qatar Gas 3 & 4 Project )
  • Qatar - Doha
  • January 2010 to November 2010

DCS Engineer. Incharge for a Control room for all DCS ESD related activites like Loop Check, Commissioning, DCS and Instrument Configurations.
Implement new control philosophy, Support for start up and Commissioning

E & I Engineer at ORYX GTL Haldor Topsoe Project
  • Qatar - Doha
  • June 2009 to January 2010

Whole Responsibility for Instrumentation in an EPIC Project including

Verification and confirmation of Engineering details, documents.

Procurement, Installation, Commissioning and Hand over

Reporting to Project Engineer / Manager

Weekly meetings with client for progress report and technical clarifications

DCS ESD Instrument Supervisor at Qatar Gas II Project With Emerson Process Management Singapore
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2007 to June 2009

Loop and function test of SRU unit, BMS, Claus Blower, Incinerator Blower, Inline burner and other instrumentation system such as DVC, SDV, EDSV, Fisher & Metso Control valves, Rosemount Transmitters, E&H Radar Transmitter, Mass flow meter.

Done Commissioning and Startup Activities for Kobelco Claus Blower, Zeeco Incinerator Burner, Duiker Inline burner

Preparation of loop packages for loop checking and pre-commissioning activities

Done Site Acceptance Test for Power Cabinets, Fiber Optic communication network, DCS system cabinets, IPS, HIPPS, FGS system, Engineering workstation and console, Bently Nevada MMS, Interposing Relay Panel.

Coordinate with Company and Contractor for speedy completion and
trouble shooting of loops.

Having experience in Delta V (Ver. 9.3) Distributed Control System with Foundation Field Bus (FF) (Product of Emerson Process Management System) in Qatar Gas II project.

Having good practical experience in the field of Electronics, Software and Instrumentation

Having good knowledge in all kind of field instruments

Expert in RS232/RS485/RS422 Modbus Applications

Installation & Commissioning of Emerson Delta V DCS

Experience in installation and configuration of AMS system software, installation of Multiplexers (pepperl + Futches, MTL) for HART transmitters

Configuration of Multiplexers to communicate with AMS system and connecting HART Transmitters with the system.

Connecting Delta V FF devices with AMS and configuration of Field Bus instruments, Digital Valve Controllers (DVC)

Partial Stroke Checking of ESD valves and BDV using Valve Link software.
Connecting package systems with AMS systems and configuration of Multiplexers, Transmitter detection, calibration and loop checking using AMS system.

Installation of Delta-V Controllers, IO Cards, Fiber Optic Panels, Communication Equipments like RS485, Ethernet, RS232 to Fiber Optic Converters, Power Inverters

Automation Engineer at Elins Controls and Instruments India Bangalore
  • India
  • April 2003 to May 2007

Development of automation system for Small Industries

Logic Development in Allen Bradley SLC Series PLC

Development of Hardware and Software for Automation

Development of HMI / DCS with Visual Basic 6.0

Automation Service Engineer at Integrated Process Automation India Bangalore
  • India
  • May 2001 to April 2003

Installation of Automation system

Installation and servicing of HMI

Installation of different types of sensors and

Embedded Engineer at e-chip infotek private limited
  • India
  • March 1997 to May 2001

Development of electronic devices and instruments

Micro Controller based Embedded Programming

Design of Hardware and Software for Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree, Process Tuning and Analysis
  • at PetroSkills CampBell
  • March 2010

Advanced Training in Process Control and Tuning Analysis. Helpfull to do the tuning in process plant for optimum production.

Diploma, Software for Process Automation
  • at CEDTI
  • March 2003
Bachelor's degree, Electronics, Instrumentation, Software
  • at Govt Poly Technic Palakkad
  • April 1990

Electronics and Communication Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Allen Bradley
Instrumentation,Maintenance,Loop Check,Start up, Commissioning
ICONICS OPC HMI Graphics Configurations and Programming
Loop Check, Commissioning, Start up, Maintenance and Trouble shooting.
 OPC Configurations, Server Data Base Management for Alarms and Trend Histories
Configuration and development of Process Control Strategies using control narrative, Cause & Effecs
Automation Specialist with Operations and Maintenance
Trouble shooting and Fault finding in Instrumentation/Control/Electrical
Experience in Oil, Gas, Steam, Water Plants
Knowledge in DCS, ESD, F&G, and Data base Server Programming and Configurations
Provide improvement in control system and modify the strategies and optimize the control systems

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert

Training and Certifications

Advanced Training in PID tuning for Process Control (Training)
Training Institute:
PetroSkills CampBell
Date Attended:
March 2011