vivek karguppi, Lead instrumentation commissioning

vivek karguppi

Lead instrumentation commissioning

SADARA PETROCHEMICALS-KBR AMCDE

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jubail
Education
Higher diploma, instrumentation & Control
Experience
36 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :36 years, 8 Months

Lead instrumentation commissioning at SADARA PETROCHEMICALS-KBR AMCDE
  • Saudi Arabia
  • My current job since April 2014

SYNOPSIS
•A qualified professional with 25 years of experience in Instrumentation Maintenance, pre-commissioning, commissioning & Revamping. Presently engaged with KBR for commissioning of project in Saudi Arabia for SADARA-DOW chemical's joint venture I was been assigned with Wood group PSN(Kpop) (AGIP KCO) as an Instrument

Lead Instrument commissioning Technician at AGIP KCO PSN-KPOP
  • Kazakhstan
  • September 2011 to November 2013

Joined as Sr. Instrument commissioning technician for On-shore Gas plant KAZ operating project in Kazakhstan on 28/28 cycle for commissioning activities along with team of 4 technicians for loop-checking & trouble shooting activities. Simulation of sub-station switch-gear loops ‘having MULTLIN GE make relays for 10kv & MM2 & FM2 relay for LV switchgears incorporated with Foxboro Invensys DCS installed in SIS. Apart from the above also involved for resolving the punches getting cleared from the contractors, Loop checking & configuration of BIFFI make motorised valve incorporated with DCS, Co-ordinating with operations personnel for start-up activities & general readiness of utilities & plant. Well conversant with PTW & TBT & verifying loop-sheets & documentation. Permit receiver from commissioning side for sub-station loops & ICC. Well conversant with Triconex ESD graphic console system enabling for checking the ESD level cause & effects also fixing the loop problems during simulation of ESD SIL Levels & SIFS. Ability of diagnosing Fault with sub-station loops being mapped with RTU-DCS of Foxboro IA-series system

Instrumentation Supervisor at HMEL Hindustan Mital Energy Ltd. - AARVI ENCON LTD
  • India - Delhi
  • March 2011 to June 2011

Joined as an instrument supervisor for HPCL-HMEL Refinery assigned for Pre-commissioning & commissioning activities Accountabilities being shared are generation of punches & loop checking for Foundation field bus instruments & convectional DCS loops hooked-up with Yokogawa Centium-3000 system

Instrument Engineer at SAMSUNG ENGINEERING CO.LTD
  • Bahrain
  • January 2011 to February 2011

Worked as an Engineer instrument with Samsung engineering & allying up with construction activities related to Engineering & Documentation. ONGC OPAL DFU AU project
SAUDI KAYAN PETROCHEMICALS - JAL International (SAUDI ARABIA

Senior Instrument Technician at Saudi kayan petrochemicals JAl international
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • October 2009 to October 2010

Worked as senior instrument technician with SABIC (Saudi Kay an petrochemicals PP plant Basell technology).Below are the Accountabilities shared during my tenure.
* Generation of Final punch list against the RFI (Ready for inspection) with reference to P&ID. & categorize the punches as per priority with CSU team.
* Performed supervision for impulse & pneumatic tubing as per Hook-up drawings for field mounted transmitters, control valves & ESD valves.
* Allying up as witness on behalf of Saudi Kay an for Loop testing.
* Done simulation of cause & effects logics by feeding actual raw values from field with operation CSU team & resolved the Punches.
* Performed Partial stroke tests for ESV & EDV valves.
* Checking of Radar level transmitters & gamma ray transmitters.
* Done calibration of interface level measurement displacer type during start-up.
* Performed corrective maintenance during Plant-start-up.
* Authorized as receiver for Permit to work.
* Generated SMP (Standard Maintenance procedures) for different instruments.
* Involved for SPIR (Spare part interchnageability Record) review & inspection apart from same also co- ordinate with SAP personnel’s for related queries from instrumentation & follow-up with vendors.
Highlights:
Appreciation awarded for the excellent work in CSU activity & drafting Control System& instrumentation maintenance procedures.
Certified & awarded for achieving the Competency assessment as Control System & Instrumentation Technician for Polypropylene Plant Maintenance

Senior at ALMEER TECHNICIAL SERVICES CO
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • March 2008 to March 2009

Instrument TechnicianWorked as senior technician instrument for the Instrument Maintenance Department of chevron joint operation KGOC & SAT Oil field area mainly for Main Gathering centre leading with instrument technician & fitter crew where following jobs are performed.
Performed Preventive, predictive & Corrective maintenance for the different pneumatic & electronic Field instruments Obtain work permit as per standard chevron norms for Maintenance related jobs.
Assist Production personnel for the start-up activities of heaters, Desolaters & shipping pumps
Proving of positive displacement flow meters and generates report for same.
Allying up with vendors of Rosemount Emerson Delta-v & Yokogawa CS1000 DCS for regular check up of the system & Fault diagnoses
Perform Calibration of (AGAR) Energy Absorption Probes which controls oily-water discharge for
Desolaters

Technician Instrument Grade- I at UTS KENTZ CO. LTD
  • India
  • November 2006 to October 2007

Joined as instrument technician grade1 for the construction activities of on-shore gas development project III (GASCO)
•Managing shop calibration activities for different instruments of Rose-mount & Yokogawa make (level, pressure, flow, capillary type L/T, temp- transmitters, indicators, and radar-guided L/T and displacer level-transmitters for interface, stroke checking for control valves.)
•Handling standard instruments like Rosemount Emerson (375) & Yokogawa made hand-held communicators, Druck made calibrators & loop simulators & Altek made process simulators.
•Conducting pre-commissioning and commissioning jobs for the remote transmitting unit (RTU), SCADA for existing & new oil/injection wells with main client GASCO along-with vendor from Foxboro Invensys.
•Managing shop-calibration activities as per ISO 9000 procedures of different instruments.
Highlights:
•Notably commissioned RTU of 35-40 wells which replaced old serck make to Foxboro make.

Tradesman Instrumentation at Heavy water plant (Department of Atomic Energy Government of India)
  • India - Vadodara
  • March 1986 to October 2006

Joined Heavy water plant in year 1986 as trainee & continued till OCT.06 at different positions. During this period I was engaged for Maintenance, construction, re-vamping, start-up and commissioning of new project & existing.
 Operating various standard calibration equipments like Druck calibrator, Yokogawa & Fuji hand held configurators, Potentiometer M/V source/ sink Leeds & Northup make & RTD testing kits.
 Replicating & testing plant interlock circuits where relay panel alterations are made.
 Testing various electronic & pneumatic loops such as Cascade control, 3 element boiler controls & ratio loop for utilities.
 Allying up with vendors for installation, wiring & commissioning of P/C based data logger in control room of M/s. Schneider, France made hardware consisting of SCADA software features, where control panel instruments are assembled with RS-485 Modbus protocol.
 Commissioning activities of open architecture distributed control system having Schneider made I/O modules & PLC, MTL barriers & software of M/s Altersys, Canada which includes scrutinizing digital & analogue control loops including control logics.
 Handling calibration and stroke length adjustment for Samson made control valves.
 Attending to the emergencies during commissioning & start-up operation of plant activities.
 Generation of reports for the same as per standards.
 Troubleshooting the problems during plant operations & co-ordinating with process persons.
 Maintaining & calibrating pneumatic transmitters (blind & indicating) types of different make like Hartman & Brown, Bristol, Taylor & Foxboro used for high pressure application as well as level transmitters, float type & differential pressure type.
 Modelling convectional annunciation system with plant interlock circuits relay based.
 Carrying out commissioning related to the new front end water ammonia exchange process unit which was coupled with existing plant & commissioning of all old pneumatic loops with electronic loops for the existing control room.
 Handling commissioning of High pressure Gas Reciprocating Compressor.
 Commissioning of pc based Event sequence recorder Siemens make hardware and Win c.c. software for monitoring plant analysis.
Highlights:
Promoted to next higher grade as EOP promotion case (Extra ordinary case for promotion interviewed by committee of experts in related topics and then promoted.)

Education

Higher diploma, instrumentation & Control
  • at Industrial Training Institute (I.T.I)Ministry Of Labour National Council for Vocational TrainingGujarat Secondary Education BoardNational Institute of Technology
  • September 1984

courses: Instrumentation Trade

High school or equivalent, instrumentation & Control
  • at Industrial Training Institute (I.T.I)Ministry Of Labour National Council for Vocational TrainingGujarat Secondary Education BoardNational Institute of Technology
  • January 1984

courses: Instrumentation Trade

Specialties & Skills

Interpersonal Skills
Troubleshooting
Problem Solving
Technical Analysis
CALIBRATION
COMPUTER HARDWARE
DOCUMENTATION
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE
SUPERVISORY SKILLS
TECHNICIAN
TROUBLESHOOTING
UTILITIES

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