Oil & Gas - Plant Maintenance & Reliability

Support plant maintenance team with condition monitoring techniques, such as vibration analysis, lube oil analysis and defect elimination techniques to enhance equipment availability & reliability.

Work Experience
a) March 2009 to date
Name of organization : Oman Oil Refinery & Petroleum Ltd. Co., Sohar, Oman.
Designation : Leader – Predictive (Rotating Equipment Reliability)

Principal Accountabilities
• Overall responsibility for reliability section of Refinery, Aromatics & Polypropylene plants
• Monitor plant equipments & assess their overall effectiveness to optimize plant operations using above mentioned skills and techniques.
• Provide essential data for turnarounds and inspections planning with regard to the required timing/extent of repairs.
• Prepare the annual budget for the reliability section & monitor expenditure over the year


b) September 1995 to February 2009
Name of organization : IPCL / Reliance Industries Limited (Baroda)
Designation (last) : General Manager (Mechanical)
Plant : 1) DMT 2) IOP 3) LAB 4) NCP

Principal Accountabilities

1) Maintenance
• Overall responsibility for mechanical maintenance department using above mentioned skills.
• Provide engineering maintenance perspective to Plant changes (MOC) and managing small capital projects. Support the development of bigger projects managed by the central project team
• Rotating Equipments handled
o Compressors
 Reciprocating compressors (IR, Nuovo Pignone, Peter Brother, Mitsui)
 Centrifugal compressor (Elliot, Dresser Rand, Mitsubishi and Demag)
o Steam Turbines (Siemens, KKK & Elliot Ebara make)
o Gas Turbine (Hitachi H-25 & GE Frame 6)
o Pumps
 Centrifugal (Sundyne / vacuum / single stage/multi stage)
 Rotary (gear / screw)
 Metering / dosing pumps (piston / plunger / diaphragm)
o Centrifuge (Decanter / Peeler type)
o Fin Fan and cooling tower fans
o Co-planer manifold indexer (CMI) & its hydraulic system.
o Agitators

c) September 1994 to September 1995
Name of organization : General Mechanical works
Designation : Project Engineer
My involvement was in following stages of project planning and execution.
a. Assisting in preparation of Technical and financial tenders.
b. Assisting in preparation of BOMs, Drawings, etc.
c. Vendor development
d. Inspection and supervision during fabrication and erection.

Graduation:
Course studied: B.E (Mechanical Engineering)
Institution of study: Birla Vishwa Karma Mahavidhyalaya College of Engineering, Sardar Patel University, VV Nagar
Duration of study: 1989-1993
Class: First Class

Post Graduation:
Course studied: MBA (Finance) 3 year Evening Program
Institution of study: M.S. Patel Institute of Management, M.S. University, Baroda
Duration of course: 1997-00
Class: Grade B+ (4.83)

Additional certificate:
IInd class boiler Proficiency certificate
Issuing athority: IBR, Ahmedabad
Year: Feb-99

Key Maintenance related skills
• Overseeing the maintenance, reliability and integrity functions to ensure statutory and general mechanical equipment inspection & maintenance are carried out on schedule
• Prepare yearly maintenance budget. Monitor and manage spend against current budgets
• SAP (R/3), trained as a power user

Key Reliability related skills
• Hold overall responsibility for rotating equipment reliability of Oman Oil Refinery & Petroleum Ind. Co.
• Data analysis techniques
o Weibull Analysis
o Six Sigma (6σ) Methodology
o Root cause analysis
• Work with Production to perform analysis of assets including:
o Asset Utilization
o Overall Equipment Effectiveness
o Parameters that define operating condition and reliability of assets.
• Condition monitoring methods
o Vibration analysis utilizing CSI-2130, SKF Microlog Gx, Bently Nevada 3500 and System1
o Oil Analysis and wear particle analysis
o Process related parameters using DCS & Honeywell plant historian database
• Provide technical support to production and maintenance


Personal details
Name: Dheeraj M. Keerthiwad
Date of birth / Age: 18th May, 1972 / 38 yrs
Gender / Marital Status: Male / Single
Address (India): Flat no. 102, Suraksha Pride, Kalyanpuri Uppal, Hyderabad-500017, AP, India
Reside and Work in: Sohar - Oman
Personal Mobile number (Oman): 00 968 95396324 (M)
E-mail: dmk18572@yahoo.co.in
Passport details: A-5845043, expiry 15.07.2018