VYSHAK CHANDRAN

Hand-on experience in carrying out Instrumentation & Process control system maintenance,Commissioning, Start-up and shutdown activities of various Offshore Oil & Gas platforms across Lower Zakum Oil Field

• Carries out day to day preventive, corrective and break down maintenance, commissioning activities on assigned field and process instrumentation systems
• Support operations team during planned commissioning and startup, emergency breakdown and shutdown activities.
• Attend FAT & SAT procedures for any new E&I process control systems.
• Involved in control system commissioning for GE Rx7i, Siemens, Schneider Electric M580 PLC's, Yokogawa Centum VP Distributed Control Systems, Yokogawa Pro-safe RS ESD Systems and Bently Nevada vibration monitoring systems.
• Hands-on experience in fault rectification / maintenance and commissioning activities of heavy rotating equipment’s including Gas Turbines (Solar, Rolls Royce Avon), Compressors, Generators, Pumps and associated control systems.
• Calibration, testing and fault rectification of field instruments including pressure, level, flow and temperature transmitters, control valves, MOV's, Shutdown Valves, analytical instruments, vibration monitoring systems and other field instrumentation systems.
• Calibration, testing and fault rectification of Fire & Gas detection instruments including Open path Hydrocarbon and toxic gas detectors, Hydrogen gas detectors, multi-gas detectors, flame detectors, Heat detectors, fire suppression and extinguishing systems.
• Carry out 12 monthly integrity/full closure test for Emergency Shutdown(ESD) and Fire & Gas systems.
  Carryout 6monthly preventive maintenance checks for instrumentation & process control systems.
• Involved in Commissioning/Start-up/Maintenance of Gas Injection/Processing Trains, Water Injection Clusters, Collector Separator Platform, Pumping Stations, Riser Platforms. well head control panels,High Integrity Pressure Protection Systems(HIPPS), DCS/ESD systems.
• Involved in commissioning/tie-in activities of new offshore platforms and carryout the cause & effect checks for the same and make sure that project activities are not interrupting existing live plant facilities.
• Participate in technical evaluations of the instrumentation system performance and reliability by monitoring and analyzing the DCS Alarm management data, operational data, preventive and un-scheduled maintenance records and process trends to recommend changes as appropriate in maintenance standards and procedures.
• Conduct Formal Risk Assessment meetings and provide valid inputs to mitigate the risks involved along with HSE & Operations for any critical jobs.
• Preparing and arranging all types of Work Permits in SAP, Closing work orders, ordering new spares and maintain records for same.
  
  Project Management Activities
  
  Monitor/Witness commissioning and tie-in activities of new platforms.
  Organize weekly review meetings to discuss about progress achieved.
  Review and close out of Punch List items, Site Queries and Technical Verification lists as per project requirements
  Co-ordinate with Vendors, sub-contractors and other discipline engineers.
  Ensure that all activities are carried out safely and in accordance with Permit to work system
  Conducting day to day jobs in accordance with safety rules in the Oil & Gas industry
  Preparing and arranging all types of Electrical/Instrument Work Permits