23+ Years of Project Management, Engineering and Design
Experience in the field of Instrumentation and Control Systems
Rashesh M Shah
Project Manager and Instrumentation Leader,
Indcon Engineering Consultants Pvt Ltd
Dahisar-West, Mumbai 400068
 + 91 22 28918453
 indconengg@yahoo.co.in
Work Summary
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
23+ years global experience in Petrochemical, Oil & Gas, Steel, Cement and other Process
industries
Project Management, Planning, Scheduling and Cost control for green field and
revamp/Control Systems upgrade projects
Engineering, Design and Project Execution for Instrumentation, DCS, PLC, SCADA and
other Automation projects
Specialization in Control Systems, DCS and ESD System upgrade projects
Cost/Man-Hour Estimates and Feasibility studies
ITB Preparation, Procurement services and Construction supervision
Selection, Sizing and Specifications of Field Instruments, Control valves, Analyzers, Safety
systems, PLC and DCS systems
Execution Experience with major DCS systems (like Honeywell, Yokogawa), PLC systems
like (Modicon, Yaskawa, Triconex, Honeywell ESD systems) and SCADA systems (like
AFE etc.)
HAZOP studies and Safety Analysis for process plants
Publications
►
►
‘Process Control using PLC' At National Symposium on Current Trends in the
Instrumentation organized By Bhabha Atomic Research Center.
'Stock House Automation using PLC - A Case Study' at Bhilai Steel Plant during Indian
Steel Industries Exhibition & Seminar organized by Indian Institute of Metal.
Training/Special Assignments
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
►
Yokogawa Centum CS3000 DCS system, Jubail, Saudi Arabia
Triconex TMR ESD System, Jubail, Saudi Arabia
SAP System, Financial and Engg Project Management (PS Module) Jubail, Saudi Arabia
SAP System, Investment Management (IM Module) Jubail, Saudi Arabia
SAP System, Materials Management (MM Module) Jubail, Saudi Arabia
CS3000 system FAT at Yokogawa, Singapore
Application Software FAT at Oxy-Vinyl, Houston, Texas, USA
Engineering and design review at Mustang Tampa, Florida, USA
Engineering and Design review at KTI, Zotermeer, the Netherlands
Modicon – 984/U84 Series PLC System, Mumbai, India
Rashesh M Shah – Resume’
Page # 1 of 4
►
AFE IC2X series SCADA System, Mumbai, India
Professional
►
►
Bachelor of Engineering – Instrumentation and Control, Graduated in 1983, first class
with Distinction
Membership of Instrument Society for Measurement & Control (ISA)
Work Experience
April 2006 - Present: - Indcon Engineering Consultants Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, India
Promoter and Director of Indcon Engineering Consultant Pvt Ltd
March 1995 – March 2006: Arabian Petrochemical Co. (Petrokemya)/ SABIC - Shared Services
Site Project Management- Al Jubail, KSA
Petrokemya is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) having
three world scale Ethylene crackers (1 MMTPA each) producing major petrochemical products
like Ethylene, Polyethylene, PVC, VCM etc
►
►
►
SABIC Shared Services – Site Project Management team member for Project management,
Cost control and execution of various SABIC Affiliate Projects
working in Plant Engineering (PLE) Department as Sr. Control Systems Engineer
responsible for project management and execution of various in-house projects
Active member in company Quality (TQM) program and Suggestion schemes
Major Projects handled: ►
Project Leader for Olefins and PVC Plant APC Project:
◘
Advance Process Control (APC) system and real time optimization for 1 MMTPA
Olefins-III, Benzene and Butene-1 plant and 300000 TPA PVC plant.
Honeywell Profit Controller is APC supplier.
►
Ethane gas Custody Meter for feed from Saudi Aramco
◘
Engineering, Design and Project management of 24” size Ultrasonic Flow Meter
(UFM) skids for Custody metering skid
►
Propane Liquid Custody Meter for feed from Saudi Aramco
◘
Engineering, Design and Project management of 16” size Turbine meter skid for
Custody metering skid with meter prover.
►
Project Leader for PVC DCS Upgrade Project:
◘
Process Licensor – Oxy Vinyl (Formerly GEON)
◘
Project Management and Coordination among the Operations dept of Petrokemya,
Yokogawa Singapore, Oxy Vinyl USA
◘
Replacing 20 year old Foxboro Spec 200, HIMA PLC and Modicon Process
computer system with Yokogawa Centum CS 3000 DCS and Triconex TMR based
ESD System.
Rashesh M Shah – Resume’
Page # 2 of 4
◘
◘
◘
◘
►
6000 + I/O Signals
Upgrade and Integration of other sub systems like Area Monitoring, Gas Detector,
Fire Alarm, UPS system etc.
Challenging Execution Schedule, Concept to commissioning successfully
completed in 16 months.
Coordinated with Mustang Tampa, USA for PVC debottlenecking project to
incorporate all instrumentation related design with the DCS upgrade project
Project Engineer for following major PLE projects (Project Cost ranging between SAR
100,000 to SAR 35 Million):
◘
◘
◘
◘
◘
◘
◘
◘
Utility Burner Management System (BMS) Upgrade Project
Olefins III # 3 Butene-1 Control System Tie-In
Olefins III Additional Flame Scanner
Olefins-II Acetylene reactor Modifications
Olefins-I 3rd Cracked gas Dryer
Olefins-II/III Replacement of Flare Tips
Olefins-II New Green Oil Separator
Numerous other Affiliate projects ranging between SAR 100,000 to 1 Million.
June 1998 – February 2000:
►
Olefins III Furnace Project:
◘
◘
Responsible for Instrumentation Engineering, Design, Installation and
Commissioning of Olefins-III Furnaces (Green-field Ethylene Project)
Assigned to KTI (Furnace technology supplier), Holland office for review and
approval of Engineering and Design
October 1995 – November 1997:
►
Olefins II Furnace Expansion Project:
◘
◘
Responsible for Instrumentation Engineering and Design of Olefins-II Furnace
worked with PLE Department on several in-house projects including Industrial
Security System, PVC Chilled water system, Polystyrene Hot Oil Heaters, Olefins
II Boiler Feed water pump, Utility Sea Water Pump, # 1 Butene-1 Existing
Compressor control system, Industrial waste water system etc.
June 1993 – October 1995: Radicon Gulf Consult, Al-Khobar, KSA
Worked as Lead Instrument Design Engineer.
Major Projects Worked on are:
►
Glass Fiber Project, Jubail, KSA
►
Emergency Back-Up SCADA system, SCECO-East, Dammam
►
Saudi ARAMCO projects at Rastnura and Abqaiq
Rashesh M Shah – Resume’
Page # 3 of 4
April 1992 – April 1993: Saudi Arabian Kent/ACEC, Al-Khobar, KSA
►
Saudi ARAMCO Berri Gas Plant DCS Upgrade Project
Worked as Lead DCS Engineer
◘
◘
◘
◘
Existing Foxboro Spec 200 system and Square-D PLC upgraded with Honeywell
TDC3000 DCS and Triconex ESD system.
Responsible for Plant 471 DCS Upgrade
Developed Standard Hardware Design Schematic and Software Database standards.
Prepared DCS Database for the plant
January 1987 – March 1992: Larsen and Toubro Ltd, Mumbai, India
Worked as Systems Design Engineer for Gould Modicon 984/U84 PLC and AFE IC2X SCADA
Systems.
Responsible for Concept to Commissioning of Automation projects which includes Project
Management, Cost and Schedule Control, System Design, Writing software/application programs,
System assembly, Installation and Commissioning.
Major Projects Worked on are:
►
►
►
►
Steel Plant Automation
Cement Plant Automation
Burner Management System and Boiler Interlocks for Power plants
Digester Automation for Paper Plants
June 1983 – January 1987: Humphrey’s and Glasgow Consultants, Mumbai, India
Worked as Instrument Design Engineer for UK based major engineering company
Major Projects Worked on are:
►
►
►
►
►
IPCL - Ethylene Cracker Revamping
IDL - P.E.T.N (Detonator) Plant
Reliance – Polyester Filament Yarn Project
GHCL – Soda Ash Plant
Larsen and Toubro – Cement Plant
Rashesh M Shah – Resume’
Page # 4 of 4