The Team

BACKGROUND

• Raj has 25yrs of experience as a senior leader in oil, gas and petrochemicals over a range of technical functions of safety, environment, engineering, operations and maintenance.
• He has wide experience in all technical applications of deepwater FPSO, offshore platform production, terminal processing, LNG Manufacturing, pipelines, and subsea infrastructure
• Raj’s speciality is safety, reliability, and cost performance improvement .
• He has a proven track record improving benchmark performance for sites with significant national and international strategic importance.

SKILLS

• Asset operations production optimisation across all chokes
• Turnarounds, projects, strategic and tactical activity planning
• Vulnerability management, maintenance management
• Coaching & mentoring particularly for first and mid-level leadership
• Agile, Kaizen techniques, Transformation and Change Management
• Qualifications: Chartered Engineer, CENG MIET, M.Sc Reliability Engineering and Safety Management; B.Eng Honors in Mining & Petroleum Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

BP UPSTREAM 1997-2020

• Maintenance & Engineering Manager Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey midstream transportation and processing accountable for functional performance oil the oil and gas systems.
• Reliability & Engineering Manager Asia Pacific Tangguh LNG production accountable for turnarounds, maintenance, site projects
• Engineering Team Leader for FPSO support in the UK and Angola deepwater
• Production Team Leader to mid North Sea platform production
• Operations Team Leader for UK midstream oil transportation and processing
• Change Leader : UK Petrochemical complex
• Development Engineer : Managing site projects portfolio
• HSE Advisor : UK offshore and midstream assets

Rockwater / Halliburton : 1994-1997 Subsea Safety Engineer

EXAMPLES OF RECENT EXPERIENCE

• IOC : Maintenance & Engineering : Final readiness, startup and vulnerability management of Southern Caucasus Pipeline extension project sites and Shah Deniz II processing plant at Sangachal terminal. In preparation for TANAP Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline first gas supplies from Azerbaijan to Italy in Dec2020.
• 20% reduction ($30m) of AGT midstream sustainable opex per annum through application of digital technologies, upskilling, Agile and Lean methodologies
• Step change (30%) reduction of schedule and cost for the Tangguh LNG Train outages through application of new technologies, global first skid based replacement of turbines during TAR and Kaizen CI application to critical path workscopes
• Transformation of wrench time metrics at Tangguh LNG site, Indonesia from 3.2hrs /shift to 6.5hrs through site-based assessment and change management programme centred on process and operating discipline. Improvement of benchmark maintenance performance of Tangguh site maintenance from 4Q to 2Q quartile (Philip Townsend Associates) over 3years
• Increasing reliability and availability of the Greater Plutonio FPSO, Angola from 62% operating efficiency to 98% operating and sustaining this performance year on year. Performance improvement achieved through solid management of process safety, risk, reliability and planned outages.
• Leadership through three sequential annual super TARs (>100days each) for a distressed harsh water FPSO transforming its process safety, integrity, and reliability to deliver final year steady high production prior to off-station. Rigorous prioritisation of activity slates, risk management and scheduling underpinned this period of performance improvement.