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Planning Engineer, CH2MHill VECO Engineering Abu Dhabi UAE, ADCO – EPC Services for Asab Water Injection Upgrade Project (UAE) •ADCO – FEED, Detailed Engg & Procurement Services for Huwaila Field Development Project (UAE) •CNPCIS – EPCM for FULA Field Dev

START Date: 
November, 2002
END Date: 
November, 2005

 

VECO (currently CH2M HILL) is a US based Multi-national Corporation that provides project management, engineering, procurement, construction, operations and maintenance services to the Oil and Gas Industry. Major clients are ADCO, GASCO, ZADCO, ADMA-OPCO, Qatar Petroleum, Dolphin Energy Ltd., GAIL (India), GNPOC (Sudan), PDOC (Sudan), CPECC/CPE/CNPCIS/JPPDI (China) etc.

Position: Planning Engineer

Main Responsibilities:

Ø  Preparation of complete planning package which include WBS, resource loaded project master schedules, progress S-curves, man-power histograms, progress measurement & monitoring systems, project control logs etc for various Conceptual Design / FEED /  Detailed Design / EPC / EPCC / EPCM / PMC type projects.

Ø  Preparation of business plan & cash flow charts.

Ø  Preparation of tender schedules and project controls packages

Ø  Preparation of EPC implementation schedules

Ø  Efficiency analysis, earned value reports & progress invoicing.

Ø  Identify areas of concern & propose corrective actions

Ø  Delay analysis & preparation of recovery schedules

Ø  Progress monitoring & reporting ( daily, weekly, monthly reports)

Ø  Preparation of project controls presentation slides for meetings

Ø  Estimating current  workload & forecasting man-power requirement based on potential projects & tenders

Ø  Attending project review/lessons learnt/close-out meetings

Other Activities / Achievements:

Ø  Visual Basic macro based workbook to centralize, control and automate the process of issuing multi-discipline Design Changes / Variations to client; with automated e-mail sending facilities.

Ø  Established Time-sheet Management System with the use of in-house resources.

Ø  HVAC system design, vendor data review, adequacy checks etc

Ø  Automation of project controls deliverables register & other workbooks

Ø  SQL queries & report generation

Major Projects Handled:

·   ADCO – EPC Services for Asab Water Injection Upgrade Project (UAE)

·   ADCO – FEED, Detailed Engg & Procurement Services for Huwaila Field Development Project (UAE)

·   CNPCIS – EPCM for FULA Field Development Project (Sudan)

·   Petrodar – FEED for Melut Basin Oil Development Project (Sudan)

·   GNPOC – EPCM for 300K BOPD CPF Expansion Project (Sudan)

·   Dolphin/Dodsal  – Detailed Engg for Al-Ain to Fujirah Gas Pipeline Project (UAE)

·   MDE – EPCM for Margham/DEWA-H Gas Pipeline Project (UAE)

·   ZADCO – FEED for DCS/ESD/F&G Replacement Project (UAE –Offshore)

·   Qatar Petroleum – EPCC for Halul Power Station Phase-II Project (Qatar)

·   ADMA-OPCO – Detailed Engg for  SWDP Control System Replacement at Das Island

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