Pradip Sonavane

Total Work Experience in Oil & Gas = 19 Years

(I) RasGas LNG Company Ltd, Qatar. Processing Capacity = 37 MMT (Exxon Mobil & QP JV),
Engineering, Maintenance, Shutdown – Machinery & Reliability: Total Period = 8.5 years
(II) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, India. Processing Capacity = 12 MMT (Mumbai-Refinery)
Projects, Maintenance, Engineering, Shutdown, Workshop: Total Period = 10.6 years


Positions:
• Specialist – Rotating Equipment Engineering
• Senior Engineer – Machinery and Reliability Engineering & Maintenance
• Acting Superintendent -- FM-Machinery & Reliability at RasGas Maintenance (13 Weeks cumulative)
• Deputy Manager – Engineering Projects (Refinery Expansion Small Cap Projects)
• Deputy Manager – Refinery Plant Maintenance (CPP, Boiler House, and DM Water Plant)
• Senior Engineer – Workshop (Machine Shop), and Refinery Process Units’ Shutdowns


Summary: Total 18 plus years of core experience in
• Principal owner of Asset Machinery & Reliability Engineering / Maintenance of Plants.
• Rotating Machinery surveillance, troubleshooting, data trending and recording, ConMon report review.
• Machinery overhauling, repair, refurbishment, shutdown scoping, upgrades, and modifications.
• Risk Assessment, RCFA, FA, Bad Actor Analysis, ESs, RBWS, RTIS, SAP (PM and MM Modules).
• Long term cost effective reliability, and maintenance strategy stewardship, PPMs, plant availability.
• New Rotating Equipments’ technical reviews, FATs, Installation, Commissioning.
• Engineering Studies: Technical focal point for scoping, coordination, communications, budgeting.
• Remaining Life Assessment and Performance Characterization of Equipments.
• API Guidelines review & compliance. Equipment specifications, datasheets, proposal evaluations.
• Exxon Mobil work practices, systems, and audits (PPM, PTW, FIMS, SAP).
• DGSs, Critical Couplings’ refurbishment, upgrade, and interchangeability study.
• Lube Oil Analysis review, up-gradation, and standardization at GE Fr-7EA Turbines, in Helium Plant.
• Machinery Ageing and Obsolescence – Long Term Maint Strategy.
• Technical meet coordination with QG REE Team exchanging strategies, ageing effect initiatives on TTMs.
• Compressor Rotors’ refurbishment, upgrade, and high speed balancing.
• Refinery Plant Preventive maintenance, Steam & Power Generation units’ statutory maintenance. Mechanical coordination.
• Workshop functioning, resources management including centralize tools store – over 7 years.
• TPM, Quality Circle, Work-council, Six-sigma system applications at Shop floor.
• ISO-9002, ISO-14001 Quality and Environment System Audits at Shop Floor.
• Training, coaching, mentoring GETs, Junior Staff, Apprentices, and Foreign Trainees.


International Turbo-Machinery Forums: Author / Presenter of Technical Paper / Case Studies at
• 42nd Turbo-Machinery & 29th Pump Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA during Oct-2014.
• METS-II (Middle East Turbo-Machinery Symposium) at Doha, Qatar during Mar-2013.
• METS-III at Doha, Qatar during Feb-2015.

Employee of the Month Award (3 times) at RasGas for outstanding Behavioral Competencies.

Best Mentor Award / Recognition from RasGas CEO towards training Qatari Nationals.

ASME Membership No. 100309791.