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Project Manager Automation & Controls
Project managing and leading technical team to deliver an extremely complex automation project - a
biggest automation control system for coal seam gas in the world comprising 2000 wells, compressor
stations, central processing plants and export pipeline controls including the fibre optic network.
Responsible for time delivery within schedule and budget, quality, safety of the automation scope.
Responsible for contractor management and local content development. Liasion with other project
delivery streams for physical and technical interfaces and to develop integrated project plan
Engineering Manager: Implementation of Company standards on all ongoing projects and asset
engineering. Setting up of engineering management processes for the asset. Liaison with external
engineering contractors and Joint Venture Partners on facilities design and engineering front.
Principal Process Engineer: Responsible for Co ordination of the key elements of subsurface, drilling
and facilities
activities and their linkages to the overall project economics for project pre-sanction to achieve
sustainable business solution for future projects. Economic and risk modeling to establish project
viability under different Production Sharing Contract scenarios both from a BG Group and JV
perspective.
Specialties
Project Manager with IPMA Level C Certification from APM.
Chartered Chemical Engineer from IChemE, Engineering Council, UK
Project Management, Risk Management, Process Engineering for Onshore & Offshore Oil and Gas
Processing, Control systems engineering, LNG processing and utilities design, engineering
management, project management for capital projects
Experience
Project Manager at QGC - A BG Group Business
April 2010 - Present (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for delivery of top quartile performance for Process Control, Telecommunication &
Automation of Upstream Coal Seam Gas in Surat Basin, in Queensland, Australia
Engineering Manager, at BG EPIL, Mumbai India
September 2009 - March 2010 (7 months)
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Responsible for engineering management of capital projects (greenfield and brownfield) and
ongoing production operations.
Capital Projects & Asset Engineering Support in various capacities
Project Manager - Panna Hot Oil Heater rebuild project
Project Manager - Infrastructure for independent gas sales in ONGC Hazira
Technial Responsible Person - Managing team of six discipline technical authorities to provide
engineering solution & optimisation to Panna-Mukta and Tapti assets
Commissioning Manager - NRPOD Tapti Expansion Project
Lead Process Engineer - NRPOD Tapti Expansion Project, Kuala Lumpur
Process Engineer - Panna Oil debottlenecking project
3 recommendations available upon request
Principal Process Engineer & TRP at BG Exploration and Production India Ltd
January 2003 - August 2009 (6 years 8 months)
As a Technical Responsible Person for BG India asset, I set up a system of technical authorities
within the assets reporting to me. The created taskforce was responsible for compliance to all
national, international, BG group and regulatory standards.
During my tenure as Principal process engineer I was responsible for Co ordination of the key
elements of subsurface, drilling and facilities
activities and their linkages to the overall project economics for project pre-sanction to achieve
sustainable business solution for future projects. Economic and risk modeling to establish project
viability under different Production Sharing Contract scenarios both from a BG Group and JV
perspective.
Process Engineer at Shell International Chemicals, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
January 2001 - October 2002 (1 year 10 months)
Sustainable development of Ethylene Oxide / Ethylene Glycol Process.
Filed a worldwide, EU and US patent on reverse flow catalytic reactor.
Skills
Project Management
Entrepreneurial Endeavors
Engineering Management
Education
Queensland University of Technology
MBA, Change management, Entreprenuership, International Business, Fianance and risk
management, 2011 - 2012
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Girish Kabra
Project Manager at QGC - A BG Group Business