Sivakumar Munivelu

Control & Instrumentation engineer with 23 years of experience in design, detail, procurement & proposal engineering across major international oil & gas companies like ADNOC, PDO, Shell, BP ROO, Sonatrach and South Stream.

My strength includes my ability to successfully lead a team of engineers/designers, assisting lead engineer/ construction/commissioning for project completions.

I have achieved successful completion of projects by handling various field instruments, fire & gas detectors, safety systems, well head control panel, multiphase flowmeters, mechanical packages, prefabricated modules, interface management with third parties, brownfield works, etc. I have also worked on project with high H2S concentration .maintaining 100% safety and plant integrity

Instrument & Control system design

Ownership of I&C schedule, planning and man hour estimates

Liase with other disciplines/clients/vendor representatives

Guide design team to achieve successful model review outcomes

Liase with site team to carry-out site survey for brownfield work

Design document review, provide constructability input to designs and resolve constructability challenges

Detailed and procurement engineering to prepare design basis, philosophies, specifications, datasheets, material requisition, vendor offer evaluation for various field Instruments, actuated valves, fire & gas detectors and devices, instrument packages, mechanical packages, etc. for upstream oil & gas plants.

Handled a team of engineers and designers for proposal engineering to generate FEED verification, BOQs, cost estimates, man-hour estimates, engineering execution plan, risk identifications, etc for upstream Oil & Gas Plants.

Administered the detail engineering conducted through satellite office.

Worked in close coordination with procurement manager, project engineering manager, clients, and sub-contractors to resolve issues related to engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities.

Finalization of project deliverable and non-deliverable list with man-hour allocations.

Pivotal at selecting the types of interfaces between ICSS and mechanical/instrument packages.

Good at ascertaining commodity monitoring and control as well as 3D model review comments closeout.

Instrumentally involved in HAZOP, SIL assessment & SIL determination studies and providing closeout.

Well versed with international standards such as API, IEC, ISA, ISO.

Performed site surveys and collect field data for brownfield works related to ICSS system interface, Instrument Packages, and other tie-ins

Carried out Factory acceptance test (FAT) for Emergency shutdown system, distributed control system and fire & gas systems.

Instruments, instrument packages (WHCP and MPFM) and mechanical packages Interfaced with site construction and field engineering team for technical clarifications

Facilitated the construction and commissioning team for project completion Offered engineering support for resolution and close-out of construction and commissioning punch list item

B.E. (Electronics and Instrumentation) from Madras University