Shantanu Sengupta

A Results-driven professional with extensive experience in HSSE and working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver Projects on time and budget, satisfying the quality requirement as per the organizational needs.

An Upstream

Oil &

• Gas expert; especially in Safety &

• Crisis Management, Brownfield and Greenfield Projects delivery in complex and dynamic environments, while ensuring high-level of safety, security, societal and environmental accountability. Experienced in Contracting &

• Procurement, creating project plans & strategies, managing budget and schedule including schedule compression, along with strategically managing the resources to fulfil required goals. Proven track record in challenging the status quo, identifying and eliminating the wastes - through Lean &

• CI, improving & developing new procedures, interface management, arbitration, and conflict resolution. Passionate about collaborating and creating synergy with multinational and cross-functional teams, aligning corporate focus and meeting all standards following servant leadership role.

• Steered and delivered a multitude of complex Brownfield & Greenfield Oil and Gas Projects from Concept and FEED phase through Detail Design and Procurement, Construction to Operations and Close-out phases, meeting all time, cost, and quality targets.
• Saved millions of dollars yearly through implementation of change/process improvement initiatives, by unlocking production potential e.g. over 500 m3/day of net oil of Hawqa Cluster wells through capacity enhancement of Zauliyah Separators and streamlining the design of the inlet line to the separators.
• Improved business efficiency of the Company through conceptualization and delivery of Lean and CI Projects. 
• Ensured risk identification and mitigation as a Subject Matter Expert (Shell Global Technical Authority- TA2, Project Engineering) through rationally applying the engineering standards and participating/ conducting Design Reviews, HAZOP, HAZID, HEMP, IPF, QRA, Alarm Rationalization, and SIMOPS Workshops for Projects.
• Executed and implementing the challenging new technology projects, notably, Microturbine for reduction of Gas Flaring, OSORB technology for de-oiling of produced water, Online Hardness Analyzers for Amal Steam, Microbubble & Thermocouple technology for online monitoring of Amal Wells and Non-intrusive Corrosion Monitoring for South Asset Pipelines.
• Acted as AIPSM & External Challenger for the Planned Turnaround (shutdown) events for Oil South Cluster Stations; supported identification of the hidden flaws/risks, advised simpler solutions and further optimized the turnaround scope/time.
• Authored Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for HAZOP Waiver, Proprietary Source Procurement, Detail Design for Management of Change Projects, Construction and Commissioning for FCP Projects and Barge Deployment & Anchor Handling Policy for OES, ONGC.
• Collaborated with Contractors, Subcontractors, Vendors and their Principal OEMs as true Partners; challenged the standards and reduced/removed gold plating, compressing the Project schedules without compromising on quality or taking additional cost burdens.
• Mitigated near-blowout situation at critical sour well s
• Sakhia 31 (Harweel) and catastrophic power dip for North and South cluster incident as a corporate emergency- CECC member; controlled Oil/Gas well Blowouts as a Crisis Management Team (CMT) member for ONGC.
• Contributed in skills development of Omani Graduates, Undergraduates, and Apprentice teams by coaching and mentoring.

PMP, Project Management Professional, PMI, Pennsylvania, USA

MBA, Marketing & Human Resource, CGPA 6.43, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India

BE, Mechanical Engineering, Honors (76.5%), University of Calcutta, Tripura Engineering College (NITA), India