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JERP OSBL Activity
From Bechtel side,both Vi Patel and Laxman Odedra were identified as Project Leads- with Vi managing project management & Laxman managing the engineering. Specifically Mr Ian Barton was designated as PM but Steve Wiggins as engineering manager took control virtually. Under Ian/Steve, Mike Beech played an important role during engineering stage. Of course we had the services of Bob Green, Jim Skipper, Dave Whatmore- champions of phase 1 in their respective disciplines. Bob being overall civil expert, his first task was to identify the contours and find the deep pockets for pond development. His concept being so clear, we could get 7 ponds in JERP itself thus ensuring enough water storage availability for SEZ plant areas. Jim being a piping specialist, with phase1 data, he could give the OSBL inter-rack piping bulk requirements and load factors at each stretch. Thus it gave quick start for arriving at large bore piping bulk requisition. Dave being underground engineering specialist, issued the initial cooling water mains drawings for route study in field. Then came the challenge for fire water pond and mains network for JERP !
Since by that time, the field operations and Jamnagar fire department gained operating experience, several opinion engineering arose! There were bitter deliberations, whether we should follow only applicable OISD guidelines or continue to stick with TAC Rules, since that was in vogue mandatory.
Added to that , since Bechtel was the engineering consultant, they suggested that we should also look into the applicable NFPA Codes. From Bechtel side Mr Richard King was the HSE&LP lead for that project; he had his own versions- as he did not have enough exposure for mega projects that too in Indian context, he was recommending to go for only 3 X 1000 M3/Hr for fire water, whereas by that time Indian Regulations under BIS called for two largest simultaneous demand areas with 1 lpm / M2 land area as fire water pumping capacity requirements with 50% standby pumping. It so happened that all relevant statutory bodies started abiding that condition. So Steve and myself took the decision to go with that and requested Dave Connolly, their fire engineering expert to arrive at the fire water demand and basic network header sizing to ensure that at the remotest point, the remnant pressure has to be 7 kg /cm2 g. Dave with the help of Bob Green and Dave Whatmore came out with the requirement of pumps including standby, tentative header sizing and 6 hours pond storage volume. Bechtel initially thought it is prudent to locate the pump house on the width side of the rectangular pond so that the header sizing can be conservative for effective distribution. But myself and Mr Dilip Koimattur of Techno Fire objected that for fundamental reasons- in OISD and PESO, there is a clause that the fire water pump house has to be at least 60 M away from the nearest operating hydrocarbon unit area. In Bechtel conceived arrangement, it was hardly 20 M away from Merox units. So we forced Bechtel to revise and shift it to the length side of pond and we had 12 X 1000M3/Hr pumps and two jockey pumps with pond capacity of 72000 M3 requirement. Without any hassle, Bob could ensure the same and then Dave Connolly carried out the network Hydraulic analysis. With Steve and Mike Beech at the helm, we could issue the Piping materials and valves PR in less than 3 months from kick off date. That helped us to commit the FW pumps on M/S KBL on nomination basis ,since we had very good services and satisfactory performance by that party in phase 1.
At this juncture I have to record some special circumstances!
Contd.......
Key Aspects :- Codes&Standard, Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Lack of Experience/exposure,
Leadership, Proactive approach, Technical issue, Team building,
JERP OSBL Activity
From Bechtel side,both Vi Patel and Laxman Odedra were identified as Project Leads- with Vi managing project management & Laxman managing the engineering. Specifically Mr Ian Barton was designated as PM but Steve Wiggins as engineering manager took control virtually. Under Ian/Steve, Mike Beech played an important role during engineering stage. Of course we had the services of Bob Green, Jim Skipper, Dave Whatmore- champions of phase 1 in their respective disciplines. Bob being overall civil expert, his first task was to identify the contours and find the deep pockets for pond development. His concept being so clear, we could get 7 ponds in JERP itself thus ensuring enough water storage availability for SEZ plant areas. Jim being a piping specialist, with phase1 data, he could give the OSBL inter-rack piping bulk requirements and load factors at each stretch. Thus it gave quick start for arriving at large bore piping bulk requisition. Dave being underground engineering specialist, issued the initial cooling water mains drawings for route study in field. Then came the challenge for fire water pond and mains network for JERP !
Since by that time, the field operations and Jamnagar fire department gained operating experience, several opinion engineering arose! There were bitter deliberations, whether we should follow only applicable OISD guidelines or continue to stick with TAC Rules, since that was in vogue mandatory.
Added to that , since Bechtel was the engineering consultant, they suggested that we should also look into the applicable NFPA Codes. From Bechtel side Mr Richard King was the HSE&LP lead for that project; he had his own versions- as he did not have enough exposure for mega projects that too in Indian context, he was recommending to go for only 3 X 1000 M3/Hr for fire water, whereas by that time Indian Regulations under BIS called for two largest simultaneous demand areas with 1 lpm / M2 land area as fire water pumping capacity requirements with 50% standby pumping. It so happened that all relevant statutory bodies started abiding that condition. So Steve and myself took the decision to go with that and requested Dave Connolly, their fire engineering expert to arrive at the fire water demand and basic network header sizing to ensure that at the remotest point, the remnant pressure has to be 7 kg /cm2 g. Dave with the help of Bob Green and Dave Whatmore came out with the requirement of pumps including standby, tentative header sizing and 6 hours pond storage volume. Bechtel initially thought it is prudent to locate the pump house on the width side of the rectangular pond so that the header sizing can be conservative for effective distribution. But myself and Mr Dilip Koimattur of Techno Fire objected that for fundamental reasons- in OISD and PESO, there is a clause that the fire water pump house has to be at least 60 M away from the nearest operating hydrocarbon unit area. In Bechtel conceived arrangement, it was hardly 20 M away from Merox units. So we forced Bechtel to revise and shift it to the length side of pond and we had 12 X 1000M3/Hr pumps and two jockey pumps with pond capacity of 72000 M3 requirement. Without any hassle, Bob could ensure the same and then Dave Connolly carried out the network Hydraulic analysis. With Steve and Mike Beech at the helm, we could issue the Piping materials and valves PR in less than 3 months from kick off date. That helped us to commit the FW pumps on M/S KBL on nomination basis ,since we had very good services and satisfactory performance by that party in phase 1.
At this juncture I have to record some special circumstances!
Contd.......
Key Aspects :- Codes&Standard, Critical challenge, Incident analysis, Lack of Experience/exposure,
Leadership, Proactive approach, Technical issue, Team building,
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