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J3 Gas Detector Portables
Mr Gustavo took that assignment personally and studied. As MSA did not have internal capability to develop such Apps, he contacted some specialist group at Houston and reverted on last day. That party gave the feedback that such a specific request has already come from one customer in Abu Dhabi and it may take several months to develop the same in MSA products. So he suggested that Reliance may undertake that research as pilot project for trial objective and gave the contact particulars of the said party.
On return to India, I had a big shock! The core CHSEE group raised a spoke - how the project HSE group can go ahead sourcing the gas detectors certified suitable for Zone1 only instead of Zone0?
They were not ready to agree with the fact that in refinery, most of the areas fall under Zone 2 only and only few places come under Zone1. Zone 0 come in picture only inside the cone roof tanks and under ground pits. They were influenced by M/S Honeywell representative canversing. Fortunately
both S/Sh B Narayan & Deepak Datta , the authorities in project, being chemical engineer by qualification and had field experience, understood the situation .They supported my decision to go with Zone1 certified devices and cleared to procurement to issue SCN for dispatch.
The issue did not stop there! As I was expecting, JMD had a huge top-up requirement and they furnished the second intent in Nov.'16 for procurement activity. By that time, I handed over the project HSE Department to Dr.Atul Ku Srivastava, who was asked to report to Sh Gordan Goyal, Process chief in projects. Somehow things went out of control. From my side, I was suggesting that since these requirements are top-up quantity, procurement should go ahead on nomination basis and discuss the rates with the original supplier and commit. Also, my recommendation to go with the same party arose from the angle of universal bump testing module. Otherwise, it call for two or three different version of bump test modules and combining them for network communication is a challenge! As a control system engineer by qualification and experience I could visualize that aspect .But each individual had different objective; especially CHSEE group wanted to show their technical superiority! Even the expatriate experts from Shell,BP &Lendoll Basel reviewed my version and endorsed but it was over-ruled.
Here, I have to bring out some technical aspects !! Though M/S Honeywell was the only party who canversed for Zone0 selection and had PESO approval, really speaking they also did not have ATEX approval forZone0 for IR type sensors, which was part of their offer. When I took up the matter with PESO authorities, they were surprised to note that fact and withdrawn the approval then. But M/S Honeywell were going around that IOC has approved their products for Zone 0 and only that should be practised in Indian industry. Unfortunately Reliance CHSEE group did not want to go through these analysis and dictated that Reliance also should opt for Zone0 selection only for the entire top-up requirement. Even at that stage, I was the only one ,who tried to project that no party can furnish all the types with Zone0 certification and we may land up with the issue of communication links with two different manufacturers. People with vested interest took stand and over-ruled my recommendation. Due to misunderstanding and misinterpreting my version of recommendation, people concerned went to the extent of suspecting my integrity even after loyally serving the company for 30 years. I have been asked to keep away from that sourcing activity.. With pain I had to watch this mess from distance! As forecasted and expected, the mess is still there and no one has ventured to link the communication between several version of bump system. The end user has lost interest and living with the unfinished version! By that time,I am retired from Reliance service in March'18, but there is no end solution in place.
Contd......
Key Aspect:- Incident analysis, Technical issue, Transfer
J3 Gas Detector Portables
Mr Gustavo took that assignment personally and studied. As MSA did not have internal capability to develop such Apps, he contacted some specialist group at Houston and reverted on last day. That party gave the feedback that such a specific request has already come from one customer in Abu Dhabi and it may take several months to develop the same in MSA products. So he suggested that Reliance may undertake that research as pilot project for trial objective and gave the contact particulars of the said party.
On return to India, I had a big shock! The core CHSEE group raised a spoke - how the project HSE group can go ahead sourcing the gas detectors certified suitable for Zone1 only instead of Zone0?
They were not ready to agree with the fact that in refinery, most of the areas fall under Zone 2 only and only few places come under Zone1. Zone 0 come in picture only inside the cone roof tanks and under ground pits. They were influenced by M/S Honeywell representative canversing. Fortunately
both S/Sh B Narayan & Deepak Datta , the authorities in project, being chemical engineer by qualification and had field experience, understood the situation .They supported my decision to go with Zone1 certified devices and cleared to procurement to issue SCN for dispatch.
The issue did not stop there! As I was expecting, JMD had a huge top-up requirement and they furnished the second intent in Nov.'16 for procurement activity. By that time, I handed over the project HSE Department to Dr.Atul Ku Srivastava, who was asked to report to Sh Gordan Goyal, Process chief in projects. Somehow things went out of control. From my side, I was suggesting that since these requirements are top-up quantity, procurement should go ahead on nomination basis and discuss the rates with the original supplier and commit. Also, my recommendation to go with the same party arose from the angle of universal bump testing module. Otherwise, it call for two or three different version of bump test modules and combining them for network communication is a challenge! As a control system engineer by qualification and experience I could visualize that aspect .But each individual had different objective; especially CHSEE group wanted to show their technical superiority! Even the expatriate experts from Shell,BP &Lendoll Basel reviewed my version and endorsed but it was over-ruled.
Here, I have to bring out some technical aspects !! Though M/S Honeywell was the only party who canversed for Zone0 selection and had PESO approval, really speaking they also did not have ATEX approval forZone0 for IR type sensors, which was part of their offer. When I took up the matter with PESO authorities, they were surprised to note that fact and withdrawn the approval then. But M/S Honeywell were going around that IOC has approved their products for Zone 0 and only that should be practised in Indian industry. Unfortunately Reliance CHSEE group did not want to go through these analysis and dictated that Reliance also should opt for Zone0 selection only for the entire top-up requirement. Even at that stage, I was the only one ,who tried to project that no party can furnish all the types with Zone0 certification and we may land up with the issue of communication links with two different manufacturers. People with vested interest took stand and over-ruled my recommendation. Due to misunderstanding and misinterpreting my version of recommendation, people concerned went to the extent of suspecting my integrity even after loyally serving the company for 30 years. I have been asked to keep away from that sourcing activity.. With pain I had to watch this mess from distance! As forecasted and expected, the mess is still there and no one has ventured to link the communication between several version of bump system. The end user has lost interest and living with the unfinished version! By that time,I am retired from Reliance service in March'18, but there is no end solution in place.
Contd......
Key Aspect:- Incident analysis, Technical issue, Transfer
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