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DTA Ph1 Refinery Contd.
The Detailed Engg. for all the plant sites got established in Jamnagar but still the project activities and procurement continued at London. So almost all project team members were shuttling between London/Mumbai/Jamnagar. Though the detailed engineering has been shifted to site office, still the
overall design features freezing and procurement activity continued from London only. So it was real double edged sword for the project leaders! Typical of vendor data receipts and vendor drawings review etc. were going to and fro. In those days ,since the computer technology has not developed for e-room upload and transfer etc. it posed its own issues. In some cases, even we called the vendor back office designers to London for across the table review/ discussions&update.
In Jamnagar end, Mr John Newman established excellent team and the stage wise review of deliverable went through like a well oiled machine. The discipline wise interface check got performed smoothly- especially when it came for underground drawings G84 series. That benefited us for carrying out head start for site grading,pond configuration and under ground piping for cooling water and fire water all across various individual plot areas. Indirectly that helped construction to undertake the OSBL pipe rack footings and casting foundation for tall columns well in advance before the equipment arrival.
When it came to transport logistics of equipment &receipts, since Reliance had bitter experience while handling equipment receipts at Patalganga from Bombay based fabricators, Bechtel &Reliance team formed a task force to study&evaluate various options. In those days, even Gujarat high way roads were not evenly surfaced and wide enough for heavy/tall equipment transportation. That resulted &evolved the concept of LO-LO/RO-RO jetty and Haul road-16Kms from Sikka jetty to JMD site.
Here I have to bring out a specific issue highlighting PBMR's vision and confidence!
The last 4 Kms land between Sikka village to the water front was squashy soil and Bechtel members were not confident enough arriving at any solution for bringing the heavy equipment weighing 2000 MT! Rao being a civil engineer having worked with EIL at Visag port (part of VREP for HPCL), which had similar issues, suggested to MDA that he has a workable solution- as anyhow Reliance is sourcing boulders for gravel/stone pitching by excavating land area at South plot,why not we spread part of these builders in that 4 Km stretch ? Form Sethu Samudram ( part of Ramayana story where squirrels spread the stones and formed pathway from Dhanushkodi to Lanka to enable troops to cross over) &utilize thus formed road for transporting equipment from the water front to haul road ! As MDA was desperate and worried, he had one to one agreement/ understanding with PBMR and gave him 6 weeks time to attempt and verify/ prove. Since Rao had all the resources at his command,he did succeed. After 6 weeks, MDA drove one heavy vehicle as well as his Mercedes Benz to and fro and approved/ got convinced. For info. that JMD Sethu Samudram is the only route through which all equipment,columns, compressors, reactors etc. of J1/J2&J3 are being brought- both indigenous as well as imported! The company has made the policy of bringing all equipment only through water front thus avoiding road congestion. Contd........
Key Aspects :- Attitude, Conviction, Critical challenge, Delegation, Faith, Incident analysis, Innovative,
DTA Ph1 Refinery Contd.
The Detailed Engg. for all the plant sites got established in Jamnagar but still the project activities and procurement continued at London. So almost all project team members were shuttling between London/Mumbai/Jamnagar. Though the detailed engineering has been shifted to site office, still the
overall design features freezing and procurement activity continued from London only. So it was real double edged sword for the project leaders! Typical of vendor data receipts and vendor drawings review etc. were going to and fro. In those days ,since the computer technology has not developed for e-room upload and transfer etc. it posed its own issues. In some cases, even we called the vendor back office designers to London for across the table review/ discussions&update.
In Jamnagar end, Mr John Newman established excellent team and the stage wise review of deliverable went through like a well oiled machine. The discipline wise interface check got performed smoothly- especially when it came for underground drawings G84 series. That benefited us for carrying out head start for site grading,pond configuration and under ground piping for cooling water and fire water all across various individual plot areas. Indirectly that helped construction to undertake the OSBL pipe rack footings and casting foundation for tall columns well in advance before the equipment arrival.
When it came to transport logistics of equipment &receipts, since Reliance had bitter experience while handling equipment receipts at Patalganga from Bombay based fabricators, Bechtel &Reliance team formed a task force to study&evaluate various options. In those days, even Gujarat high way roads were not evenly surfaced and wide enough for heavy/tall equipment transportation. That resulted &evolved the concept of LO-LO/RO-RO jetty and Haul road-16Kms from Sikka jetty to JMD site.
Here I have to bring out a specific issue highlighting PBMR's vision and confidence!
The last 4 Kms land between Sikka village to the water front was squashy soil and Bechtel members were not confident enough arriving at any solution for bringing the heavy equipment weighing 2000 MT! Rao being a civil engineer having worked with EIL at Visag port (part of VREP for HPCL), which had similar issues, suggested to MDA that he has a workable solution- as anyhow Reliance is sourcing boulders for gravel/stone pitching by excavating land area at South plot,why not we spread part of these builders in that 4 Km stretch ? Form Sethu Samudram ( part of Ramayana story where squirrels spread the stones and formed pathway from Dhanushkodi to Lanka to enable troops to cross over) &utilize thus formed road for transporting equipment from the water front to haul road ! As MDA was desperate and worried, he had one to one agreement/ understanding with PBMR and gave him 6 weeks time to attempt and verify/ prove. Since Rao had all the resources at his command,he did succeed. After 6 weeks, MDA drove one heavy vehicle as well as his Mercedes Benz to and fro and approved/ got convinced. For info. that JMD Sethu Samudram is the only route through which all equipment,columns, compressors, reactors etc. of J1/J2&J3 are being brought- both indigenous as well as imported! The company has made the policy of bringing all equipment only through water front thus avoiding road congestion. Contd........
Key Aspects :- Attitude, Conviction, Critical challenge, Delegation, Faith, Incident analysis, Innovative,
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