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RPMG Operations
The entire project execution came under RPMG and the original core discipline heads were asked to only oversee the project progress. That made me more relaxed and available for any special assignments. That was the time MTBE project was going on at Hazira and they were looking for specially designed transport vehicle for transferring the product to Kandla port for export. As MTBE being a class A product having pungent vapor, they wanted to opt for bottom loading type of vehicle.
Sh Niraj Ambani, who was in-charge for logistics requested me to explore special permission from PESO, the statutory authorities. It was mere coincidence that the government was also exploring to opt for larger capacity of vehicle for road transport movement for liquid hydrocarbon products.
Since I had excellent rapport with the PESO department, I took up the matter directly with CCE and explained the case to him. As he himself was a chemical engineer, he could visualize the specific requirement but there was no precedence available for bottom loading type vehicles in India. So he put a precondition stating that this special vehicle has to be fabricated directly by the bottom loading component supplier only and not by anybody else.That was a fix since none of the supplier had any experience in complete design and fabrication aspect of hydrocarbon transport vehicle. As usual I discussed the issues with CCE and convinced him that we will go with only reputed fabricator but take the bottom loading component supplier in the loop during design stage . We sent words to many reputed fabricators as well as to chassis suppliers. Parties like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland,Eicher participated in technical discussions. In parallel, myself and Niraj worked with the government through our Delhi office to expedite the gazette release for 35 KT capacity transport vehicle.
During the bid stage, for one of the parties M/S NS Rama Rao Body builders , since their MD was not present in India, they have deputed their specialist consultant from Navi Mumbai to represent them and attend. It so happened that it was Mr PR Srinivasan ex- HPCL/BPCL, who had the experience of building one bottom loading arrangement vehicle abroad. That came as blessing in disguise for all. Immediately it was decided that PRS shall be engaged by Reliance as technical consultant and the entire project execution shall be executed under his supervision.
Then came another surprise! Mr Ilangovan of Tata Motors, who were called for only chassis supply, proposed 'why not we consider these as 'package deal' i.e the chassis supplier takes the total responsibility of sourcing all the requisite components from all approved sub-supplier, of course keeping Reliance technical team completely in the loop and fabricate all the vehicles by a reputed/ PESO approved fabricator. Initially we thought Tata may look for high overheads as handling charge and overall responsibility! But surprisingly, they were looking for only Rs 40,000/- for a complete vehicle costing Rs 1.4 Crores each.Their idea was to productize the same.
So it was win-win situation for all. A team consisting of PRS/Ilangovan/ Mahesh of NSRR/ Viswanatha Rao of logistics-Reliance/AR was formed and order was placed on M/S Tata Motors for 35 vehicles. For bottom loading components , under recommendation of Reliance/PRS, Tata have placed order on M/S Dover India (subsidiary of Dover Corp. Chicago) and Sh Ashish Moghe was the responsible manager from that firm. Regarding project execution, we shall address in next ......
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Key Aspects:- Incident analysis, Technical issue, Team building, Transfer
RPMG Operations
The entire project execution came under RPMG and the original core discipline heads were asked to only oversee the project progress. That made me more relaxed and available for any special assignments. That was the time MTBE project was going on at Hazira and they were looking for specially designed transport vehicle for transferring the product to Kandla port for export. As MTBE being a class A product having pungent vapor, they wanted to opt for bottom loading type of vehicle.
Sh Niraj Ambani, who was in-charge for logistics requested me to explore special permission from PESO, the statutory authorities. It was mere coincidence that the government was also exploring to opt for larger capacity of vehicle for road transport movement for liquid hydrocarbon products.
Since I had excellent rapport with the PESO department, I took up the matter directly with CCE and explained the case to him. As he himself was a chemical engineer, he could visualize the specific requirement but there was no precedence available for bottom loading type vehicles in India. So he put a precondition stating that this special vehicle has to be fabricated directly by the bottom loading component supplier only and not by anybody else.That was a fix since none of the supplier had any experience in complete design and fabrication aspect of hydrocarbon transport vehicle. As usual I discussed the issues with CCE and convinced him that we will go with only reputed fabricator but take the bottom loading component supplier in the loop during design stage . We sent words to many reputed fabricators as well as to chassis suppliers. Parties like Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland,Eicher participated in technical discussions. In parallel, myself and Niraj worked with the government through our Delhi office to expedite the gazette release for 35 KT capacity transport vehicle.
During the bid stage, for one of the parties M/S NS Rama Rao Body builders , since their MD was not present in India, they have deputed their specialist consultant from Navi Mumbai to represent them and attend. It so happened that it was Mr PR Srinivasan ex- HPCL/BPCL, who had the experience of building one bottom loading arrangement vehicle abroad. That came as blessing in disguise for all. Immediately it was decided that PRS shall be engaged by Reliance as technical consultant and the entire project execution shall be executed under his supervision.
Then came another surprise! Mr Ilangovan of Tata Motors, who were called for only chassis supply, proposed 'why not we consider these as 'package deal' i.e the chassis supplier takes the total responsibility of sourcing all the requisite components from all approved sub-supplier, of course keeping Reliance technical team completely in the loop and fabricate all the vehicles by a reputed/ PESO approved fabricator. Initially we thought Tata may look for high overheads as handling charge and overall responsibility! But surprisingly, they were looking for only Rs 40,000/- for a complete vehicle costing Rs 1.4 Crores each.Their idea was to productize the same.
So it was win-win situation for all. A team consisting of PRS/Ilangovan/ Mahesh of NSRR/ Viswanatha Rao of logistics-Reliance/AR was formed and order was placed on M/S Tata Motors for 35 vehicles. For bottom loading components , under recommendation of Reliance/PRS, Tata have placed order on M/S Dover India (subsidiary of Dover Corp. Chicago) and Sh Ashish Moghe was the responsible manager from that firm. Regarding project execution, we shall address in next ......
Contd.....
Key Aspects:- Incident analysis, Technical issue, Team building, Transfer
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