Deepti Chawla
Gurgaon
Summary
Accomplished professional with 15 years of experience in Project Controls and Engineering. Developed expertise in Process Engineering with Bechtel, Fluor, and Haldor Topsoe, focusing on Energy projects and Process Technologies. Transitioned to Project Controls at Bechtel in 2015 to align career trajectory with Project Management goals.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Project Controls Engineer
Bechtel India Private Ltd.
12.2022 - Current
- Served as Senior Cost Engineer for the project, managing Pserv (Professional Services) by maintaining the budget to reflect all scope and non-scope trends, along with budget adjustments and job hours reporting across various offices including field non-manual (FNM) job hours.
- As a Trend Engineer on the project, I have supported the Change Management Program for the Pluto project by preparing and reviewing estimate for Scope and Non- Scope Trends. I have been responsible for processing and getting the trends approved in Trend Management Tool. The process includes resolving queries from Client and PMT for Scope and Non-Scope trends.
- Contributed significantly to the project cost team by working on COCO, PSR, and approving POS/ACN for various packages while coding costs in DSCS.
- Involved in forecasting exercise by providing commitment and To-Go forecasts for all packages in LNG plant, ensuring accurate budget assignments across various cost accounts.
- Prepared pending item and trend logs for trend meetings and coordinated with PMT for trend approvals.
- Supporting the Project team in preparation of Client Commercials that includes Cash Flow, Payment milestone certificates, Invoicing, and VOWD.
- Supporting the site at Karratha in Back charge program by coordinating with site team and submitting Back charge report to the Management every week. Helping procurement to claim Back charge Recovery from vendors by preparing and issuing the Order of Magnitude 'OOM' estimate and Actual cost per the Contract Terms and conditions, thus supporting the project financials by adding money into Contingency.
- Analysed trends for job hours and dollar per hour for wages and direct costs at natural class level, presenting findings to senior management on a monthly basis.
- PALNG Project
- Analysed trends for job hours and dollar per hour for wages and direct costs at natural class level, presenting findings to senior management on a monthly basis.
Project Controls Engineer
Bechtel India Private Ltd.
09.2015 - 04.2017
- Led project controls engineering efforts, preparing cost reports including biweekly and monthly man hours reports, updating work orders, and managing CADS and BARS systems. Developed safety hours reports and streamlined data handling through various queries in project SOURCE using MS Access.
- Supported estimation team by acquiring essential estimation techniques to enhance team capability
- Collaborated with estimation team to understand foundational estimation principles
- AT&T Project
Process Engineer
Bechtel India
04.2014 - 03.2015
- Managed cooling water and sea water systems for revamp project, prepared PFDs for cooling water tank, dosing package, pumps and PHE, sea water intake, sea water filters, sodium bi-sulphite dosing package, electro-chlorination package, sea water sump, and pump design for various users including desalination package. Prepared datasheets and participated in client reviews and Hazop meetings to ensure project alignment.
- Prepared ITBs for refinery units including aromatics, sulphur block, naphtha hydrotreater, hydrogen manufacturing unit, and PSA. Developed deliverables such as equipment list and interconnecting line sizing to support cost estimation.
- TAKREER, Post Offshore Crude Project
- THAI OIL, Residue Upgrading Project, Thailand
Associate Process Engineer
Fluor India Private Ltd.
03.2013 - 03.2014
- NATREF, Clean Fuels Project II
- Managed Open Art Units, including Sour Water Stripper, Reformate Splitter, C6/C7 Splitter, ensuring operational efficiency and reliability.
- PETRIXO, Al Ramiah Refinery, UAE
- Licensor Evaluation of various refinery units for technical bid. Worked on Gasoline Blending Unit, MoGas Loading Unit including design and getting Technical Quotes from Vendors. Coordination with other departments for cost estimation
Senior Process Engineer
Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 02.2013
- - Worked on the design and revamp of various Topsoe's Hydrogen and Ammonia Plants
- - Worked on ISBL and OSBL units.
- - Performed as Process Lead Engineer with Topsoe's WSA Technology
- - Have experience in pre-commissioning and commissioning of WSA plant
- - Worked on PFD simulations, PIDs, design of equipment
- - Produced 99.9% pure hydrogen by using Topsoe's SMR (Steam Reforming) Technology by syngas as source of hydrogen. Gasification of various feed like LPG, Naphtha and fuel gas to produce syngas is the common part for various hydrogen plants. The process includes gasification, syngas production, sour shift reaction and purification of Hydrogen product using Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA).
- - Prepared various proposals for Hydrogen, Ammonia, Methanol and WSA
- - Performed catalyst loading in Tubular Reformer in RCF, Trombay, Mumbai
- Organised KAIZEN meetings, fostering continuous improvement in process efficiency.
- Managed and coordinated multiple projects, ensuring timely completion and alignment with specifications.
- - Takreer client revamp project with feed changes as Upper Zakum
- - Thai Oil Upgrading Project FEED study.
- - WSA plant for Dongyi client in China with 510 Nm3/h Acid gas as feed
- - WSA plant for CNSG Kunshan with 546 Nm3/h acid gas, in China
- - WSA plant with 542 Nm3/h acid gas for Panzihua in China
- - GNFC, India (525 MTPD MeOh project)
- - China (300,000 MTPY Methanol Synthesis Loop)
- - Two similar Hydrogen Units for Repsol, Spain (6 ton/h; 11 ton/h)
- - Hydrogen plant for Anahita Refinery (60,000 Nm3/h)
- - 100,000 Nm3/h Hydrogen plant, for SCOP, Iran
- - 2 x 36,000 Nm3/h hydrogen plant for Basrah, Iraq.
- - Revamp of Ammonia plant for FACT, Kochi, India for feedstock conversion, capacity enhancement and Energy saving
- - GNFC, India (525 MTPD MeOH project)
- Technologies:
- Wet Sulfuric Acid (WSA)
- Production of Sulfuric Acid with sour gas, spent acid gas and a combination of various refinery flue gases. The process involves sulfur removal from acid gas and releasing clean gas in the atmosphere.
- Ammonia and Methanol Loop
- The reformed feed using Topsoe catalyst in specially designed Ammonia reactors and steam-based Methanol Reactor
- - Revamp of Ammonia plant for FACT, Kochi, India for feedstock conversion, capacity enhancement and Energy saving
Process Systems Engineer
Bechtel India Pvt. Ltd
07.2006 - 08.2007
- Executed detailed engineering for gasification plants across multiple projects, including LNG expansion in Louisiana and ASAB gas development in Abu Dhabi, ensuring compliance with client specifications.
- Developed chilled water package for ASAB gas development plant and served as Responsible Engineer for RHC Unit on Sabine Pass LNG expansion project, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Designed relief valves, control valves, and line sizing, while developing PIDs to enhance operational safety and performance.
Education
PGDM -
International Management Institute
Delhi01-2011
B.E - Chemical
Punjab University
Chandigarh01-2006
Skills
- Cost engineering
- Cost estimation
- Cost Control Systems
- Budget forecasting
- Change management
- Trend management
- Cost coding
- Project Scheduling Tools
- Project Management Software
- Process Simulation Software
Strengths and Reasons for Selection
- - Outstanding performer for the last two consecutive years both on technical front in Engineering/Project controls along with Bechtel Behavioral attributes
- - Focused learner with positive growth mindset
- - Sharing knowledge and training others to build Bechtel for long term
- - Passion for working on Project control tools for entire EPC phase of a construction project.
- - Working experience in various technologies and project deliverables with proficiency in Bechtel software.
- - Collaboration and Communication skills with site team in different time zones.
- - Positive and learning attitude to find solutions and overcome obstacles.
Training and Projects Undertaken:
- - Customer Based Leadership
- - Participated in Society of Women Engineers Association meeting
- - Studied the scope of Topsoe's DeNOx Technology in India in next 5 years (2011)
- - Worked in KRIBHCO Surat as a trainee, Fertilizer Company in India for Urea Production (2005)
- - Undertook a project on Cooling Towers in KRIBHCO "Increasing the efficiency of Cooling Towers"
Personal Information
Kids: Blessed with a daughter
Timeline
Senior Project Controls Engineer
Bechtel India Private Ltd.
12.2022 - Current
Project Controls Engineer
Bechtel India Private Ltd.
09.2015 - 04.2017
Process Engineer
Bechtel India
04.2014 - 03.2015
Associate Process Engineer
Fluor India Private Ltd.
03.2013 - 03.2014
Senior Process Engineer
Haldor Topsoe India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2007 - 02.2013
Process Systems Engineer
Bechtel India Pvt. Ltd
07.2006 - 08.2007
PGDM -
International Management Institute
B.E - Chemical
Punjab University