James Arokia Nirmal

• With over 20 years of experience in the Petrochemical & Oil & Gas industry, specializing in capacity enhancement projects and Green Field Projects
• Involved and Lead instrumentation activities at various stages of project from FEED, Detail Engineering upto 100% throughput.
• Orchestrated the successful establishment of Asia's largest Dual Feed Cracker unit within a 5-year timeline, overseeing engineering drawing reviews, HAZOP studies, and control system selection, resulting in timely startup of petrochemical complex, successful attainment of 100% Ethylene production through effective leadership in pre-planning & timely troubleshooting during the startup phase.
• Skilled in designing control systems, overseeing governor control systems, anti-surge control systems and performing comprehensive assessments including RCA, FMEA, and SIL evaluations.
• Actively engaged in refining operational procedures to align with safety integrity level standards and industry best practices with reliability-centered Instrumentation maintenance.
• In-depth Proficient in overseeing maintenance operations for instrumentation in a prominent petrochemical cracker facility involving, Asset management, PM/MM planning, Reliability improvement programs, Turnaround management, Capex and MOCT, PSM , IMS.
• Proficient in leading cross-functional teams and fostering collaboration to drive successful project outcomes, leveraging expertise in reliability-centered maintenance and capacity enhancement projects

• Control logix training from M/S Rockwell Automation
• Moore DCS system by M/S Forbes Marshall
• TDC3000 DCS trained for LCN & EST Maintenance in Honeywell India
• FCRI certified Flow Instrumentation course
• Yokogawa centum VP and NIO at Bangaluru
• Yokogawa Prosafe RS certified
• Digital Mindset certification program by ISB

• Well done award for completing massive instrumentation shutdown scope and DBN activities in a short duration without any delay.
• Reliance Well done award for conversion of 20 inch Tyco ON-OFF valve to control valve and bringing closure time below 1.5 sec with necessary pneumatic circuit.
• GEMS award for saving production loss from a control valve problem in lube oil circuit of ethylene refrigeration compressor.
• Reliance GEMS award for ASP control logix project.
• Reliance GEMS award for being catalyst and co-coordinator in improving the safety culture of MEG plant.
• Best investigation 2014 related to EO leak in a valve body.
• Reliance Best Arjuna award 2008 (given for young engineers)
• District First in Type writing Competitive Exam-45w/m
• Represented Tamil Nadu in National level integration camp held in Orissa

• Turnaround 2017, As Cracker lead coordinated 2 major capex of 15 ROV installation and PLC commissioning, 350 valve servicing, PSA System revamp, commissioning hydrogen compressor, 15 Days
• Turnaround 2015, In Gas cracker ethylene plant: major jobs involving 55Tone Propane enhancement, 250 control valves servicing, compressor DGS, 55 Days
• Shutdown 2014, In EOEG plant: overall in-charge of shutdown of plant instrumentation and Debottlenecking project instrumentation hook up handling 5 different contractors in field managing 250 contract persons and 8 OEM vendors involving Invensys, Yokogawa, Siemens, York compressors, Voltas, Honeywell, Rockwell., 8 Days
• Shutdown 2012, In EOEG plant: Shutdown planner during 2012 plant shutdown which involved PLC replacement, 80 control valve servicing, two major compressor overhauling, 4 column replacement, 4 Days
• Turnaround 2010, In Gas cracker plant: Maintenance of 270 control valves in cracker unit in Major shutdown of ethylene plant in 2010 which includes steam valves, miniflow valves., 270 Days

• Date of Birth: 02/22/84
• Gender: Male
• Marital Status: Married

• HMEL Petrochemical Polymer Addition Project (2018-2023)
  Spearheaded the addition of a new petrochemical unit to an existing refinery, achieving 1500KTA Ethylene production with a Duel feed cracker unit. Engaged with

           licensor Lummas and oversaw Detailed Engineering by EIL

• Reliance Ethane gas project for Nagothane Dhayej (2014 -2018)

          Sale Gas project of Dhahej Nagothane pipeline and debottlenecking machines of Cracker to modify feed.

• Pipeline SCADA and LDS commissioning ONGC/GAIL RIL Pipeline (2014-2016)

          Project lead for RIL-Nagothane existing pipeline related SCADA revamp along with STM4 up gradation. Commissioning of LDS integrated with SCADA system.

• Debottlenecking of MEG plant instrumentation (2012-2014)
  Enhancement of EO production from 66 MT to 106 MT with addition of new oxygen mixer, new reactor, compressor, refrigeration unit, VAR unit, Storage bullets.
• Upgradation of Cameroon Nitrogen compressor (2014)
  PLC) completed during December 2012. Team lead co-originated Engineering, pre-commissioning and commissioning along with Surge test.
• Air Separation plant revamp of complete (2011-2014)
  Instrumentation package systems in Control logix platform. Air Separation plant revamp of complete Instrumentation package systems in Control logix platform. 2

          chains: Upgradation of whestinghouse & AB PLC5 PLC to Control logix platform for air compressor, Dryer SLC5 to Control logix, Relay logic of other units to  

control logix with complete revamp on field instrumentation and standards

• 14th World Ethylene Conference by Lummus, Morocco in November 2023
• European Ethylene Producers Conference held in Dresden, Germany in October 2017
• Global summit for Project managers 2019 by PMA.

• HMEL Conclave Award for DFCU unit commissioning involvement from start to finish without any delay with instrumentation milestones.
• Well done award for completing massive Instrumentation shutdown scope and DBN activities in a short duration without any delay.
• Reliance Well done award for conversion of 20 inch Tyco ON-OFF valve to control valve and bringing closure time below 1.5 sec with necessary pneumatic circuit.
• GEMS award for saving production loss from a control
  valve problem in lube oil circuit of ethylene refrigeration
  compressor.
• Reliance GEMS award for ASP control logix project.
• Reliance GEMS award for being catalyst and coordinator in improving the safety culture of MEG plant.
• Best investigation 2014 related to EO leak in a valve
  body.
• Reliance Best Arjuna award 2008 (given for young
  engineers)
• District First in Type writing Competitive Exam-45w/m
• Represented Tamil Nadu State in National level integration camp held in Orissa

• CAP Select – 2017 by Hewitt Groups identified for RIL’s Career Acceleration Program for future leader
• 14th World Ethylene Conference by Lummus, Morocco in November 2023
• European Ethylene Producers Conference held in Dresden, Germany in October 2017
• Global summit for Project managers 2019 by PMA.

Yokogawa centum VP and NIO at Bangaluru