Saravanan Hariharan

• SONAMET INDUSTRIAL is a French company (Joint Venture with Subsea 7 and SONANGOL) dealing with oil and gas projects including subsea projects.
• Company specialist in construction and installation of Oil and Gas offshore structures
• Major Structures & Project Clients Handled: Jackets, Well head platforms, Flares, Bridges, Subsea Manifolds, Suction Piles, Double Joints, Pipe in Pipe, FLET-ILT, Spools, Riser Towers-URTA & LRTA, OLT, Buoyancy Tanks, Flowlines, Booster Compressor Module platform & MSS, etc. in Angola Fabrication yard with major clients like Total Energies, Chevron, BP, Exxon Mobil, Heerema & Cameron
• Monitoring performance appraisal of QC Inspectors
• Witnessing Pre and Post Weld Dimensional control on fabricated Structure
• Conducting Quality & Safety Walkthrough on site to ensure safe work practice with Project Engineers & Site representatives on weekly basis.
• Ability to introduce change and implement new strategy.
• Advise to the project engineers' team, if have any technical issues on site construction
• Reviewing and endorse the welding/Painting procedures submitted by sub-contractors for the client final approval including quality plans, ITP, method of statement & NDE procedures etc.
• Reviewing vendor quality dossiers, material certificates, material traceability and confirm key quality control items and fabrication procedures.
• Preparing weekly QC reports and attending fabrication and meeting with Project Engineer, Subcontractor & client
• Co-ordinating subcontractor/client to resolve query on site.
• Mainly in Welding/Painting, NDE, testing, welding procedures and welder qualifications, independent quality integrity verification and documentation reviews & approval
• Witnessing of PMI of Corrosion Resistant Alloys (CRA) materials
• Monitoring the Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) piping activities.
• Monitor the Welding/Painting consumable handling on site and consumable store according to the approved Procedure & consumable list including consumable test reports/valid certificates.
• Inspection during corrosion protection activities of Blasting and Painting applications such as ambient conditions, assessment of surface condition, reviewing the release documentation prior to painting.
• Witnessing of Painting Qualification Test including grit conductivity test prior to start any new project work & also for new batch received.
• Witnessing of PQT topcoat DFT measurement & Pull-off Test.
• Witnessing of MEK test on Zinc Painting prior to next coat
• Witnessing of sub-contractor Pipeline Induction Heat (PIH) Production Testing- Heat Profile testing, Peel-off Testing& Field Joint Coating of induction Heat with primer and HSS FJC & High voltage holiday testing completed FJC.
• Monitoring all Subcontractor company Painting activities
• Evaluating project quality index on monthly basis
• Routine focus assessment for NDE/ documentation/material traceability/material incoming/maintains Non-conformance report Register
• Risk Assessment/Job Safety Analysis (JSA) & Weekly Site HSE inspection
• Conduct & attending daily basis safety Toolbox meeting
• Conducting Quality Toolbox Meeting on weekly basis with qc inspectors, project engineer, pipe fitter, welders, welding supervisor
• In-absence or Vacation time of QC Manager ability to take lead of Qc Department on technical aspects
• Conveying the Safety expectation of Golden Rules of the Company
• Monitor implementation of contractor's quality plans, procedures and work instruction
• Verify contractor's records of calibration & test equipment.
• Routine surveillance the welding/painting activities carried out by construction and subcontractors are performed according to the company ITP, Standards, Specifications and Client requirements.
• If any deviations raising the site observation or NCR
• Reviewing all Hydro test/Pneumatic test packages, punch list items, equipment hand over packages
• Reviewing & signed off the Final Documentation.

This is a PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT From AZERBAIJAN - GEORGIA- TURKEY COUNTRIES

• Three Pipeline simultaneously has been Constructed
• BTC - BAKU TBILISI CEYLON (46” Oil Pipeline Project)
• SCP - SOUTH CAUCAUS PROJECT (42”Gas Pipeline Project)
• GAS OFFTAKE (30” Gas Pipeline Project)
• Performing Visual Inspection in Various fields in this Pipeline Construction Front End and Back End on AUTOMATIC &
• MANUAL WELDING, Repairs, Tie-In & PIPING Construction
• Preparation of Documentation Package and Reports
• Checking of Dimensional control & Weld Preparation
• Welding Inspection and NDT Co-ordinations
• Monitoring the Performance of Welders & Training
• Monitoring and Conducting Welders Qualification and Procedure Qualifications
• Witnessing of Preheat
• Verification of Welder Qualification Record and Welding Procedure Specification, Company Procedures and Specification
• Reviewing of WPS & PQR
• Witnessing NDT Inspections like Ultrasonic Testing & Magnetic Particle Testing in Oil & Gas Pipeline
• PIPING - Construction of Block Valve Station and Check Valve Station Pre-Fabrication of Block Valve & Check Valve By-Pass Piping 12” diameter for Oil Pipeline & Pre-Fabrication of Block Valve Piping 16” diameter for Gas Pipeline
• Erection of Pre-Fabrication Piping on the Site for the 46” Oil Pipeline and 42” Gas Pipeline
• Witnessing of Bolt Torquing in Valve Stations prior to Hydro-test
• Monitoring of Hydro-test & Pneumatic Test.

• Checking of Dimension, Edge Preparation & Visual Inspection
• Witnessing of PT & MT on the KSRC fabrication yard
• Performing UT thickness & Hardness Testing on KNPC refinery to verify Erosion/Corrosion on storage tanks and pipelines during shut down.
• Performing UT on weldment for various fabricated structures
• Preparing NDT reports on daily basis
• Preparation of NCR & Technical query if any out of specification
• Preparation of Documentation Package and as built.
• Film Interpretation and NDT Co-ordinations
• Monitoring the Performance of Welders, Training & Qualification
• Conducted Visual Inspection & Witnessing Onshore & Offshore structural NDT Inspections like ultrasonic Testing in Oil & Gas pipelines, Bridge Platform, Ship Building, Pressure Vessels & Boiler Drums
• Attended General Refinery Turn Around (GRTA) and Major Refinery Turn Around (MRTA) during the year of 2000 and 2001 in Mina Al-Ahmadi & Shuaiba Refinery
• Maintaining all Inspection Records.

• Checking of Materials, Dimension, Weld Preparation & Visual Inspection
• NDT Co-ordinations
• Preparing third party inspection request
• Coordination with Third party Agencies
• Reviewing, witnessing and testing to all inspection stages
• Film Interpretation & Conducting Hardness Testing
• Monitoring the Performance of Welders
• Maintaining all inspection records.

• Inspection on Boilers Pressure Parts like Pressure Vessels, Heat exchangers, Drums & Boiler piping
• Visual Inspection of Weldments during Fabrication
• Carried out UT thickness check in Pressure vessels, Tubular products & Nuclear drums.
• Carried out UT in Pressure Vessels, Tubular Products, Pressure Piping Weld joints & Nuclear Steam Generators
• Carried out RT in Tubular Products, Plate Formed Pipes (PFP), Boiler Drums & Pressure Vessels
• Carried out High Thickness drums and plates using high energy X-rays (Linear Accelerator 4 Mev) and CO 60
• Conducted Real Time Radioscopy (RTR) Testing using PC based Image Intensifier Processing System
• Conducted Fluorescent MPI in Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) Module Assembly in Headers, Towers & Pressure Vessels & Carried out UT in Induction Pressure Weld joints (IPW)
• Conducted Fluorescent and Non-Fluorescent DP in Pressure Vessels, Tower, Heat Exchangers, Piping & Nuclear Components
• Using Material Analyzer/PMI to find out Raw Materials of Chemical Composition & Verify the Mill Certificate
• Radiographic Film Evaluation of Welds on Carbon steels & Aluminum materials.

• Coordination of NDT activities
• Detection of corrosion on various equipment's and piping
• Checking of Pressure Vessel, Reactor, Process Pipeline Weld Joints & Corrosion Analysis by Ultrasonic Equipment's
• Compilation of Final reports
• Film Interpretation & Conducting Hardness Testing (Echo - Tip)