Belooranahalli, Tiptur Taluk, Tumkur District

Karnataka, India - 572201

+91- 9620330431
LinkedIn Address: linkedin.com/in/kushal-b-c-4a906415a
Email: kushalchidanandamurthy@gmail.com

KUSHAL B C
OBJECTIVE Mechanical Engineer with 3.0 years of experience in Asset Integrity Management for Static Equipment
In-service Inspection and Shutdown Inspection in Oil and Gas Industry. Certified API 510 inspector would
like to work in a firm with a professional work driven environment where I can utilize and apply my
knowledge, skills which would enable me to grow while fulfilling organizational goals.

CORE API 510 Certified Professional (Certificate No #99638)

COMPETENCIES Equipment strategy development & Criticality assessment
Expertise in GE-APM Software in IM, TM & RBI modules
Meridium- Asset Performance Management Framework
Root-cause and Root-Cause Failure Analysis
SAP Plant Maintenance Module
Fitness for Service (FFS) Assessment for Piping
PV Elite – Pressure vessel & Heat Exchanger design and Tmin calculation.
3D Drafting Package: Solid Edge, AutoCAD
Microsoft Office

PROFESSIONAL O rganization: ExxonMobil through QuEST Global Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

EXPERIENCE Designation: Engineer (L1) – Asset Integrity Management
Duration; November 2018 – Till date
Responsibilities: Working for Imperial Oil (Cold Lake), Canada West, facility of Esso.
Responsible for quality data gathering, review of field fixed equipment & piping inspection reports,
inspection check lists, providing recommendations for the inspection findings. Responsible for
performing piping Circuitization, work pack preparation for piping and pressure equipment. Performing
EDD evaluation and criticality assessments in GE-APM.

P roject Description:
I. Circuitization Workflow:
 Inspection and Interpretation of P&IDs, Plant Plot Plans, Graphical charts & Process flow
diagrams to extract the Process data.
 Establish Piping boundaries by interpreting P&IDs and PFDs.
 Identifying and classifying the Piping tags into their respective circuits.
 Assigning circuit criticalities for the Fluid services.
 Preparation of Line List of all piping tags of the plant.
 Identification of material of construction of pipes based on Line Specification provided by the
Plant.

II. RBI Equipment Strategy Development & Optimization (Pressure Equipment):

 Involved in performing risk evaluation and determine the time frame under consideration for
repair and replacement.
 Reviewing historical inspection reports and summarize the bad actors, repair history, process
upset and process change over information if any.
  Reviewing existing equipment strategy for unmitigated risk level and risk mitigation
phenomenon.
 Validating expected degradation mechanisms based on process and equipment type.
 Performing probability assessment for the active damage mechanisms. Validating credible
probability reduction factors.
 Performing consequence assessment with reference to ExxonMobil Criticality Assessment
procedure in GE-APM.
 Familiar in evaluating fire/explosive, toxic, burn, environment and public consequence as per
ExxonMobil standard.
 Responsible for evaluating un-mitigated risk and assigning inspection task & inspection interval
for further reduction of risk to acceptable level.
 Responsible for preparation of inspection work pack, TML sketch and review of identified TMLs
cover all the areas to mitigate the damage mechanism.

III. Inspection and Thickness management for Piping and Pressure Equipment:
 Creating Inspection work pack for pressure equipment & Piping based on the operating
conditions, history and maintenance of equipment to carry out assessment plan based on
damage mechanism affecting the equipment.
 Executing Visual inspections management and analysis, Thickness inspections management
and analysis, Corrosion management and analysis.
 Establishing degradation evaluations related to pressure equipment, heat exchangers, piping
circuits, fired equipment, flares, above ground storage tanks and pressure relief devices.
 Reviewing NDT reports to calculate minimum thickness of pressure equipment and piping using
ASME section II, VIII and ASME 31.3 standards to calculate corrosion rate and remaining life of
the equipment.
 Reviewing Design documents, General assembly drawing (GA), Data sheets (DS), manufacture
record book, Fabrication Drawings, equipment strategy, inspection reports of the equipment
to plan integrity of the equipment based RBI recommended practice.
 Reviewing PFD, P&ID, isometric drawing for inspection and TML markups and identify services
and categorize for inspection.
 Performing integrity analysis based on maintenance and NDT reports and to report damage
class verification for inspections and to give recommendations for repair/replace of the
equipment and Follow-up inspection.
 Updating the equipment feature data to GE-APM tool to plan shutdown strategy and periodic
maintenance and inspection.
 Monitoring and surveillance of integrity parameters to ensure reliable operations,
troubleshooting, root cause analysis and integrity recommendation stewardship.
 Identifying bad actors and analyzing to reduce equipment downtime. Overall integrity
effectiveness and management including criticality assessments, timely review of inspection
findings.
 Performing regional oversight and stewardship of integrity work product metrics for quality,
effectiveness and efficiency in achieving business unit/manufacturing site objectives.
 Propose the recommendation of inspection methods on equipment, record maintenance and
regulation of inspection methods and resolution of site related issues.
 Coordination and communication between various global centers and business affiliates for
various aspects like, knowledge transfer, sharing learnings, skill management and maintaining
business relationships.

IV. Pressure vessel modelling using PV Elite:

 Modelling the Pressure vessel component and addressing all of the wall thickness rules and
stress analysis requirements for vertical towers, horizontal vessels and heat exchangers.
 Calculating the minimum design thickness using PV Elite.

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 INTERNSHIP Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Bangalore
Industrial Marine and Gas Turbine (IMGT Division)
 Certified Internship in HAL (Industrial Marine and Gas Turbine) in manufacturing department
for 1 month. Where manufacturing, Testing, Quality control and repair of Industrial Avon
MK1535, 501K engine, & LM-2500 are studied.

PROJECT Study of wear behavior of Aluminum 7075 Metal matrix composite

PROFILE  The main objective of this project is to fabricate the Aluminum 7075 MMC with Titanium
(Engineering carbide, graphite & egg shell powder, by using stir casting technique and to examine the wear
properties of the composite material. In this approach a dispersed phase is mixed with metal
Project)
by mechanical stirring. The aim involved in designing MMC material is to combine desirable
attributes of metal and reinforcements.

ACADEMIA Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineer (2018 Batch)

R.N. Shetty Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka.
Aggregate: 72.91%.

P U Board: PCMB (2014 Batch)

Govt. Boys Junior College, Tiptur, Karnataka.
Aggregate: 92.16%.

SSLC (10 th): (2012 Batch)

S.V.P. Junior College, Tiptur, Karnataka.
Aggregate: 82.24%.

ACHIVEMENTS  Passed API 510 exam, (Certificate No #99638).

 Won Spotlight Award for “Piping Inspection Management workflow and Process improvement”
for 2020-Q4.
 Secured 1st position in QuEST Model Building contest for “Naphtha Hydro treating Unit”.
 Attended NACE India Training on “An insight into common failures observed in oil Refineries” &
“Steps on Failure Investigations (Root Cause Analysis)”.
 Received On the fly & appreciation mails from customers for the work commitment showed.
 Secured 1st position in QuEST 5KM Marathon for year 2019.
 Actively participated and won prizes in Technical Events, Sports and other activities conducted
by QuEST and ETV.
 Successfully organized “YANTRA-17” and conducted cultural and technical events.
 Participated in workshop on “Six Sigma” Organized by Synergy.
 Participated in state level KHO-KHO.
 Participated in RNSIT 5KM run conducted by Mountaineering club.

PERSONAL Date of Birth: 23 rd May, 1997

DETAILS P lace of Birth: Belooranahalli, Karnataka
Languages known: English & Kannada
P assport: U3474760 valid up to 28 th September, 2030
Address for Communication: Belooranahalli, Gurugadhahalli Post Kasaba Hobali,
Tiptur Taluk, Tumkur District, Kanrataka-572201, India.

I declare that the details above are correct and true to the best of my knowledge.

Date: January 2022,

P lace: Tiptur. K ushal B C
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