Upgrade process compressors to enhance production

Ajay R. Khetarpal is Rotating Equipment Manager within the reliability and maintenance function at BP Exploration, Caspian Sea Ltd., Baku, Azerbaijan. He has 30 yr of oil and gas industry experience and has been involved in projects, construction and commissioning; the operation and maintenance of onshore gas turbine power plants; oil and gas processing terminals; and offshore platforms. He has worked in onshore and offshore hydrocarbon facilities in India, Vietnam and Azerbaijan. In the past, he has worked for Oil & Natural Gas Corp., the ONGC Videsh-BP Vietnam JV, Greaves Cotton & Co. and Ingersoll Rand in India. He earned a BE degree in mechanical engineering from Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Engineering College V. V. Nagar, in Gujarat, India; an MBA degree in operations management from IGNOU in India; and an engineering management degree from the University of Manchester in the UK.

Manjul N. Saxena works for BP’s upstream engineering center in Sunbury, London. In his 28 yr of oil and gas industry experience, he has been involved in the concepts development, engineering and execution of numerous global, multibillion-dollar projects in India, Oman, Australia, Japan and the UK. Previously, he worked for Indian Petrochemicals Ltd. and Engineers India Ltd. Mr. Saxena earned a BE degree in mechanical engineering from the Madhav Institute of Technology and Sciences in Gwalior, India.