Shailesh is Director of Process Safety at Ingenero, Inc. He has more than 25 years of experience in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. He has been involved in hands-on project execution for both upstream and downstream operations. He also understands relief system design and applicable codes and standards including ASME and API.
Shailesh served as a Technical Advisor for BP Texas City relief system design project after 2005 catastrophic incident and was instrumental in ensuring relief system design documentation compliance with standards and regulations for more than 2,000 relief valves as committed by BP to OSHA per OSHA settlement agreement. He has successfully led relief system design projects for most of the major domestic oil and gas companies including ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Marathon, Sunoco, Valero, Chevron, Westlake, LyondellBasell and ConocoPhillips and has a broad international experience for clients in the Middle East, Europe and Far East Asia. Before joining Ingenero Inc., Shailesh worked in Technical Advisory and Process engineering roles at several companies, including Siemens Oil & Gas, USA and Bharat Petroleum, India.
He has a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.