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Integrating teams with diverse viewpoints and skill sets can be a challenge, but doing so can reap substantial benefits including increased performance of assets and overall efficiency.
Asset Integrity Management is an integrated approach to optimizing the life cycle of your assets from conceptual design to operation, decommissioning, and disposal. Whether an asset is still a concept, or in its late operating life, developing and implementing Asset Integrity Management Systems (AIMS) for Oil & Gas assets is a challenge that many operators need to face.
How can the Oil and Gas industry improve confidence in investment outcomes as we return our attention to CAPEX projects and the subsea tie-back opportunities ahead? How can we mitigate the key uncertainties and well understood risks in these brownfield projects to the benefit of all concerned? Steve Rolfe explains how a holistic approach may help minimise risk and maximise value.
Based on our tried and tested experience and expertise, we offer ‘parental advice’ related to ongoing asset management of FPSOs and associated subsea facilities, many of which are relatively young.
The oil and gas industry has been witnessing a downturn like no other. The new reality is that we have to find simpler, more sustainable, and cost-effective ways to execute projects and deliver returns, especially in mature areas like the North Sea.
In October 2016, the International Maritime Organization announced that the global sulfur limit on marine fuels will be reduced to 0.5 wt% from 3.5 wt% on January 1, 2020. This poses a considerable challenge to refineries not only because sulfur is extremely difficult to remove, but because the imposition of these regulations is sooner than most expected. Odette Eng shares how refineries can view this as an opportunity, and chart a successful course through this impending mandate.
South Stream Transport B.V. is building the TurkStream pipeline system to export gas across the Black Sea from the Russian coast at Anapa to a landfall at Kiyiköy, Turkey. TurkStream comprises: two pipelines for 31.5 BCM/yr, 32-inch outer diameter, 940 km each, 2200m maximum water depth, 50-year design life, 300 bar design pressure. Construction on the TurkStream pipeline system started in 2017, and first gas is planned by the end of 2019.
IntecSea is supporting VAALCO Energy in the operations and maintenance phase of their ETAME facilities in the shallow waters off the coast of Gabon. We are managing a subsea repair campaign for the corrosion protection system, have carried out risk-based integrity assessment, developed a pipeline integrity management system (PIMS), and are engineering an overall field development plan to ensure continued production from this project for the foreseeable future
Bayu-Undan is a gas-condensate field located offshore in the Timor Sea within the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA). The field is 250 km southwest of Suai in Timor-Leste and 500 km northwest of the Northern Territory in Australia. Commissioned in 2004, the Bayu Undan subsea assets include infield pipelines, gas export pipeline, flexible risers, subsea manifolds and control systems
The Suez Oil Company (SUCO) is currently in the process of developing and implementing a Pipeline Integrity Management System for their Disouq and Gulf of Suez (GOS) hydrocarbon fields in accordance with recommended international standards.
