Project Support

The operational requirements for a new asset are often overlooked in the design phase. There is significant benefit in considering future maintenance and intervention activities which can reduce future Opex without adversely impacting Capex at the project stage. Also, leveraging operational experience and asset knowledge can bring benefits where new infrastructure is to be tied in to existing brownfield facilities.

Some examples of our experience in project support include the following:

• Management of the transition of Pipeline Operatorship from field licensee (design, construction, commissioning) to handover to the installation operator. Ensuring regulatory compliance under PSR and operational readiness for first oil. Management of initial pipeline pigging campaigns for dewatering and first operational pig runs.
• Development of a pigging philosophy for a project in West Nile Delta, Egypt. Involved collaboration between the client’s London and Aberdeen offices utilising operational experience as input at the pre-FEED stage of the project. This ensured that the piggability aspects were captured early in the design.
• Engineering support was provided to the client’s project team for a field extension comprising a number of infill wells and a new manifold. Operational experience and asset knowledge added significant value to the project, particularly with regard to applying isolations on the existing subsea facilities to allow the new wells and manifold to be tied in.
• Design review of a client’s ‘standard’ subsea manifold design, with a view to maintenance requirements – diver access, isolation capability for future tie-ins, roof panel design, accessibility of controls equipment, scale-squeeze treatment facilities.