AVEVA World Magazine 2012(1)(1)

MAGAZINE 2012 | ISSUE 1

Keeping Ahead Petrofac delivers success in the Middle East

Also featured in this issue: z Enterprise Asset Management at Salamander Energy z The Health & Safety information gap z New horizons with the LFM software acquisition z Rolls-Royce migrates to AVEVA Marine z New features for AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine

INSIDE THIS EDITION Corporate News



Welcome

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The Health & Safety Information Gap 20 AVEVA’s Academic Programme 36 New customers 42

Product News AVEVA scans new horizons with LFM acquisition 22 AVEVA’s 12.1 product releases bring more capabilities 24 Achieving integration with AVEVA Engineering 25 New AVEVA Marine products enhance capabilities 38 AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller adds new interface 40

Customer News Cover Story: Petrofac – keeping ahead with AVEVA Plant

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Enterprise Asset Management at Salamander Energy

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ÅF Group powers the world 11 SETAL expands the Brazilian oil & gas industry 14 Houston Offshore Engineering maximises results 18 OMEGA Concept – managing critical environments 26 Rolls-Royce migrates to AVEVA Marine from Tribon M3 29 SBM Schiedam extends use of AVEVA products globally 32

Cover photograph: The Kauther Gas plant in north Oman was designed and built by Petrofac for Petroleum Development Oman using AVEVA Plant. The project involved the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and initial operation of a 20 million standard cubic metres processing facility. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac. Statements and opinions expressed in AVEVA World Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of AVEVA. Brands and product names mentioned may be trademarks and/or protected by copyrights of their respective owners. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without permission in writing from AVEVA. All stated facts are believed correct at time of going to press. AVEVA believes the information in this publication is correct as of its publication date. As part of continued product development, such information is subject to change without prior notice and is related to the current software release. AVEVA is not responsible for any inadvertent errors. All product names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright 2012 AVEVA Solutions Limited and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Editor – Magnus Feldt, Industry Marketing Manager, AVEVA

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Exciting new technologies I never fail to be impressed by how much seems to happen between successive issues of this magazine. Even when we have been working solidly on a new product for many months, I still have a ‘wow!’ reaction when I read about it here. This issue is no exception and I hope you, too, will think ‘wow!’ when you read about the exciting new technologies we’ve introduced for both the plant and the marine industries. In the last issue we examined the significance of integrating engineering and design data. Here, we follow this up with a review of the recently released AVEVA Engineering product. Together with a number of enabling features we’ve added to our core technology, this important new product ushers in a new level of efficient collaboration across the different project disciplines. Data integration is central to our Integrated Engineering and Design roadmap, so you can expect to read more on this topic in future issues.

‘I would like to extend a warm welcome to the record number of new customers who have joined the ‘AVEVA family’ this year. Considering the global economic uncertainty that still persists, this bears out my confidence in the resilience of the engineering industries and in their recognition of the measurable advantages that AVEVA technology provides...’

AVEVA Engineering is applicable to both the plant and marine industries – it’s all about integration, remember – but we have also released three powerful new applications just for shipbuilders. Perhaps the most eagerly awaited will be AVEVA Design Reuse, which enables AVEVA Marine users to reuse previous designs, whether of individual hull blocks or entire vessels. It’s easy to visualise the huge gains in design productivity that this will unlock. There are even more gains to be made from the powerful information management technologies in the AVEVA Enterprise suite. The publicly visible face of asset management – and a valuable barometer of its effectiveness – is operational safety, so we recently commissioned independent research into the current state and usability of safety information in the oil & gas industry. The findings confirmed our own experience, but proved so illuminating that we felt they should be made widely available. You can read an overview of the research in this issue but, if you’re a plant operations professional, I recommend that you download the full report from the AVEVA website (www.aveva.com/ publications). If you recognise your own organisation in some of the problems described, I would recommend that you speak to one of our Enterprise Asset Management specialists! (See www.aveva.com/offices for local AVEVA office details.) Lastly, I would like to extend a warm welcome to the record number of new customers who have joined the ‘AVEVA family’ this year. Considering the global economic uncertainty that still persists, this bears out my confidence in the resilience of the engineering industries and in their recognition of the measurable advantages that AVEVA technology provides. I’m sure that we will soon also welcome some of these new customers to the pages of AVEVA World Magazine. Often, many of the most impressive success stories remain under wraps for reasons of client confidentiality, which makes it all the more pleasing when such worldclass businesses as Rolls-Royce and Petrofac are willing to share their experiences, as they have done in this issue. To all our customers, old and new, I wish you every success during 2012.

Richard Longdon Chief Executive AVEVA Group plc

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Keeping Ahead How AVEVA Plant supports one of the Middle East’s most successful oil & gas companies

Petrofac is not only one of AVEVA’s longest-standing customers in the Middle East – as a FTSE 100 listed company it is also one of the region’s most successful oil & gas engineering businesses. We recently met Stephen Major, vice president, engineering and took the opportunity to find out how AVEVA technology has contributed to the company’s success. Naji Atallah Regional Manager Middle East, AVEVA Kelvin Davis Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA

History Petrofac first adopted AVEVA PDMS in 2000, together with AVEVA Review, at its Sharjah operational centre, principally in response to a customer requirement. This first deployment proved successful and it was later rolled out across its other design centres. PDMS was followed, two years later, by AVEVA VPRM. More recently, AVEVA Clash Manager and AVEVA P&ID were added. Today, the AVEVA deployment supports the piping, civil, electrical and instrumentation, telecommunications and process disciplines on a wide variety of projects, including processing plants, oil pumping and gas compression stations, and pipelines. AVEVA in use To a large extent, the oil & gas industry is almost a seamless PDMS environment, so it came as no great surprise to learn that Petrofac frequently delivers its work as native PDMS models, even to the extent of delivering models and AVEVA Review files direct to the field engineering team, as well as to the customer.

Major explained, ‘Our customers usually want an updated as-built version of the PDMS model from which they can generate their own deliverables to support their longer-term asset management task. Petrofac’s expertise in PDMS helps to meet these customer expectations.’ Together, PDMS and AVEVA P&ID form a good platform for Petrofac’s projects. Major explained that the AVEVA deployment has enabled the company to develop a number of customisations and in-house applications helping them progressively to integrate with various business processes. ‘We appreciate the openness and ease of configuring and extending the AVEVA system, especially as we have been able to do so with some help from the excellent AVEVA support team in Dubai. We now have a better flow of data between PDMS, our own applications and various third-party solutions, which goes a long way towards maintaining our competitive strength in a demanding market.’

The Kauther Gas plant in north Oman was designed and built by Petrofac for Petroleum Development Oman using AVEVA Plant. The project involved the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and initial operation of a 20 million standard cubic metres processing facility. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac.

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AVEVA PDMS model of a plant recently constructed by Petrofac. Images courtesy of Petrofac.

Advantage with AVEVA The EPC work process holds the biggest challenge of delivering correct material on time. By configuring AVEVA P&ID software to suit Petrofac’s EPC work processes, the company is able to generate Material Take Offs (MTOs) for most piping components from P&ID, such as valves, flanges, spectacle blinds, tees, reducers and gaskets, ahead of the completion of 3D modelling. Another challenge in Petrofac has been that of change management of heat tracing design, and especially its handling at the vendor interface. With the help of the PDMS Extract DB tool, the heat tracing design process was synchronised to handle changes in piping isometrics. The graphical interface and the data handling features of PDMS enabled Petrofac to improve on the heat tracing design work process. Looking ahead Petrofac is currently evaluating other AVEVA products to extend its capabilities. It recently completed a pilot project with AVEVA NET and is evaluating the results with a view to implementing it. The company has also piloted AVEVA Cable Design and plans to deploy this on a project. ‘However,’ Major explained, ‘as with any software deployment, there are challenges; but we are able to resolve these to a large extent with support from the AVEVA team, through the software enhancements requested by us.’

About Petrofac Petrofac is a leading international provider of facilities solutions to the oil & gas production and processing industry, with a diverse customer portfolio including many of the world’s leading integrated, independent and national oil & gas companies. The group delivers services through two divisions: Engineering, Construction, Operations & Maintenance (ECOM – comprising Onshore Engineering & Construction, Offshore Projects & Operations and Engineering & Consulting Services) and Integrated Energy Services (IES). Through these divisions Petrofac designs and builds oil & gas facilities; operates, maintains and manages facilities and trains personnel; enhances production; and, where it can leverage its service capability, develops and co-invests in upstream and infrastructure projects. Petrofac’s range of services meets its customers’ needs across the full lifecycle of oil & gas assets. With more than 15,000 employees, Petrofac operates out of six strategically located operational centres, in Aberdeen, Sharjah, Woking, Chennai, Mumbai and Abu Dhabi, and a further 21 offices worldwide. The predominant focus of Petrofac’s business is on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), the Middle East and Africa, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Asia Pacific region. Visit www.petrofac.com for more information.

Stephen Major, Vice President, Engineering, Petrofac. Photograph courtesy of Petrofac.

‘The AVEVA deployment has enabled the company to develop a number of customisations and inhouse applications helping them progressively to integrate with various business processes...’

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Salamander Energy selects AVEVA for Enterprise Asset Management Salamander Energy has selected an AVEVA Enterprise Asset Management solution to improve operational effectiveness across its assets in Indonesia and Thailand.

The Bualuang production facilities in block B38/8 in the gulf of Thailand. Photograph courtesy of Salamander Energy.

Established in 2005, Salamander Energy is a fast-growing Asian oil & gas exploration and production company with over 300 employees, and offices in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City. Production in 2011 is expected to average between 18,000 and 19,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) from fields in Thailand and Indonesia. Recognising the importance of best practice in its asset management, Salamander started to investigate suitable Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions. After a thorough evaluation, the company selected AVEVA WorkMate and, in 2010, deployed it across all its operations for procurement, maintenance and materials management. ‘AVEVA WorkMate was a strategic decision for Salamander,’ explained Guus Harting, Regional Operations Director of Salamander Energy. ‘It is helping us to create a highly efficient environment with straightforward multi-site operations and management,’ he continued. ‘Our initial WorkMate deployment is already reducing costs and improving productivity right across the business.’ Why AVEVA WorkMate? AVEVA WorkMate is a powerful EAM solution for all types of process plant. It comprises integrated modules for procurement, materials management and maintenance. Together, these support all aspects of plant management, including Management of Change, inspection and preventive maintenance programmes, Work Order and Work Permit management, logistics and so on.

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Equally important, a WorkMate deployment is extremely flexible and configurable, and integrates readily with other popular enterprise solutions such as SAP, Documentum or Primavera. This combination of power and flexibility makes it easy to deploy WorkMate in a progressive manner to meet the needs of any size of plant operating company. WorkMate’s Procurement module is particularly versatile, supporting not only the needs of full enterprise-level procurement, but also those of the occasional buyer of low-value items. Its Materials Management module provides comprehensive inventory and logistics management from receipt to consumption of all types of materials and equipment, even rental items. Finally, the Maintenance module is a management tool for maximising asset performance by optimising maintenance programmes and their execution for minimum cost and down time. It supports continual improvement strategies by maintaining detailed histories, and it can interface with specialist systems for Reliability-Centred Maintenance. The Salamander deployment Salamander had begun the search for an EAM solution early, recognising that it would be important for the company’s long-term success. A member of the management team had had experience with WorkMate in a Canadian company and had been impressed with both the technology and the performance of AVEVA’s EAM team in Norway (formerly ADB Systemer AS) in delivering and supporting the solution. The first discussion between Salamander and the EAM team took place in 2009.

Over the following few months, a formal proposal process was carried out and a number of systems from other vendors were evaluated. The result was a decision in early 2010 to implement WorkMate on Salamander’s first operational assets. The implementation went according to plan and the system was immediately put into operation. In Indonesia, WorkMate was implemented at Salamander’s office in Jakarta for managing procurement, materials and maintenance of the offshore Kambuna wellhead, and for the existing and the planned new facility at the Glagah-Kambuna TAC onshore base and gas plant. In Thailand, WorkMate was implemented at Salamander’s Bangkok office for procurement and materials management of the Sattahip onshore base, supporting the Bualuang wellhead. After first implementation, Salamander conducted a review of the system’s performance and their future business requirements. Realising that WorkMate had much greater capabilities than they were initially using, Salamander decided to standardise on WorkMate for maintenance, procurement and materials management of all their assets. This initiated a second phase of implementation of WorkMate on the other operational assets, which was successfully completed in September 2011.

The relationship between the two companies has proved highly successful and Salamander has now identified opportunities for widening its AVEVA deployment to cover the engineering and design disciplines and information management. We look forward to learning more about Salamander’s growing success with AVEVA technologies. About Salamander Energy Guus Harting, Regional Operations Salamander Energy is an Asia Director of Salamander Energy. Photograph courtesy of Salamander focused, independent, FTSE 250, Energy. upstream oil & gas exploration and production company. Salamander has a balanced portfolio of production, development and exploration assets with interests located in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Lao PDR. For more information about Salamander Energy, visit www.salamander-energy.com.

The future During the second implementation project, many other opportunities were identified for additional WorkMate modules to further improve Salamander’s business processes in areas such as integration with project management and financial systems, supplier management and so on. These opportunities are now being addressed as ongoing projects, with the support of the AVEVA EAM team. AVEVA World Magazine 2012| Issue 1

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AVEVA World Summit Review 2011 The 2011 AVEVA World Summits were held in three locations around the globe. They began in early October in Copenhagen for delegates from Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), moved on to Rio de Janeiro for North and South America, and concluded in Singapore for our Asian Pacific customers and partners. Just like the 2010 Summits, these proved to be very successful events, with over 800 customer, partner and AVEVA delegates attending the three Summits.

The agenda of the three Summits was a mix of AVEVA, customer and keynote presentations. At all Summits we were able to achieve our objective of having at least 50% of the presentation content provided by customers. This is a very important goal for AVEVA since it speaks to the underlying philosophy of these events. Designed for mid- and senior-level managers, the Summits attract those people who make important business and operational decisions within their organisations. By highlighting the direct experiences of our customers through the presentation of their own case studies, we seek to share best practice and lessons learned across the Plant and Marine industries.

Steve Tongish Vice President – Marketing, AVEVA

Three different cultures While the Summit agenda was similar at all three venues, the customer speakers were regional and the atmosphere of each Summit was very different. This will come as no surprise, since the venues and the culture of the delegates attending were radically different. In many ways, these cultural differences were reflected in the keynote speakers who presented at the three different venues.

The customer presentations are extremely popular with the delegates because they provide new ideas and perspectives and, with the open networking sessions, delegates can speak with the presenters directly and explore their experiences in more depth. This interaction has been successful with delegates representing the same industry and with those from entirely different businesses. Since AVEVA first combined the Plant and Marine events in the 2010 Summits, this cross-pollination of industry experience has added a unique dimension. While the Summits did split into separate Plant and Marine tracks for part of the second day’s agenda, it was not uncommon for Plant and Marine delegates to attend sessions outside their own industry. The open sharing of information and best practice is what the Summits are all about.

Delivering in EMEA In Copenhagen the keynote presenter was Rear Admiral Chris Parry, CBE, whose insightful presentation provided a geopolitical view of a complex and interconnected world. He shared his views on changing political and religious landscapes, environmental constraints and shifting populations. It was a hard-hitting and very informative session that gave delegates a great deal to discuss and the opportunity to reflect on how these global issues affect their local businesses. Chris’s keynote set a constructive tone for the entire conference. The EMEA region being one of AVEVA’s most developed markets, many of the delegates have attended events in the past, so there is already a strong network of colleagues and business partners. The Copenhagen Summit reflected this maturity with a businesslike atmosphere and very detailed customer project presentations using technology and services from AVEVA’s Plant, Marine and Enterprise portfolios. Presentations were given by Statoil – Norway, SPG Engineering – Romania, AMEC – UK, Andritz – Finland, SEFT – Turkey, Omega Concept – France and RusGaz Engineering – Russia.

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Exploring the Americas Our keynote speaker in Rio de Janeiro was Amyr Klink, a Brazilian explorer and sailor who enthralled the audience with the exploits of his Antarctic circumnavigation, his Pole to Pole voyage and his transatlantic crossing in a specially designed rowing boat. Amyr’s session was an excellent reflection of the energy and challenge of the rapidly growing Brazilian and Latin American markets. He instilled a real excitement among the delegates which was maintained throughout the two-day conference. AVEVA’s position in the fast-growing Latin American market is very strong, and we are quoted by the ARC Advisory Group as the leading design and engineering software provider in the region. This Summit captured the sense of opportunity that exists across Latin America. Moving quickly and exploring new business and design strategies, customers presented some fascinating case studies about how they are deploying the full range of AVEVA’s offering, from our mainstream Integrated Engineering and Design applications to advanced AVEVA NET solutions. The Rio Summit had a particularly busy agenda with an impressive list of customer speakers from Petrobras, Bechtel, GHENOVA Ingeniería, Minera Milpo, GENPRO Engenharia, Projectus, Chemtech, Massia Ingeniería, SETAL, Techint and Promon.

‘The customer presentations are extremely popular with the delegates because they provide new ideas and perspectives and, with the open networking sessions, delegates can speak with the presenters directly and explore their experiences in more depth...’ Creativity in Asia Pacific In Singapore, the keynote speaker was Swedish-born creativity specialist Fredrik Haren. He captured the audience’s attention with his very special insight into the creative process and how everyone can engage in creative thinking. Through Fredrik’s professional experience with large multinational companies and his own personal stories, delegates were challenged to look at old problems in a new way by unleashing the creativity inside us all. With delegates attending from across the Asia Pacific region, meeting complex challenges using creative solutions emerged as a key theme throughout the Singapore Summit.

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AVEVA’s own roots in Asia run deep, with customer relationships that can be measured, not just in years, but in decades. The Singapore Summit brought together a greater mix of Plant and Marine customers than the other two events. Some of the world’s leading shipyards were in attendance and the delegates benefitted from presentations by Hyundai Heavy Industry, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries and CSBC Corporation. Not to be outdone, the Plant industry presentations also included some major industry players, including Technip, AMEC, PT Pertamina Hulu Energi, SBM Offshore, SK Engineering & Construction, and Desein.

‘AVEVA’s own roots in Asia run deep, with customer relationships that can be measured, not just in years, but in decades. The Singapore Summit brought together a greater mix of Plant and Marine customers than the other two events...’ The AVEVA vision AVEVA’s vision and experience were presented by our executive and senior management team, starting with Richard Longdon, CEO, and including Dave Wheeldon, CTO and Derek Middlemas, COO. Our presentations focused on AVEVA’s mission to deliver information-centric solutions for Owner Operators, EPCs and shipyards, based on object-centric systems embedded within a Digital Information Hub. The AVEVA presentations also included updates on our AVEVA Plant, AVEVA Marine and AVEVA Enterprise product portfolios, and a high-level view of AVEVA’s future development roadmap. Information about AVEVA World Summits More information about the AVEVA World Summits can be found at www.avevaworld.com. Delegates to the 2011 AVEVA World Summits can access past presentations by logging in to the Summit website for the event they attended.

AVEVA World Summit 2012 In the same way that AVEVA has been evolving our technology over the past four decades, we are also constantly improving our customer events, and the Summits are no exception. Starting in 2012, there will be a major change to the Summit programme. Rather than three regional Summits, we will be holding a single, large, global Summit. Prompted by keen interest from our customers, this format change will allow delegates from all over the world to share experience and best practice in one location. And the venue for this exciting new event will be Paris, France. Keep an eye on the AVEVA World website for more information. We will be announcing more details later in the year. A fresh new format and an exciting location – we look forward to seeing you at the AVEVA World Summit in Paris.

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ÅF Group powers the world AVEVA Plant helps to secure a safe and environmentally friendly energy supply The ÅF Group is an international consulting company, with expertise drawn from more than a century of experience. Working within a number of sectors, including paper, chemical, energy, petrochemical and pharmaceuticals, the company has a wide and varied international customer base and has participated in multinational projects all over the world. They specialise in technical design and consulting services ranging from single-discipline engineering projects to complete turnkey projects including construction, commissioning, start-up and operational support. At their head office in Stockholm we met Per Högberg, CAD Coordinator, and Peter Wickman, Project Engineer, Engineering Division, in order to find out about the use of AVEVA Plant solutions at ÅF. They explained that ÅF has been using AVEVA Plant solutions, including AVEVA PDMS and AVEVA Global, for more than ten years as their engineering tool for energy projects worldwide. Today, PDMS is their standard choice for 3D plant engineering in large- and medium-sized design projects.

Magnus Feldt Editor, AVEVA World Magazine

From left, Per Högberg, CAD Coordinator, and Peter Wickman, Project Engineer, Engineering Division, ÅF AB.

ÅF has made major cost and time savings using PDMS for 3D design since it was first deployed in 2000. PDMS makes it possible for them to handle geographically distributed work, enabling concurrent working between different design disciplines, generating clash-free designs, and providing the ability to manage large quantities of data. PDMS is used right from the start of a project, including conceptual, basic and detailed design. This starts with the creation of the first layout of a plant, then continues through all design stages including the piping, equipment, electrical and ducting disciplines. All kinds of fabrication and construction drawings, such as piping isometrics and arrangement drawings, together with Material Take Offs (MTOs) for all disciplines, are generated directly from the PDMS model. PDMS is being used by ÅF’s engineering teams in Spain, Finland, the Czech Republic and Sweden. In many of these projects, engineers from several of ÅF’s offices work together, in addition to sharing work with third-party companies. AVEVA Global, AVEVA’s solution for multisite concurrent working, enables ÅF’s offices to work concurrently on the same model allowing ÅF to share work dynamically across their engineering sites. In this way, they can make the fullest use of ÅF’s design expertise and engineering knowledge wherever it exists and whenever it is needed, giving their customers the best results in terms of both cost and quality.

From left, Michal Kovarik, Managing Director, and Ondrej Hasek, Technical Director, AF-Engineering. Photograph courtesy of AF-Engineering.

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AVEVA PDMS model of Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant in Lithuania. Image courtesy of AF-Engineering.

Environmentally sustainable energy projects ÅF has extensive expertise in all types of power generation: renewable, thermal, nuclear and hydro, and in combined heat and power (CHP), as well as in transmission and distribution. The company is currently performing projects in around 30 countries, and is involved in a variety of sustainable energy projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, and strengthen efforts to secure a safe and environmentally friendly energy supply. One particularly interesting current project using AVEVA Plant is the new biofuel-fired plant for Bomhus Energi in Gävle, Sweden. ÅF has been appointed lead technical consultant for the investment in a new block heat power plant on the Korsnäs industrial site in Gävle, next to the company’s pulp and paper mill. This ÅF assignment is a multi-disciplinary engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM) project, covering all areas of technology relating to the investment, including project management, conceptual design, basic design, detailed design, fabrication and start-up. The investment comprises a 150 MW biofuel-fired plant including the designated fuel system and a 90 MW steam turbine. The plant will be in operation in early 2013, supplying steam and electrical power for the pulp and paper mill, and district heating to more than 5,000 households. PDMS is being used at the fabrication site, too. With the help of AVEVA Global, the engineers in Norrköping and Karlstad and those at the fabrication site are all working on the same plant model. Initially, there was no digital model of the brownfield pulp and paper mill. 12

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AVEVA PDMS model of Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant

To avoid clashes, existing buildings and pipe racks close to the new power plant were laser scanned and converted into the new 3D PDMS plant model. The new boiler was designed by Metso in Finland, who also delivered a 3D PDMS model of the boiler, which was easily imported into the plant model. ÅF expands in central Europe In line with its long-term corporate strategy, ÅF continues to expand in central Europe, especially in the Czech Republic. AF-Engineering was established in 2004. In 2010, ÅF acquired the energy consulting company, Meacont and, in October 2011, the consulting company, CityPlan. ÅF now has more than 200 employees in the Czech Republic, with main offices in Prague, Plzen and Brno. Michal Kovarik, AF-Engineering’s Managing Director, explained to us that, for several years, they have been using AVEVA Plant solutions in a great variety of greenfield and brownfield projects for the energy, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. PDMS has been used in some well-known projects, such as the Olkiluoto 5 nuclear power plant in Finland, where AF-Engineering created part of an auxiliary building for Areva. AF-Engineering also had complete responsibility for the design of the machinery building for the retrofit of the 30-year-old brown-coal power plant in Tusimice in the Czech Republic. Here, AF-Engineering created the complete basic and detailed design, and produced the assembly and as-built documentation.

in Lithuania. Image courtesy of AF-Engineering.

AVEVA PDMS model of Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant in Lithuania. Image courtesy of AF-Engineering.

For the new-build chemical plant in Rizhao, China, AF-Engineering acted as a subcontractor to Eka Engineering in Sweden. AVEVA Global was successfully used in this multi-site project, enabling the engineering offices in the different countries to work concurrently on the same plant model. Fortum Klaipeda CHP waste-to-power plant – a turnkey project for ÅF Fortum’s new CHP waste-to-power plant in Klaipeda, Lithuania, fuelled by municipal and industrial waste and biomass, will produce approximately 60 MW of district heating and 20 MW of electricity. The plant will start operating at full capacity by the first quarter of 2013. ÅF’s services in this huge EPCM project include feasibility studies, preengineering, detailed design work, purchase of all equipment, project and site management, and finally commissioning and supervision. ÅF-Consult Oy in Finland has overall charge of the implementation of the whole project. In this project, AF-Engineering is responsible for the detailed design work, and for creating the complete 3D PDMS model including structural, piping with all equipment, cable trays and HVAC facilities. The turbine and the waste and biofuel boiler were delivered as 3D models and were easily imported into the plant model. Fabrication information, such as pipe layout drawings, material lists and reports and isometric drawings, is automatically extracted from the 3D model.

Integrated engineering and design is a must for the future The process of optimising work procedures is continuous, in answer to the demands of ÅF’s customers for shorter delivery schedules and competitive prices with no loss of quality. To further improve engineering efficiency and quality, ÅF is now considering ways of integrating still more different disciplines. They strongly believe in extending the integrated solution in areas including the process, electrical, instrumentation and mechanical disciplines. As a result, ÅF is currently extremely interested in taking a close look at AVEVA’s newly released products supporting integrated engineering and design. About ÅF ÅF’s work focuses on energy and the environment, investments in infrastructure and projects for industry. ÅF consists of four divisions: Energy, Industry, Infrastructure and Technology. The company, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, has approximately 4,500 employees worldwide, in over 20 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The ÅF group has its origin in Sweden’s first industrial association, founded in Malmö in 1895 to look after the interests of the owners of steam generators and other pressure vessels. In 1964, this association was named Ångpanneföreningen – ÅF. Visit www.afconsult.com for more information.

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AVEVA technology is helping SETAL to expand the Brazilian oil & gas industry AVEVA Plant + AVEVA NET = Success! The rapid expansion of Brazil’s oil & gas industry owes much to the power of AVEVA technology in the execution of complex, large-scale industrial design and construction projects. One of the leading EPCs in this region is SETAL (SOG – Óleo e Gás S/A), an award-winning Brazilian company employing over 3,000 people in support of ongoing EPC contracts. SETAL provides project management, detailed engineering, procurement and construction services to the country’s oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical and energy industries.

SETAL has considerable experience in conventional 3D engineering, is both a national and international reference in this field and is a recent convert to AVEVA technology. We spoke to Mr Newton Libanio Ferreira, Process Engineering Manager at SETAL, to find out how this had changed their business.

Karla Moises Marketing Communications, AVEVA

AVEVA Plant fulfilled SETAL’s technical requirements for completely integrating engineering and design. Implementation began in early 2010 with the deployment of AVEVA PDMS, AVEVA Instrumentation, AVEVA Cable Design, AVEVA Diagrams, AVEVA Schematic 3D Integrator, AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports, AVEVA Global and AVEVA Pipe Stress Interface.

Kelvin Davis Marketing Communications Manager, AVEVA

SETAL had realised that they needed to move from conventional engineering and batch-wise workflows to a more advanced 3D design and information management solution in order to achieve the higher levels of efficiency, project complexity and delivery performance demanded by this fast-growing industry. Mr Ferreira explained that one of their objectives was to achieve more concurrent working and a smooth flow of information throughout the lifecycle of a project. Another aim was to integrate information across all users, linking engineering with construction to save time and reduce rework.

Offsite expansion project at REPAR, consuming 12,800 tonnes of piping, 65,250 m3 of concrete and 9,374 units of piles, at Paraná Refinery in Araucária, state of Paraná. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

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Support and training were provided throughout this critical start-up period by AVEVA’s Rio de Janeiro office.

entire project workflow, they also implemented AVEVA NET, a move which has brought them the benefits of Integrated Project Execution.

The new tools were quickly put to work on an internal integrated engineering pilot project, named the AVATAR project. This proved so successful that the use of AVEVA Plant was quickly expanded across the entire engineering and design team. It is now used right from the start of a project, creating the initial plant layout, and then for all aspects of the detailed layout and design of the project, involving the piping, equipment, electrical and instrumentation disciplines.

Mr Rodrigo Sasso, Project Automation Manager at SETAL, described how their previous, batch-wise processes required a great deal of planning resources and still resulted in design changes not being handled efficiently, giving rise to costly and disruptive rework during construction. ‘AVEVA NET has changed all that,’ he explained. ‘It forms a management layer that integrates not only the engineering and design functions but also the project planning and management functions. Now we can be much more proactive in our work, forecasting more effectively, and having abandoned the traditional batch-wise approach for a better controlled, progressive way of working. Changes are communicated immediately, so information is always up to date. It has dramatically reduced rework.’

‘We used the pilot project to integrate AVEVA Plant across all disciplines,’ explained Mr Ferreira. ‘PDMS enables our designers to work in a highly concurrent way and generate completely clash-free designs. This saves considerable time and money by avoiding costly modifications at the construction site.’ AVEVA Global further expands this concurrent working facility to SETAL’s other engineering offices and partners, enabling them to work efficiently on the same 3D plant model. ‘We can monitor all of our information online and measure how dramatically this global engineering framework has improved our project operations. It has substantially optimised our working methods,’ concluded Mr Ferreira. Integrating the process But SETAL went further than simply upgrading their engineering and design systems. Recognising the importance of managing the

Mr Sasso went on to describe how impressed SETAL was with the openness of AVEVA NET and the ease of interfacing with their planning tool, Primavera, and their other business systems. Mr Mauricio Godoy, CEO at SETAL, was equally impressed. ‘The traditional approach demanded intensive manpower, had a poor information flow and made scope modifications difficult, with data being dispersed across several files,’ he said. ‘Nowadays, all our engineering, actions and decisions are focused on the best contribution to the EPC results. With both AVEVA Plant and AVEVA NET, we can respond better to this demanding and competitive market, and can efficiently reuse already available design information.’

Gas processing and transfer terminal at TECAB Cabiúnas Terminal, part of Plangas project, in Macaé, Rio de Janeiro. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Mauricio Godoy, CEO at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Rodrigo Sasso, Project Automation Manager at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

Newton Libanio Ferreira, Process Engineering Manager at SETAL. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

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Delayed Coke Unit at REVAP, at Vale do Paraíba Refinery. Photograph courtesy of SETAL.

An interesting feature of the SETAL deployment is a custom module called the ‘Construction Sequence Planner’. This enables a user to select, within the 3D model, a set of elements to form a group, and then to use this group to create a construction work package within Primavera – thus allowing a 4D simulation. This custom feature not only greatly assists SETAL’s project planning processes, it also demonstrates the versatility and extensibility of AVEVA NET’s open architecture. At the time of the interview, SETAL was still engaged on their first live project using AVEVA NET, the REPAR refinery in Araucaria, so it was too early to quantify the full extent of the savings achieved. ‘But we have saved a lot of man-hours across the project,’ explained Mr Sasso. ‘It has eliminated a great deal of manual planning and forecasting. So much is now automatic and instantaneous that it is making all of our business processes more efficient. In fact, we have been approached by other EPCs from the sector to know more details of our system,’ he concluded. Ongoing projects with AVEVA Plant SETAL has used AVEVA Plant on several projects, including the construction of a coke unit (including seven auxiliary units and related interconnections) for the REVAP refinery in São José dos Campos, and the extensive Petrobras Plangás project. This important project – the Gas Production Anticipation Plan – has the strategic goal of supplying natural gas to south-east Brazil to meet its huge and increasing demand. AVEVA Plant is also being used on a number of other refinery projects, including: z Gasoline and coke offsite units and nine auxiliary units for the REPAR refinery in Araucaria z The construction of two hydrodesulphurisation units for gasoline production, plus two auxiliary units for the REPLAN refinery in Paulinia.

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And the future? Greatly encouraged by the immediate and extensive benefits that their AVEVA deployment has delivered, SETAL already has plans for using it to further improve its working methods. Design reuse is high on their priority list. Every project is unique, but many components are identical, or at least similar enough to allow their 3D models to be reused often with only minor modifications. SETAL has also recognised the potential savings in fabrication and construction that can be achieved through increasing the level of detail in the 3D model, particularly through more extensive use of AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports to include all support details in the model.

‘We have saved a lot of man-hours across the project. It has eliminated a great deal of manual planning and forecasting. So much is now automatic and instantaneous that it is making all of our business processes more efficient. In fact, we have been approached by other EPCs from the sector to know more details of our system...’

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Offshore design firm delivers projects on time with maximized results, producing revenue for Owner Operators ‘We are taking advantage of AVEVA’s solutions to help us deliver major projects on time while maximizing platform facility space utilization for our clients,’ explained Joey Lopez, Manager of Design for Houston Offshore Engineering (HOE). From start-up to industry leader Lopez’s firm has risen in a few short years to become one of the premier designers of deepwater floating offshore oil & gas facilities. Founded in January 2005 by a core group of design veterans who had worked together for 20 years as a team at other outfits, the Houston-based company provides expert engineering services to support offshore oil & gas developments. Its projects range from conceptual studies which help maximize value early in field development, to full detailed design and construction support of tension-leg platforms (TLPs), SPARs, semi-submersibles, offloading buoys and floating production, storage and off-loading vessels (FPSOs). Clients include major and independent oil & gas companies, drilling contractors, engineering contractors, fabricators, and transport and installation contractors. The company has established a solid reputation in the industry for its ‘customer-comes-first’ way of thinking and Lopez credits part of the company’s success to its use of AVEVA PDMS, a flagship application within the AVEVA Plant portfolio.

Mark McKee Marketing Specialist, AVEVA Americas

AVEVA PDMS provides a good return on investment ‘Having the capability to perform a project in PDMS is a huge benefit,’ Lopez said, adding that the industry is dictating the use of PDMS because it is easier to make changes and modifications using the software. ‘For a small company to devote a healthy dollar amount for any design tool, it has to be confident that the return will be good,’ Lopez explained. ‘By implementing the PDMS software we have seen a steady increase in efficiency. The man-hour savings are starting to be realized, especially in the early phases of projects when there are restarts in design ideas.’ Lopez said that an even bigger benefit is the time saved in bringing a project online. Schedules are being ‘squeezed’ in detailed design but, through the use of PDMS, HOE’s designers and engineers are still able to meet shortened deadlines. He added that using PDMS leads to more rapid engineering production for HOE’s customers, an even more powerful way to gauge the benefit of PDMS, and a great selling point for the firm. ‘The quantitative measure of success is in the oil produced,’ he continued. ‘Man-hours saved can’t compare to the dollars that can be made in a single day of drilling when delivered on schedule without project delay.’ Offshore work requires creativity One of the ways Lopez said that PDMS helps HOE, is by ensuring the company meets stringent requirements for weight and space constraints found on a floating production facility. ‘Space is at a premium offshore. Building a 3D model early in the project allows all disciplines to develop strategies to take advantage of ways to maximize its use,’ Lopez emphasized. ‘In addition, weight management is also critical on a floating facility. PDMS reports accurate data, keeping weight down and optimizing space utilization.’

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‘What differentiates us from others is that we bring an independent view to our customers’ projects. We strive to put together a solution that is best for the project, unhindered by what type of floater it needs to be,’ Lopez said.

The weight and space constraints have meant HOE has to be creative in its use of PDMS; the company appreciates the accuracy the software delivers, which Lopez believes gives HOE a competitive advantage in the market. ‘Our emphasis is that every discipline must provide as accurate information into the 3D model as possible,’ Lopez said. ‘For example, hull forms are difficult for the structural discipline,’ he continued. ‘We have efficiently met the challenge of the structural model by developing in-house tool sets that allow the user to work in an environment in which he is most comfortable; be it PDMS or the proprietary middleware we have developed. The marine systems disciplines benefit vastly from the early development of a structural hull model. The edge we have by creating in-house toolsets means we do not have to compete for PDMS users in a market-driven resource shortage. We develop from within.’

How HOE uses AVEVA PDMS today Currently, HOE has 14 employees using PDMS at its offices in the West Houston Energy Corridor. Lopez said the software has been very easy for new users to pick up because of the developed toolsets. HOE also pairs new users with more experienced ones to speed the learning process.

Joey Lopez, Manager of Design for Houston Offshore Engineering.

How has PDMS helped HOE in building these toolsets? Lopez said AVEVA’s technical support and training have been key. ‘PDMS software is userfriendly, allowing our developers to set up toolsets that make HOE unique and competitive,’ he explained. First project sets stage for uniqueness That uniqueness started with HOE’s very first project. Lopez said that, while everyone was both nervous and excited, the core group of first employees was also confident their years of experience in the industry would soon pay off. ‘We started the company with zero back-log, optimistic that the good client relationships we had built over the years by performing quality designs elsewhere would develop into a project,’ he recalled. ‘It took three months, but our first job came in – a major U.S. independent wanted to study a tension-leg platform solution for a Gulf of Mexico deepwater site and it chose us to perform this study. The fact that they wanted to study all areas including hull, mooring, and risers worked out beautifully because it put all of us to work immediately.’ What got HOE interested in PDMS? Lopez said the company had always been interested in providing a 3D solution for its clients. ‘As a start-up company we had to prove to customers that we could put a design team together that was capable of providing a full, detailed design effort,’ he said. ‘We concentrated on putting together team members who were unbiased (meaning we would put the customer’s needs first) on how to deliver a project in PDMS. Then we trained (in-house) on project execution using 3D software. We then sent them to AVEVA for basic training.’ What separates HOE from its competition? Lopez said it is the company’s independent viewpoint, something that has been a cornerstone for everyone since its founding. ‘We felt that the industry was primed for a group that specialized in the deepwater floater area. It needed a design house that had an independent view – one that was not linked to any proprietary design and not tied to a fabrication yard that used their designers for pull-through work.

HOE uses PDMS for presentation work, to develop animations, and for detailed design. ‘We also model and deliver 2D drawings for piping, electrical, instrumentation, primary structural steel, and outfitting steel for all major projects in-house,’ he explained.

AVEVA PDMS proves to be a problem solver PDMS has helped the company overcome several challenges that otherwise might have been difficult without the software, Lopez said. ‘In a topside structural project that was a design/build situation (meaning the design overlapped into the fabrication schedule) we would not have been able to provide the number of drawings required to meet the deliverable schedule without the PDMS model. Being able to design up until the last few days from the deliverable date, and still create hundreds of 2D drawings that accurately represented the latest design proved crucial to the project,’ he said. What does the future hold? With an independent, customer-first view and a strong set of software tools at its disposal, what does Lopez see in the future for HOE? ‘We want to enhance the capabilities to provide efficient and accurate designs. We will do this by growing the group with the most capable designers. In five years, we expect be able to work on multiple detailed design projects simultaneously, while still being able to provide early engineering stages for our customers,’ he said. So where do AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine fit into HOE’s plans? Lopez said the company is examining adding new AVEVA software in the coming months to give it additional competitive advantages. ‘We will look at AVEVA Marine in 2012. We need to be sure we are handling the structural hull design in the most efficient way,’ he said. Lopez added that HOE will continue to partner with AVEVA to enhance its business in the coming years. ‘AVEVA will help us grow our capabilities by expanding the use of its software in-house, training our people, and helping us develop better design tools so we can stay competitive in an ever-changing market.’ For more information about Houston Offshore Engineering, visit www.houston-offshore.com.

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The Health & Safety Information Gap Early in 2011, AVEVA commissioned an independent research project from Robert Gordon University (RGU). The project was conducted by Professor Rita Marcella, Dean of RGU’s Aberdeen Business School, and Tracy Pirie, Research Assistant. The objective was to better understand the Health & Safety (H&S) issues that our customers and our industry struggle with on a daily basis. The report would also provide a detailed and authoritative picture of how organisations manage H&S information, and how current practices affect both day-to-day plant operation and the handling of emergencies.

Through an online questionnaire, RGU’s research gathered information from H&S managers, senior managers and engineers in the global oil & gas industry. Respondents’ business types included operating companies, contractors, service companies and suppliers. In addition, confidential in-depth Critical Incident case studies covered four representative businesses, interviewing key individuals who could comment authoritatively on the information aspects of dealing with the incidents. The report, entitled ‘The Health & Safety Information Gap’, indicates that information systems are fragmented and inconsistent. Over 30% of industry professionals surveyed had never had training in accessing safety information, while 40% did not know how to search for it. Respondents were also working on a mixture of corporate, local and external information systems.

Kate Magill Communications Manager, AVEVA

The research was launched at an event on 1 September at RGU. Hosted by Jeremy Cresswell, editor of the Press and Journal’s ENERGY supplement and honorary Professor at RGU’s Aberdeen Business School, the evening commenced with a presentation of the report’s findings by Professor Rita Marcella. An audience of over 90 industry professionals observed a panel discussion. The members of the panel included Malcolm Webb, Chief Executive of Oil & Gas UK, Brian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer, KCA DEUTAG, Robin Davies, Vice President of Integration and Business Improvement, Subsea7, John Pearson, Managing Director of AMEC Natural Resources Europe and West Africa, and AVEVA’s H&S expert, Global Principal Consultant, Clive Wilby.

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John Pearson, Managing Director, AMEC Natural Resources Europe and West Africa gives his Point of View on the research findings

Whereas internal channels such as Intranets and team meetings did offer access, respondents found that they often had to search the Internet for relevant information. Approximately half of respondents identified the need for better information systems and around a quarter believed that information was not being shared within the company environment. On the whole, there was a strong demand for a shared integrated system to enable better access to all appropriate information. This was supported by respondents’ comments such as those below. z ‘The problem is, there’s too much information.’ z ‘I don’t think the information systems that we’re talking about are very user friendly.’ z ‘It was fragmented information and it was inconsistent.’

‘Improving information management plays a key role in meeting Health & Safety requirements for the oil & gas industry...’

In short, there is a major information gap in plant operations that impacts directly on Health & Safety. In response to the report, AVEVA has written a Point of View paper, identifying the three main areas where the greatest deficiencies can be found. These are: z fragmentation of information z failure to capture and exploit the value of standards z poor accessibility to data. The research will benefit customers by providing further input into AVEVA’s strategy for Operational Integrity Management. Disconnected processes and ‘silos’ of information can create many problems that can increase operational risk. AVEVA can demonstrate to industry professionals just how powerful today’s information management solutions can be in addressing these problems. AVEVA’s informationcentric solutions have been helping our customers create precisely the sort of ‘information repository’ strategy that was cited as a key requirement by a number of the survey respondents.

Steve Tongish, VP Marketing, AVEVA, concludes, ‘Improving information management plays a key role in meeting Health & Safety requirements for the oil & gas industry. We have been very impressed with the professional research produced by RGU and we are pleased that AVEVA has been able to contribute to this important industry debate.’ The full report is available for download at www.aveva.com/hs-research, together with AVEVA’s Point of View paper.

Professor Rita Marcella, Dean of Aberdeen Business School presents the report findings

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AVEVA scans new horizons with LFM software acquisition On the 3rd of October 2011, AVEVA announced the acquisition of the software arm of Z+F, bringing the LFM software suite to AVEVA. LFM is the market-leading product suite for managing laser data in the process and marine industries.

Les Elby VP Business Strategy, AVEVA

Following the acquisition, AVEVA has established a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for 3D data capture in Manchester. The CoE, led by Gary Farrow and Graham Dalton (formerly the two directors of the software company) will remain focused on continuing to develop the LFM software suite, as well as taking full business and product development responsibility for all of AVEVA’s 3D data capture software. The acquisition will come as no surprise to many, as the two companies have worked closely together for a number of years. AVEVA has been a long-term partner of Z+F and the software team based in Manchester since before 2005. This ongoing partnership has yielded numerous innovations and industry firsts, such as AVEVA Laser Model Interface (LMI) and AVEVA Laser Modeller (LMR). ‘We are delighted to be part of AVEVA,’ says Gary Farrow. ‘LFM is already an established solution worldwide but now, as part of AVEVA, we can make it the industry standard. Part of LFM’s success and appeal is its openness. Over the years we have worked hard to make LFM neutral and open to all, which is a principle we share with AVEVA. Our aim is for LFM to be compatible with any laser scan data format or hardware, and to interface with any 3D design system and CAD package, not just PDMS. Since the acquisition we have extended the openness of LFM, and we plan to announce more integrations soon.’

Since acquiring the LFM business, AVEVA has entered into new partnerships with most of the leading laser scanner vendors. ‘We have received a warm reaction to this acquisition from many laser hardware companies and we are very happy to be entering into new partnerships with them,’ says Paul Cooper (VP Strategic Alliances). AVEVA IntelliLaser AVEVA’s aim, now that LFM is part of the product family, is to accelerate the growth of the core LFM product suite, reaffirming it as the solution of choice for handling and managing scan data from process, power and marine applications. Moreover, AVEVA plans to continue building solutions on this platform to offer its customers greater benefits and efficiencies. LFM will remain relevant throughout the laser scan data lifecycle, from initial processing through to registration, modelling, working with data in target CAD/design packages and finally using the data on the Internet. There are two main use cases for laser scan data in the process and marine industries. Firstly, the use of the raw laser scan data to act as an accurate as-built reference in revamp projects. Secondly, to provide a highly productive solution allowing the creation of intelligent models of an operating plant.

About LFM software LFM is a powerful 3D laser scanning software package which allows users to import 3D data from most 3D laser scanning formats, and export to PDMS as well as to other 3D plant design systems and CAD platforms. LFM, which was launched in 1998, was one of the first 3D laser scanning software packages in the market. Since its trailblazing debut, it has become the number one package for the process, plant and marine industries. Graham Dalton has led the technical direction of the company, enabling a cycle of continuous development which means that LFM is now one of the most innovative and efficient 3D laser scanning packages available. Many AVEVA customers are already long-time users of LFM, and are loyal and enthusiastic about the product, not only because the solution meets their needs, but also because of the exceptional level of support which they receive.

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LFM 3D laser scanning software provides a complete solution from registration of laser scan data to as-built modelling. It provides tools for brownfield projects and assists management for owner operators. Service providers use LFM on a daily basis to process and deliver their projects. The time- and cost-savings and quality improvements afforded by LFM surpass those traditionally associated with 3D laser scanning. LFM 3D laser scanning software is ‘hardware neutral’ and accepts data from numerous 3D laser scanners. LFM is also CAD vendor neutral. AVEVA maintains close relationships with all the leading CAD vendors, allowing the customer to benefit from a seamless interface between LFM and a large number of CAD products.

AVEVA IntelliLaser and LMR are the first products that build on the strength of LFM, with IntelliLaser allowing users to automatically hotspot laser bubble-views so, once integrated into an asset management toolset such as AVEVA NET, users can effortlessly navigate a plant by clicking and interacting from the comfort of their own desks. This saves time on site for engineers, reducing cost and risk, and improving project efficiency. AVEVA Laser Modeller While the use of 3D design software such as PDMS in engineering design is now commonplace, plant owners and operators are starting to see the value of owning a model in operations for project revamps, upgrades, operator training and orientation. Traditional data capture methods have proved uneconomical, slowing the adoption of 3D in brownfield facilities. AVEVA Laser Modeller eclipses more conventional and time-consuming processes through the use of semi-automated catalogue-based modelling methodology. This allows users to quickly create a fully intelligent 3D model of their asset at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

3D laser scanning 3D laser scanning is technology that can digitally capture an environment (such as a process plant) or the shape of physical objects, using a beam of laser light. 3D laser scanners measure fine detail and capture free-form shapes in order to quickly generate highly accurate ‘point clouds’ of data. They can capture up to one million points per second. The data captured allows a physical object’s exact size and shape to be determined, and is of such a high quality that it can be used to produce a detailed and accurate digital 3D model.

‘The reaction from customers and service companies has been amazing,’ says Ricky Padhiar (Product Manager). ‘People immediately recognise the value that LMR brings, and are blown away by how quickly they can turn laser data into a meaningful, intelligent model. Whereas, in the past, their budgets would have restricted them to a dumb geometric model, with LMR they can create an intelligent 3D model in less time. This represents an enormous cost saving and brings new efficiencies to ongoing plant operations. We were overwhelmed with offers by customers wanting to be part of the beta program we ran during 2011, and we are now working on significant new projects with LMR for 2012.’ The future for LFM Software The outlook at the new 3D Data Capture CoE in Manchester is very positive, with Graham Dalton and his team leading the company’s technical direction to offer AVEVA customers even further efficiencies and savings with laser data. ‘Before the acquisition we had a lot of activity in the pipeline, which we were looking forward to talking about during 2012. Since the acquisition, these possibilities have ballooned, which makes for challenging yet exciting times,’ says Graham. For more information on LFM, visit the AVEVA website or www.lfm-software.com.

The intuitive and productive AVEVA Laser Modeller; a BubbleView showing as-built intelligent PDMS objects.

AVEVA’s history with the LFM team 2005

Jointly developed AVEVA Laser Model Interface (LMI).

2006

Became a certified development partner.

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The two companies announced an even closer technical partnership with the intention to jointly develop new product lines.



2010 Jointly developed and released AVEVA IntelliLaser at SPAR Europe. 2011 Released the jointly developed AVEVA Laser Modeller at

SPAR Houston.

The AVEVA Revamp solution; extremely high resolution laser scan data being brought into PDMS by LFM Server/LMI, showing automatically detected exact clashes.

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The universe just got bigger AVEVA’s 12.1 product releases bring more capabilities Astronomers seem to regularly discover that, just when they thought they knew how big the universe is, it turns out to be actually even bigger. The AVEVA environment is a bit like that. Users continue to design ever larger projects with increasingly massive levels of detail, confident that there is no practical limit imposed by the technology. Meanwhile, AVEVA continues to push the technology out even further! AVEVA’s core technology has never imposed any inherent limitation on project size but, with the latest 12.1 product releases, AVEVA has added many enabling features and functions which will allow the technology to extend its scope. For example, the 12.1 releases now greatly extend the available range of units of measure. Among many others, these now include Distance, Bore, Area, Volume, Angle, Weight, Temperature, Density, Pressure, Force, Voltage, Current and Impedance. This is an important enabler for increasing the integration of engineering and design data. More database functionality At the architecture level, a number of improvements have been made to database structure, configurability and controllability, making the data more rapidly accessible. Importantly, none of these improvements will adversely affect current or previous model data, while most are transparent to the user and readily configurable to business needs. Change highlighting has been greatly extended to embrace engineering and schematic data. This now provides the highlighting of changes and the ability to view change histories, both on the P&IDs and in the tabular data of AVEVA Engineering. The Lexicon module has been greatly enhanced to enable the definition of more extensive object relationships. Because more complex relationships can be difficult to view, new ‘database view’ functions have also been added, providing system administrators with an intuitive, graphical interface for viewing these relationships. Another improvement at 12.1 is the introduction of Unicode language support across the product range. The international Unicode character set is now used throughout the product, increasing compatibility with third-party systems and enabling users to work flexibly in their local language. More productivity Users of AVEVA Instrumentation have been enthusiastic about its best-in-class report generation functions. This technology has now been extended and standardised across PDMS and most of the other AVEVA Plant products, enabling users to generate a wider range of high-quality, project-ready reports. For example, in the case of PDMS, 3D design data can now be combined with engineering and schematic data, such as line lists and diagrams, to compile richer, more extensive deliverables. Importantly, this new capability is additional to existing reporting functions, which are retained to ensure continuity on in-progress projects. Other enhancements are aimed at making the design process easier and more productive. For example, model library improvements now make it easier to capture and exploit design expertise by building up libraries of reusable components. Technology platform compatibility has also been extended with support for Windows 7 and for Microsoft Office 2010. Together, these 12.1 series releases offer significant, project-wide productivity improvements and valuable new capabilities for their users.

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Achieving integration AVEVA Engineering integrates engineering and design data from the outset In the last issue of AVEVA World Magazine we described the concept and benefits of Integrated Engineering & Design (IE&D). The newly released AVEVA Engineering turns this concept into reality, extending the integration of engineering and design data for both plant and marine projects. It represents a step increase in the power of AVEVA technology and is already making significant efficiency improvements on live projects. Historically, the separation of engineering and 3D design activities has not been helped by having completely separate applications and management systems. This can create a functional barrier between the two, even though both are working to the same goal, the construction of the physical asset. AVEVA Engineering removes this barrier by enabling engineering data, such as line lists and tagged object definitions, to be created from the outset, using a purpose-designed authoring tool, and then shared by other engineering and design applications. AVEVA Engineering achieves this by sharing the same technology as AVEVA PDMS. AVEVA Engineering has been designed to fulfil several important requirements. First, it enables each type of information to be created and controlled by the responsible discipline, eliminating many common sources of error and inconsistency. So, for example, a pump has, associated with it, process data, electrical data, mechanical data and so on. By keeping ownership of data securely under the control of the responsible disciplines each type of data can be revised and reissued independently of the others. Second, sharing this information and its change status with other users enables much closer collaboration between the engineering and design disciplines. This greatly improves the efficiency of the iterative, multi-discipline processes of creating and refining a design.

Compare and Update utilities, which were originally introduced in 2010 on AVEVA Diagrams and Schematic Model Manager, have now been extended to both AVEVA Engineering and PDMS. These enable users to detect differences between different sources of the same information, a key requirement for efficient concurrent engineering such as the parallel development of line lists, P&IDs and 3D models. Data can be developed independently in different tools with the security of being able to bring everything together, ensuring consistency throughout the project. They also provide a powerful means of ensuring the quality of data, whether from AVEVA products or third-party sources such as Excel.

AVEVA Engineering is highly configurable and features a familiar spreadsheet-style interface, making it easy to deploy and use. Equally important, this new tool brings yet more essential project information within the AVEVA environment; for example, enabling piping designers to directly access the P&IDs and the line lists. Engineering data would also be available to AVEVA Global, enabling it to be shared across multi-site project teams, or included in various deliverables.

Proving the point Like all AVEVA products, AVEVA Engineering embodies a considerable amount of technical innovation and industry knowledge, but its performance also owes much to the support and collaboration of our customers. Such close relationships with our customers ensure that new AVEVA products fulfil real-world needs and prove their performance on representative project data and workflows. The mutual confidence this creates brings measurable business benefits to both parties. While customers are a cornerstone of AVEVA’s technology development, we also need to be sure that the benefits they report are representative of what others might achieve; every business is unique. Because AVEVA Engineering embodies a new technology concept which enables new and more productive working methods, AVEVA commissioned independent research to assess the potential savings that it could deliver on a typical project. This research indicated that savings in the range of 7–14% of engineering and design labour could be expected, depending on the size and nature of the project. AVEVA World Magazine 2012| Issue 1

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OMEGA Concept – managing critical process environments Contamination of all types creates huge problems in many sectors of industry. OMEGA Concept is a French company which specialises in the prevention of contamination risks, whether nuclear, biological or chemical, to provide its customers with complete control of their production environment. Medical and pharmaceutical facilities, integrated circuit manufacturers and nuclear power plants are typical of the different industries that require ‘clean room’ facilities to prevent contamination of sensitive process equipment, materials or products. A clean room is a work area with closely controlled temperature, humidity and air filtration. Its design and construction is therefore a specialised process to achieve strict control and maintenance of the room’s environmental conditions. Headquartered in Lyon, France, OMEGA Concept is part of GDF SUEZ Energy Services and employs nearly 900 people across its offices in France, Italy and Morocco. It has been a supplier to EDF, the world’s largest Owner Operator of nuclear power stations, for more than 30 years and many of its 12 French offices are situated close to EDF nuclear plants. ‘OMEGA Concept’s main activities are the design and installation of high-specification HVAC facilities for clean rooms, and the design and implementation of fluid and cold processes,’ explained Yoann Sestier, Commercial Manager of OMEGA’s SEMICAD department. ‘SEMICAD is our “Specific Engineering” department,’ he went on. ‘It handles huge turnkey projects, involving project planning, basic and detailed design, calculations, mechanical, thermal and airflow analysis, and space management.’

MICADO and AVEVA PDMS OMEGA Concept has also developed its own proprietary system, called MICADO (www.micado-software.com), which is a distribution networks management application, handling information about which equipment is fed by which fluids, and which fluid feeds which equipment, providing a very good view of the entire fluid process. This enables designers to perform different ‘what-if’ scenarios for equipment items, pipes and fluid processes for individual projects at an early stage, eliminating design errors and subsequent production problems. ‘The PDMS geometry for piping and equipment layouts can be imported straight into MICADO,’ explained Yoann Sestier. ‘We are now extending this to give MICADO access to all the information available in the PDMS models.’

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The SEMICAD team’s main engineering tool for these projects is AVEVA PDMS, an application within the AVEVA Plant portfolio, which it implemented in 2001. Before that, it used PDS, but the company realised that Intergraph had no plans to further maintain the product. ‘We needed a system for the long term,’ said Yoann Sestier. ‘AVEVA has a strong reputation for its long-term customer commitment and we found PDMS ideally suited to our core engineering disciplines. Besides, old PDS models from earlier projects can easily be imported into PDMS, so we can save time and effort by reusing design information.’ Meeting the challenge in nanotechnology ‘PDMS really came into its own in the construction of NANO 300, a nanotechnology research centre located near Grenoble, France, with a 10,000m2 ISO3 clean room,’ Yoann Sestier explained. ‘The centre has been in operation since 2002 but this is an ongoing project because the centre is constantly changing. New processes are continually being tested, so the items of process equipment in the clean room have to be frequently moved around or replaced.’

AVEVA PDMS model of the nanotechnology research centre. Image courtesy of OMEGA Concept.

This state of continuous change means that the PDMS ‘Hook-up and Fitup’ design of the plant must be frequently updated to keep the facility functioning optimally. The main constraint on the project is the very tight space in which all these items of process equipment can be moved around from one week to another, while maintaining full flexibility and a tight commissioning schedule. Ten of OMEGA Concept’s designers are permanently based at the research centre to carry out the daily design revisions.

The PDMS model of this plant is very impressive, with 700 process equipment items in the clean room, more than 40,500 sub-equipment items in the first and second floor basements and more than 150km of pipes, with 5,800 piping lines. About 15,000 isometric drawings are automatically generated from PDMS. The model is kept up to date with the as-built plant and is used for daily production and maintenance.

AVEVA PDMS model of a section of the nanotechnology research centre. The clean room is situated on the top floor of the building. Image courtesy of OMEGA Concept.

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Yoann Sestier, Commercial Manager of OMEGA’s SEMICAD department. Photograph courtesy of OMEGA Concept.

‘For each item of process equipment or tool, an individual Notebook record called “Tool Package” is created, containing process information such as layout drawings of equipment and sub-equipment, P&IDs, electrical diagrams, 3D views, piping and cable tray isometric drawings. Much of this information is automatically generated from PDMS,’ said Yoann Sestier. ‘PDMS has proved to be a very flexible tool,’ he went on. ‘It can handle all these process changes smoothly in an extremely tight schedule. The PML scripting language has made it easy for us to customise PDMS and add many new functions via macros.’ Increasing the level of design For its next nuclear project, OMEGA Concept plans to implement AVEVA Multi-Discipline Supports, in order to be able to include all support details in the model. ‘Our use of PDMS has evolved considerably since the first project. The level of detail we now include in the PDMS model has increased significantly, and enables fast, problem-free fabrication and installation. Furthermore,’ Yoann Sestier concluded, ‘we have developed a partnership with some of our duct suppliers, in order to deliver them our PDMS model for direct duct manufacturing (CAM).’ About OMEGA Concept In January 2012, AXIMA SEITHA and OMEGA Concept merged to become AXIMA Concept within the GDF SUEZ Energy Services group, strengthening their leading position in HVAC technology and their expertise in the fields of fire protection and refrigeration. For more information about OMEGA Concept, visit www.omega-concept-gdfsuez.com. 28

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AVEVA PDMS images of process equipment in the nanotechnology research centre. Images courtesy of OMEGA Concept.

Rolls-Royce uses AVEVA Marine in practical and daily design work only two months after migration from Tribon M3 In December 2010, Rolls-Royce received an order from the Singapore-based offshore company, PaxOcean Engineering, to provide the ship design, propulsion systems and deck machinery for two platform supply vessels (PSVs) of the UT 755 CD design, (a development of the popular UT 755 series). The vessels are currently being built at PaxOcean Engineering’s offshore vessel shipyard in Zhuhai, China, with delivery due in 2012.

Rolls-Royce is a world leader in marine solutions, providing products, services and expertise to more than 30,000 vessels in the offshore, merchant, and naval surface and submarine markets. The Rolls-Royce UT-Design range for the offshore industry covers platform supply, anchor handling, cable-laying and multi-purpose vessels, as well as seismic survey, intervention service and drilling vessels.

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The offshore ship design is carried out at the offices in Ulsteinvik, Norway, and at Navis Consult, an engineering company in Rijeka, Croatia, owned by Rolls-Royce. The ship designers in both Ulsteinvik and Rijeka are all experienced Tribon shipbuilding users. We met Oddvar Skotte, CAD Manager, and Oystein Alme, Senior Engineer, Structural Design, at the AVEVA World Marine Seminar in Malmö in November 2011, to find out more about their speedy and efficient migration to AVEVA Marine from the Tribon M3 shipbuilding system.

Following a requirement from PaxOcean Engineering that the vessels should be designed with AVEVA Marine, Rolls-Royce decided to migrate immediately to this application. In order to be able to deliver the design in time, Rolls-Royce took on a challenging schedule for the training and implementation of the AVEVA Marine system.

Main image: The UT 755 series has generated more than180 vessels either currently in service or on order worldwide. Photograph courtesy of Rolls-Royce. Inset: AVEVA Marine model of a platform supply vessel (PSV) of the UT 755 CD design. Image courtesy of Rolls-Royce.

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Migrating to AVEVA Marine from Tribon M3 AVEVA Marine was implemented at Rolls-Royce in early January 2011. Training started in the second week in January in Rijeka, with a five-day project set-up and a basic administration course. Over the following two weeks, a five-day AVEVA Hull upgrade course and a four-day basic course in AVEVA Outfitting were held. In parallel, a two-day migration seminar was arranged at AVEVA’s office in Malmö, Sweden. After a two-week project planning meeting in Singapore between RollsRoyce and PaxOcean Engineering, seven weeks of training followed, covering the complete outfitting system. Rolls-Royce had recently delivered a similar platform supply vessel, designed completely with AVEVA’s Tribon M3 shipbuilding system. For the two new vessels, Rolls-Royce decided to use the Tribon data from this project and migrate the data to AVEVA Marine. Migration tools and services from AVEVA helped Rolls-Royce to convert the data to AVEVA Marine. The hull design work for the new vessels started last week in March, when the hull data from Tribon was converted to AVEVA Marine for further design and modifications. The outfitting design started first week in May, when outfitting data from Tribon was converted to AVEVA Marine. Specific design requirements for the new vessels were re-engineered in AVEVA Marine. This data then served as a base for the re-engineering within AVEVA Marine, to cope with the specific design requirements for this ship. The Outfitting application from AVEVA Marine proved to be easy to use, and efficiently handled these design modifications.

The first AVEVA Marine hull and outfitting models of the PSV vessel were delivered to PaxOcean in the first week in May and in mid-June, respectively, and the complete AVEVA Marine model was delivered in the last week in November. All deliveries were made according to schedule and PaxOcean was able to derive all the necessary production information automatically from the delivered models. First steel cutting at Zhuhai shipyard took place on the 15th of July. Rolls-Royce found the hull application in AVEVA Marine easy to start working with, as many features were similar to the hull application in Tribon. The outfitting application in AVEVA Marine was a new application for them but, thanks to effective training supplied by AVEVA, and good training manuals and user guides, they were ready to start outfitting design work already in the first week in May. During this intense and comprehensive design project in AVEVA Marine, Rolls-Royce became aware of a number of useful new features for their design projects, including AVEVA Marine’s well-organised project structure which offers a very flexible way to set up a project. Furthermore, the PML scripting language makes it simple to customise AVEVA Marine and to add many new functionalities. Famous UT-Design vessels The UT-Design PSV series of vessels, which also perform rescue and standby duties, continues to evolve, and ranges from small vessels with the most up-to-date features to much larger complex vessels.

PaxOcean Engineering’s offshore vessel shipyard in Zhuhai, China. Photograph courtesy of PaxOcean Engineering.

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The UT 700 series is recognised as a worldwide standard in the offshore industry. To date, approximately 800 UT-Design vessels have been built or are under construction around the world. Platform supply vessels typically transport pipes, cement, liquid and cargo to and from mainland and offshore installations. Since it was first delivered in 1996, the UT 755 series has generated more than 180 vessels either currently in service or on order worldwide. An order for two more platform supply vessels As a result of the successful design of the two PSVs for PaxOcean Engineering, the company awarded Rolls-Royce a contract in November 2011 to design and equip two more oil platform supply vessels.

‘During this intense and comprehensive design project in AVEVA Marine, RollsRoyce became aware of a number of useful new features for their design projects, including AVEVA Marine’s wellorganised project structure which offers a very flexible way to set up a project...’

These vessels, which also will be built at PaxOcean Engineering’s shipyard in Zhuhai, China, will have a fully-integrated Rolls-Royce diesel electric propulsion system and deck machinery. The vessels will be equipped for oil recovery and fire fighting, and are due to be delivered during the first six months of 2013. AVEVA Global to be used in future projects Rolls-Royce’s ship design projects are often very complex and executed globally, often using subcontractors. Rolls-Royce plans to use AVEVA Global, AVEVA’s solution for multi-site concurrent working, enabling Rolls-Royce’s offices in Ulsteinvik and Rijeka and their partners to work concurrently towards the same ship model. About Rolls-Royce Rolls-Royce is a world-leading provider of power systems and services for use on land, at sea and in the air, and has established a strong position in global markets – civil aerospace, defence aerospace, marine and energy. Rolls-Royce employs over 39,000 people in offices, manufacturing and service facilities in over 50 countries.

From left, Oystein Alme, Senior Engineer, Structural Design, and Oddvar Skotte, CAD Manager at Rolls-Royce.

The marine business of Rolls-Royce employs 9,000 people in 35 countries, with the main manufacturing centres being in the UK, the Nordic countries, the United States and, increasingly, Asia. Rolls-Royce offers a range of ship designs for the offshore sector from its well-known UT-Design family, launched in the mid-1970s. The range includes platform supply vessels, anchor handling/tug/supply vessels, multipurpose service vessels and other specialised vessels such as coastal patrol vessels, well intervention, diving support vessel, sub-sea vessels, etc. Visit www.rolls-royce.com for more information. About PaxOcean Engineering PaxOcean Engineering is an integrated offshore and marine engineering group, headquartered in Singapore, and offering new-build, conversion, repair and design services. The Group’s two shipyards in Zhuhai and Zhoushan in China are modern and fully equipped with plate/profile shot blasting and painting systems, CNC plate-cutting machines, profile- and plate-forming shops, panel and block assembly shops, and block blasting and painting shops. Visit www.paxocean.com for more information.





Blocks under construction. Photograph courtesy of PaxOcean Engineering.

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Every discipline must work live in the 3D Model In July 2006, SBM Schiedam started its first FPSO design project with AVEVA PDMS. Over the next four years the deployment of AVEVA tools was successfully extended around the globe.

The upgrading and pre-conversion of the 255,272 dwt tanker, Accord, into the P-57 was completed at Keppel Shipyard in Singapore earlier in 2010.The engineering was done at SBM Schiedam. SBM delivered the FPSO to the owner, Petrobras Netherlands. The FPSO operates in the Jubarte Campos Basin which is 70km offshore the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Photograph courtesy of Mercator Media.

SBM Offshore N.V. designs and provides offshore energy systems on a lease or sale basis for clients mainly active in offshore oil and gas production. The company operates globally with seven units and is listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange. There is a long list of ‘firsts’ in which the company claims technology leadership or at least to be a trendsetter. At the end of 2010, over 4,100 people worked for the company. In the fiscal year 2010, 3.05 billion US dollars (+ 3.4% compared to 2009) turnover and a net profit of 276 million US dollars (+ 20% compared to 2009) were generated. An actual backlog of 15.7 billion US dollars (a new record for the company) is also shown in the annual reports. Bernhard D. Valnion, Ph.D. digitalPLANT Business + Engineering

The company’s business activities include the engineering, supply, and offshore installation of facilities for the production, storage and export of crude oil, gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG).These comprise Floating Production Storage and Off-loading systems (FPSOs), Floating Storage and Offloading systems (FSOs), Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs), monohull and semi-submersible Floating Production Units (FPUs), as well as selfelevating Mobile Offshore Production Units (MOPUs). The portfolio includes all the systems, mostly based on the single-point mooring principle, used to moor crude oil and gas carriers in open seas for the purpose of loading or offloading cargoes. Derived from the same technology are complex mooring systems that anchor the floating production facilities in oil and gas fields. There are various types of mooring systems, such as fixed heading or weathervaning, permanent or disconnectable. R&D expenditure amounted to 20.7 million US dollars in 2010.

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SBM Offshore operates from four main project execution centres with engineering and project management resources located in Schiedam/ Netherlands, Monaco, Houston/Texas (USA) and Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia. Our editor spoke to Frans de Klerk, Department Manager Topsides Design, and Albert te Pas, Discipline Manager of the PDMS Administrator Group, both with SBM Schiedam which is part of the SBM Offshore group. The market de Klerk’s group is mainly involved in is the FPSO market. Roughly speaking, a FPSO is a floating plant. Most of these units are owned by the SBM Offshore group and leased to oil and gas companies. The consequence: SBM Offshore acts as owner operator and SBM Schiedam as EPCI contractor.

‘With the Clash Manager the user can say: “I approved this clash,” and then he only gets new clashes, the non-critical ones are suppressed. This really saves us a lot of time...’

AVEVA Clash Manager in use at SBM Schiedam. Image courtesy of SBM.

The department here in Schiedam, just a few minutes ride by metro from Rotterdam Centraal, mainly designs the process utilities on board the vessel. About 85 people are working in the four disciplines: “piping”, “mechanical equipment”, “structural”, and “PDMS group”. The PDMS group headed by Albert te Pas is basically focused on the administration and development of PDMS from AVEVA plc. headquartered in Cambridge/ UK – it is a facilitating group for the other disciplines. This fact already shows the importance of the effective deployment of integrated 3D plant design processes for SBM as well as SBM Schiedam. Three projects with a total volume of about two billion US dollars are currently executed simultaneously. ‘Our projects are mainly conversions of trading tankers,’ Mr de Klerk explains and adds: ‘That means we take existing tanker layouts and modify the design and build a new plant on top.’ Settlement of conflicts In the Schiedam office, 11 AVEVA PDMS licences and 25 AVEVA Outfitting (in the AVEVA Marine suite of applications) licenses are in use. One of the main reasons for the use of PDMS is efficient clash management. Most of

the time a clash is caused by two disciplines using the same space, e.g. there is a structural reinforcement and a pipe going through it. ‘Sure, you want to solve this problem before it comes up in the yard,’ Mr te Pas says and refers to AVEVA Clash Manager. With the remark: ‘If you have an access route, for example, which is colliding with a region reserved for maintenance of a piece of equipment, that might be no problem. But if you do such checks on a weekly basis – and our projects typically last between 12 and 14 months – this clash pops up at least 50 times. With the Clash Manager the user can say: “I approved this clash,” and then he only gets new clashes, the non-critical ones are suppressed,’ says Mr te Pas, giving an insight into the daily work routine. And de Klerk adds: ‘This really saves us a lot of time.’ In total, there are three types of clash management tools in use: z The one within PDMS. z On top of that, a slightly more enhanced tool. It was created by SBM Schiedam itself and is used on a daily basis. z About once a week the AVEVA Clash Manager is used as an application. It works on a separate desktop and has access to a SQL server.

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AVEVA Clash Manager is a kind of an umbrella application to check the consistency over the whole project. In that tool, rules and settings are defined to separate non-relevant clashes from real ones. ‘At a certain moment you only have what we call “hot clashes”. These are detected by the PDMS Design Coordinator of the project because he runs the Clash Manager. Together with our Lead Engineers responsible for special plant modules, the PDMS Design Coordinator tries to settle the conflict. If both can’t approve, they have to delegate the problem to the designers of the different disciplines to solve it,’ says Mr te Pas, explaining the procedure.

Frans de Klerk, SBM Schiedam.

Global work sharing Apart from the four SBM sites, three subcontractors (in Serbia, in Romania, and in India) and construction yards in Singapore and Brazil benefit from PDMS for project execution. The PDMS Global application coordinates the worldwide work split. In doing so, a centralized PDMS project owner (“Hub”) is defined to connect the other sites as satellites. ‘As the admin of the hub, we control everything,’ says Mr de Klerk selfconfidently. The tasks of the Hub include: z z z z z z

Albert te Pas, SBM Schiedam.

set-up of PDMS project system environment creation of databases allocation of databases to satellite locations changing access rights (read/write) for satellites the definition of synchronization events between the Hub and satellites the control of databases with regard to the data quality aspects.

The database set-up includes providing catalogues, material specifications, dictionaries, design tools, and numbering/naming systems to control the other databases. Generally, AVEVA Global updates all model information around the world. ‘For instance, if we include additional valves or other pieces of equipment into a catalogue, following synchronization the data also becomes available for the subcontractors,’

AVEVA Global updates all model information of SBM around the world without any redundancy. Image courtesy of SBM.

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SBM Company Organisation Chart. says Mr te Pas to give an example. Several tools are implemented to check the data quality of the publication mechanism. Otherwise: ‘Rubbish in means rubbish out,’ stresses Mr te Pas and adds: ‘Correct input is a must!’ Hull design ‘For the first time, we are using the Hull application and AVEVA Outfitting,’ Mr te Pas says. The reason is that in a specific project the hull is designed completely from start. Normally it is a conversion of an already existing project. AVEVA Outfitting has the same basic functionality as PDMS, but with a different nomenclature. The advantage of AVEVA Outfitting is that instead of PDMS it can read in the hull shapes in its database. It is used to generate plan and section drawings of each discipline, to support the design and to create support detail drawings. The company has decided to move from using PDMS into using AVEVA Marine (hull and outfitting integrated). At this moment, 25 Outfitting licences are rented and five licences are in permanent use for the hull design. Increasing complexity Every new project is more ambitious than its predecessor. ‘Remember: crude oil of different origins is different. The oils differ in their chemical composition, in their viscosity and so on. All fields where light and clean crude oil is concentrated have already been explored. Only the difficult ones are left – in deep water, low in quality, which, for instance, means a lot of supply has to be removed, and sometimes the oil is contaminated, which is very dangerous, so safety is a big issue,’ says Mr de Klerk. The consequence is that the production facilities require more and more components, but the available space remains the same. Additionally the production rate is going up.

For more information about SBM Offshore N.V. and SBM Schiedam, visit www.sbmoffshore.com

Ten years ago, FPSOs produced 50,000 barrels a day, nowadays it is up to three times as much even though it is a more advanced process. Mr te Pas enters into the argumentation from a different point of view: ‘But another challenge is the increased complexity of the project execution – you want to control and monitor what’s happening in the project far more.’ To meet this extensive requirement, data management is involved. ‘For us it means we have to continuously improve our work processes because you have to do everything in a more structured way. A more sophisticated database environment is the consequence.’ Documented best practices, e.g. expressed in templates, are crucial for SBM Schiedam. But, as Mr te Pas points out, the biggest advantage is that SBM Schiedam is always working in the same engineering-IT environment. It uses its own ‘standards’, which recur in every project. The effectiveness of standardized processes is tracked over many years. Mr te Pas summarizes: ‘We are following AVEVA’s philosophy because it is our own philosophy: Every discipline has to work live in the 3D model and then generate drawings.’ There is no doubt that this is a clear strategy for integrated processes and workflow management.

Split of work between the SBM sites. Image courtesy of SBM.

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AVEVA’s Academic Programme More networking and cooperation between universities and industry Despite an urgent need for well-educated young professionals, industry has, for years, complained of an acute shortage of skilled workers, while those graduates who are available must meet increasingly demanding business requirements. The only solution is long-term cooperation between industry and universities. The answers to many of humanity’s most pressing shared problems rely on advanced science, engineering, analysis and policy, so students must be prepared for the generational challenges ahead. Since the world depends now, more than ever, on science and technology, universities need to develop and educate new industry leaders. Educational institutions are in a position to give students the tools to make international economies more resilient and less inequitable. Professors and students should master science and engineering through real-world problem solving and hands-on research, so they can invent new technologies and create the new materials needed to seize the opportunities offered by industrial progress. To meet these enormous challenges, universities and industries must work together to share their knowledge and experience. AVEVA’s Academic Initiative Acting as a bridge between business and academia, AVEVA’s Academic Initiative supports universities and institutions all over the world by providing software, training and support. Today, we are working with almost 100 universities and training institutes to provide real-world design experience to students and professionals so they can play an active role in addressing the global challenges that we face.

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It is no surprise that the focus of universities within a country is often based on the economic core competencies of that region. For example, we see more universities in North and South America concentrating on petroleum engineering than we do in Asia. Germany is dominated by chemical engineering, France has a particular expertise in nuclear power, and South Korea and Japan are heavily focused on the shipbuilding industry. At the University of Tokyo, AVEVA software has been used for many years as part of their degree programme in offshore engineering and naval architecture. The AVEVA Marine software offers students a deeper understanding of ship design and the complex dependencies between engineering disciplines across the shipyard. The academic programme is also helping to relieve the skills shortage in the US plant sector. AVEVA has built partnerships with several educational institutions for the cross-training of professionals, enabling them to reskill and to enter the plant design industry. Students who graduate from these programmes leave with a level of hands-on experience that makes them promising candidates for the world’s leading EPCs, Owner Operators and shipbuilders. Another good example is the use of AVEVA Plant software at two prestigious universities in Germany. AVEVA World Magazine took a closer look at how AVEVA’s technology has been applied to some fascinating design scenarios. The Berlin University of Technology and the Cologne University of Applied Science have close relationships with AVEVA. Both universities train their students with AVEVA’s PDMS software, as a dominant design tool for the industry.

The Cologne University of Applied Science. Photo courtesy of Fachhochschule Köln/Ersteller.

Günter Wozny is head of the Department of Process Dynamics and Operation at the Berlin University of Technology. He teaches the Computer Aided Plant Design course. In the project, Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase Systems, his students design, construct and implement a mini-plant for the hydroformylation of long-chain olefins in micellar solutions and micro emulsions. To achieve this, they use PDMS design software and a process control system from Siemens. This enables early phase experimental investigations that continue throughout the process in order to reduce development time and cost. Furthermore, the mini-plants allow investigation into the influence of recycle streams on the performance of the catalyst and on process stability in general. The recycling of the valuable catalyst was one major challenge which was vital to the economic efficiency of the overall process. To guarantee safe plant operation, the mini-plants must satisfy the European explosion protection directives, so students were also exposed to regulatory compliance considerations as part of the design process.

‘The Berlin University of Technology is internationally renowned. Our principles are high performance in research and teaching and producing excellent graduates with outstanding qualifications. At the end of our course in Computer Aided Plant Design, students have to know the application of the tools, the methods and how to use them. They learn the skill and capacity for teamwork which is critical to solving simultaneous and concurrent engineering problems. The AVEVA design software plays an important role in our overall programme and is a great example of how we can work together with technology providers to create competent and confident engineers.’ Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Günter Wozny

Read the complete technical article online at: http://www.aveva.com/awm/2012/1/tu_berlin The Cologne University of Applied Science offers a project within its Master’s Integrated Plant Design programme. One of the principle programme objectives is the production of 15 t/h carbon monoxide with 6 or 13 bar of natural gas. To achieve this, students must design all the process equipment in accordance with applicable guidelines and regulations, as well as producing a risk analysis and cost estimation for the plant. Students use PDMS to design the 3D model and generate all necessary P&ID deliverables. The whole project was divided into five major units: 1. natural-gas cleaning using monoethanolamine laundering 2. production of carbon monoxide by steam-reforming 3. product gas drying and separation of CO 4. separation of methane and hydrogen from synthesis gas 5. energy coupling of the synthesis gas plant. Read the complete technical article online at: http://www.aveva.com/awm/2012/1/fh_koeln Conclusion Skilled young professionals are rare in the engineering world. This applies to the shipbuilding industry in Asia as well as to the plant and power industry in the Americas and Europe. AVEVA has recognised the challenge, and has invested in constructive partnerships and successful cooperation with universities and technical institutes by educating and training students with AVEVA’s leading engineering tools. Together, we are planting the seeds of experience to create confident and skilled professionals who will meet the challenges of the future.

For companies and universities needing more information, AVEVA offers a detailed overview of the existing partnerships and ongoing projects on its home page at www.aveva.com.

‘Cologne University of Applied Science offers an accredited Master’s degree in chemical engineering and supply technology, within a teaching module called “Integrated Plant Design”. Based on a project, this module will provide students with the different methods and the handling of modern plant design tools in the field of 3D plant design. Since 2005, the 3D plant design software from AVEVA PDMS has been used successfully.’ Prof. Dr. –Ing. Gerhard Steinborn

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More Power More Productivity More Integration New AVEVA Marine products deliver enhanced capabilities for marine and offshore engineering AVEVA Marine entered 2012 with three powerful new products and a range of across-the-board upgrades. These not only address specific needs in the shipbuilding and offshore industries, they also extend the integration of data and disciplines within AVEVA Marine and between AVEVA Marine and AVEVA Plant. They increase both AVEVA’s technology leadership and the competitive advantage of its customers. Across the board These important additions to AVEVA Marine reflect significant upgrades to AVEVA Plant, which we describe on pages 24-25. The ground-breaking new AVEVA Engineering serves both the plant and marine industries, while the close technology integration between AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine ensures that the many common enhancements in the 12.1 product releases will benefit all our customers. For example, the considerable benefits of AVEVA Design Reuse are further extended by model library improvements which make it easier to build up libraries of outfitting components. Unicode support and the general enhancements of report generation functions will be widely welcomed for the abilities they bring in producing high-quality deliverables in users’ local languages. Support for Windows 7 and for Microsoft Office 2010 are also provided across both AVEVA Plant and AVEVA Marine.

AVEVA Design Reuse Exploit your accumulated know-how For many AVEVA Marine users, the brand-new AVEVA Design Reuse will itself be sufficient reason to upgrade. This module can dramatically accelerate new projects through the reuse of previous design work. AVEVA estimates that this capability could save as much as 70% of the design time for a new vessel. AVEVA Design Reuse can be used in a variety of ways. For yards specialising in a particular type of vessel, it can be used to rapidly create a new design by copying an original; traditionally, as much as 90% of the original design effort was required to create an identical copy. The new copy can include all the design information of the original, or only selected subsets, and can have its data references intelligently updated to suit the requirements of the new design.

AVEVA Surface Manager More choice, more quality, more control Mixed technology environments are common in all the engineering industries and AVEVA has long been an active promoter of open standards for data exchange, to enable a preferred mix of individual applications for specific tasks. The new AVEVA Surface Manager extends user choice by enabling hull surface definitions to be exchanged with third-party applications through established neutral standards such as IGES, SAT, DML and STEP AP203. Normally used for importing surfaces into AVEVA Marine, AVEVA Surface Manager puts a shipyard in full control of the hull form, providing a number of valuable benefits. When importing, it carries out sophisticated quality checking on the data and can repair a number of commonly encountered defects.

AVEVA Space Management Simplifying, managing, automating Another major addition to AVEVA Marine is AVEVA Space Management, which will be of particular interest to designers of more complex vessel types such as warships, submarines or cruise ships. This new application greatly simplifies the creation and management of the many space divisions within a vessel. Its powerful ‘room-oriented’ approach to design is highly productive, as the intelligent association of compartments with their properties and contents enables a rapid and interactive design development. The software ensures that all dependencies update automatically.

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AVEVA Design Reuse unlocks the accumulated value of previous design work. It allows the reuse of an entire ship design or simply parts of it. For example, you can: z z z z z

create a sister ship from an existing design create a similar ship, perhaps for a different owner create a similar ship, but of a different size start a new design using parts of previous designs apply a standard design to a new project.

An intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI) makes this powerful new product easy to use for efficient manual copying. Command-line control opens up possibilities for innovative working methods based on the automation capabilities of AVEVA’s Programming Macro Language (PML).

Top: View of a source model. Below: 3D view of the data copied and updated in the target model.

Hull form accuracy can therefore be maintained throughout every stage of an AVEVA Marine project, ensuring high design quality in the finished vessel.

hydrodynamics analysis software. It helps increase design quality, and maximises control over one of a shipyard’s most valuable intellectual assets.

When exporting, surface definitions can be exported entire, for use in third-party hydrodynamics applications, for example, or selectively for use by subcontractors. Because vessel performance depends critically on it, the precise surface definition is a high-value proprietary asset for a shipbuilder. Being able to export to subcontractors selected portions only of the hull form retains control of this valuable intellectual property. AVEVA Surface Manager can also be used as a stand-alone program for converting surfaces from one format to another. Its full range of benefits becomes apparent when used in conjunction with Hull Structural Design or Hull Detailed Design, through facilitating the checking of surfaces during the hull design process. Surface Manager provides more flexibility of choice, whether of surface creation tools, or specialist hydrostatics or Example of surface definition for bulb and bow thruster.

Automatic space arrangement drawings Apart from increasing the scope for evaluating options at the early design stage, one of the new product’s most valuable features is likely to be its ability to automatically create General Arrangement drawings defining all the various surface treatments. A great many revisions of these are often required as the design evolves, so the reduction in work and time required to update them can be significant. Generating them directly from the definitive vessel model also eliminates potential sources of error.

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Meshing Together AVEVA Hull Finite Element Modeller adds a Patran interface Stéphane Neuvéglise Head of Business Management – Marine Systems, AVEVA

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is an essential tool in ship design, not only to verify the structural strength of a hull but also to meet increasingly stringent vibration criteria for qualities such as passenger comfort or environmental noise. But the man-hours required for FEA are costly. Worse, tight delivery schedules frequently make it a critical path activity and can require that construction starts before final approval of the analyses by the Classification Society, incurring an element of programme risk. Add to this the highly skilled nature of idealising a hull structure into an efficient mesh for analysis and it’s easy to see why Hull Finite Element Modeller has already proved so popular. There are two leading FEA solutions used in ship design: Patran/Nastran from MSC Software and ANSYS Mechanical from ANSYS. Patran is used by roughly half of the world’s shipbuilders, so this latest addition of a Patran interface to Hull Finite Element Modeller will be good news for a great many shipbuilders and their design agents. As we described in the first 2010 issue of PIPELINE magazine, Hull Finite Element Modeller is a model converter that incorporates a great deal of specialist know-how for idealising real hull structure into an optimum mesh for efficient FEA. It applies default mesh parameters and idealisations which accurately translate the majority of the true design intent at the first pass, and it allows the structural analyst to adjust these as necessary to fine-tune the mesh, for example, to increase mesh density around local ‘hot spots’.

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Once the optimum idealisation has been configured, the new version of Hull Finite Element Modeller can now generate and export a session file using Patran Command Language (PCL) for execution in Patran. This file contains all the commands required to create a simplified geometry of the original hull model, together with material and element property definitions, within a Patran database. The success of this new interface owes much to the excellent training and support provided by MSC to AVEVA’s technologists during its development and validation. AVEVA has also worked closely with selected customers during development to ensure that the enhanced product continues to support industry working practices and could be tested on real ‘warts and all’ project data. This focus on practicality has resulted in a solution which delivers power and ease of use for everyday needs, while avoiding the unnecessary complexities of trying to cater for every possible situation. Shipbuilders are very practical people, who understand the principle of diminishing returns and, above all, want tools that are effective and reliable. Everybody who has used Hull Finite Element Modeller has been enthusiastic about it. Shipyard managers appreciate both the direct savings and the reduction it can make in programme risk. It also goes some way to mitigating the skills shortages that the industry is suffering from. Adding direct Patran compatibility brings these benefits to a wider range of users.

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STEP Hull structure shown in AVEVA Marine.

STEP The same hull structure after idealisation, ready for mesh generation.

STEP Finally, the same idealised structure transferred into Patran.

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AVEVA welcomes our new customers in 2011 AVEVA enables the creation and management of complex digital assets for owner operators, engineering contractors and shipbuilders in the Plant and Marine industries around the world. For 45 years, AVEVA has worked closely with our customers to build strong partnerships based on an unparalleled level of industry experience. We are proud to welcome the following companies to the AVEVA community in 2011 and look forward to a long and successful relationship.

3J Consulting & Service Co., Ltd., Korea A-Tech Engineering, Korea ABS InfoLink, Inc., USA Aibel (Thailand) Ltd, Thailand Al Ghanim, Kuwait Alaska Tanker Company, LLC, USA Alcatel-Lucent France, France Almitec, France Altelios, France AM Engineering Limited, UK Andritz Feed & Biofuel A/S, Denmark Andritz Thermtec B.V., Netherlands Ansaldo Caldaie S.p.a., Italy Ansaldo Nucleare S.p.A., Italy AP Consultoria e Projetos Ltda, Brazil API Management, Australia Apphia, Italy Arabian Bemco, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Architectural Design & Research Institute of Southeast University, China Asian Academy of Professional Training, India ASKON Konstruktion & Personalmanagement GmbH, Germany Astrum Engineering, Finland Audubon Engineering Operations LLC., USA Ayden Istanbul Gemi Mühendislik, Turkey Bachtrup GmbH, Germany Bantrel, Canada Bechtel Offshore, USA Biryong Corporation, Korea Boustead Naval Shipyard Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Burgasnefteproject, Bulgaria BW Offshore Norway AS, Norway Cadmius Engenharia e Projetos Industriais Ltd, Brazil Cameron India Manufacturing Limited, India Cameron International Corporation, USA CANDO Co., LTD., Korea Carigali Hess Operating Company Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Carigali-PTTEPI Operating Company Sdn Bhd, Malaysia CASPIMUNAIGAS, Kazakhstan CDI Engineering Solutions Inc., USA CEA Cadarache, France Centroprojekt do Brasil S.A, Brazil Cethar Limited, India CH2M Hill Engineers Inc., USA Chandan Tech Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India China Nerin Engineering Co.,Ltd., China China Steel Structure Co., Ltd., China Combustol Industria e Comercio Ltda, Brazil Compania Minera Milpo S.A.A., Peru

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Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), United Arab Emirates Consorcio Alusa CBM, Brazil Consorcio EBE-Alusa, Brazil Consorcio Haztec-Serveng-Mana, Brazil Consorcio Itaborai URE, Brazil Consorcio Novo Cenpes, Brazil Constructions Mecanique de Normandie, France Contratec Engenharia Ltda, Brazil Control Contracting & Trading Company (CCTC), United Arab Emirates Contromation Energy Services, Indonesia Cooper Securite SAS, France Creative Synergies Consulting India Pvt. Ltd, India DAESONG Engineering Co., Ltd., Korea Daeyang Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., Korea Degremont Limited, India Dei Enterprise Co., Ltd., China Delta 4 Srl, Italy Devemada Engenharia Ltda, Brazil Dodsal Engineering & Construction (India) Pvt. Ltd., India Doosan Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd., Korea Dowell Schlumberger International Pte Ltd, Singapore DP Clean Tech Europe A/S, Denmark DP CleanTech Company Limited, China DPS Global, UK Ecovix - Engevix Construcoes Oceanicas SA, Brazil EFE Engineering Pte Ltd, Singapore Eide Marine Services AS, Norway Elkon Elektrik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Turkey Empresa Brasileira de Engenharia SA, Brazil Emte S.L.U., Spain Estaleiro Atlantico Sul, Brazil Estudio Pereda 4, S.L., Spain Etteplan Vataple Technology Centre Ltd., China Fabryka Kotlow SEFAKO, Poland Ferchau Engineering GmbH, Germany Ferrostaal Solar S.L.U., Spain FL Industries, Inc., USA Fluor Engineering n.v., Belgium Fores Engineering S.r.l. , Italy Frames Gas Processing B.V., Netherlands Genel Sistem Dizayni Muh. Bil. Taah, Turkey Geostock S.A.S., France Ghenova Brasil Projetos Ltda, Brazil GMI S.A., Peru

Grizzly Oil Sands ULC, Canada GSPI, Russia

Müller & Randow UG, Germany MW Power Oy, Finland

Halvorsen Offshore AS, Norway Hancock Coal, Australia Hangzhou Hangyang Chemical & Medical Engineering Co., Ltd., China Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., Ltd. (Construction Division), Korea Hanse-Yard-Projekt UG, Germany Hargrove and Associates, USA Hays Temp GmbH, Germany Hemisul.Scet Solucoes de Eng. e Tec. Ltda., Brazil Hertel Marine Services BV, Netherlands Holz Nett Iberia S.L.U., Spain Hwaseung R&A Co., Ltd., Korea

Navis Dizayn Müh. Gemi Ins. San.Tic.Ltd.Sti, Turkey NEC S.r.l., Italy NIPIgazpererabotka, Russia Northam Engineering S.A DE C.V, Mexico Nymo AS, Norway

I.C.E Srl, Italy Iconsa, Spain IKM Ocean Design AS, Norway iks Engineering GmbH, Germany Industry-University Cooperation Foundation of Changwon National University, Korea INFAUTELEC Process, France Innovative Process Solutions, Malaysia J. Ray McDermott de Mexico S.A. de C.V., Mexico Jinju Campus of Korea Polytechnic VII (JCKOPO), Korea JPTE Engenharia Ltda, Brazil KangWon B&E Co., Ltd., Korea Karlsruher Institut of Technology (KIT), Germany KazStroyProject PV, Kazakhstan KeangNam Enterprises Co., Ltd., Korea Kentz Engineering International Co. Ltd., Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Keystone Engineering, Inc., USA KING, Russia Kok & Van Engelen Composite Structures BV, Netherlands Korea East-West Power Co., Ltd. Dangjin Coal Fired Power Complex, Korea Korea Gas Technology Corporation, Korea KROHNE, Italy Kuwait Oil Company (KOC), Kuwait L&T - Chiyoda Limited, India L&T Modular Fabrication Yard, Oman Laing O’Rourke, Australia Le Gaz Integral, France LG Toyo Engineering Co., Ltd., Korea Lonza AG, Switzerland M-I SWACO, UK Mackay Sugar, Australia Marine Technology Co., Ltd., Korea MAT Incendio Engenharia de Incendio Ltda, Brazil MFP Michelin, France Millennium Project Corp., Korea MIPAC, Australia Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha, Ltd., Japan MMG, Australia Morgan Sindall, Switzerland Morson Projects Ltd, UK Movens, S. A. de C.V., Mexico

Oceanografia S.A. de C.V., Mexico Odebrecht Oleo e Gas SA, Brazil Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., India Optimus (Aberdeen) Limited, UK Parifex, France PDC Global, Australia PDS Protek AS, Norway Penspen Limited, Thailand Perenco Peru Petroleum Limited, Peru Petrogas, gas-systems bv, Netherlands Petroleum Equipment Assembly & Metal Structure JSC, Vietnam PetroPheonix Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd, India PMS Engineering SpA, Italy Polymont, France Polynom, Russia Premium Engineering, Russia Pro-Team S.r.l., Italy Procyon Oil & Gas Ltd, UK PROECO Srl, Italy Professional Consulting Services, LLC, USA Progett, Italy PROJYTECH, France PROMER Musavirlik Muhendislik Ltd, Turkey Quality Engineering & Softwares Technologies Pvt. Ltd., India Quosit srl, Italy R.P. Sarda S.r.l., Italy Rejlers Ingenjörer AB, Sweden Reva Phoenix Engineers & Consultants India Pvt. Ltd., India Richtech International Engineering, Inc., USA S.E.I., France Samsung Engineering America Inc., USA Samsung Engineering Pvt. Ltd., India Sanyu Civil Engineering Corporation, Japan Sargent & Lundy, L.L.C., USA Sartorius Stedim India Pvt. Ltd., India SAV Oy, Finland Saudi Aramco, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SAUDI ARAMCO TOTAL Refining Petrochemical Company (SATORP), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas Argentina S.A., Argentina Sereng Engenharia e Consultoria Ltda., Brazil Servicios Industriales De La Marina, S.A., Peru SevZap NTC, Russia Sheridan Institute of Technology, Canada Ship Design Group, Romania Shiva Pharmachem Limited, India Siemens Power Engineering Private Limited, India

Six Tee Engineering Groups Pte Ltd, Singapore SKG Consulting, USA SmartBrains Engineers & Technologist Pvt. Ltd., India Sobegi, France Solaris Management Consultants Inc., Canada Solios Environnement, Inc., Canada Sophia Conseils, France St. Petersburg EC, Russia Staff srl, Italy Statoil Refinery Denmark A/S, Denmark STP&I Public Company Limited, Thailand STRABAG Energy Technologies GmbH, Austria Sunbo Unitech Co., Ltd., Korea SunRui Marine Environment Engineering Company, China SYNOPEX INC., Korea Talisman Energy (UK) Limited, UK Tata Consultancy Services, India TBP Engineering GmbH, Austria TBP Interprojekt, Poland Tebodin and Partners, Oman TECHINT Chile, S.A., Chile Techint Compania Tecnica Internacional S.A.C., Argentina Techint Engenharia e Construcao SA, Brazil Technodyne International Ltd, UK Tekhnoproject KNHP, Russia Telsan Engenharia e Servicos, Brazil Tenova S.p.A., Italy Terminale GNL Adriatico S.r.l., Italy The Art Institute of Houston, Inc., USA Tianjin Ship-repairing Technology Research Institute, China TN2Z Engenharia Ltda, Brazil Tome Engenharia S.A, Brazil Toyo Engineering Corporation, China Toyo Engineering India Ltd., India TP Tecnologie e Progettazioni, Italy TR Engineering, Oman Turbo Maquinaria y Equlpos Especiales, Mexico Uhde India Limited, India Universidad Tecnologica De Peru, Peru VERDON, Belgium Vista Projects Ltd., Canada VolgogradNIPImorneft, Russia Vosta LMG BV, Germany Westinghouse Electric South Africa (Pty) Ltd, South Africa Wideurope Engineering Italy s.r.l., Italy Yantar SY, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Russia Yokohama National University, Japan Youxim United Engineering Co., Ltd., China YUHA Engineering Co., Korea Zaklady Chemiczne Organika-Sarzyna S.A., Poland Zeppelin Systems India Pvt. Ltd., India Zhenhai Petrochemical Engineering Co., Ltd., China

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