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MatthewsDaniel completes Heidelberg Marine Warranty
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, November 3, 2015 – MatthewsDaniel
has safely completed its Marine Warranty Services for Anadarko on the
installation of the Heidelberg spar in the Gulf of Mexico. The installation was
done utilizing the semi-submersible crane vessel Thialf. MatthewsDaniel
provided project engineering review and attendance monitoring for all critical
operations including the lift and set of the spar production topside, living
quarters module, stair towers, platform crane, flare boom, and cellar deck
extension.
Kevin Jarman, CEO,
MatthewsDaniel, says, “MatthewsDaniel enjoys a long-standing relationship with
Anadarko, dating from our appointment in 1996 as Marine Warranty Surveyor for
the transport and installation of the world's first production spar. This is the latest example of MatthewsDaniel
providing valued marine expertise for transport and installation of their
high-value assets.”
Located in the Green Canyon Area of the Gulf of
Mexico, the Heidelberg joint-venture is led by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
and features a truss-spar design. The spar dimensions are
33.5 m diameter, 184 m length and gross weight of nearly 20,000 tonnes, moored
by nine combination chain/polyester mooring legs in 1,600 m water depth.
Installation of the
topsides involved transportation to its location 390 miles offshore from Corpus
Christi, Texas and a lift of 9,255 tonnes to set the main topside in
place.
MatthewsDaniel is
part of the Bureau Veritas Group, a world leader in conformity assessment and
certification services. Headquartered in London, with offices in Europe, the
Middle East, Asia and the Americas, MatthewsDaniel is widely recognised for its
expertise in marine warranty surveys and engineering reviews, risk assessment
and valuation services and specialist loss adjusting, focussing on the energy
and marine sectors. It also operates a dedicated weather forecasting,
monitoring and forensic meteorology service.
About Bureau Veritas
Bureau
Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification
services. Created in 1828, the Group has more than 66,000 employees in around
1,400 offices and laboratories located all across the globe. Bureau Veritas
helps its clients to improve their performance by offering services and innovative
solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and
processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and
safety, environmental protection and social responsibility. Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the Next 20
index. Compartment A, ISIN code FR 0006174348, stock
symbol: BVI.
For more information, go to www.bureauveritas.com
www.veristar.com
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James Vavasour
MatthewsDaniel
+1 713
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Labels: classification society, marine warranty, offshore energy
RINA Group widens gas sector services
International classification, certification and
engineering group RINA has widened its services to the global gas industry.
While its traditional classification society arm RINA Services has recently
approved a new Compressed Natural Gas carrier to aid the exploitation of
marginal fields, the groups’ engineering arm, D’Appolonia, is delivering
geotechnical, social and environmental services to the Mozambique LNG
development.
The gas market and technology are constantly changing,
and RINA Services and D’Appolonia lead those changes. The first offshore FSRU,
the first FLNG project, the first marine CNG ship and the longest offshore
pipeline were all delivered with RINA expertise and assistance.
Mozambique LNG
project
D’Appolonia has completed a major near shore site
investigation for ENI’s Mozambique LNG project. The survey included
environmental, geophysical and geotechnical teams, utilizing two jack up
platforms, three survey spreads, a mobile field laboratory and over fifty site
personnel. Data will be used for design of the marine facilities of the
terminal and the landfall for the gas pipeline arriving from the offshore
wells. The terminal will consist of gas receiving and processing, liquefaction
facilities, cryogenic storage tanks and loadout facilities to export the
liquefied gas via tankers.
D’Appolonia is also acting as the Independent
Environmental and Social Consultant foreseeing the development of offshore
production facilities, subsea gas pipelines, and onshore LNG processing
facilities. D’Appolonia’s Lenders Engineering division is currently undertaking
the Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) for the Mozambique LNG
Project, which is a first of its kind LNG facility on the east coast of Africa.
Approval in Principle for CNG Carrier
RINA Services has approved in principle the Fincantieri Offshore CNG32000 ship design
which is aimed at delivering a cost-effective solution for monetizing marginal
gas fields using Compressed Natural Gas technology. The vessel has a
double-hull and a cutting-edge system of racks that are separately demountable
for in-depth and safer maintenance.
RINA Services has developed rules to cover the safety
issues related to CNG transportation, with the aid of Approval in Principle and
Technology Qualification certifications to cover the most important aspects
relevant to the fitness for service.
Transporting natural gas under pressure as CNG instead
of liquefying it offers advantages of simplicity and much lower cost and so
makes viable alternative means of exploiting isolated or marginal gas fields
which will not support a full infrastructure.
The CNG32000 design features a CNG cargo handling
system and a CNG storage system. This entails 500 racks of metallic vessels at
166 bar and 25°C, each rack accommodating twelve pressure vessels of about 5.35
cu m arranged in ten cargo holds giving an overall transport volume
of 32,000 cu m (1.13 MMscf).
The design follows the recently issued RINA Rules for
the Classification of CNG Carriers and IGF Code, and is supported by extensive
risk assessment studies on the ship safety, safe operations and environmental
protection, including collision studies, which are being carried out in the
expected areas where the CNG32000 will trade.
VISIT RINA AT GASTECH STAND Hall 4 stand C390
D’Appolonia S.p.A
provides integrated engineering services to the public and private markets in
the areas of the environment, oil and gas, infrastructure and transport,
electronics and telecommunications. D’Appolonia is part of the RINA Group, a
leading international classification, verification and certification provider.
RINA Services is the
RINA group company which delivers ship classification, and testing, inspection
and certification services. www.rina.org
RINA is a multi-national
group which delivers verification, certification, conformity assessment, marine
classification, environmental enhancement, product testing, site and vendor
supervision, training and engineering consultancy across a wide range of
industries and services. RINA operates through a network of companies covering
Marine, Energy, Infrastructures & Construction, Transport & Logistics,
Food & Agriculture, Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Public
Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of over 330 million Euros
in 2014, over 2,750 employees, and 163 offices in 60 countries worldwide, RINA
is recognized as an authoritative member of key international organizations and
an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards. www.rinagroup.org
Contacts:
Giulia
Faravelli
Head of Media
& Internal Communication RINA
+39 010
5385505
Victoria
Silvestri
Media
Relations RINA
+39 010
5385555
Labels: classification society, lng, offshore energy
RINA Services acquires QIC Inc to expand oil and gas services
Expanding international testing, inspection, certification and
consulting engineering group RINA has acquired Houston-based QIC Inc as part of
its strategy to expand and internationalise services to the oil and gas
industries.
QIC (www.qicinc.com) is a leading
testing, inspection and certification (TIC) company serving major and
independent operators as well as manufacturers in the energy industry. The company
provides highly trained and experienced quality field inspectors, consultants,
engineers and specialists to deliver customers mission-critical, quality
surveillance and ensure asset integrity. Founded in 1990, and headquartered in
Houston, Texas, QIC has expanded its presence globally with locations in
Louisiana, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Malaysia. Existing QIC management
will continue to lead the company’s operations as part of the RINA group of
companies.
“We are very pleased with the opportunities this combination will bring
to our loyal customers and employees,” said Douglas Fletcher, founder of QIC.
“We could not have selected a better partner than RINA to drive expansion and
take QIC to the next level.”
QIC will maintain its brand and operate as a RINA group company. The acquisition
reflects RINA’s strategy of growing by acquiring high quality companies with
complementary expertise and access to new markets, among which US holds a great
potential for the Italy-based company. At the same time, QIC will be able to
widen the range of services offered to its clients and expand into areas where
RINA is already strong as a certification and classification society.
“QIC is a well-established TIC company with a strong, blue-chip customer
base of operators and manufacturers operating globally with expertise that
complements that of RINA,” said Stefano Socci, General Manager Americas, RINA
Services. “The RINA and QIC combination will allow us to more rapidly expand
our presence in the global offshore and subsea markets.”
RINA is a multi-national group which delivers
verification, certification, conformity assessment, marine classification,
environmental enhancement, product testing, site and vendor supervision,
training and engineering consultancy across a wide range of industries and
services. RINA operates through a network of companies covering Marine, Energy,
Infrastructures & Construction, Transport & Logistics, Food &
Agriculture, Environment & Sustainability, Finance & Public
Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of over 330 million Euros
in 2014, over 2,750 employees, and 163 offices in 60 countries worldwide, RINA
is recognized as an authoritative member of key international organizations and
an important contributor to the development of new legislative standards.
Contacts
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RINA
Giulia
Faravelli
Media
Relations Manager RINA
+39
010 5385505
Victoria
Silvestri
Media
Relations RINA
+39
010 5385555
victoria.silvestri@rina.org
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QIC
Chad Fletcher
Vice President
+1 281 370 2700
Kyle Fletcher
Vice President
+1 281 370 2700
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Labels: inspection, offshore energy, oil& gas, project management, testing
RINA develops new rules for offshore platforms
Italy’s
RINA Services has responded to the challenges of life extension and new
regulatory regimes by completely updating its Rules for the Classification of
Fixed Offshore Platforms. The new rules and guidelines will be published in May
2015 and will cover classification, certification and verification of fixed
offshore oil and gas platforms.
Andrea
Bombardi, Head of the Energy Department, RINA Services, says, “The rules and
guidance provide a comprehensive guide to classification, certification and
verification. They are a cradle-to-grave framework for the structural and
process safety of the entire platform. They build on RINA’s experience with
offshore platforms in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian and Atlantic oceans
and the Caspian Sea. The new rules facilitate life extension, reduce downtime
caused by inspection and maintenance and give owners more choices and control
over their design, operation and maintenance strategies.”
Original
design, fabrication, installation, structural assessment, topside process
certification, life extension assessment and de-commissioning are all covered.
Environmental protection is central
to the new rules which have been developed with the aim of significantly
reducing the risk of accidents and environmental damage.
Platform
designers and operators can choose from and mix three approaches:
classification, certification and verification.
Under each of the
approaches RINA’s rules now allow for Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD),
a probabilistic approach to structural assessment. International standards
incorporated include API RP 2A and the ISO 19900 series.
The rules set out
clear guidelines and requirements for assessing fatigue and corrosion issues to
determine what must be done to allow platforms to continue to operate beyond
their design life. The life extension approach incorporates Risk-Based Inspection
(RBI) and risk-based maintenance planning. RBI can provide significant economic
benefits for operators by better targeting of inspection and maintenance
resources and reduced downtime.
RBI and monitoring
and measurement in service are included in the requirements and guidance for
topside process certification or verification.
Says Bombardi, “The
new rules provide all parties with clear pathways and choices between all the
most modern techniques and technology for the design, fabrication, installation,
operation, life extension and de-commissioning of offshore fixed platforms.”
RINA Services S.p.A. is the RINA group company active in
classification, certification, inspection and testing services. RINA is a
multi-national group which delivers verification, certification, conformity
assessment, marine classification, environmental enhancement, product testing,
site and vendor supervision, training and engineering consultancy across a wide
range of industries and services. RINA operates through a network of companies
covering Marine, Energy, Infrastructures & Construction, Transport &
Logistics, Food & Agriculture, Environment & Sustainability, Finance
& Public Institutions and Business Governance. With a turnover of over 294
million Euros in 2013, over 2,500 employees, and 163 offices in 57 countries
worldwide, RINA is recognized as an authoritative member of key international
organizations and an important contributor to the development of new
legislative standards.
For more information:
Giulia
Faravelli
Media
Relations Manager RINA
+39
010 5385505
Victoria
Silvestri
Media Relations RINA
+39 010 5385555
Labels: classification, maintenance, offshore energy, offshore safety, risk-based inspection, verification
Bureau Veritas classes Brazil's largest FPU
Petrobras’ P-55 Floating Production Unit (FPU), the largest and the first of this kind entirely built in Brazil, is on its way to the Roncador Field, Campos Basin, where it will be installed in a water depth of 1,790 metres. The column stabilized semi-submersible has a capacity of 180,000 bopd and 6,000,000 cu m of gas. The unit is classed by Bureau Veritas. BV group companies also provided a wide range of verification and support services which made the major project possible.
Philippe Donche-Gay, Executive Vice-President and head of Bureau Veritas’ Marine and Offshore division says, “We are immensely proud to see this major offshore production unit on its way to its deepwater site. It is a real demonstration of the capacity of Bureau Veritas to help offshore operators to develop safe and effective offshore capacity. We have very large and technically skilled teams in Brazil who have been working closely with Petrobras for the last six years to deliver this project. The range of services we have contributed brings together our skills and experience with marine floating units, risk and safety of energy plants and equipment and our ability to manage major multi-site complex projects.”
BV group services to the P-55 project include classification and statutory certification plus:
- Design review for the entire project including structure, mechanical systems, electrical and automation, process, safety, hydrodynamics and the mooring system.
- Independent Risk and Safety studies performed during the FEED and detailed design phases, including PHA, HAZID, HAZOP, SIL/LOPA, dropped objects and collision studies, gas dispersion, fire, explosion and flare CFD 3D simulations and noise studies.
- Design review of lower hull structural integrity during assembling phase at Estaleiro Atlantico Sul.
- Independent structural studies performed by Tecnitas for the lifting of P-55 lower hull megablocks (up to 2,500 tonnes).
- Design review and second party inspections on behalf of Petrobras for the assembly and installation of the P-55 Steel Catenary Risers (SCR) export lines.
- P-55 flexible risers and flowlines Type Approved by Bureau Veritas.
The P-55 was designed by Petrobras R&D Department (CENPES) and GUSTO (deck box and topsides). It was built over several sites simultaneously. The main ones were the lower hull fabrication and assembly at Estaleiro Atlantico Sul (EAS) in Suape, Pernambuco state and main production modules fabrication, integration and commissioning by QUIP at Estaleiro Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul state.
P-55 in numbers:
Column Stabilized unit platform of 50,000 tonnes lightship
Length: 104 m x Width 94 m (Foot Print)
Height: 130 m (including flare tower)
Spread / Semi-Taut mooring system with 16 mooring lines
Accommodation Module for 120 persons
Distance from the Brazilian Coast 127 km
100 MW Generator System + Waste Heat Recovery System – equivalent to a town of 400,000 people.
17 wells (11 production and 6 water injection)
110 km of subsea flexible lines and 70 km of umbilicals
Oil export for P-54 (12", 14 km extension) and PRA-1 (12", 46 km extension), a fixed offshore pumping platform also certified during construction by Bureau Veritas in Brazil.
l Bureau Veritas is a world leader in conformity assessment and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has 61,000 employees in around 1,330 offices and laboratories located in 140 countries. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.
www.bureauveritas.com for corporate information www.veristar.com for marine information
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Sergio Mello
Commercial Vice President
BV Brazil Marine and Offshore
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Labels: Brazil, classification, offshore energy
Bureau Veritas launches pipeline damage assessment tool
Tecnitas, the marine advisory arm of leading
international classification and verification group Bureau Veritas, has
launched a major new technology simulation system for pipeline damage
assessment, in collaboration with Total. This new technology system, called
EMPREINTE, allows pipeline operators to quickly determine safe operating
pressures after a pipeline is damaged. It is a software suite which provides a
vital decision making tool which will save operators money and cut downtime for
pipeline repairs.
Offshore energy pipelines can sustain all sorts of
damage like
dents and gouges due to external injuries, internal or external corrosion due
to a corrosive effluent and failure of coating or cathodic protection, weld
defects and straining due to ground movements. Operators need to know if the
pipeline is safe to continue operating or if some pressure reduction or
shutdown is required. EMPREINTE does that very quickly.
Level 3
assessments of pipeline damage are based on advanced calculations such as
finite elements. The advantage of finite element calculations is that they give
a more accurate assessment of the state of the pipe and the safe operating
pressure but they need usually detailed material data and are very time
consuming. EMPREINTE is a pre and post processor to Abaqus finite element
calculations which will perform reasonably conservative level 3 assessments in
a very short time period, typically within 48 hours from defect discovery to
assessment. That will typically permit pipeline use to continue when it might
otherwise have needed to be shut for repairs. EMPREINTE can also be used in the
design phase of the pipeline.
The principle of EMPREINTE,
based on finite element calculations, is to use the defect pipe profile to
design back a virtual tool from which the damaging process is modelled. The
burst strength of the damaged pipe is determined after an iterative process to
match the measured and calculated profiles. This actual burst strength is used
to derive a safe operating pressure.
The
tool has been validated with full scale tests in various conditions. It
includes criteria to capture failure by plastic collapse and by ductile
fracture after significant damage development. It has been recently extended to
the assessment of dents submitted to cyclic loading conditions using the Dang
Van criterion.
To download a graphic of a damaged pipeline model go
to: http://bit.ly/pYqIVs or e mail john@merlinco.com
Visit Bureau Veritas at Offshore Energy Amsterdam
15/16 October Stand No 9.011 (Hall 9)
l Bureau Veritas
is a world leader in conformity assessment and certification services. Created
in 1828, the Group has 61,000 employees in around 1,330 offices and
laboratories located in 140 countries. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to
improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in
order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet
standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental
protection and social responsibility.
www.bureauveritas.com for corporate
information www.veristar.com for marine information
For more
information:
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Fontanabona
Engineer Project Manager
Tecnitas
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Labels: cost-savings, offshore energy, pipeline damage, pipelines
Bureau Veritas sharpens ice tools
Leading international classification
society Bureau Veritas has responded to demand for safe LNG transportation in
the Arctic regions by developing new high-level tools to assess cargo sloshing
in ice conditions. It has also developed a cutting-edge probabilistic method
for assessing ice loads on structure which will reduce the time and data needed
to assess the structure of vessels and units designed for heavy ice operation.
Pierre Besse, Director of Innovation,
Bureau Veritas, says, “All eyes are on the Arctic sea routes and on the opening
up of the Arctic mineral and energy resources. We have to ensure the vessels
and offshore units that operate in those extreme conditions are safe. That is
why we have invested heavily in research into ice loads on structure and the
effects of cargo sloshing caused by collisions with ice for LNG carriers and
oil tankers. That investment gives us powerful tools which we are using to
shorten the time needed to assess designs for key Arctic projects and routes.”
A new module for Bureau Veritas’ IceSTAR
ice load calculation tool will calculate the kinetic energy imparted to the
cargo by a collision with ice. The kinematics derived from IceSTAR can then be
used together with CFD analysis to determine how the cargo will slosh and the
extra loads this will impose on the ship’s structure and the LNG containment
system.
Says Besse, “When gas and oil cargoes
begin moving regularly through the Arctic it is certain that ships and ice will
interact. The energy from those collisions will cause the cargo to move violently,
and we have to make sure the ships and especially LNG containment systems are
built to withstand that. It is a complex calculation requiring high level
modelling but we can do that, and do it in a commercially acceptable time
frame. BV is working on a number of high Arctic projects such as Shtokman and
Yamal and these tools will make them safe and ready more quickly.”
A research collaboration with the State
Maritime Technical University of St Petersburg has led to BV upgrading IceSTAR
to include the use of probabilistic methods to calculate ice loads. “Ice
properties vary widely,” explains Besse. “There are always issues with input
data. This research has proven that using stochastic methods we can overcome
limitations in the input data to produce safe and robust outputs for the loads
which ships and offshore structures may expect from Arctic ice.”
VISIT Bureau
Veritas at NEVA, St Petersburg, September 24 - 28. Hall 7 Stand Number R7213
Bureau
Veritas is a world leader in conformity assessment and certification services.
Created in 1828, the Group has 59,000 employees in around 1,330 offices and
laboratories located in 140 countries. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to
improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in
order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet
standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental
protection and social responsibility.
www.bureauveritas.com for corporate
information www.veristar.com for marine information
For
more information:
Pierre
Besse
Director
of Innovation
Bureau
Veritas
+33
1 55 24 7465
Labels: arctic, classification, ice, navigation, offshore energy
OSD to design Boskalis-SMIT cable laying vessel
OSD-IMT, the UK arm of IJmuiden-based Offshore Ship Designers, has been chosen by Samsung and Boskalis-SMIT Engineering to develop the basic design, detailed design and production drawings for a 99 m cable laying vessel. Neil Patterson, managing director of OSD-IMT, says, “This project illustrates perfectly the strengths of the OSD group. We can bring strong offshore engineering experience in the UK to bear on the basic design, and work with our Shanghai office to develop the yard drawings. It is a unique new vessel and we will carry out the model testing programme, noise and vibration analysis and impact and damaged stability analysis in addition to developing the design.” The vessel combines a large, obstruction free main deck with ample accommodation facilities, allowing for multiple future configuration possibilities. In the current cable laying configuration, the deck has a cable loading capacity of 5,000 tonnes. Under a separate contract OSD-IMT has been tasked by Dales Engineering Ltd, Aberdeen to design and develop the upgrade conversion production drawings for the Farstad-owned UT 755 multi-role 67 m PSV FAR SCOTIA. The new design will provide upgraded existing and new additional accommodation, ROV equipment and associated seating, new A-frame and associated winches/seating, new deck cranes and associated column/stiffening, new workboat and associated davit and seating. Offshore Ship Designers Group (OSD) is a global one-stop resource delivering naval architecture and marine engineering skills to the shipping and offshore energy industries. It draws on an experienced global workforce to provide high quality feasibility studies, conceptual and detailed designs for tugs and offshore support vessels of all types. OSD is based in IJmuiden, The Netherlands, and has offices in Montrose, York, Appledore, Shanghai and Singapore. www.offshoreshipdesigners.com For a PDF graphic of the Cable Layer concept see attachment or e mail john@merlinco.comOr click this link to find downloadable photos: https://picasaweb.google.com/103296423705491052226/OffshoreShipDesignersFor more information: Merijn Brusselers Offshore Ship Designers +31 (0)255 54 50 70 brusselers@offshoreshipdesigners.comLabels: cable laying, offshore energy, ship design
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