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The Design and Implement of FPSO Assets Management System

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Procedia Environmental Sciences 12 (2012) 484 – 490

2011 International Conference on Environmental Science and Engineering

(ICESE 2011)
The Design and Implement of FPSO Assets Management
System
Gang MAa,Liping SUNb
a
Deepwater Engineering Research Center,Harbin Engineering University
Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China,magang@hrbeu.edu.cn
b
Deepwater Engineering Research Center,Harbin Engineering University
Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, China,sunliping@hrbeu.edu.cn

Abstract

The main target of FPSO assets management is to control risk of operation, assure security of production, maintain
integrity of equipment, collect assets information, assure capital operation, arrange human resources and logistics.
FPSO assets management is an entire omnibearing process to make sure the business flow working well.
The software FAMS: FPSO Assets Management System is a WEB2.0 application software which is developed based
on JAVA technology. FPSO assets management system has unique industry characteristic, different parts can be
integrated into one system. The integrity of these parts is useful for FPSO management to increase productivity and
decrease cost and risk.
FPSO assets management has three main parts which are input, core and output. The input part is the basis of the
whole system. The input includes technology informtion, business information and others. The core part includes life
cycle management, FPSO risk mangement, product operation management, maritime affairs management, equipment
management, business contract management, financial affairs management, human resources management,
information management and FPSO fleet management. The output part has most functions of the system, including
information search, strategic decision support and management execution.
FAMS will promote the assets management control, digitize assets information, monitor product operation
process, supply strategic decision support and so on. In a word, FPSO Assets Management will be helpful for
company to create their own competitive strength.These instructions give you the basic guidelines for preparing
papers for WCICA/IEEE conference proceedings.

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Keywords: FPSO assets management system, JAVA, WEB.

This work is partially supported by “111” Project of China and CNOOC Energy Technology & Services-Oil Production Services
Co..

1878-0296 © 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of National University of Singapore.
doi:10.1016/j.proenv.2012.01.307
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1.Introduction

FPSO is Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit (Fig. 1). Broadly speaking, FPSO assets
management can be divided into tangible and intangible assets management. The tangible assets involve
hull structure, mooring system, process system, offloading system and plant operations and maintenance
of FPSO, etc. Intangible assets include intellectual capital structure, the cultivation, financing,
distribution of knowledge capital and efficiency evaluation system, working process of all aspects of
company management, etc[1].

Fig. 1 FPSO 113 of CNOOC

FPSO assets can be managed from the point of either industry or key unit of enterprise. Actually,
FPSO assets management is the concentration of a whole enterprise management. Enterprise management
is excuted on the basis of tangible assets, the target object is mainly focused on the motion of physical
captial, and the main subjects are the raising, investment, distribution, and tangible assets daily
management, etc. At the same pattern, the tangible assets management is the key point of FPSO assets
mangement.
The possessed, scale, quality of intangible assets and level of management represent the company’s
technical strength and competition ability. Intangible assets management is becoming more and more
important with the development of industrial process. In the past, asset management is often neglected in
the enterprise. Compared with tangible assets, loss and leakage of intangible assets is more easily.

2.FPSO assets management

2.1.Characteristics of FPSO assets management

The FPSO assets management has its unique features as following: FPSO belongs to relatively
independent assets unit and needs a complete system of scientific management; Advanced management
system must be adopted due to the high cost on operation and maintenance of FPSO facilities and
equipment; Experience and scientific are important because of the concentrated technology, complex
system, large quntity and various types of the equipment.
FPSO has great risk on safety and investment, so that the management should have the ability to
control and deal with all kinds of risk. FPSO also has its unique type of risk, including the decision-
making process on economic aspect, the control process on investment and construction, production
operation process on the sea over long time and so on[2].
FPSO has unique facilities such as mooring system, offloading system, riser system, power system,
safety system, process system, etc. There are thousands of equipment on the FPSO, the difficulty is very
high. The management of facilities and equipment is always the core part of FPSO assets management.
As usual, the requirement is set to keep the effective working time above 95%, which is very strict and
not easy to reach. So that it is very important to establish rules and classify the management in order to
manage so many facilities.
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The life of FPSO is usually more than 20 or 30 years, FPSO should be managed over all life cycle,
which starts from schemen demonstratable stage to abandonment stage. The whole life cycle also
includes development plan, investment analysis, project bidding, contract negotiation, design,
construction, installation, debugging and deploying management, process management and scrap
retirement, etc. It should not be neglected on the management of stop production, divert of oil field, idle
equipment, waste equipment, etc.

2.2.Ideas of FPSO ASSETS MANAGEMENT

It is actually the preventive maintenance to make project maintenance plan of facilities according to
the proportion of operating cost per year when the FPSO is used just as pure production facilities. The
mind of management is changed when the FPSO is used as capital on the production of offshore
petroleum and gas engineering. The task of the FPSO assets mangement is turned to operation risk
control, ensure safe production, maintain complete facilities maintenance and operation, ensure
implementation of contract, ensure exact information of assets, ensure capital benign operation, ensure
the timely human and logistical support, etc. FPSO assets management system is the important guarantee
to realize major assets value to grow.
FPSO assets management embodies the systematic thought. FPSO assets management is designed to
inforamtionize assets management and keep data tracked with the support of proper computer softwares
and integrated with Enterprise Resource Plan (ERP) and Office Automatic (OA).

2.3.FPSO management mode

The FPSO management mode can be classified into three patterns: managed by oil company, managed
by oilfield operator and managed by FPSO provider (Fig. 2). Oil company management mode means that
the oil company affords the construction of one FPSO to exploit one oil field and manage the whole
FPSO. Oilfield operator management mode means that oilfield operator and partners afford the
construction of FPSO. FPSO is managed by oilfield operator. These operators are generally international
oil companies which have powerful strength in the capital and technology. FPSO provider has strong
technical support, advanced management concept and scientific management system. FPSO provider is
capable of providing many kinds of services for oil company and oilfield operator. There are many FPSO
management companies in the world, such as SBM, BLUEWATER, TK/IUM and PROSAFE etc.

Oil Company
Management
Mode

Oilfield
FPSO
Operator
Management
Management
Mode
Mode

FPSO Provider
Management
Mode

Fig. 2. FPSO Management Mode

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At the beginning, FPSO is invested and constructed by oil company for the requirement of petraleum
and gas exploit. But oil company can not put much more energy on the FPSO management because of the
rapid development of ocean oil exploit. Additionally, some oil cmpanies can’t take control of the local
actual condition. So some FPSO providers are starting on stage to meet these requirements. The first
FPSO provider is MODEC company which is responsible for the Clyde to invest and re-construct FPSO
Kapap Natuna which is designed for loading 13.6 million tons and used in Natuna oilfield located in
Indonesia. This mode gains popularity by oil company and oilfield opetator at the beginning.

2.4.Implementation OF FPSO assets management

The implementation of FPSO assets management is based on high qulity staffs and scientific
management system. The methods are including the reasonable cultivation of talents, perfecting system
construction, all kinds of operation, maintenance, maintenance manual, various operating procedures,
asset management system, and realization methods, such as QMS, Maximo, three-dimensional digital
simulation system, production simulation control system, information database, etc.
The structure of FPSO assets management system (FAMS) is very complex, and the whole system can
be divided into three parts: input, system function and output (Fig. 3). The three parts have different
responsibilities and play different roles in managing FPSO assets. The whole system is created on the
basis of informationized data.
The FPSO assets management system is created for local net or internet and has many modules, such
as users management, authority management, product operation management, risk mangement, design
and construction management, commissioning and start-up management, FPSO fleet management,
production management, operation and maintenance, maritime affairs management, hull
management,facilities management, equipment management, offloading management, riser system
management, mooring system management, FPSO plan, Information resource management, business
contract management, financial affairs management, human resources management, etc[3,4].
Managed Data Technical Data Other Information

Product Operation Management Risk Mangement

Design and Construction Commissioning and Start-up

FPSO fleet Management Operation and Maintenance

Maritime Affairs Management

Search Excute Support

Fig. 3. Structure and Modules of FAMS

FPSO assets management system is architected by five layers which are client layer, presentation
layer, business layer, persistence layer and database layer (Fig. 4)[5]. When one user makes a action on
the page from client layer, a request is sent to the server, the presentation layer catches the request and
analizes the parameters, the controller in the presentation layer transfers program in the business layer
after basic judgement. The business layer is the kernel, it will make a CRUD(Create, Read, Update,
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Delete) operation on the database layer through persistence layer to get proper data and return data to
presentation layer. This is only a simple working flow, the actual flow depends on business routine.

Fig. 4. Architecture of System in Server Side

The requirement is analyzed with Unified Modeling Language (UML), one example is showed in Fig.
5. Then the interface (Fig. 6) is created according to the requirement analysis, specific implementation for
the interface is programed. At the same time, corresponding database tables are created, some tables'
structure is showed in Fig. 7. Finally, the whole software is created, Fig. 8 is the home page in running
time.
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Fig. 5 Requirement Analysis with UML

Fig. 6. Interface in FAMS

Fig. 7. Structure of Database Tables in FAMS

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Fig. 8. Home Page of FAMS

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the support of “111” Project of China and
CNOOC Energy Technology & Services-Oil Production Services Co..

Conclusions

Assets management is an important part for FPSO management. The basic concept and classification
of FPSO assets management are defined. There are many special characteristics for FPSO assets
management, such as mooring system management, riser system management, offloading system, etc.
Ideas of FPSO management method are studied. Three FPSO management modes are analyzed. Finnaly,
FPSO Assets Management System is designed and created with JAVA as a web application software.
This software will be useful for FPSO management.

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