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BROCHURE

Integrity management for

upstream oil and gas facilities
Extending asset life, improving
reliability, sustaining production
and ensuring safety
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Integrity management for
upstream oil and gas
Platforms, FPSOs and terminals
We will help you secure the benefits of effective
integrity management across the whole business:
-- Production - avoid unscheduled outages
-- Maintenance - more accurate prediction of
maintenance spend
-- Management - sustain safe and predictable
business performance and optimise CAPEX and
OPEX
ABB provides technical consulting and
engineering services to improve performance in
the areas of compliance, operations and
engineering to upstream and downstream oil &
gas installations.
We can advise, support and enhance every stage
of your business-critical operations.
In ABB we have extensive experience of helping
our clients set up cost effective asset integrity
programmes for platforms and terminals.
The business challenge
Many of the oil and gas facilities around the world
are operating beyond their nominal design life.
The challenge: how to maintain production
capability in a safe and cost effective way whilst
preserving the integrity of those assets?
Whats does an effective asset integrity
management approach involve?
Implementing asset integrity management
requires that all aspects of ongoing operations
are properly designed, constructed, tested,
operated, inspected and maintained in the most
effective way. It necessitates a risk based
approach, to help focus limited resource and
time. But it also involves appropriate attention to
the ‘less critical’ assets.
Our approach
ABB’s approach encompasses structural, piping,
mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control
systems and the safety critical systems.
Our clients value our capabilities in asset integrity
management for a wide range of reasons
including:
-- A vast array of knowledge and experience on
asset integrity that has been developed over
many years of helping oil and gas industry
clients
-- Our ability to be independent and objective and
apply relevant knowledge from other high
hazard industries
-- Our ability to view things from an operational
perspective, backed up by deep technical
expertise, means the solutions we provide are
of immediate application and value
-- Our UKAS accredited inspection teams.
Assuring equipment integrity using a risk based
methodology for inspection and monitoring
-- We work with our clients as an integrated team,
delivering the agreed aspects and we will
routinely pass on our knowledge
-- Our capability to assist with the ongoing
implementation of asset integrity schemes
-- Our flexibility and ability to adapt to our clients’
operational circumstances
Our technical specialists are experienced in all
aspects of design, operation, maintenance and
inspection not only focussing on the equipment
issues, but also on the vital ‘softer’ issues of
organisational and personal competence. ABB’s
asset health check, asset life planning, life
extension and Risk Based Inspection (RBI)
methodologies have been developed over many
years of practical application to provide effective
support to business decision-making. These
methodologies are key components of ABB’s
pRIME Toolkit which is an integral part of ABB’s
pRIME asset integrity framework. ABB’s pRIME
Toolkit enables the consistent efficient delivery
of integrity management solutions tailored to the
specific needs of our clients.
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Benefits Key stages

Our clients tell us that they derive the following Stage 1 - Strategic review
benefits from engaging our services: -- Business review / gap analysis / auditing
-- Health checks and benchmarking
-- Technical justification to support continued
licence to operate Stage 2 - Problem and solution identification
-- Stakeholder confidence in continuing in reliable -- Criticality / risk assessment
and safe operation -- Asset life extension
-- More informed investment decision - future -- Skills and competency assessment
CAPEX and OPEX requirements -- System and procedures auditing
-- Improvement to bottom line - avoidance of -- Integrity assessment and review
production lost, avoidance of unplanned /
unnecessary expenditure and improved Stage 3 - Implementation
operation, inspection and maintenance -- Action planning
-- Risk Based Inspection (RBI) and maintenance
programmes
— -- Knowledge and skills transfer, training and
“We chose ABB to work with us on this competency development
-- Systems and procedures development
strategic project because we know they -- Improvement projects
can give us what other consultants
cannot, a flexible approach that
understands our objectives, uses
experience to define the best way to
tackle the problems, and delivers the
key outcomes in a professional manner
even though we don’t know if what we
want to achieve is possible.”

What are the key issues

affecting integrity,
safety and reliability?

Risk and
vulnerability

How do we compare What are the

with world class priority actions
and best practice? that we must do next?
Asset integrity services —
-- Asset life studies and plans ABB Ltd.
-- Auditing and gap analysis OSCR, PFEER, PUWER, Daresbury Park
safety critical elements Daresbury
-- Civil and structural inspection and consultancy Warrington
-- Critical defect analysis Cheshire
-- Fitness for purpose assessment WA4 4BT
-- Independent design review United Kingdom
-- Materials engineering and consultancy Phone: +44 (0)1925 741111
-- Preparation of focussed schemes of examination E-Mail: contact@gb.abb.com
-- Pressure equipment specification and design
-- RBI+© software abb.com/consulting
-- Repair specification
-- UKAS accredited inspection service

Other ABB capabilities include:

-- Inspection
-- Integrity management
-- Process safety
-- Project services
-- Site and asset regeneration
-- Technical engineering
-- Technical software
-- Technical training and competency
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