Services/Facilities engineering, commissioning and readiness
Process and facilities engineering for plant that is already running. We review design bases, check P&IDs against the statement of requirements, and write commissioning and restart plans that move only on field-verified evidence.
A design review that repeats the consultant's conclusions is not a review. We test the package against the statement of requirements, the approved P&IDs, the operating limits, constructability, safety, maintainability and the scope interfaces. We follow the flow path across drawing sheets, not page by page. Continuation arrows, manifold layouts and battery limits are where the gaps hide.
For commissioning and restart we write the sequence the way it will be done on site. Pre-start valve lists. Isolation and reinstatement. Process and flare route checks. Shutdown valve permissives and overrides. Hold points with stop criteria. Site sign-off at each step. A planned date stays a planned date. Nothing is called commissioned until the line status, the logs and operations approval say so.
On concept studies we give one of four verdicts: approve, approve with conditions, hold, or do not approve. We list the missing items so the next revision can close them.
Document register and revisions. A traceability matrix from each requirement to the drawing and tag, with compliance, evidence and owner. A flow path trace across sheets. Comments ranked and written so they can be checked.
Design basis, fluid and emulsion data, sizing checked against an operating train, utilities and energy, fouling and maintainability, seasonal envelope, construction windows and economics.
Project initiation, terms of reference, concept, statement of requirements, define and execute, and management of change for minor work. We say what evidence each gate needs.
Phased introduction of wells and trains. Hold points with field-verified valve positions, communications, monitoring, differential pressure checks and stable receipt. Controlled handover to operations.
Blocked outlet cases, relief and vent backpressure, valve chatter and pilot-operated relief, checked against the current relief calculations and cause-and-effect for the train in question.
A P&ID package review takes two to four weeks depending on the number of drawings. Restart and commissioning plans are developed with the plant team and issued as working drafts for site verification. We do not present a draft as issued for use.
Scope boundary
Safety-critical decisions and field work need approved site procedures, permits, risk assessments and the responsible technical authority. Our documents support that process. They do not replace it.
We set the concept, worked the design through with the operator and the vendor, wrote the commissioning procedure with five hold points, supported execution and brought the line into service.
Met4 of 4 success criteriaOperator engagementRead the caseMiddle East·Restart after turnaroundA plan to bring a train back to about 87 thousand barrels of oil a day and 35 thousand barrels of water, one well at a time, with checks between phases and a hold on any abnormal condition.
Met4 of 4 success criteriaOperator engagementRead the caseMiddle East·Concept study reviewAn independent review of a consultant's concept study for free water knockout and produced water treatment at one facility, with a verdict and a numbered list of items to close.
Met4 of 4 success criteriaOperator engagementRead the caseMiddle East·Brownfield design reviewA review of a P&ID package against the statement of requirements for new transfer lines between two facilities. The gap found was between the sheets, not on them.
Met4 of 4 success criteriaOperator engagementRead the caseA technical question, a train that will not stabilise, a water balance that will not close, a data room that will not reconcile. Describe it in a paragraph and we will propose the scope.
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