How to reduce costs

on FPSO / FLNG

Mark Bakker

Sr Client Sales Executive

Floating Operations • What is an FPSO / FLNG

– Spread Moored

– Turreted FPSO’s

• Components

• Drivers

• Cost reductions

Business Drivers – Safety

– Reliability / availability

– First Oil/Gas

– Efficiency

• Standardization

• Energy Efficiency

• Reduce staff

– Regulations

• Governments

• IMO - ECA (S and N)

• Lloyds / DNV / ABS

• Functional Safety

– Image – shareholder value

Components

Components

• Hull • Cargo movement, distribution, unloading,

cleaning

• Ballast management

• Inert Gas Systems/fire fighting systems

• Power Gen and distribution

• Fuel treatment & supply

• Steam Boilers

• Cooling water

• Mooring management

• Station keeping propulsion

Components (continued)

• Hotel

• Crew quarters

• Workspaces (control rooms, offices, workshops, warehouses)

• HVAC, potable water, waste management

• Food services, entertainment & recreation

• Communications

• Transportation (helipad, companion way)

• Safety (life boats, etc)

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Components (continued)

• Topsides

– typically a Gas-Oil Separation plant

• Slug management

• separators

• Crude, gas, water treatment

• Water re-injection pumps

• Gas export and/or re-injection compressors

• Power generation

• Flare

Components (continued)

• Turret (if present) • Carries all surface to bottom connections

Components (continued)

• Subsea Systems

– Connections (Risers)

• Down: control, hydraulics, power, re-injection gas

& water, treatment chemicals

• Up: production fluids, data connections

• Out: crude export line to tanker, gas export line to

shore

– Production Systems

• Subsea trees, manifolds, gathering lines

• May include subsea processing equipment, like

pumps, compressors and separators

Automation Systems

– Hull Management Systems • DCS / PLC solution

– Topsides Control Systems • DCS / ESD / F&G solution

• Operator Training Simulator

– Subsea Controls • Divided into Wet (on bottom) and Dry (on board FPSO)

– Turret Controls • OEM

– Hotel Management Systems • HVAC, Lighting, Physical Security

Safety System

DCS

Bonga Deepwater Project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Bonga Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC)

Bonga Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC)

• Foxboro I/A Series Distributed Control Systems

• Triconex Emergency Shutdown and F&G Systems

• Network Design and Topology

• Commissioning and Start Up Spares

• Offshore Installation Supervision

• Offshore Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Assistance

• Onshore Support Team through Pre-Commissioning Phase

• SimSci – Esscor Operator Training Simulator System

• Automated Checkout via Dynamic Simulation

Cost reduction opportunities

• Simulation:

– Static simulation

– Dynamic simulation

PROCESS

DESIGN

DCS

CONFIGURATION

STARTUP and

TRAINING PLANT

OPERATION

Cost reduction opportunities

• Remote control & collaboration:

– Cost of labour: $5-10k per week per man

• Incl. training, travelling, certification

– Remote expert collaboration

– Remote management

• Standardization

Goal: reduction of workforce

IHC: From many men

through one man

to no man

Cost reductions by

– Increase in automation automate processes / procedures

– Remote control expertise on shore

– Improving Safety reduce risks / spurious trips

– Training & Simulation reduce mistakes / reduce start-up

• of control room operators and field operators

Conclusion