Tomorrow John Namork, Inocean, and Morten Bråss from BW Offshore will enter the podium together at the Global Floating Production Systems 2009 conference in London. Subject: BW Cidade de Sâo Vicente FPSO - TUPI TLD: From project start-up to production start in 12 months.
This project is well known for the record braking fast project execution. The project was completed in only 335 days from the award of the Letter of Intent to the FPSOs arrival at the TUPI field offshore Rio de Janeiro - engineering, procurement and construction included.
The main bullets for Namork's part of the presentation at this conference will be:
- Key challenges/issues Life Extension of Hull
- Environmental conditions at Tupi
- Concurrent Design, Engineering and Fabrication
The fast track nature of this project meant that fabrication was running in parallel or ahead of design, analysis and drawing completion. Because of that it was extremely important to get everything right first time.
According to John Namork the key success factors for enabling completion within 12 months was:
- All parties had long experience from vessel conversions, and some also from previous
cooperation with eachother
- Parties worked as an integrated team; weekly telephone conferences with all parties
involved
- Well defined interfaces between all parties
- Close cooperation with Yard and CS (DNV), who acted swiftly
- Leading engineers moved to site to assist, resolve issues & follow up during
fabrication
- Good team spirit - creative thinking encouraged!
Inocean has completed more than 15 FPSO-projects during the last years.