Bentley Solutions: Oil & Gas

Bentley Systems’ oil and gas solution applications continue to be used and have been
successfully deployed by major participants in the oil and gas industry worldwide.

Real-World Examples of Projects Deploying Bentley's Oil and Gas Solution

Bechtel Corporation used Bentley's ProjectWise to collaborate on the Jamnagar Export Refinery Project (JERP) in India. JERP has a plot plan bigger than that of London and the target completion time of this massive project was less than 36 months.

Bechtel tackled this mega-project using engineering resources dispersed around the globe, including a design and engineering team of 2,500 professionals in 10 design locations, 19 offices, and eight countries. Overall, the project employed more than 90,000 people during construction and called for the fabrication and installation of 109,170 metric tons of steel, approximately 5 million meters of varied-size pipe, more than 4,000 pieces of major equipment, and more than 110,000 isometrics.

Nearly 1,000 users in nine locations employed Bentley's ProjectWise to ensure that more than 50,000 drawings were available to the correct discipline at the correct location. Using ProjectWise, drawings could be worked on collaboratively, enabling designers in one location to view the results of design teams in other offices almost immediately. Bechtel was able to rapidly distribute the project work to the different locations in a much more granular way - by unit, by discipline, and even by drawing - as the needs of the project dictated.

A key advantage realized by the project team was the ability to search for and find all files that had been changed during the previous week, and to cross-reference the location of the files found with the location of the person who last changed them. This enabled the JERP team to regularly reassess and redistribute their project content, optimizing productivity and reducing network traffic.

Using ProjectWise to track and manage data, Bechtel has been able to facilitate the reuse of more than 25 percent of the design and engineering information generated during construction of the original facilities. This has proved to be critically important in meeting the project's aggressive schedule.

BP Tangguh is using Bentley's ProjectWise Lifecycle Server to capture, manage, and maintain plant information based on a common information handover specification for BP's US$5 billion Tangguh LNG facility. The main business driver is to reduce and streamline multiple file and data formats to facilitate the automatic population of validated project data into plant operations systems and the Maximo maintenance management system. The information handover specification defined by BP in collaboration with Bentley is being used by multiple EPC's in Japan and Indonesia, more than 12 major subcontractors, and more than 300 vendors for nearly 100,000 items of equipment.

During the EPC phase, ProjectWise Lifecycle Server facilitated collaboration across the project team by providing change management control between as-designed and as-built data combined with defined workflows and sign-off responsibilities. The transition from the EPC phase into operations also highlights a major shift from document handover to data handover.

As a result, BP is able to quickly access validated project data from all project participants within ProjectWise Lifecycle Server, along with project work instructions. The system also automatically tags document links in an easy-to-use environment for use by the operations team. Validated project information is now available via a web portal interface for use by operations and maintenance teams.

Cianbro Constructors - Following the closure of a local paper mill in January 2004 that had operated in Brewer, Maine, for more than 100 years, Cianbro Constructors revitalized the brownfield site, and the town, by turning it into a state-of-the-art $110 million manufacturing facility. The facility was used to fabricate and construct 54 modules for the Motiva Refinery Expansion Project in Port Arthur, Texas.

The assembled modules averaged 40-feet wide by 40-feet high by 120-feet long and weighed up to 700 tons. Once completed, they were loaded onto barges for shipment to Port Arthur.

The fabrication team had never seen a refinery before the manufacturing site opened. Moreover, they had never dealt with the commonly delivered piping fabrication isometric drawings before starting this project.

To overcome these challenges, Cianbro deployed Bentley's ConstructSim application. It used the software's rich 3D visualization and work-face planning capabilities to show the craft teams what they were building, module by module, down to specific details for pipework and steel. ConstructSim also helped the construction team plan, sequence, execute, and monitor all the construction activities from within the data-rich 3D plant model.

ConstructSim enabled Cianbro to visually communicate the scope of this project to the production and craft teams within the planned construction schedule. The success of the project and new manufacturing facility also brought new life to the town of Brewer.

Giprotyumenneftegaz developed project deliverables and cost estimates for the West-Salym oil field development in Russia. This was a complex project integrating many disciplines, including the process site, industrial area, camp, and utilities. A large volume of information was generated by the many companies working on the project, including survey maps, 2D drawings and 3D models, explanatory notes, cost estimates, and bills of materials. Bentley's oil and gas solution allowed Giprotyumenneftegaz to maintain coordination across disparate teams and to automate the generation of accurate project deliverables. A 3D digital model of the site landscape allowed Giprotyumenneftegaz to make exact site leveling as well as to calculate estimated earthworks.

Giprotyumenneftegaz achieved schedule savings of more than six months across the life of the project using Bentley's applications. PlantSpace Design Series was used to create 3D models of the facilities under design.

Quip S.A. used Bentley's plant visualization and simulation applications for its offshore floating production unit (FPU), the P53 platform. Located 120 kilometers off the Brazilian coast and moored at a depth of 1,080 meters, the P53 FPU produces and processes 180,000 barrels of gas and 6 million cubic meters of gas a day for transfer to other platforms.

Quip S.A. developed the P53 FPU and presented all review sessions using Bentley Navigator. This environment gave the engineers and technical team access to 3D visualization to identify, review, and resolve potential problems in advance. This was the first 3D visualization initiative in Brazilian offshore projects, and now other Brazilian EPCs are adopting this concept.