Bluewater

Bluewater and its customer can now monitor the control and safety systems,
both on and offshore, in real time. After replacing the Emerson ProVox
and Delta V DCS with an integrated AVEVA control and safety system,
Bluewater was able to successfully meet ‘First Oil’ date on time.

Background

The core business of Bluewater is to design, engineer, construct, install, lease, and operate Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) systems, Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) systems, and the turnkey supply of Single Point Mooring (SPM) systems. Ever since its cooperation in 1978, Bluewater has been a technological front- runner in its industry. The company has designed, manufactured, supplied and installed many innovative FPSO, FSO and SPM systems for oil companies worldwide through time charter and turnkey supply contracts.

Goals

  • To replace and upgrade the existing integrated control and safety systems

  • To achieve ‘First Oil’ on time in order to avoid contract penalties and lost production

  • To maximize the availability/uptime of the control and safety systems and to minimize the total cost of ownership

Challenges

  • The Project teams are located in multiple locations, that is, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany
    and Singapore

  • Process data from the new ICSS,
    including serial interfaces, safety systems and new I/Os, were
    available only in the very late stages before the planned FAT

  • The original DCS had to be kept ‘alive’ as long as possible and the existing safety systems had to remain operational with just a few hours available to upgrade

Results

  • After replacing the Emerson ProVox and Delta V DCS systems and
    implementing a new integrated
    control and safety systems on the Glas Dowr, Bluewater was able to
    successfully meet ‘First Oil’ date on time

  • Bluewater and its customer can now monitor the control and safety systems, both on and offshore, in real time

“The Glas Dowr Kitan project has been a tremendous success. We were
impressed with the AVEVA attitude throughout the project and their ‘
change the game’ approach. It is one thing to have a good project plan
in place, but another to actually execute and deliver.”

Ernest Hofstee, Senior Project Manager, Bluewater