Traditionally, pipe design and pipe stress are performed in two separate models. Ensuring that the two models are aligned is time-consuming.
Focus Techouse Engineering has made a tool to integrate design information between E3D and Caesar II, saving time, reducing the possibilities for errors, and freeing up the stress engineer to do actual stress design.
Pipe Support structures are typically quite simple. However, what they may lack in complexity they more than make up for in quantity. For the Anna Nery FPSO, Focus Techouse Engineering recently designed seven topside modules, with a total of more than 7000 pipe support structures. Thanks to Focus Pipe Support Calculation program (FPSC), most of this was handled by our Pipe Support design team, freeing up time for our Structural Department.
Picture borrowed from amazon.com/bergen-industries-inc What can happen if we say: “Those instruments and lamps, we’ll just fix it later…” Only people who have no EIT (Electro, Instrument, Telecom) knowledge can have this attitude, and it is a serious pitfall for all engineering projects. It can result in a major cost overrun, delay in planning…
For the Anna Nery FPSO, Focus Techouse Engineering recently designed seven topside modules, with a total of more than 7000 pipe support structures. Thanks to our calculation program, Focus Pipe Support Calculation (FPSC), all of the design and calculations were performed with a team of no more than 12 designers.
At the beginning of the project, there is a battle for the available space on a module. All disciplines will have most of the available space and this space is very limited. In some cases, the module must be expanded to allow all disciplines to place their equipment, and if a discipline is excluded from this work process, we may end up with a module that is not large enough for the job for which it is intended. So, what can go wrong?
An engineering project is usually performed in 3 phases. The 3 phases are 30% – 60% and a 90% milestone reviews of the 3D model. These percentages (30% – 60%-90%) reflect a percentage of completed project, not a percentage of maturity of each discipline. For EIT’s part, we can say that we are usually about 30% finished when a 60% review is held, depending on how extensive the EIT contract is. So, what does this mean?
An engineering project is usually performed in 3 phases. The 3 phases are 30% – 60% and a 90% milestone reviews of the 3D model. These percentages (30% – 60%-90%) reflect a percentage of completed project, not a percentage of maturity of each discipline. For EIT’s part, we can say that we are usually about 30% finished when a 60% review is held, depending on how extensive the EIT contract is. So, what does this mean?
Focus Techouse Engineering has contributed with engineering work on regas modules for Wärtsilä for several years. Well-functioning digital collaboration platforms and regular project meetings are the foundation for successful projects, but the most important ingredient in a good collaboration is the relationship between the participants.
Together with our client, Aragon, we are honored to take part in this project and to participate in the “Anna Nery FPSO Project First Cut Ceremony”, a celebration of the first steel-cut of both the gas treatment & utility modules and compression modules. Watch video from the ceremony here.
Aragon has been awarded two contracts by the shipowner Yinson Production to design, procure and construct seven modules for gas treatment and compression for the FPSO «Anna Nery”, which will be put into operation offshore Brazil in 2023. The contracts have a total value of close to one billion Norwegian kroner and Aragon will deliver these seven modules during 2021. Aragon and Focus Techouse Engineering (former Focus Engineering)are collaborating as one team on the engineering work for the modules on the FPSO “Anna Nery” project.
