Success Story: Oil & Gas

I. CUSTOMER ENVIRONMENT / PROJECT CONTEXT

Customer profile:

• Qatargas Liquefied gas Company Ltd ( a consortium composed of QGPC, Total, Mobil, Mitsui and Marubeni) awarded the national Petroleum Construction Company /Technip Geoproduction joint venture (NPCC/TPG J.V.) the EPC contract for the Process and Utilities platform topsides and McDermott ETPM - East Inc. (MEEI) the EPC contract for the Living Quarters platform topsides.

Customer objective and constraints:

• The Qatargas Upstream Development is the result of Qatar's ambitions to develop export-oriented industries based on the vast reserves of its North field.

II. SOLUTION IMPLEMENTATION

Implementation methodology (main phases):

• Design and engineering: 11,000 hours.
• signing of the contract: June 1994.
• supply of the equipment: started January 1995.
• On-shore installation: started November 1995.
• Off-shore commissioning: started March 1996.
• gas and condensate ashore: third quarter 1996.

Duration:

From June 1994 to March 1996.

Solution overview (services, products, systems, architectures...):

Process and Utilities (PU) platform

• MV switchboard,
• 2 LV neutral earthing impedances,
• LV switchboards, MCCs and busducts,
• on-shore pre-commissioning assistance, off-shore commissioning assistance.

Living Quarters (LQ) platform

• 2 LV neutral earthing impedances,
• LV switchboards, MCCs and busducts,
• on-shore pre-commissioning assistance, off-shore commissioning assistance.

PU and LQ platform power distribution control system

• Power distribution control system: 200 ms response time automatic load-shedding and re-start facilities, auto-reclose function (managed by local PLC), emergency sequences (local / remote management), interface with other.
• main redundant PLCs including communication with the process control system,
• PLCs slaves integrated in the main LV switchboards.

III. RESULTS / ACHIEVEMENT

Customer benefits:

Oil & Gas production increase.