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The Next 50 Years
How Adma-Opco, a major producer of offshore oil & gas in the Emirate of Abu
Dhabi, is using AVEVA software to future-proof its assets
A bu Dhabi Marine Operating Company Management System (EIMS; namely, AVEVA NETTM) is
(Adma-Opco) is a major producer of to compile everything in one place, while the As-Built
offshore oil & gas in the Emirate of Abu Campaign will ensure that this accessible information is
Dhabi. The company prides itself on also accurate”.
being a pioneering petroleum
organisation in this part of the world, The information problem
having completed over 45 years of oil and gas production. Basem Elnaggar, Adma-Opco’s As-Built Campaign
Team Leader, highlighted the severity of the problem:
But with assets now around fifty years old, Adma’s “Imagine that you are working in operations and you
need some drawings that contain information that will
challenge is to ensure safe and productive operation for affect the safety or the progress of a project. You start
searching but cannot find these documents. So you
the next fifty years. approach head office and the engineering services team,
who may then approach individual engineers or the asset
Central to the challenge of management team. This process can take anything
from one day to a month – and in the meantime the
modernisation is the issue that you were trying to resolve has seen no
progress and your ability to keep to the production
development and maintenance plan and meet deadlines is compromised. These kinds
of situations, where the required information is not
of a digital asset to support available when it is needed, could result in project
delays, loss of production, or even safety issues.
and inform long-term life cycle ‘Engineers must be able to trust that all the information
they have is up to date, accurate and complete,’
management of the physical continued Basem. ‘Both original and current drawings
must be categorised and accessible so that an engineer
asset. As a result, Adma-Opco is not working with outdated information that could lead
to misinformed and potentially dangerous decisions.
has begun its As-Built Our As-Built Campaign is a concerted effort to make
engineering decisions and actions faster and safer”.
Campaign to provide Adma The As-Built Campaign also aims to provide
contractors with all the required information from the
Zakum West (Photograph courtesy of Adma- with a digital asset and develop outset. This sharing of high-quality information would
avoid common situations in which a contractor who
Opco) a digital hub of up-to-date, does not have that necessary information simply
charges the company to go on site and survey a
validated information that particular area, or where the late discovery of an
unexpected problem leads to costly contract variations
accurately describes the and delays.
current condition of its super-
complexes, rather than how
they were designed some fifty
years ago.
Adma’s Engineering Services
Team Leader, Mohammed
Das Island (Photograph courtesy of Adma- Al-Amry, explained their life
Opco) extension strategy: “We would
not extend the life of a particular
platform simply for the sake of doing so. Safety remains
paramount in all operational and maintenance decisions.
The challenges are really all centred on the age of our
facilities. One issue was the fact that we could not be
sure that our documentation was up to date; the
information existed but it was scattered, making it difficult
to integrate and access. The key objective of the
implementation of our Engineering Information
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