BP taps Emerson for new FPSO project
21 Sep 2012
London – Emerson Process Management has been awarded a $21 million contract to provide integrated control and safety systems for a new BP floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.
The new vessel, which will replace the existing Schiehallion FPSO, forms part of the North Sea Quad 204 project that will access the remaining hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, located approximately 130km west of Shetland, UK.
In addition to serving as the main automation contractor for the Quad 204 FPSO, Emerson is also BP’s preferred supplier of integrated control and safety systems for five offshore fields in the UK continental shelf, including the new Clair Ridge platforms.
Larger than the existing Schiehallion FPSO, the new 270-metre Quad 204 FPSO is designed to produce 130,000 barrels of oil a day and 2.2 million cubic metres per day of gas. This increased processing and storage capacity will enable optimum reservoir recovery, extend field life and also allow for any future expansion.
Emerson will provide its PlantWeb digital plant architecture, including DeltaV digital automation and process safety systems, and AMS Suite predictive maintenance software. The system will control and monitor platform operations using FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART communication technologies.
A real-time performance management system, delivering information to executive level decision makers will be supplied by Emerson’s METCO Services. The vendor’s operator simulation-based training programme will be used to train operators before start-up.
Additional contracts have been awarded to Emerson to supply its Rosemount pressure, temperature, radar level transmitters and magnetic flowmeters; Rosemount Analytical gas chromatographs; and Daniel venturi and ultrasonic flowmeters.
Emerson provided the front end engineering and design (FEED) on the FPSO and with the vessel builder, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Limited, is responsible for design, configuration, build, acceptance testing, commissioning, installation and start-up support.
