APPLIED INTELLIGENCE IN OIL AND GAS

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1 APPLIED INTELLIGENCE IN OIL AND GAS

2 THE TRUE CHALLENGE: UNDERSTANDING THE BIG PICTURE The challenge you face is complex: ensuring compliance with ever-stricter standards, managing and verifying safety systems, reducing construction and operating costs, meeting responsibilities to stakeholders and, above all, achieving operational excellence and optimising assets throughout their lifecycle. Such a complex challenge can be daunting, especially if you focus on isolated problems. Here at GL we take a different approach and strive to understand the big picture through Applied Intelligence. Although we re in a technical business, the really big issues are operational efficiency, financial constraints, customer relationships and environmental performance. As a world-class technical assurance and consulting company, we are driven by a philosophy of thinking holistically to offer our clients seamless solutions from a single source. For us, understanding the big picture means taking a holistic view of a client s business challenges instead of just tackling isolated issues. Our industry-leading software applications demonstrate how far we have moved from the conventional problemoriented approach to a solution-focused mindset. By looking at the big picture in oil and gas and intelligently applying our first-class technical know-how, we can generate genuine added value for you as a client. 02 / 03

3 GENUINE ADDED VALUE: OPTIMISING YOUR ASSETS FROM START TO FINISH How can we help you drive your business? By delivering real improvements in the safety, reliability, performance and integrity of your assets throughout their lifecycle. Our holistic lifecycle approach helps reduce losses, increase output and boost shareholder value. Asset optimisation is the big picture, de-bottlenecking of ageing assets just one of the many intelligent solutions we apply to achieve that aim. By modelling the effects of ageing assets, we can provide you with smart asset optimisation solutions. That is what Applied Intelligence is all about. Wherever in the world you operate, you can profit from our seamlessly integrated services. By intelligently applying innovative and effective processes and tools, we deliver consistently high quality. Ultimately, by minimising risk and maximising safety, improving asset performance and operational efficiency, we can help you boost your throughput and profitability. That s what we mean by genuine added value. 04 / 05

4 INTEGRITY AND RISK: PUTTING YOU IN THE PICTURE Do you know how safe your assets are? Can you say how high the risk of failure is? Failure to identify and mitigate these risks can have serious consequences, e. g. damaged corporate reputations, reduced shareholder value and even personal liability. We find ways to prevent or mitigate risk by supporting upstream, downstream and pipeline operators from the oil and gas industry in their hazard and risk management. We develop and apply quantitative hazard and risk assessment methodology and prepare compliance documents such as safety cases and safety reports. Our service portfolio includes hazard identification and analysis, safety management and compliance, risk and consequence analysis, environmental studies and management plans, and practical destructive testing at unique facilities. Furthermore, we have devised a lifecycle-oriented asset integrity management (AIM) solution to ensure that operational, environmental and business-critical elements remain fit-for-purpose throughout an asset s life. By focusing on optimising safety, production and reliability, we can ensure corporate, statutory and regulatory governance is met and sustained in a cost-effective manner. That is where Applied Intelligence really makes a difference. Our industry-leading AIM software tool, GALIOM, delivers improved visibility of criticality, risk and technical integrity. It highlights operational integrity issues and drives a proactive inspection and maintenance methodology. Isn t it time we put you in the picture on safety engineering and asset integrity management? 06 / 07

5 WORLD-CLASS FULFILMENT: YES, WE CAN ALL OVER THE GLOBE Uniquely, GL offers its customers a full service from feasibility studies and project costings to project management, technical assurance, consultancy and training. One of our particular strengths is the management of major international technical assurance projects in the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. Owners and operators of mobile offshore units can profit from GL s experience and expertise as a maritime classification society. GL is a world leader in the establishment and application of technical standards to the design, construction and surveillance of floating oil and gas units operating in international waters. You can be sure your floating offshore units are in good hands when they are classified with GL. All this forms the basis for the development and implementation of safety, integrity and performance management programmes throughout your asset s life. City gas projects involve bringing natural gas to a city for the first time. Economically, city gas may well be part of the drive to modernise a city. Environmentally, gas is a cleaner fuel than, say, oil or coal. Our unmatched business preparedness service helps customers plan how to operate their business and our SynerGEE software is a key asset in network modelling and design. By providing consultancy, marketing and modelling throughout the asset lifecycle, we offer city gas designers and operators the whole package, not just bits and pieces and we do it at a global level with local know-how. Such breadth and depth of experience in city gas is unparalleled. 08 / 09

6 SEAMLESS SOLUTIONS: SIMPLY OUT OF THE ORDINARY Applied Intelligence is just the opposite of the conventional practice of providing individual services. At GL we think and act holistically to intelligently link the broad range of services we provide. You benefit because we take a truly holistic look at the entire lifecycle of your assets and deliver intelligently coordinated services on a global scale. For you, Applied Intelligence means seamless solutions from a single source for a broad range of world-class verification, certification, classification and engineering consulting services that cover the entire lifecycle of onshore and offshore assets from pre-engineering to decommissioning. Our portfolio includes feasibility studies, project management consulting, AIM strategy development, implementation and execution, safety case development and on-going management, technical and process safety risk assessment as well as hydraulic and dynamic simulation studies. Our technical assurance covers design reviews, independent certification, verification and inspection services as well as marine warranty surveys. For plants in operation we focus on technical and operational integrity, including risk- and reliability-based inspection and maintenance, process feasibility and production optimisation as well as uprating and life extension studies. Moreover, we provide specialist risk assessment and asset management software solutions and we can practically validate our risk methodologies through real-life destructive testing at our unique facility in Spadeadam, UK. Another good example of how you can benefit from Applied Intelligence. 10 / 11

7 OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: FIVE GOOD REASONS FOR GL Let s keep it short and simple. 1. We know what you want: No surprises, operational excellence, improved plant safety, better visibility of the condition of plants and maximum uptime for optimum costs. 2. We are more business-oriented: Geared to optimising safety, performance, integrity and uptime reliability and delivering assurance and compliance through your asset lifecycle. 3. We think holistically: A unique package of integrated lifecycle solutions on a global scale for all oil and gas sectors. 4. We provide seamless solutions from a single source: Uniform global delivery with a clear focus on the effectiveness of plant, processes, people and performance. 5. We are thought leaders: By bringing together the best in the industry, we have a team of specialist consultants, engineers and technicians with unparalleled oil and gas domain knowledge. 12 / 13

8 REFERENCES OF REPUTE: APPLIED INTELLIGENCE AT WORK What Applied Intelligence means in practice is best illustrated by practical examples taken from the GL Group of companies. Oil and gas production in Sakhalin: Provision of quality assurance and control services, certification of a tanker loading unit and classification of two offshore oil and gas platforms operating under extreme weather conditions in the Sakhalin II field. Verification and quality surveillance in West Delta Deep Subsea Development: Provision of third-party verification and quality surveillance services for all key equipment during the design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning of the facilities in the Simian, Sapphire and Sienna fields. AIM/RBI for offshore and onshore facilities: Implementation of a base line inspection and asset integrity management / risk-based inspection programme for GUPCO Egypt s facilities in four offshore operating areas, 11 offshore fields and various onshore gathering, storage and production fields. Master plan for natural gas network in Singapore: GL s comprehensive study, detailed cost modelling and tariff recovery mechanism enabled the client to make an informed decision to optimise cost. Mains replacement modelling: GL has provided mains replacement models to the UK National Grid since the 1980s and in recent years to Bord Gáis in Ireland and Thames Water. These models allow the clients to identify and prioritise mains for replacement. 14 / 15

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