Hydrocarbon Resources Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Centrica Plc, awarded ABB a contract to derive detailed inspection requirements for pressurised equipment.
The work covers the Barrow onshore processing terminals and associated condensate storage facility required to processes gas from the Morecambe Bay and associated satellite fields prior to entry to the national grid.
This follows on from a very successful pilot study to derive inspection requirements for critical equipment at onshore and offshore facilities.
ABB is using its Risk Based Inspection (RBI+) process to ensure that the equipment will be safe and reliable in operation with inspection requirements proportional to the risks presented.
By using the latest techniques some inspections can be carried out with the equipment on line. The study will identify the optimum time to carry out all the inspections.
The cost of the study is recovered quickly as the inspection programme has less impact on production than a traditional approach.