E&I Engineering Support
Key Capabilities
Completions
Pre-Commissioning
PIMS CCMS
Overview
In November 2017, our Client, Australia’s leading energy infrastructure business, acquired a gas processing plant in east Victoria. This afforded our client remit to own, upgrade and operate the plant, which would process gas from offshore fields. As a fully operational plant, its capacity would be up to 68 TJ/d of natural gas, which is equivalent to 12% of current demand in Victoria.
Vecta were engaged to provide Electrical, Instrumentation and Controls (EI&C) engineering support during the critical phases of the gas plant upgrade, which were the mechanical completion, pre-commissioning and commissioning phases.
Scope
The scope included the following:
Executing pre-commissioning activities (I&C) and accountable for maintaining I&C teams productivity and adherence to schedule.
Managing, instructing and supervision a team of 18
Instrument Technicians, including management and provision of test gear and consumables.
Provision of technical advice during testing and ensuring all work is carried out in a safe and reliable manner.
Preparing EI&C Pre-commissioning specifications and procedures.
Estimating and scheduling EI&C Pre-commissioning task durations.
Completing full review of the EI&C portion of the PIMS CCMS.
Subsystem walkdowns with construction team and accepting subsystem MC handover.
Accepting MC ITRs and confirming punch item closeout and status from construction team.
Completing Pre-commissioning ITR checksheets and punch item closeout.
Preparing sub-systems dossiers for pre-commissioning handover.
Challenges
Compressed commissioning schedule due to construction delays and environmental disturbances in the region.
Dynamic critical path that led to ever-changing priorities.
Incomplete data and missing assets in PIMS CCMS.
Solutions
As a Major Hazard facility, pre-commissioning and commissioning activities were required to be risk assessed and managed as necessary, which was a considerable challenge with a moderately sized team.
Subsystem prioritisation and a working knowledge of punch items that may hinder progress were also crucial elements in the methodology employed to advance commissioning activities within a compressed timeframe.
Outcomes
There were no incidents or injuries that occurred under Vecta Group E&I supervision.
The Client was able to meet their Customer’s demand.