• Streamlining the decision-making process
  Using structured brainstorming and facilitation techniques, we identify key risks and uncertainties, highlight concept differentiators and the elements that impact on a project’s overall feasibility, plot clear audit trails for all key decision-making, and produce the ideas needed to bring key stakeholders on board. We challenge conventional assumptions by thinking laterally – over the years we have learned how to bypass or streamline problem areas, using best-in-class tools and techniques to generate robust, cost-effective development plans. We use benchmarking and analogue comparison tools to generate concepts tailored to match our clients’ specific priorities and production requirements. Our role is to assist and facilitate the decision-making process by producing development scenarios based on accurate, relevant information from a wide variety of sources. We cover each stage in the field development process, first screening appraisals, then generating, screening and drawing up a shortlist of concepts. We hold decision workshops to facilitate the selection of the final development concept, then help our clients prepare the basis for the design work.
• Skills that meet your needs, as and when they arise
  You can call upon our expertise at any stage in a development project. We have the skills and knowledge to help your teams with production modelling, process and facility design, and benchmarking and assurance reviews. Advanced structural analysis, PDMS, electrical and electronic engineering, and control systems expertise are just some of the skills we have added to our technical armoury so we can maintain the cutting-edge standards that make us your ideal field development partner.
• Cost estimating
  This breadth and depth of expertise underpins another key skill: our ability to produce robust cost estimates for all foreseeable concepts that might apply to your specific field development project. Using the industry-leading cost analysis tool, XPERT, we can produce order-of magnitude costs for rapid concept screening, or drill down into conceptual details by taking into account industry norms, up-to-date equipment costs, our comprehensive database of drilling and vessel costs, and proprietary equipment-sizing algorithms. Because XPERT interfaces easily with other industry-leading applications such as HYSYS® and Pipesim, our cost estimates are based on reliable models and projections.
• Concept screening in more detail
  Our simulation expertise is unmatched. Using integrated production modelling (IPM), steady-state and transient process and flow assurance simulations, offshore facility weight estimates and cost/weight/schedule benchmarking, we generate weighted scores or matched-pair analyses to examine every permutation of the various options available.
• Interfacing across disciplines
  The many different disciplines involved in field development mean that it is not easy to assess the level of detail required, or quickly sift concepts down to a manageable number, or manage the risks associated with each stage in the development planning process. We can talk to your experts because of our own range of expertise. We bring the same approach, procedures and core engineering skills to bear on every project, but we also apply regional expertise as required – to cater for the tiebacks into existing host facilities that characterise more mature markets, for example, or tackle deep-water developments in challenging locations.
  Take advantage of our combined skills and experience to build an optimised field development plan quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively.

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