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ode Sponsors SNS09
29th January 2009
| ode is delighted to be sponsoring the key energy conference for the Southern North Sea , SNS09, organised by regional energy association, EEEGR. Being held at the Holiday Inn Norwich (North) on 5th February 2009, SNS09 is recognised as the most important conference for the offshore energy industry in the East of England. We are also pleased that ode’s Head of Technology, Chris Smart, will be presenting on the subject of “Business Opportunities through Asset Integration”. ode will also be participating in the Energy Innovation Awards Gala Dinner, an event that celebrates the very best pioneering ideas and groundbreaking technology which can benefit the energy industry. ode attendees will include Operations Director, Paul Dixon and Regional Manager, Paul Chilvers .
Peter Godfrey, Chairman and Managing Director of ode, said:
"The SNS continues to play a key role in the security of the UK ’s energy supply, and will continue to do so over the decades ahead.
ode is focused on supporting energy developments in the SNS and our commitment to the region is demonstrated by the recent opening of a second, newly refurbished, engineering centre in Great Yarmouth. Our regional presence and recognised experience in the SNS is recognised as a valuable benefit to our clients. Our range of capabilities is typified by the recent three-year extension to our contract to support the SNS operations of E.ON Ruhrgas UK in the Babbage, Johnston and Rita fields, in addition to our ongoing operation support for the Cavendish platform on behalf of RWE DEA. We also have a long-standing involvement in the renewables sector from the pioneering days of the Scroby Sands offshore wind farm.
ode encourages any organisation with an interest in energy developments in the SNS to attend SNS09 and we look forward to welcoming you on the day”. |
| International engineering contractor ODE has won a three-year extension to its contract to support the southern North Sea operations of energy giant E.ON Ruhrgas UK. The new deal is widened to include services to the Rita and Babbage field development, both due to come into production over the next two years. Babbage is believed to be one of the largest undeveloped gas fields in the UK Southern North Sea with an estimated life of over 20 years. Work will be managed from ODE’s Great Yarmouth base where regional manager Paul Chilvers described the extended contract as a major achievement for the company. It rested on the strong relationship they had developed with E.ON Ruhrgas UK North Sea (ERUK) in providing support to the SNS assets since 2000 through previous owners Caledonia Oil and Gas and Consort Resources. Mr Chilvers said they were delighted to be working through to the final stages of major design and construction work on the Babbage platform and would continue to be involved in operations when it started production in 2010. “This extension of the ERUK operations support contract represents a further demonstration of ODE’s commitment to provide a locally based comprehensive support capability to SNS operators,” he said. “It is an aspect of the business we are very keen to develop further.” While the Rita Field, due to start production next year, will be another subsea development tied-back to the ConocoPhillips operated Murdoch platform, the Block 48/2a Babbage Field will be developed with a standalone platform about 80km north east of Dimlington, Gas produced from the Babbage platform will be exported via a 28km pipeline to the nearby BP-operated West Sole pipeline system to the Dimlington Gas Terminal on the East Yorkshire coast. The Babbage Field is operated by ERUK (47% share) and its partners Dana Petroleum (40%) and Centrica Resources (13%) and is expected to produce at a peak production rate of 75 mmscf/d. ODE will provide operations and maintenance input during detailed design and onshore pre-commissioning as well as the development of maintenance, inspection and integrity management schemes. Once the Babbage platform is installed, ODE will provide a full crew comprising operations, maintenance and support services (catering, medic, radio operators) to assist during commissioning and start-up for the manned phase of Babbage operations. The scope of services in the contract includes office-based engineering support facilities such as engineering and technical services, maintenance planning, emergency response centre, warehousing, operational spares storage and quayside access and storage. |
| International engineering contractor ODE has established its first roots outside the UK with a new North Africa office in Cairo. The London-based company believes there is tremendous potential in and around Egypt to further develop its oil and gas interests. “UK interest is probably bigger there than in any other country in the world and there is everything you need to do business. We want to be part of that action,” said ODE chairman and managing director Peter Godfrey. Most of the major national companies are operating in Egypt, nearly all from UK bases. ODE already has business there but wants to expand it considerably. The Cairo office is in the New Maardi area near most of the oil and gas companies. It is being headed by former BG man Neil Clark who has lived in the city for a long time, is integrated into the business community and has even helped to set-up an ex-pats club there. “There is a lot of support from the British Embassy where Keith Melville – a one-time oil and gas driller – is director of trade and industry,” said Mr Godfrey. “We’ll be holding a formal launch for the office later this year with key clients and partnering organisations. “Once established in Egypt we want to push on into Tunisia, where we have already undertaken a lot of project works for British Gas, and Algeria.” Keith Melville was recently quoted as saying: “Bilateral trade relations between Egypt and the UK remain very strong and active. We are keen to further develop links in sectors such as oil and gas, IT, agriculture, financial services, and education.” |
| Site work is under way for the LPG facility which is an integral part of the Hasdrubal gas processing plant on the Tunisian coast. Rapid progress on the BG Tunisia (BGT) project brought praise for UK-based engineering contractor ODE. The company was given the fast-track job of detailed design and procurement for the LPG facility after successfully taking on the front-end engineering design. “The LPG was a late addition to the whole project and everyone has had to work very, very quickly,” said Ray Sheldon, BGT’s project manager for the facility. “ODE had to provide the detailed design and find the right equipment knowing that timing was critical to the start-up of the entire Hasdrubal processing plant development. It needed a fast-track and aggressive approach,” he said. “Things have fallen into place so far. ODE has provided the services and skills for the project and they have done a very good job.” Peter Godfrey. ODE chairman and managing director, said: “Our role has grown and grown since we were first brought into the project last spring. It was something of a race against time and we are delighted with the outcome and how well it has gone. “We are involved in construction support from London and this has allowed the BGT construction management team to progress from a scrubland site to a leveled and graded site ready for construction activities to commence in earnest.” “We have also have picked up a lot of periphery work with the project and we’ve also looked all over Europe to procure the right systems and equipment for the development.” BGT is developing the Hasdrubal Gas Field, in the Gulf of Gabes, in partnership with the Tunisian State Oil Company ETAP. Its aim is to increase production levels to meet the demands of the domestic gas supply in Tunisia. It is due to come onstream next March with the LPG, at a peak rate of 375tpd, separated and exported as separate butane and propane products. The plant will have two 150-tonne butane storage bullets and five 360-tonne propane storage bullets. For more information call Vaughan Rees at ODE on 020 8481 1190 |
| International contractor ODE has completed one of its most challenging front-end design and engineering projects and only its second in Syria. Project manager Brian Steel said the team was pleased to finish the eight-month £6m FEED contract for surface facilities for the entire Ebla Gas Project in Syria.The Petro-Canada Palmyra BV development includes multiple well sites, flowlines, a gas gathering station and gas treatment plant and a trunkline.“It was the biggest FEED we have ever done,” said Dr John Eckhart, ODE’s London regional manager. “We have a major commitment into Syria and we’re looking to expand on a world scale from our UK base, going into Africa and the Middle East.”Mr Steel said that working in Syria proved more benign than in some Middle East countries but it was an onerous task to keep within tight restrictions against using United States’ services or equipment – even down to component parts.It was also a challenge to decide precise locations on a “greenfield” desert site for the facility, its infrastructure and particularly the route of the 88km 16-inch pipeline. There were also environmental issues.He said it was a significant project for ODE, a joint Saipem-Doris company, as they led a joint team, operating alongside sister company Snamprogetti UK.“The one sad thing about completion was that the team then went its separate ways. It would have been good to do another job together.”More than 60 ODE staff were involved and he was amazed not just at its multi-technological skills but the multi-ethnic origins, including British, Italian and Indian - the latter from Saipem India Project Services based in Chennai. The development, due for completion in August 2010, includes two fields, Ash Shaer and Cherrife, in central Syria, north-west of Palmyra. The 88mmscfd gas treatment plant will be a new-build facility next to another plant under construction for the Syrian Gas Corporation as part of the SMAG project. Some utilities and services will be shared between the two plants.At the field itself, the gas gathering station will separate the water, to be disposed of by re-injection, and the gas will be dehydrated for pipeline transportation to the treatment plant.The plant will extract LPG (propane and butane) from the feed gas for road tanker transport and produce export specification sales gas and condensate using a turbo-expander and liquids fractionation process. The project scope included all facilities from the well trees up to the tie-in to the export lines, as well as all associated utilities and infrastructure.Five gas well sites and three oil well sites are initially planned for the Ash Shaer field with one gas well site penciled in for the Cherrife field. ODE project-managed the FEED scope and was responsible for the well sites, gas gathering station and pipelines. It sub-contracted elements, including the gas treatment plant, to Snamprogetti UK. The London-headquartered company won the Syria contract on the back of a FEED project there for Total. For more information call Vaughan Rees at ODE on 020 8481 1190 |
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