News releases 2014

Atkins wins contracts to support ADMA-OPCO - 27 October 2014

Atkins has recently been awarded two contracts by Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) for structural analysis services worth over (USD) $3 million. The work will compliment ADMA-OPCO's expansion programme for its offshore production facilities by supporting the safe life extension of existing critical infrastructure.

The first is for quantitative structural assessment of 31 Well Head Towers (WHTs) in the Umm Shaif Field, offshore from Abu Dhabi. Atkins will undertake structural assessment of the WHTs to establish a robust integrity management system for the company's fleet of offshore structures, building SACS models to enable detailed analysis.

The second award is for advanced structural analysis of barge-type structures, which form the central platforms of ADMA OPCO's offshore processing facilities.

David Gowans, operations director for Atkins' Oil and Gas business in the Middle East, explained: "By drawing on 40 years experience of asset integrity management we can safely anticipate and manage repair of age related defects, allowing continued use and development of ageing infrastructure.

"Our approach to life extension enables operators to get the most oil and gas resource out of the field before the infrastructure needs to be replaced: in some cases we have been able to safely extend the life of an asset by double its design life. It adds considerable value to the asset by deferring future investment cost, as well as providing assurance of asset integrity."

ADMA-OPCO is part of the ADNOC group of companies, with responsibility for the development and operation of offshore fields in five main areas: Lower Zakum, Umm Shaif, SARB, Umm Lulu and Nasr. The earliest field has been in operation since 1967.

Atkins' Oil and Gas business has been providing safety, integrity management and design services to the oil and gas industry for over 40 years both in the Middle East and internationally from its hubs in the UK, North America and Asia Pacific. The structural integrity management team based in Atkins' Energy business in UAE will lead the project with support from across Atkins' worldwide oil and gas business.

This contract builds on Atkins' existing relationship with ADMA-OPCO and sees the two companies working together to realise the full benefits of utilising advanced structural analysis techniques to support safe asset life extension.

Ends

For more information:

Paul Childs
PR manager, Energy

Tel: +44 207 121 2828 
paul.childs@atkinsglobal.com

Follow Atkins' news on Twitter

Notes to Editors

Atkins (www.atkinsglobal.com) is one of the world's leading design, engineering, and project management consultancies*, employing some 17,400 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Our people's breadth and depth of expertise and drive to ask "why?" has allowed us to plan, design, and enable some of the world's most complex and time-critical projects.

*15th largest global design firm (Engineering News-Record 2014) and the third largest multidisciplinary consultancy in Europe (Svensk Teknik och Design 2013).

Energy projects:
• UAE's peaceful nuclear new build programme - providing technical assurance to lenders backing the United Arab Emirates' most ambitious energy infrastructure projects;
• UK nuclear generation - part of the Strategic Supply Chain Partnership for EDF Energy's Nuclear Generation business providing additional expert engineering support as the company seeks to extend the life of its existing nuclear AGR fleet;
• UK new nuclear programme - working collaboratively with Horizon Nuclear Power providing engineering and related technical services for a new generation of nuclear power stations at Wylfa Newydd, on Anglesey and Oldbury in South Gloucestershire, UK;
• Nuclear decommissioning - currently preferred bidder on a new contract with Sellafield Ltd for its Silos Direct-encapsulation Plant (SDP) project in the UK, as part of an equal three-way joint venture with Areva and Mace (a.m.a.);
• North Sea and Gulf of Mexico oil and gas platforms - extending the operational life of critical oil and gas platforms to allow cost-efficient and safe recovery of hydrocarbons from mature fields;
• ENI assets in Australia - providing engineering and consultancy services to ENI across their portfolio of operating and non-operating assets and any future developments in Australia;
• Shell's oil and gas assets worldwide - providing technical and safety engineering services to Shell's onshore and offshore assets worldwide under an Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA);
• SSE offshore wind alliance - providing expert engineering and design support for the UK's biggest offshore wind alliance with Scottish and Southern Energy;
• DONG Energy offshore wind farms - designing five offshore substations for DONG Energy's Walney and Burbo extension projects as well as the new Race Bank project;
• Energy from Waste - helping Energos deliver an Advanced Conversion Facility as part of Viridor and Glasgow City Council's £146 million Glasgow Recycling and Renewable Energy Centre (GRREC) in the UK;
• Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) - Atkins is the technical adviser to the UK government's Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for the CCS Commercialisation Programme which supports the development and deployment of full chain CCS demonstration plants.

Recent projects from across the Group:
• Doha Central Planning Office - helping to resource Qatar's Central Planning Office (CPO) to co-ordinate the efficient delivery of multi-modal transport services across land, air and sea as part of its 2030 National Vision;
• The London 2012 Games infrastructure transformation - technical advisor on the legacy use transition of the Olympic Park as a follow-on role to our work as the Games' official engineering and design provider;
• Crossrail - designing the Central London twin tunnels and station architecture for Europe's biggest civil engineering scheme which will see tunnels passing beneath 470 listed buildings and critical infrastructure;
• Etihad Railway - providing multidisciplinary design expertise on the 1,200 km Etihad Rail network which will revolutionise passenger and freight transport in the UAE;
• Denmark ERTMS - providing multidisiplinary signalling expertise on the first countrywide installation of an ERTMS train control and management system in Denmark;
• Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge - lead consultant on this integral part of the new Hong Kong link road scheme which will significantly boost land connectivity in the region;
• Lowestoft Sixth Form College - design of the ultralow energy consumption Lowestoft College in the UK which aims to reduce operational energy use by more than 60% compared to previous designs;
• UK National Composites Centre - providing technical expertise to bring the latest lightweight carbon fibre materials to all engineering sectors, helping to develop innovative applications and reduce costs and carbon;
• US Environmental Protection Agency - providing technical assessment and analysis of national water-related resources and ecological systems in North America;
• Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) superfast broadband - providing technical, commercial and procurement support to help deliver superfast broadband to one of Europe's most remote regions.


distributed by