RINA@WORK 1/2015

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The low global oil price has changed the market for offshore energy. Low oil prices mean some projects are cancelled or delayed. Rig operators and OSV owners are feeling the pain. But a change is never all bad. Change brings opportunities for those who can diversify and adapt.For new projects floating solutions gain in a low price environment. They are cheaper to build, more flexible and can be moved as markets evolve. Gas prices are holding and there is continuing demand for floating offshore gas technology.For existing assets the low prices create a stronger focus on operational costs. A good Asset Integrity Management System is vital to reduce OPEX. Inspections must be optimised, maintenance made less intrusive and life extension considered for ageing units.Downstream, low energy prices create consumer demand. For energy companies this means a shift from finding and exploiting energy to refining and distributing. That puts the spotlight on refinery capacity and the gains will go to those companies able to reinvigorate existing refineries or those who can build modern green-field refineries suited to today’s market.Shifting the focus into each of the opportunity areas works best in partnership with service providers who have the expertise to smooth the way. RINA is gaining new business in each area as it helps firms to adapt. It is providing engineering and inspection for a major FPU and its associated subsea equipment for ENI. The floater will serve the Indonesian Jangkrik field. In the Mediterranean RINA is helping ENI reduce the costs of pipeline inspection by providing intelligent pigging analysis, while in Turkmenistan is delivering a Structural Health Monitoring system for an existing offshore platform. And in Vietnam RINA is providing RBI planning for Nghi So’n green-field refinery.

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Planning the next twenty years of investments with the current oil price might seem extremely difficult. But help is available.

There are trustworthy partners you can rely upon to safeguard the value of your assets, especially when project margins are critical.

Profitability can be enhanced by using tailored services which cut costs during the development of projects and by the use of innovative technologies which increase the availability of plant during operation. These services deliver huge benefits for marginal costs. RINA knows how to take care of your assets and operations, now and for the next twenty years.

Please come and visit us at OMC booth no. P10 Hall 6See also our Technical Papers at pp. 2-3

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“Welcome” to OMC

Andrea BombardiGeneral Manager Energy, RINA SERVICES, says:

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} DARK CLOUDS HAVE SILVER LININGS } CAP FOR OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION UNITS } SHM OF OFFSHORE PLATFORMS } CSM DEVELOPS WELD HARDNESS TOOL } RINA BRAZIL CLOSER TO PETROBRAS

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“ENI is one of the major integrated energy companies committed to growth in the activities of exploration, producing, transporting, transforming and marketing oil and gas. The challenges we face are fast track investments for future production and to shorten project development duration while respecting quality, environment, safety and cost policy. My job is to oversee new offshore developments and the rehabilitation of existing assets. We work with certification, verification and consulting agencies throughout all activities. Our relationship with RINA goes back more than twenty years. Only two days after I had started working in ENI , I had my first meeting with RINA. Together we have worked on certification of new structures, verification of new projects and the re-use of existing facilities to be adapted for eni projects. I value the challenges which RINA poses to our engineering, supported by the deep expertise and skills of the RINA team, especially in relation to fast track projects, where we need to move rapidly and to receive prompt response to our needs. RINA always gives us that.”

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FPSO TURRETS: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A CONSTRUCTABILITY APPROACHCarlo Pellegrino, Andrea Bombardi - RINA SERVICES S.p.A.This paper shows how a Constructability Study applied to FPSO Turrets can ensure that each system, piping lines and component can be installed in a scheduled sequence without interfering with other systems, piping lines and components.

Wednesday 25th March - 16.30 - 18.10 - Offshore and Deep Water Technologies 2

EU DIRECTIVE ON OFFSHORE SAFETY – PROBLEM OR OPPORTUNITY?Giovanni Uguccioni, Paola Rentocchini, Linda Volpi - D’Appolonia S.p.A.The paper will discuss the contents that a MHR should present to allow a proper assessment of the risks associated with an offshore oil and gas operation on the basis of D’Appolonia’s experience and the approach utilized for an Oil Spill Response Plan in Italy.

Thursday 26th March - 16.30 -18.10 - Offshore Regulations

RESIDUAL LIFE OF EXISTING FIXED OFFSHORE PLATFORMSS. Copello, F. Petrillo, S. Gaugenrieder - RINA SERVICES S.p.A.This paper describes how the required safety target can be related to the actual system capacity of the platform and then introduced into a system reliability assessment capable of determining the actual residual life of the structure and its maximum return period.

Friday 27th March - 11.00 - 12.40 - Facilities and Their Life Cycle Assessment

Technical Papers

RINA has recently completed its first Condition Assessment (CAP) under a new scheme for offshore construction units. The Saipem pipe-laying unit CASTORO 10 has been awarded a CAP rating to demonstrate its current state. CAP survey of the SAIPEM pipe-laying vessel S355 has begun. RINA has tailored new guidelines for CAP which previously applied to oil tankers, bulk carriers and gas carriers to cover pipe-laying ships and other offshore construction vessels. This service provides a rating of the unit’s structure, with particular attention to the areas identified through a structural fatigue assessment and the residual strength analysis and the ship’s machinery. There is a special focus on the equipment essential for the services the unit was designed for. CAP for pipe layers covers the firing line equipment, for example, and lifting appliances are covered for heavy lifting units. The survey and assessment process is extensive and leads to a very detailed report inclusive of a photographic booklet, structural analysis and functioning test reports of each key component. Oil and gas companies vet such vessels before awarding any contracts and, for units older than twenty years, require a vessel structural integrity assessment performed by a third party in order to confirm the reliability of the unit. RINA’s CAP delivers that integrity assessment.

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}CAP FOR OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION UNITS

Andrea Fisogni Manager of Offshore Department, Structure & Civil Technologies, ENI

Alessandro VescoviniCEO, Vescovini Group, Smart Gas S.p.A.

}SHM of offshore platforms

Technical PapersON-SHORE TERMINAL FOR LNG STORAGE, REGASIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION Claudio Mordini - D’Appolonia S.p.A.Alessandro Vescovini - Smart Gas S.p.A. (project owner)This paper is focused on the Monfalcone LNG regasification and distribution terminal project, an important innovation for the national market aimed at making available LNG storage to be used both for LNG regasification and LNG distribution by vessels, trucks, trains.

Friday 27th March - 11.00 - 12.40 - Gas To Market

GEOHAZARDS: LOWERING THE PROJECT RISK PROFILEMarilena Calarco, Francesca Zolezzi, Eric J. Parker, Chiara M. Traverso - D’Appolonia S.p.A.This paper reviews the most common hazards expected in the Mediterranean, the survey technologies and morphological analyses to identify them, and the geo-engineering approaches to quantify and mitigate the risk they can pose to offshore and onshore facilities.

Friday 27th March - 9.25-10.40 - Geohazards

OFFSHORE FACILITIES INTEGRITY MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT Donisi Domenico, Fuggini Clemente, Gabriele Noli, Giovanni Uguccioni - D’Appolonia S.p.A.This paper presents a picture of a comprehensive approach to Asset Integrity Monitoring and management applied to offshore facilities, with examples of practical applications. This integrated approach ensures business continuity.

Friday 27th March - 11.00 - 12.40 - Facilities and their life Cycle assessment

“Vescovini Group has three main divisions, SBE (Cold Forging Manufacturing), OSD (Hot Forging Manufacturing) and V.AR.VIT. (Distribution).

The group is one of the major players in the European market of fasteners, screws, nuts, stud and wheel bolts and many other cold forging products such as pins and semi-finished drivelines and axles.

Smart Gas S.p.A. is developing the LNG distribution and regasification terminal in the Monfalcone harbour. Our major challenge at present is completion of the authorization process for the LNG distribution and regasification terminal in Monfalcone, through Smart Gas S.p.A., and future implementation and management of the terminal.

We have worked with D’Appolonia on the design and for assistance during the authorization phase of this terminal. That began in 2013 and we have been in constant contact for the definition of the technical and strategic aspects of the LNG Terminal Project. We are making satisfactory progress thanks to the support and knowledge we can draw on from D’Appolonia.”

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Asset integrity is a major concern in high risk and capital intensive businesses such as the oil and gas industry.The growth in the number of fixed platforms reaching the end of their designed life is focusing the attention of oil and gas operators on effective Integrity Monitoring practices. The falling oil price is a further reason to rely on asset integrity in order to reduce operational expenditure and to extend the operating lives of existing facilities. Within the asset integrity services delivered by RINA, D’Appolonia provides tailored Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems, delivering an increase in active safety and a significant improvement in survey optimization and in Life Extension assessments, based on monitoring data analysis.D’Appolonia is currently under contract with Dragon Oil to provide SHM for the LAM 28 platform, located in the southern Caspian Sea, off Turkmenistan.The assessment activity is supplied through structural monitoring campaigns at the site performed along with structural reinforcement activities. The aim of this work is to enhance safety by demonstrating the effectiveness of upgrades based on the experimental results and to update the related numerical model.SHM solutions allow Dragon Oil to reduce operational risks and to extend the operational lifetime of the platform, while reducing costs and optimizing capital expenditure.

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RINA subsidiary CSM has developed a powerful tool, named CSMWeld, to predict maps of the final microstructure and average hardness of HAZ of multi-pass arc-welded joints as a function of steel composition and welding conditions. Hardness in the HAZ and in weld metal is the most technologically relevant information characterizing a welded joint of C-Mn and microalloyed steels. CSMWeld simulates the most common multi-pass welding techniques, different bevel geometries and also predicts hardness changes due to post-weld heat treatments.The tool can be used during design for material selection and in establishing the welding procedures. It can also be used during production in estimating the effect of requests for deviation, for example for different chemical compositions or WPS. It also allows experience from previous projects to be managed, providing inputs to the company know-how.

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RINA Brazil has recently won three bids for projects with Petrobras, the Brazilian multinational energy corporation. The first contract is for technical inspection of vessels and support services for marine activities. The second contract is for the inspection, onshore and offshore, of logistics equipment, such as cranes, anchorage and cables systems, overhead cranes and rail cars. The third contract is in the climate change area, mapping emissions in accordance with ISO 14064 in all Petrobras` installations.RINA Brazil is focused on growing its relationship not only with Petrobras, but also with other national and international oil and gas companies and EPCI contractors present in Brazil. The exploitation of the pre-salt deepwater oilfields is stimulating demand for offshore expertise and local content requirements mean that most of the engineering and verification work has to be done by Brazil-based companies.

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}CSM DEVELOPS WELD HARDNESS TOOL

}RINA BRAZIL CLOSER TO PETROBRAS

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RINA, under NCPOC Umbrella, is raising Kazakh vendors QHSE Standards throughout systems certification

ENI awarded D’Appolonia a 3-year Agreement for Material and Corrosion Engineering and Field Assistance

RINA has acquired a majority stake in Canadian marine survey company Hayes Stuart

JGC awarded D’Appolonia the RBI planning for Nghi Son Refinery&Petrochemical Complex Project, Vietnam

NPCC (UAE) awarded RINA Services two major contracts for worldwide expediting services and vendor inspection

D’Appolonia teams up with PWC to audit FPSO Kwame Nkrumah operations of Jubilee field for GNPC (Ghana)

}News in Brief

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