Company chosen for fire and gas upgrade

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team May 9, 2007

Perenco UK has signed a contract that will see CSE Servelec decommission the existing 25 year old fire and gas system and transfer all I/O and functionality to new solid state FandG equipment.

CSE Servelec, has been selected to provide a vital upgrade to the Inde 49/18A Platform's fire and gas system.

The contract, awarded by Perenco UK, will see CSE Servelec decommission the existing 25 year old system and transfer all I/O and functionality to new solid state FandG equipment.

Over the last few years, due to the age of the equipment, general support for the platform's fire and gas system has diminished considerably.

Perenco has found it increasingly difficult to source replacement parts for the system, and hence took a decision to upgrade the system and field equipment to enhance the overall integrity, reliability and maintainability of the system.

The project will support a single stage changeover strategy where the existing equipment is de-powered and removed from the existing equipment bays, and the replacement equipment is then installed prior to site commissioning.

With this latest project, CSE Servelec continues to build upon its experience of legacy system change-outs, providing reliable, diverse control and safety systems with minimum disruption to the client's operation.

This includes two successful previous projects for the change-out of complete ESD and FandG systems on the Davy and Bessemer platforms, completed with maximum shutdown durations of only 12 hours.

This was achieved by CSE Servelec working as an integrated member of the client's engineering team and taking a very pro-active approach to the system requirements and implementation.