Facilities service provider Petrofac has been awarded a contract to support maintenance management system (MMS) implementation for Bumi Armada’s floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO), the Armada Kraken.
The vessel, a converted Suezmax ice-class tanker, is due to the installed on the Kraken field in East Shetland Basin in the UK North Sea. The Kraken field development is one of the biggest heavy oil field projects currently under development in the UK North Sea.
The scope of work includes development of an integrated risk-based maintenance program, associated repair/replacement strategies and spares holdings.
Petrofac division Plant Asset Management will apply its systematic methodology to rationalize spares holdings with the express aim of ensuring effective cost control when owning, stocking and maintaining equipment spares for the life of the asset, says Petrofac.
BuildMETM, Plant Asset Management’s proprietary asset management program development platform will support the project. It will provide a controlled environment in which to develop the asset hierarchy, assign maintenance, conduct the criticality assessment and spares analysis, and build bills of materials.
Business Manager (Europe) of Plant Asset Management, John Morrison, says: “We are delighted to have secured this work, which will be executed and delivered by adopting a close partnership agreement with our client that optimises the combined skills of Plant Asset Management and Bumi Armada personnel in Kuala Lumpur to provide a high quality, cost effective solution. We look forward to the successful delivery of this project and believe that this will establish a great basis for a long term ongoing relationship with Bumi Armada.”