PLASMA (Oil and Gas Industry)

General:-

• Powerful visual interface with simple drag and drop techniques;
• Deterministic and stochastic techniques;
• Series, Active Redundancy (Full, Partial or Conditional) and Standby Redundancy (Identical units or Different units);
• Control of the sizing of parallel units as a function of time (i.e. varying levels of effective redundancy);
• Load Sharing;
• Production Availability i.e. throughput estimation;
• System or component importance ranking; It enables the user to identify the systems or components that are the main contributors to Production Unavailability, Total Down Time, Cost, Safety Criticality, Asset Criticality and Environmental Criticality;
• Modelling complex systems using multiple layers of RBDs and PFDs.

Maintenance modelling:-

• Unscheduled, Delayed (e.g. seasonal);
• Maintenance duration and restoration factors;
• Maintenance policies;
• Planned;
• Condition monitoring;
• Opportunity maintenance;
• Services and utilities;
• Job priority;
• Spare parts pools.

Operating Policies

• Makeup (by boosting);
• prioritised (of product exporting);
• monitoring (of production movements);
• Deferred Production;
• Flaring Operations;
• Load Shedding;
• Line packing and

Production Phasing and Transient Data:-

• Control of phasing-in and phasing-out of any part of the logic network;
• Control of the production capacity within any part of the network;
• Control of contract return period (for sales quota make-up) as a function of time;
• Control of branch boost factors as a function of time;
• Control of buffer storage volumes as a function of time;
• Control of export scheduling criteria as a function of time;
• Control of maximum flow in a branch as a function of time;

Life Cycle Scenarios

• Economic Modelling aspects:- CAPEX, OPEX, NPV etc.;
• Performance and asset optimisation.

Logistics

• FPSO and Subsea;
• Tanker Export Modelling:- Transport mode (sea, road or rail), Operations Mode (define whether dealing with export or import), Berth data (dual tanker loading operations);
• Number of shuttle tankers in the fleet, Carrying capacity, Range, Early and Late arrivals etc.;
• Iconic animation (moving ships, etc.);
• Operations details of shuttles;
• Maintenance Vessel;
• Weather Module:- Location (reference to geographical location of shuttle loading facility)
• Seasons (default given for Northern Hemisphere)
• Weather Data Matrix (comprising cumulative probability of nominated wave heights per season and the associated average of occurrence of this range)

Other modelling details

• Interactive construction of Network, Fault Tree or Event Tree diagrams;
• Multiple sources and production profiles;
• Sub-system or pagination facilities for large Network, Fault Tree and Event Tree diagrams;
• Import and export facilities;
• Interface with Excel spreadsheets. Effectively allowing the user to export and import data to and from other spreadsheets;
• Multiple Sales Quotas;
• General failure behaviour of an equipment i.e. bathtub curve.