Operations engineering

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Oil and Gas at Atkins

Safe and efficient recovery from existing fields and exploiting new fields
in difficult environments and uncertain market conditions present our
oil and gas industry with many technical and economic challenges.
We have the breadth and depth of expertise, the intellect and the drive to
overcome these challenges and help our clients to realise the full potential of
their fields and assets. We strive to help improve lives, protect our planet and
ensure prosperity through secure and affordable energy.
Working as part of a global community with our clients, industry partners and
academia, we are listening, imagining and co-creating the best solutions in
offshore engineering, onshore engineering and operations engineering.

Offshore Onshore Operations

engineering engineering engineering

Deepwater FPU design and
engineering
Fixed platforms
Subsea engineering
Process and facilities
Safety engineering
Facilities design and engineering Asset integrity management
Midstream LNG Production optimisation
Pipelines Brownfield projects
Safety and process specialist Late life management
services
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Operations engineering
Were committed to helping our clients to reduce costs, maximise production,
minimise downtime and improve safety and environmental performance in
the face of ever-aging infrastructure, ever-changing reservoir performance and
economic uncertainty.

Our 800 oil and gas engineers and specialists combine their intellect, imagination and drive to deliver the very best in:

Asset integrity Production optimisation Brownfield projects Late life management

management
Production efficiency, Multi-disciplinary Late life asset
Process and facilities, root cause analysis and assess, concept, FEED management
structural, moorings debottlenecking engineering and Life extension
and subsea integrity Subsea flow assurance verification De-manning
Integrated safety and Global integrity Decommissioning
risk services assessment
Reliability, availability Strengthening,
and maintainability Modification and repair
Safety and risk services
Commissioning support
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The best engineers Whole asset, whole lifecycle perspective

Our teams are made up of experts with deep knowledge Drawing on the broad and deep knowledge of our technical
of oil and gas structures, brought together over 40 years of experts worldwide means we can take a whole life perspective
acquisition, strategic appointments and investing in our people and provide the best engineering across all aspects of an
to retain the best talent. assets lifecycle; from concept through to decommissioning and
abandonment.
Collectively our design and operations experience extends back
to the late 1970s with projects in the Gulf of Mexico, North
Sea, Australia, Brazil, Middle East, West Africa, Caribbean,
South East Asia and the Arctic. Our engineers judgment and
expertise helps our clients make the most critical of decisions
with confidence.

Concept
Help our clients select the economic, efficient
and safe asset to maximise field output

Design
Preliminary, FEED and detailed design to meet the
safety, budget, program and operational imperatives

Delivery
Supporting classification and regulatory approval,
fabrication, transportation, integration and installation

Operation
Establish the right maintenance and integrity
management plans that minimise down time and
optimise production while maintaining safe operations

Extension
Help extend asset life and safe, efficient production

Decommissioning
Support the optimum course for decommissioning
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Thinking like an operator

We know our clients; weve been working together for 40 years; we understand
their goals and can share their vision.

Thinking like an operator Delivering as true partners

Our 40 years supporting operators
throughout an assets lifecycle means we
understand our clients goals and can
share their vision to balance incremental
improvement of production, maintain
integrity and assure safety.
It matters to us that assets are future
proofed to optimise through-life
operation, so we actively ensure lessons
learned are fed back into our design and
integrity management delivery systems
to ensure capital spend is optimised and
operational expenditure minimised.
Our clients:
We work hard to earn and retain our
clients trust and stand by them when BP
faced with increasing complexity or Maersk
even adversity. We want to sit side by Chevron
side with our clients, listening, sharing Woodside
knowledge, leaning in to challenges Apache
and delivering what we say we will.
Saudi Aramco
We function in complete independence
Centrica
of contractors and operators, so our
CNR
sole interest is to provide top quality
engineering to solve the task at hand. Talisman
Whether engaged as one Premier Oil
multidisciplinary delivery team for a Shell
brownfield project or embedded as a SBM
specialist team for operational support, Teekay
we work together with our clients and
partners to bring different disciplines
closer together and ease the managing
of multiple suppliers.

Support to brownfield modifications

EXPENDITURE

OPERATE ASSESS CONCEPT/SELECT FEED EXECUTE OPERATE

BROWNFIELD PROJECTS

Safety studies Safety studies PMC/Owners PMC/Owners engineer Multi-disc

Drilling support Process led engineer Safety studies engineering
Process led multi- multi-disc assess & Safety studies Multi-disc design reviews Framework
disciplinary concept design Multi-disc design Niche consulting agreement
assess & concept reviews Asset integrity
design Niche consulting management
(including
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Anywhere in the world

Valhall redevelopment
BP, North Sea

Solan field
development
Premier Oil, North Sea

Claymore life
extension
Safety and risk services North Sea
to Fort Hills oil sands
facilities
Fort Hills, Canada

Designing offshore
oil & gas structures
Gulf of Mexico, US Offshore floating
wind platform design
Mars B WindFloat, Portugal
Gulf of Mexico, US

Offshore personnel
risk assessment (OPRA)
Gulf of Mexico, US

Structural integrity
management for onshore
& offshore platforms
BP, Trinidad & Tobago
Tension leg platform
design
ExxonMobil, West Africa

HAZOP & enhancing

safety
Frade FPSO, Chevron, Brazil

ATKINS ENERGY OFFICES: United Kingdom and Europe: Aberdeen, Bristol, Derby, Epsom, Esbjerg, Glasgow, Leeds,
London, Rotherham, Warrington, Whitehaven North America: Calgary, Charlotte, Houston, Trinidad & Tobago
Middle East: Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, UAE; Al Kobar, Saudi Arabia Asia Pacific: Perth
OTHER ATKINS OFFICES
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Our engineers work together across our international network
of technical hubs in the UK, Middle East, North America and
Asia Pacific regions. This means that wherever in the world
a project needs to be delivered, our clients benefit from our
ability to quickly mobilise a team of industry-leading experts
and dedicated local contacts.
We support projects from our hubs, close to our clients
base or through a remote team co-located with our client.
Our worldwide presence means we understand the unique
characteristics of each region for planning, designing,
transporting and installing offshore and onshore projects.

Asset integrity & late life

management of offshore
oil & gas assets
North Sea

Reducing cost of
offshore wind farms
DONG Energy, UK

New build LNG

Poland TC Pipeline
Routing Study
Caspian Sea to Turkey

Shah Deniz
Caspian Sea

Khafji Field
Offshore, Saudi Arabia

First LNG receiving

terminal
Singapore LNG
Corporation
Qatar A-South
Offshore, Qatar
Safe life extension Tangguh LNG
of critical oil & gas Indonesia
infrastructure
ADMA-OPCO, UAE

Flow assurance & Making floating LNG

systems engineering as safe as possible
Ichthys (Darwin), INPEX, Prelude, Shell, Australia
Australia

Asset integrity for

oil & gas assets
ENI, Australia
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Asset integrity management
We deliver an extensive range of integrity management services spanning
all types of fixed, floating, subsea and onshore facilities, which includes
approximately 50% of UK North Sea assets plus many more assets globally.
We routinely manage interfaces
with regulators and verification
bodies and have experience of
integrity management of pressure
systems, including Fitness for Service
assessments of corrosion and crack-
like defects using both screening
assessments and advanced 3D finite
element analysis of defects.
Process and facilities,
structural, moorings and
subsea integrity
Talisman North Sea integrity
management framework
We currently deliver integrity
management services to all 13 UK
North Sea Assets removing all anomaly
management and 10,000 man hours
safety critical backlog.
BP Trinidad, offshore and onshore
We have worked with BP Trinidad
& Tobago (BPTT) on the structural
integrity management (SIM) on all their
Caribbean offshore platforms for the last
four consecutive years. We also provided
SIM and hurricane assessments for
BPTTs onshore facilities.
ADMA-OPCO Abu Dhabi, offshore
structures
Weve worked with offshore operator
ADMA-OPCO to optimise mitigation
designs to withstand additional
operational placement of loads of
existing assets. We also provided SIM
assessments for a variety of structures
including Quantitative Structural
Assessment of Well Head Towers
(WHTs) to establish a robust integrity
management system for the companys
fleet of offshore structures, building
structural models to enable detailed in-
place and progressive collapse analyses.
This in addition to Advanced Structural
Analysis of Barge-Type Structures, which
form the central platforms of ADMA
OPCOs offshore processing facilities.
FUKA and Vesterled life extension
We employed FMECA software to
consider all failure modes and root
causes, extending the life of the twin
32 gas trunklines, commissioned in
1977 considerably.
Zakum West Super Complex ADMA OPCO

Integrated safety and risk
services
Offshore personnel risk assessment
(OPRA), Gulf of Mexico
We developed a common safety risk
philosophy for all the operating BP
assets in the Gulf of Mexico. This
included conducting safety risk and
consequence modelling to establish a
consistent risk profile for each asset.
Well integrity on offshore
production installations
Our client has a number of wells on
its production platforms which have
experienced sustained casing pressure,
to a greater or lesser degree. We were
asked to further develop the in-house
risk model to help make it more
representative, robust and transparent
in quantifying the associated risk from
credible hazards. A user guide and
supporting manual was developed
The Integrity Cycle which is common for the Asset Integrity of all disciplines
Execute
INTEGRITY
CYCLE
Strategy
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by the Atkins team and enabled the installed on production platforms
client to move forward with greater in Locations A and B, aiming to
confidence with what had been a increase the overall field production
problematic issue for some time. performance.
Feedback was highly positive with a
All services can be most effectively
senior client representative stating that
achieved if integrated under a single
Atkins had undertaken one of the best
process lifecycle management.
bits of technical work I have ever seen
Our commitment to improving
the quality and the format of the report
integrity management techniques is
was exceptional.
demonstrated by our Cause-Oriented
Reliability, availability and Inspection System (COINS) JIP, which
maintainability applies root cause analysis to all failure
modes to develop a more focused
Improvements in the operational
and effective integrity risk assessment
availability and maintenance cost
approach.
reduction of aging assets are becoming
increasingly important to our clients.
The Al Shaheen Oil Field is a production
oil and gas field off the North East
coast of Qatar, operated by Maersk Oil
Qatar AS. In 2014, Atkins successfully
completed the maintenance strategy
review of water injection equipment
Data
Evaluation
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Production optimisation
We have extensive experience in troubleshooting and debottlenecking
process plant and specifying solutions to problems. We review and investigate
opportunities and problems with all unit operations and overall systems
installed offshore. Our focus is always on providing a solution that does not
require physical plant intervention for modification.

However, where such modifications
are required, the emphasis is on
minimising their extent wherever
possible. The service includes
engineers seconded to client offices
in day-to-day operations support
roles, offshore-based support and
study teams based in Atkins offices.
Experience has been gained
over more than 30 offshore
commissioning support projects,
ranging from small remedial scopes
to FPSO redeployment. Our service is
typically provided by engineers who
understand the topsides process and
safety systems as well as subsea.
Production root cause
analysis and debottlenecking
Ichthys LNG, onshore and offshore
Appointed by INPEX in April 2011, were
providing flow assurance engineering
as well as ad hoc process engineering
services for the Front-End Engineering
and Design (FEED) phase of the Ichthys
Field. The Ichthys Field expects to deliver
8.4 million tonnes of LNG and 1.6
million tonnes of liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG) per annum, as well as 100,000
barrels of condensate per day at peak.
The scale of the project has seen Atkins
deal with a wide range of issues,
including hydraulic analysis, thermal
analysis and hydrate management.
Detailed analysis has also been
completed on the complex tasks of well
clean-up, initial well start-up, pipeline
blow-down, initial onshore LNG plant
start-up and on-going pigging for
flowlines and pipeline systems.
We also prepared system operating
philosophies, operating envelopes,
pigging philosophies and operating
manuals for the entire Pluto Icthys
subsea production system.
Foinaven facility debottlenecking -
North Sea
We conducted a comprehensive
debottlenecking study for BP using
our MeasCap software tool. MeasCap
allowed the client to see the trade
off between equipment cost vs oil
production rates, and determine where
the step changes in required investment
would be.

Ichthys LNG, INPEX


Subsea flow assurance
Shah Deniz debottlenecking study
The overall objective of the dynamic
simulation study was to assess the
controllability and operability of the
process at off-design and higher gas
throughput rates and also examine the
extent of transient excursions during
upset scenarios. We modelled the full
process facility in Aspen Hysys and
performed the dynamic runs in order
to validate the flare loads during the
higher gas throughput rates. The flare
system was sized to handle a maximum
flowrate of 900 MMscfd during
operational demand and 970 MMscfd
during emergency demand. Atkins
identified key debottleneck areas limiting
the operability at higher throughputs
and also necessary modifications to
mitigate the bottlenecks.
BPs Shah Deniz platform, Caspian sea
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Gryphon FPSO recovery project reduced downtime and losses associated
Following an incident in severe with major equipment.
weather, four anchor chains failed
Landline pump stations
and significant damage was sustained
optimisation study
to the subsea infrastructure. Atkins
BP asked us to determine the
prepared procedures to ensure that the
optimum plan for investment in an
subsea wells were isolated and could be
important UK landline, taking into
disconnected, and that flowlines were
consideration CAPEX/OPEX associated
hydrocarbon freed and filled to minimise
with decommissioning or upgrade/
any potential release upon disconnection
replacement of pump stations and
from the FPSO. Atkins personnel
equipment. Based on the studies
supervised the implementation of the
conducted, we determined that by
procedures offshore to ensure that
replacing VSDs at one key pump station,
the workscopes ran smoothly and all
would result in a potential commercial
requirements were met.
benefit of ~ 7M over the following 5
Production efficiency improvement year period.
(confidential client)
Our client achieved significant increase
in overall asset production efficiency
through revision to operators
maintenance strategies, which enabled
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Brownfield projects
Our intimate asset knowledge combined with our depth of operational
experience and access to the best engineering talent means we can tackle
the most complex and challenging of projects with confidence. With any
brownfield project the hidden costs are not in the new equipment but in
the impact on the existing process, its maintenance, structural and safety
systems. Utilising Atkins knowledge during the assess and concept phases
ensures the right option is selected and cost overruns are avoided.
We provide an extensive range
of multi-disciplinary engineering
services in support of asset
brownfield project design; ranging
from additional/changed production
requirements and meeting new
regulatory requirements to the
removal/installation of new plant
equipment and advanced structural
analysis to accommodate changed
topsides configurations.
Multi-disciplinary assess,
concept, FEED engineering and
verification
Ross/Blake field life extension
project process and utilities study
Atkins identified key upgrades /
improvements required to Ross / Blake
facilities in order to deliver high uptimes
and meet the required performance
specifications for the remaining field
life. We provided clear rational for
improvement options with a FEED scope
for each system studied.
BP Unity tie-in study culzean
condensate development
We undertook concept-select and
Pre-FEED design for the tie-back of the
Culzean condensate export pipeline to
BP Unity platform. The subsea (riser) and
multi-discipline engineering was carried
out by one integrated team.
Global Integrity Assessments
BP Andrew Area Development (AAD)
In Spring 2011, the AAD project was
in the final stages of detailed design
when the existing topsides joints were
discovered to be insufficient to support
the new facilities due to be installed in
2012.
The joints were heavily loaded by the
pre-AAD topside loads and it was not
possible to strengthen to maintain
the steel in the elastic range at the
factored loads. Atkins used plastic
design criteria to ensure strains in the
steel were acceptable if the joints were
strengthened prior to installation of the
AAD facilities.
Weve validated proposed strengthening
details that were initially shown to be
inadequate and to show that other
strengthening was not required.
Strengthening Modification
and Repair
We have undertaken more than 250
SMR projects worldwide. Our deep
understanding has led, together with a
number of Joint Industry Projects (JIPs),
to a considerable body of experience
and our input into codified guidance.
Core activities are:
Clamp technology mechanical,
grouted, neoprene lined
Welding dry and wet
Weld improvement toe grinding,
profile grinding, hammer peening
Other techniques, including remedial
grinding, composites, member
removal, bolting
Safety and risk services
BP North Sea life extension projects
Atkins provided key safety support to
both BP Magnus and ETAP platforms
life extension projects. These projects
were focussed on executing an extensive
remediation programme for each
platform with a large additional offshore
workforce accommodated on a bridge
linked flotel. Atkins assessment work
identified measures to improve platform
safety during this critical project and
provided assurance that the platforms
could continue to operate whilst the
flotel was on station and remediation
work taking place. This resulted in
significant savings for the operator.
Reliability and production efficiency
improvement
Our reliability programmes have
concentrated on supporting the
optimisation of day-to-day operations
on BP North Sea installations, with
specific focus on improving operating
efficiencies. Reliability and production
simulation models were used to
assist in the prioritisation of remedial
plant activity and current/future work
programs, such that an installations
vulnerability to potential production
related threats will be significantly
reduced.
We have also developed simulation
models for Andrew, Bruce, Clair,
Harding, Magnus, Foinaven, and ETAP
which includes production input from
Mungo / Monan, Machar, Marnock,
Mirren / Madoes. Each model is
constructed to include the throughlife
performance of production and utility
equipment/systems, safety systems, and
throughlife reservoir profile(s).
Fort Hills, Canada
By using advanced process and flare
simulations, explosion modeling and
surface mapping of pressure loads, we
were able to rationalise the original
design and safety scenarios to match the
actual needs of the facility.
Commissioning support
Maersk DSV 365 subsea
commissioning support
We were contracted by Maersk
to support all subsea project
implementations in the UK North
Sea Sector in conjunction with DSV
contractor (Bibby Offshore) in 2014.
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Explosion modelling
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Late life management

Increasingly, the operating lives of offshore infrastructure need to be
extended significantly beyond the original design life. To cover the increased
focus needed on asset integrity, production optimisation and brownfield
projects, weve developed methodologies and techniques to safely manage
and upgrade aging assets portfolio, ultimately through to decommissioning.
The effectiveness of our versatile approach to late life management has been
extensively demonstrated on numerous facilities.

Late life asset management De-manning

Life extension Decommissioning

Life extension
North Rankin A
We were approached by the client to
give a second opinion on the cost for life
extension on North Rankin A. Through
a refined phased assessment approach
and reliability-based assessments, Atkins
applied USFOS to demonstrate that
the structure had significantly higher
capacity than initially thought. We also
used an Abaqus global model to further
refine the assessment, bringing the cost
to the client down to less than 10% of
their first estimation.
Compression upgrade for Claymore
Described as a benchmark for future
brownfield projects, Atkins assessed
the impact of the new 1700 tonne
compression module on the existing
structure. The addition of the new
module allows the platforms life to
be extended to 2035 by providing the
necessary pressure increases to the
reservoir.
De-manning
Atkins works closely with all the major
operators to determine the de-manning
requirements for critical storms affecting
aging assets that now have issues.

Image left and

centre:
USFOS pushover
concluded in
significant savings
to our client
Image right:
Original linear
assessment
approach

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Excalibur Pieter Schelte (now Pioneering Spirit), North Sea (credit Frans Berkelaar)
Decommissioning
We have been actively involved in the
decommissioning of offshore facilities in
the UKCS and Gulf of Mexico since the
1990s. We have experience at all stages
of the decommissioning timeline for
fixed, floating and subsea installation,
providing the level of technical and
costing expertise relevant to the stage
in the asset life span. We have delivered
concept studies through detailed design
to assistance whilst decommissioning is
underway. Activities typically include:
Decommissioning strategy
- methodology statements,
philosophy, feasibility studies,
optioneering, execution plans
Programme scheduling and
cost estimation - critical path
identification, event sequencing
(including COP, well plugging and
abandonment), resource allocation,
benchmarking
Qualitative assessment -
advanced structural analysis, safety
engineering, weight assessment,
independent verification, design,
hydrocarbon freeing/flushing
procedures, comparative analysis
Offshore supervision during removal,
inspection services and execution
support
Camelot East Jacket, North Sea
We engineered the reuse of the Camelot
East facility which was installed in 1990
and removed in 2011 at the end of
the field life. We completed detailed
inspection requirements for reuse, and
analysed and engineered the required
modifications for installation in 2006.
Eugene Island 322, Gulf of Mexico
We were responsible for the
decommissioning assessment of the EI
322 complex, which was damaged by
Hurricane Lili. We undertook ultimate
strength analysis to establish toppling
loads and other key decommissioning
requirements.
Maersk Gryphon, North Sea
When the Gryphon FPSO catastrophically
drifted off station due to severe weather
in 2011, Atkins was called upon to
support Maersk in making the affected
area safe and to manage the large scale
recovery program. We provided rapid
response by mobilising a task team of
skilled offshore engineers equipped with
Atkins decommissioning procedures
to manage the risks associated with
removing the inventory from the entire
subsea network, installing barriers
to prevent hydrocarbon release from
stranded wells and performing all
construction work associated with
recovering un-salvageable assets.
We provided 24 hour offshore support
in a project management role acting as
client representative to drive schedule
commitments while ensuring safe
working and environmental compliance
at all times. We also tracked the change
to asset, providing status updates on
a daily basis to onshore management
and produced close out documentation
and deconstruction P&IDs for the
field. The success of this campaign
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led to our heavy involvement in the
re-commissioning of the Gryphon FPSO
and new subsea infrastructure two years
later.
BP Amoco NW Hutton
NW Hutton was the first major North
Sea installation to be physically removed.
We provided both pre-decommissioning
and real time analysis support to
monitor the stability of the jacket during
the cutting and removal operation. The
largest jacket section removed weighed
2,250 tonnes, from a complete jacket
weight of 17,500 tonnes.
Excalibur Pieter Schelte (now
Pioneering Spirit), North Sea
In addition to current methods of
decommissioning, we have also
been involved in the development of
vessels which may be used in future
deconstruction. The vessel will have the
capacity to remove and install topsides
up to 48,000 tonnes and jackets up to
25,000 tonnes in a single lift operation
Shell Brent Flare and Spar Anchor
Blocks
In August 2005 Shell recovered the
Brent Flare and SPAR Anchor Block
structures from the Brent Field. Atkins
carried out various studies to determine
the possibility of re-use of the structures.
The anchor blocks were identified as
having real residual civil engineering
value and were taken to Norway to
be used in the construction of a new
smarter decommissioning quay.
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Enriching industry learning

We believe that collaboration between operators and suppliers is one of
the keys to addressing the cost challenges faced by the industry. It is in our
mutual interests to ensure that money is spent most effectively, operations
are streamlined safely, production is improved and field life extended to
maximise economic recovery.

Committed to sharing industry
learning we have been involved in
numerous Joint Industry Projects
(JIPs) and hold regular lectures that
brings industry experts together
and encourage pan industry
collaboration.
During the last two decades, we
have concluded the following seven
relevant JIPs:
JIP Cause-Oriented Inspection
System (COINS)
Our commitment to improving
integrity management techniques is
demonstrated by our Cause-Oriented
Inspection System (COINS) JIP, which
applies root cause analysis to all failure
modes to develop a more focussed
and effective integrity risk assessment
approach.
JIP Strengthening, Modification and
Repair
A design manual has been created
covering all strengthening, modification
and repair techniques for offshore
platforms, delivering new and
more robust design procedures for
strengthening and repair techniques.
JIP Carbon Fibre Reinforced
Composites
This four-phase JIP has involved over
500 tests and has led to the creation of
a design manual for the strengthening
of offshore structural components using
carbon fibre composites.
JIP Neoprene-lined Clamps
Some 20 slip tests conducted on
neoprene-lined clamps under various
conditions of bolt load and member
surface condition. The tests confirmed
earlier indications that the slip capacity
is not as high as was generally believed.
New robust guidance was formulated
based on the test data.
The ownership of the technologies
developed in the above JIPs resides with
Atkins. These technologies are available
to any study work carried out by Atkins
on behalf of our clients.
JIP Grouted Joints
This JIP involved in excess of 150
structural tests, leading to a design
manual for the strength, local joint
flexibility, SCF and fatigue life design
of grouted joints utilising standard API
grouts.
JIP Diverless Repairs
Full scale underwater demonstration
trials were conducted in this JIP of the
diverless implementation of grouted
repair systems using ROV intervention
only. The trials were fully successful and
led to the development of installation
aids and procedures for diverless
implementation.
SAFEBUCK JIP
The SAFEBUCK JIP developed
methodologies to deliver a safe and
effective pipeline design that permits
lateral buckling that takes into account
the associated pipeline walking
phenomena. The design guideline has
been utilised on many major projects
around the globe.

JIP SAFEBUCK: Finite element analyis of lateral buckle in soft seabed

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Image credits
BP (page 04,13)
Shell (page 5)
ADMA OPCO (page 10)
INPEX (Ichthys LNG) (page 12)
Frans Berkelaar (photo credit Excalibur
Pieter Schelte / Pioneering Spirit, page 17)
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