Safeguarding and improving the performance of your business. So you can go strong on all dimensions.
Go strong. DNV serving the energy industry
This is DNV
DNV is a global provider of services for managing risk. Established in 1864, DNV is an independent foundation with the objective of safeguarding life, property and the environment. DNV comprises 300 offices in 100 countries, with 7,000 employees. DNV Energy is one of four business areas in DNV, alongside DNV Maritime, DNV Industry and DNV IT Risk Management.
DNV Services to the energy industry Enterprise Risk Management SHE Risk Management Operations Excellence
Offshore Classification Verification Technology Qualification
IT Risk Management Training Certification
Through these services our teams of highly qualified professionals deliver cutting-edge solutions to customers across the industry: • Deep and ultra deepwater field development • MOUs and FPSOs • Fixed structures • Offshore and onshore pipelines • Natural Gas/LNG • Refining & petrochemicals • Utilities • Cleaner energy and renewables • Arctic operations & technology
Business strength in the energy industry has many dimensions. It’s how you identify opportunities. It’s how you balance risk and returns. It’s how you manage these risks in the face of growing complexity. It’s how you push technology boundaries safely and cost-efficiently. It’s how you step up to increasing environmental requirements and expectations. It’s how you operate in a truly global arena. DNV provides world-class expertise in technology, operations, management and risk. But even more importantly: we combine our know-how into a professional service concept designed to safeguard and improve the performance of your business. So you can go strong on all dimensions.
Go strong.
Contents Go safe Case: Safety at nuclear power plants
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Go first Case: Deepwater field development
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Go clean Case: Offshore wind farm certification
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Go global Case: Forecasting the performance of assets
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Our services and solutions
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DNV Energy locations
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Go safe. Managing risk in the face of growing complexity is a key challenge in the energy industry, involving a wide range of commercial, technical and environmental risks. Getting on top of it therefore requires skills in many disciplines. In addition to services within qualification, offshore classification and verification, DNV offers distinctive risk management services related to the total enterprise as well as specific areas such as Safety, Health and the Environment (SHE) and IT. By integrating these services, we create a comprehensive approach designed to capture and manage the complexity of the total risk exposure.
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… developing the system turns out to be a fundamental awarenessbuilding exercise which adds value beyond safety.
Safety at nuclear power plants: Detecting issues before they become problems For very good reasons, there is probably no other type of industrial activity subject to more scrutiny than nuclear power plants. Regulators, the general public and the plant operators themselves will not settle for anything but the strictest and most updated safety management systems. A nuclear power plant consists of a high number of processes – administrative as well as technological – all of them ultimately relevant for safe operations. The first challenge is to map these processes and the interdependencies between them. Next, this information is used to build a safety management system that warns the operator as early as possible of negative developments. The key objective is to detect risk factors and take corrective action before they develop into problems.
The result is known as an indicator-based safety management system. The ability to assist operators in building and implementing such systems has earned DNV a key position as a partner to the nuclear power industry. Typically, projects involve strategic support in system conception, process modelling, software implementation and coaching related to the implementation of the system. In addition to these deliverables, developing the system turns out to be a fundamental awarenessbuilding exercise which adds value beyond safety. Providing the operator with a deeper understanding of how the plant works, it also contributes to operational excellence.
Critical issue: Improve safety in nuclear power plant operations. Solution: An indicator-based safety management system. Key deliverables: Strategic support for system conception. Process-modelling, software implementation. Coaching for system implementation. Value to client: Better monitoring of plant condition. Timely corrective action. More effective operation.
Go first. The world is currently producing more hydrocarbons than those being replaced by new proven reserves. Future exploration and production will be deeper, colder and harsher – and the reservoirs more complex. You need to make sure your solutions represent best practice and the highest standards at all times. DNV can assist you in tackling frontier challenges from concept feasibility, through qualification of technology to certification of detailed design, helping you break barriers with confidence.
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Bringing gas to shore in waters up to 1,000 metres deep, the project stands out for its plethora of first-time achievements.
DEEPWATER FIELD DEVELOPMENT: BREAKING NEW GROUND Ormen Lange is Europe’s largest gas development and deepest offshore field to date. Due on stream in 2007, the field will be linked to the UK via the world’s longest subsea gas pipeline, and will supply the UK with up to 20 per cent of its total gas requirement. The project stands out for its plethora of first-time achievements, not least in bringing gas directly to shore in multi-phase flow pipelines from subsea wells in waters up to 1,000 m deep. Extremely rough seabed conditions, a 120 km long tie-back distance and demanding weather conditions add to the challenge. DNV assisted on many frontier challenges from concept selection to more detailed design aspects, combining technical, operational and risk management expertise. A risk-based gas deliverability model was developed to assist in concept selection
and optimisation. The model estimated annual gas volumes delivered and the maintenance and intervention costs associated with producing these volumes. DNV also consulted on maintenance and repair strategies and the technical design challenges related to extreme flowline free-spans and erosion issues on wellhead and subsea components. DNV carried out several technology qualification programmes on the downhole completions, verification of the detailed design on the pipeline to the UK, quality surveillance onboard the pipeline lay-barge during installation, as well as risk and cost-benefit assessments of critical activities. Furthermore, DNV consulted on the feasibility of future subsea gas compression solutions.
Critical issue: First deepwater discovery to be developed offshore Europe. Challenging conditions. Innovative concepts and designs to be evaluated. Solution: Multi-disciplinary competencies and state-of-the-art methods and tools. Key deliverables: Feasibility and concept selection studies. Intervention and repair strategies. Design assistance. Risk and costbenefit assessments. Technology qualification and assurance. Quality surveillance. Value to client: In-depth insight to the opportunities and threats associated with the various field development concepts. New solutions to overcome technology challenges. Right balance between capital expenditures, revenue and operating expenditures. Timely progress.
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As a recently invented solution, offshore wind farm projects involve a number of particular technological and process-related challenges.
Go clean. Good environmental performance is increasingly viewed as a business imperative. This trend is evident across the energy sector. It is reflected in efforts to reduce the environmental impact of traditional oil and gas related activities. It spurs the development of new and cleaner sources of energy. DNV is helping companies contribute to a cleaner environment through a range of services, from business case development, to assessment of environmental impact and clean development mechanisms.
Offshore wind farm certification: Adapting proven skills to pioneering solutions Wind power is gaining momentum in the quest for renewable sources of energy. More and more wind parks are now situated offshore, where the winds blow harder and the turbines represent less of an issue in terms of visual interference with the surrounding landscape. The planning and execution of offshore wind farm projects involve a number of particular technological and processrelated challenges. Each concept needs to be adapted to capture the opportunities and overcome the challenges at hand. In turn, this means that the certification approach needs to be site-specific. A particular challenge is to ensure that the turbine and its foundation works safely together as an integrated structure. Often, Âproblems only become evident and have to be
c orrected during installation. This means that the certification partner will need to respond quickly to avoid unacceptable project delays. Based on its long experience within the maritime sector, as well as the offshore oil and gas sector, DNV has become the leading certification company for offshore wind parks. The certification covers the total technology solution as well as the particular challenges related to installation. DNV’s ability to provide online assistance during installation has proven to be an essential part of the delivery, helping the operator combine total project safety with efficient installation and operation.
Critical issue: Securing safe installation and operation of offshore wind farms. Solution: Site-specific project certification. Key deliverables: Independent sitespecific analysis of integrated system. Manufacturing and repair work surveys. Project certification. Optimised pile design. On-line assistance. State-of-theart corrosion protection system. Value to client: Risks identified, understood and managed. Efficient decision processes. Trust between stakeholders.
Go global. The opportunities of the global energy market belong to those who approach them with a comprehensive understanding of risk. Equally important is the ability to implement solutions and uniform standards across geographies. That’s why DNV’s global presence is so highly valued by our customers in the energy sector. No matter where you conduct your business, DNV is close at hand and prepared to help. Our international organisation comprises a network of more than forty offices spanning Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and the Americas.
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How an asset performs is the function of how the entire value chain works as an integrated whole.
Forecasting the performance of assets: The value of a comprehensive solution “If we could improve performance from our existing oil and gas assets by 5 per cent, it would be like bringing a whole new field on-stream.” This statement, from an oil major executive, pinpoints the key business rationale behind DNV’s solution for performance forecasting in the energy industry. How an asset performs is the function of how the entire value chain works as an integrated whole. The full improvement potential can therefore only be realised by applying a holistic perspective. This philosophy is at the heart of DNV’s model for performance forecasting, which is having significant impact on the way many major oil and gas companies manage their assets – in fact contributing to a new worldwide standard. Based on advanced computer simulation modelling, DNV’s solution comprises the
entire supply chain from reservoir to distribution. The first step is to identify the various performance improvement initiatives along the value chain. Notably, the initiatives must not compromise safety or asset integrity. Next, the year-on-year production efficiency from all the field initiatives are predicted to identify the efforts that will yield the greatest payback. Finally, the forecasting is applied in a consistent fashion across the portfolio of assets that constitute the supply chain or business unit. Key to the success of the solution has been DNV’s ability to build the programme seamlessly into the company’s life-cycle development planning. Equally essential is the global presence of DNV’s expertise, which provides the customer with full support, including local execution of the programme.
Critical issue: Identify revenue and cost improvement initiatives and the associated effect on value chain performance. Solution: A comprehensive solution for all assets in regional or worldwide portfolio, based on cutting-edge computer simulation programme. Key deliverables: Assessment of current value chain performance. Review of ongoing improvement initiatives. Portfolio forecast of production and OPEX year-on-year. Ranking of improvement initiatives. Value to client: Improved total performance of asset portfolio through better overview and more effective utilisation of resources. 11
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1. DNV has assisted Petrobras and Sevan Marine to develop the world’s first circular FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) platform. 2. Assessing the technical condition of maturing assets and the way they are operated and maintained, DNV assists installations to continue safe and reliable production and to age with pride. 3. Having been active in cold climate areas for more than 100 years, DNV’s accumulated expertise in arctic operations and technology extends across concept selection through to exploration, production and transportation.
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Broad presence in the energy industry DNV helps companies across the energy industry in dealing with a range of business-critical issues. Our broad experience extends across: • Oil and gas companies operating in the upstream and downstream sectors • Electricity producers • Pipeline transport companies • Petrochemical and chemical companies • Cleaner energy producers • Subcontractors, suppliers, authorities and investors.
Services for high-quality solutions Our services provide high-quality solutions for managing business-critical risks; enhancing business performance and improving safety and environmental performance. In doing so, we apply a crossdisciplinary approach, combining competence within technology, operations, management and risk. The ultimate goal is to help our clients safeguard and improve their business performance. We provide expert assistance across the entire project lifecycle from concept feasibility and selection, through to decommissioning.
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DNV Services to the energy industry
Enterprise Risk Management • Company-wide risk management • Integrated risk management • Project risk management • Change management and process improvement • Due diligence
Offshore Classification • Classification related to building and operation of MOUs and FPSOs • Classification of tanker conversions to FPSOs
SHE Risk Management • Management systems and performance standards • Technical risk and consequence assessment • Emergency planning, response and investigation • Human factors and occupational health • Environmental impact and risk assessment
Operations Excellence • Investment risk and solution screening • Asset technology and lifecycle economics • Performance forecasting • Asset appraisal • Operation optimisation • Lifetime extension • Asset safety system reliability
Verification • Risk-based plant verification • Risk-based subsea verification • Risk-based structures and facilities verification • Risk-based pipeline verification • Product verification • Marine operation verification and warranty services • Rules/standards/regulations consulting
Technology Qualification • Qualification of new technical solutions • Materials technology • Technical analysis • Development of technical standards • Laboratory services
IT Risk Management • IT service management • Software process improvement • Information security • Information management Training • Risk management • Pipelines • Materials and corrosion • Industry standards and recommended practices • Safety management • Management systems Certification • Management system certification • Climate Change • Corporate Responsibility
4. DNV provides world leading integrated pipeline services to the offshore and onshore pipeline markets. 5. DNV’s unique services have direct impact on refinery performance by maximising capacity utilisation and minimising SHE risks. 6. DNV assists the LNG industry to design, construct and operate liquefaction, transportation and re-gasification solutions efficiently, safely and responsibly. Picture shows the DNV classed Arctic Discoverer LNG carrier at the Mitsui shipyard, Japan. 4.
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DNV Energy locations
DNV serves the energy industry from more than 40 primary locations worldwide. In addition, we draw on DNV’s entire worldwide network of 300 offices in 100 countries.
Trondheim Bergen Stavanger Oslo Sandefjord Aberdeen Esbjerg Copenhagen Manchester Moscow Antwerp London Essen Paris
Astana
Tanggu Tripoli
Shanghai
Kuwait Doha
Abu Dhabi Muscat Mumbai Ho Chi Minh City
Lagos
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Kuala Lumpur Singapore Jakarta Luanda
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Calgary St. John’s Halifax Columbus Houston
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Salvador Rio de Janeiro
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São Paulo Porto Alegre Buenos Aires
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DNV Energy main offices: Aberdeen Cromarty House 67-72 Regent Quay Aberdeen AB11 5AR United Kingdom Tel: +44 1224 335000
Calgary Bay 123 2340 Pegasus Way NE Calgary AB Canada T2E 8M5 Tel: +403 250 9041
Antwerp Duboisstraat 39 b1 2060 Antwerp Belgium Tel: +32 3 206 65 40
Columbus 5777 Frantz Road Dublin, Ohio 43017-1386 USA Tel: +1 614 761 1214
Abu Dhabi The Towers Abu Dhabi Trade Centre Near Beach Rotana Hotel East Wing - E 108 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Tel: +971 2 6457580
Copenhagen Tuborg Parkvej 8, 2nd Floor DK2900 Hellerup Copenhagen Denmark Tel: +45 39 45 48 00
Bergen Johan Berentsensvei 109-111 NO-5020 Laksevåg, Bergen Norway Tel: +47 55 94 36 00
Houston 16340 Park Ten Place Suite 100 Houston, TX 77084, USA Tel: +1 281 721 6600
Kuala Lumpur 24th Floor, Menara Weld 76, Jalan Raja Chulan 50200 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: +603 2050 2888
Paris Centre BFI, Tour AREVA, 92084 Paris La Defense Cedex Paris France Tel: +33 1 47 96 46 36
London Palace House 3 Cathedral Street London SE1 9DE United Kingdom Tel: +44 207 357 6080
Moscow Business-Center “Country Park” 3rd Floor, Panfilova 19 141407 Moscow Region Khimki, Moscow Russian Federation Tel: +7 495 739 4833
Luanda Edificio Monumental Rua Major Kanhangulo, nº 290 2º Andar Luanda Angola Tel: +244 222 391 631
Mumbai Emgeen Chambers, 10, C.S.T. Road, Vidyanagari, Kalina Santacruz East Mumbai 400098 India Tel: +91 22 26650909
Oslo Veritasveien 1 NO-1322 Høvik Norway Tel: +47 67 57 99 00
Rio de Janeiro Rua Sete de Setembro, 111/12 Floor CEP 20050-006 Rio de Janeiro, R.J Brazil Tel: +55 21 3722 7232 Shanghai House No. 9, 1591 Hong Qiao Road Shanghai 200336 China Tel: +86 21 3208 4518 Singapore DNV Technology Centre 10 Science Park Drive Singapore 118224 Singapore Tel: +65 6779 1266 Stavanger Bjergstedveien 1 NO-4007 Stavanger Norway Tel: +47 51 50 60 00
DNV Headquarters Veritasveien 1 NO-1322 Høvik, Norway Tel: +47 67 57 99 00 Fax: +47 67 57 99 11 www.dnv.com/energy
Concept and design: COBRA Images: Front cover Getty p2 Nina Rangøy p4 Getty p6 Corbis p8 Nina Rangøy p10 Getty p12 Pic 1: Sevan Marine, Pic 2: Getty, Pic 3: Knut Revne p13 Pic 4: Getty, Pic 5: Nina Rangøy, Pic 6: Mariko Hagaki Production: Ressurs