ABL appointed to digitse gas plant asset base

A US energy company has appointed ABL to optimise its asset management system data configuration for their gas plant.

ABL’s scope of work is to mark up the plant’s piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) drawings, building an asset hierarchy and material masters system, and cataloguing all actuators and solenoids. Consequently, the client is no longer required to go out in the field to check equipment as it is all loaded up in its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

“Digitising and optimising the data configuration of the gas plant’s asset base will provide significant time and cost savings for our client in the execution of their asset management programs,” says Luis Gonzalez, ABL’s US country manager for asset integrity management.

The asset hierarchy build, and material masters are being done using ABL’s Effio software. Effio is a cloud-based master data build and optimisation software that makes it easy to build and upgrade an asset management strategy and optimise data during operations.

In addition, ABL is using its ePAV software to conduct an on-site physical asset verification, identifying missing data for actuators connected to shutdown valves in the plant and compression stations. ePAV is a digital data collection, audit, and verification tool that enhances the accuracy of the on-site physical asset data collection process and ensures alignment with company data standards.

ABL’s asset integrity management team in Houston, Texas, is managing the project. The company has not disclosed the value of the contract.

“This project exemplifies ABL’s commitment to advancing industry standards and operational excellence, focusing on optimising the client’s work management processes and data architectures across facilities in the United States. Utilising our software on this scope of work allows the team to accurately mark up the plant’s P&ID drawings so they’re correct first time and don’t have to be manually uploaded to the EAM system, which prevents the need for rework from the client’s team,” adds Luis Gonzalez.

ABL’s extensive footprint runs coast-to-coast in the USA and Canada, supporting with the full range of marine assurance & risk services, ports and harbours consultancy, asset integrity management, and offshore and onshore wind consultancy.