Add Energy, the global energy consultancy provider, has been awarded a maintenance build contract worth more than US$1.8mn with BP for work on West Nile Delta (WND), a development located just off the north coast of Egypt
Under the contract, Add Energy will carry out the development of a full asset maintenance build, including the delivery of an asset register and functional hierarchy build, equipment criticality assignment, development of maintenance strategies for critical and non-critical equipment, job plans and procedures, critical sparing and BoMs development.
The Add Energy project team will be operating from Aberdeen, and will require the project manager and principal consultant to travel to the BP WND project offices in London over the course of the 18-month project.
As part of Add Energy’s commitment to the project, the energy consultancy has appointed Dr Damon Bowler to oversee the project. Dr Bowler has more than 25 years of asset management experience, having worked in the oil and gas industry in various roles, and has a diverse range of technical, business and management skills.
This includes over 15 years working for Shell in process safety, operational excellence, reliability, maintenance, operations and projects, within onshore and offshore production assets, gas plants and LNG. He also has10 years of maintenance, reliability and technical / management consultancy experience within numerous industries including electricity & power, oil & gas, refining and petrochemicals.
Peter Adam, executive vice president at Add Energy, commented, “As we continue to work closely with BP, we are delighted to have been selected for this project in Egypt. We believe that Add Energy’s wealth of experience in delivering this type of work in amalgamation with our ability to deliver cost effective solutions within our current Global Maintenance Centralisation project, has positioned Add Energy as the most suitable contractor for this job."
The company commented that work is now under way at the site with the development due for completion in March 2018.
