EnerMech’s enhanced systems integrity management package,SIM Pro, is being introduced to clients and is active globally, from onshore refineries in Australia, to offshore North Sea assets.
SIM Pro maps the relevant components of an asset to provide live visibility of mechanical completion during construction and commissioning through to operations, maintenance and shutdowns. The bespoke software package can be tailored to individual clients’ integrity requirements, providing real time web-based info designed to run throughout the life of assets.SIM Pro addresses the inefficiencies experienced during maintenance, construction and pre-commissioning activities and is capable of being utilized across multiple assets and location and by multiple users.
EnerMech’s original SIM system has proved its value to numerous clients over the last 10 years and was capable of managing large scale projects, including in one case the integrity management of 55,000 joints on an Australian LNG project.
SIM Pro is built on the same solid foundations but has additional functionalities, including an ASME PPC-1 compliant bolt calculator facility, full auditable joint history and electronic work pack report and generation.
The system is compatible with all service lines in EnerMech’s portfolio and has been proven over a range of capabilities, including flange management, valves, hose management, small bore tubing, purging, rotating equipment and chemical cleaning.
EnerMech UK Senior Business Development Manager, Paul Smith, said: “SIM Pro has elevated what was a very good integrity management system to another level and is a result of listening to what our clients wanted and identifying what the market needed. It has full life cycle continuity and provides a consistency and ease of transition between engineering, construction, commissioning, start up and operations.
“Every service line we provide to clients is captured in SIM Pro and its large capacity allows the processing and retention of vast amounts of valuable informationon individual components for tracking and monitoring purposes. Other similar software in the market is more limitedin capacity and therefore requiresseveral databases to be used simultaneously, which is less efficient and not the best use of a client’s time.”
In the manufacturing, construction, hook-up and commissioning phases on the project, SIM Pro can be used, for example, in flange management, controlled bolting, onsite machining, nitrogen purging, nitrogen testing, hydrotesting, chemical cleaning and PSV testing.
In the operations, modification and decommissioning phases, in addition tothe previous examples, it can also manage activities involved in decontamination, water jetting/flushing, oil flushing, integrity records, camera inspection and pipe freezing.
Other functionality features of SIM Pro include live visibility of joint integrity status, electronic work pack/report generation, work pack overlay capability, personnel and tool tracking.
Paul Smith added: “Advances in hand held technologies now mean SIM Pro is available on intrinsically ATEX safe zone 1/21 DIV 1 tablets, allowing our technicians and quality assurance including our quality control teams to work in the field more efficiently. Giving added value with overheads being reduced, activity information can be added in the field in real time and images and audio reports can be added instantly to the database.”
EnerMech has strengthened its executive leadership with the appointment of John Grover in the newly created role of Strategic Sales Director.
He will be responsible for driving the strategy, pursuit and delivery of multi-million pound contracts and supporting global clients in the international energy and infrastructure sectors.
John Grover has more than 30 years’ experience in upstream, process and pipeline sectors including director level roles with, BJ Services, GE-PII, Baker Hughes and more recently with Sparrows Group. Latterly he was managing director of Cape Specialist Services whose portfolio included the Motherwell Bridge storage tank and heat exchanger construction business.
Based in Dubai, Mr Grover will link in to extensive contacts developed in the eastern hemisphere and will be ideally positioned to progress opportunities in emerging LNG markets in Papua New Guinea, onshore and offshore expansion in Mozambique, the new round of investment underway in Australia’s LNG sector and onshore and offshore USA.
EnerMech Chief Executive Officer, Doug Duguid, said: “John will take ownership of a portfolio of major projects, bringing his international leadership experience to bear through the tendering and contracting process to sales, launch and eventual project handover. This is a key role and underlines our commitment to massively grow our business in the traditional oil and gas space and in new markets over the next five years.”
John Grover, added: “I have known EnerMech and the leadership team behind the business for many years and the opportunity to join an ambitious, expansive business was too good to miss. With the strong backing of owners The Carlyle Group, EnerMech has the solid foundations on which to enjoy a second decade of success and I am looking forward to playing a part in that growth.”
Oil and gas industry executive Joseph Lichon has been appointed to lead the America’s Operations for integrated services provider EnerMech.
With extensive energy industry experience including engineering, procurement, sales, and construction, Joe was most recently Executive Vice President of Americas for SNC-Lavalin (previously Kentz Engineers & Constructors).
He has more than 25 years of operational and sales leadership experience in oil and gas projects offshore and onshore USA and in Latin America, Asia, Middle East, Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea and on major Australian LNG projects including Gorgon and INPEX.
As President for Americas region, he will focus on expanding EnerMech’s position as the market leader in offshore pipeline pre-commissioning in deepwater Gulf of Mexico while growing the company’s Industrial Services and Mechanical, Electrical & Instrumentation and other business lines.
EnerMech plans to open a new facility in Pennsylvania as part of a strategy to expand its US presence which currently consists of bases in Texas, Louisiana, Wyoming and North Dakota.
The Aberdeen-headquartered business also has America’s facilities in Villahermosa, Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana, and has undertaken project work in Alaska, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina.
EnerMech Chief Executive Officer, Doug Duguid, said: “The Americas region will play a significant role in growing our business over the next five years and bringing on board a high-calibre professional with a proven track-record such as Joe Lichon will fast-track that strategy.
“We are well established in deepwater oil and gas workscopes and have increased our presence in the LNG and capital projects markets. Our focus will be on replicating this success in the maintenance market, where we believe our Industrial Services and ME&I expertise will be of interest to major operators in the power, petrochemical and refining spaces.”
Joe Lichon said: “I am well versed in EnerMech’s capabilities and worked closely with them on large scale LNG projects in Australia where I was impressed with the company’s versatility and commitment to delivering a high quality service.
“EnerMech has made significant inroads to the US onshore and offshore market from a standing start and I am keen to take this to the next level by leveraging our success on deepwater projects to gain traction in other sectors. I was attracted to EnerMech’s entrepreneurial spirit and can-do approach, and I believe this will play well in the Americas which is always interested in exploring new ways of doing things.”
EnerMech has announced a key appointment as part of its next phase of growth with Alex Goude joining the company as Business Development Director for Europe.
Alex’s focus will be on leveraging EnerMech’s engineering expertise to expand the company’s position in the energy and infrastructure markets across the region.
Alex joins from award-winning engineering consultancy Hoare Lee where he was responsible for leading the firm’s strategy and business development activities. Prior to this, Alex spent over 15 years in the high-tech engineering and construction sector, holding director level positions with M + W Group and Costain. He brings with him a breadth of experience in business development, strategy, sales and marketing across the energy and utilities, advanced engineering and technology, infrastructure and maritime sectors.
EnerMech’s Regional Director for Europe, Ross McHardy, said: “Alex has experience of working in European infrastructure and construction markets and his appointment is part of our push for growth and diversification in to new industries and territories as we continue to evolve.
“Our objective is to significantly increase our presence in both the UK and European mainland markets. This will be in our core oil and gas markets as well as across the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors we specialise in.”
Alex Goude added: “EnerMech has a global track record of successfully delivering integrated solutions for the most technically challenging projects. Whether operating to the exacting performance standards of the North Sea oil and gas market, or providing smart engineering services for major infrastructure programmes in Australia, EnerMech’s proven capability is increasingly relevant across a range of industry sectors. Underpinning all of this is the company’s culture of ‘can-do responsiveness’ and I am looking forward to sharing this with new clients across the European region and beyond.”
EnerMech Australia has been awarded a five-year contract to provide specialist nitrogen and flange management services to a LNG facility in Central Queensland.
The work will be conducted on-site, located off the coast of Gladstone, Queensland, with project engineering and management conducted from EnerMech’s Gladstone facility and Brisbane office.
EnerMech possess an extensive equipment fleet in-country and will deploy
liquid nitrogen converters, nitrogen membrane generation units, flange management torque/tensioning equipment and the use of EnerMech’s bespoke System Integrity Management software SIMPro in the provision of the specialist services.
EnerMech’s Australia Manager for Process, Pipelines & Umbilicals, Jamie McIntyre, said: “Our experience in delivering similar integrated specialist services in Australia, our extensive fleet of equipment, the high calibre of our Queensland-based staff, and our drive for innovation and continuous improvement placed us in a good position to secure this contract.
EnerMech’s Regional Director Australia, Paul McCarthy said: “We have an extended suite of integrated essential services and we look forward to the opportunity to further enhance our offering in Gladstone and the surround the region.”
EnerMech is a global provider of integrated essential services to the energy, resources and infrastructure markets and employs more than 900 staff in Australia located in Perth, Karratha, Darwin, Brisbane, Gladstone, Chinchilla, Sydney and Melbourne.
HSE Director Emmanuelle Marshall outlines why it’s important staff speak up on issues which impact on health and safety.
“We genuinely want to hear from staff at all levels – and all locations – across the business about how HSE interacts with your daily actions as you go about your work.
“That’s why I am looking forward in the coming weeks to analyzing and reporting back on the results from our Employee Behavioral Survey, Your Voice Matters, which will help shape our future strategy on improving HSE at EnerMech.
“Nothing on this scale has been done before so the survey will provide a benchmark for gauging the level of engagement of employees with regards to HSE, how involved they are as individuals, and how their line managers and department heads interact with HSE issues.
“Of course, we have a strategy already in place for 2020 and beyond, but the survey results can help plug any gaps, and when we repeat this exercise in a few years’ time we will have a body of evidence which provides comparisons and confirms whether we have succeeded in transforming our approach to HSE across the organization, or still have work to do.
“Be assured, we already have a very good HSE management system, but gaps can creep in naturally to any business and
Your Voice Matters will help identify weaknesses and ensure we learn from mistakes.
“With EnerMech’s ambitious growth plans, it becomes even more important that we are at the top of our HSE game.
Naturally, we want to protect our people from harm and reduce our impact on the environment – simply because it’s the right thing to do. But it also happens to be good for business and demonstrates that we, as a business and each individual within, takes HSE seriously. It can mean the difference between succeeding in a multi-million dollar tender process or losing out to a competitor.
“We have a safety history we should be proud of, but we can make it even better. We must encourage a strong HSE culture, underpinned by an efficient yet simple and standardized Integrated Management System (IMS), but to be safer together we need everyone to play a part.
“The HSE function will continue to be the owner of the IMS and of the various HSE tools needed to ensure success, and will continue to be available for support and coaching. However, it is essential that everyone plays a part to improve our HSE performance, culture and behaviors. Put simply, this strategy needs to be owned by the many and not just a few.
“We are listening, so please make sure your voice is heard.”
MInteg has been awarded its largest contract to date and will supply inspection services to a major oil and gas operator in the Southern North Sea.
The EnerMech subsidiary, which specialises in inspection and integrity, expects to create up to 15 new posts in Great Yarmouth to service the five-year contract.
The work scope includes the inspection of infrastructure on five manned platforms and multiple unmanned satellite platforms, deploying MInteg staff trained in working-at-height and rope access techniques.
Ross McHardy, EnerMech’s Regional Director for Europe, said innovative working practices and having a strong local presence in Great Yarmouth were factors in securing the contract.
Mr McHardy said: “This is the largest value contract awarded to MInteg to date and it is confirmation that our philosophy of investing in local infrastructure and putting boots on the ground is an important factor when clients decide who to engage in vital work scopes.
“We opened a MInteg office in Great Yarmouth last year as a precursor to tendering for this type of project and it is already paying off. We will create a further 15 positions to service this contract and to position us for winning further work in the Southern North Sea and across the onshore sector.”
MInteg’s integrity inspection capability is attracting interest from clients who require support and innovation to address asset integrity.
Parent company EnerMech recently outlined its strategy of increasing its presence in sectors out with its traditional oil and gas base with the recent appointment of Laz Koszeghy as general manager for the eastern England region.
Great Yarmouth based Mr Koszeghy is focussed on looking at opportunities for EnerMech in the renewables, nuclear power, chemicals and industrial sectors where it believes the integrated services model it provides to the energy sector will find wider appeal.
EnerMech, the global provider of integrated services, has confirmed Chief Executive Officer, John Guy, has stood down from the role for personal family reasons.
Deputy Chairman, Doug Duguid, will take over CEO responsiblities with immediate effect.
EnerMech Chairman, John Kennedy, said: "I can confirm Doug Duguid will return as CEO in light of John Guy's decision to devote time to addressing an important family matter.
"We are in the fortunate position that Doug is available to lead our business through a period of major transitional change."
EnerMech employs 3,500 staff across 40 locations in the UK, Norway, the Middle East, Caspian, Asia, Africa, Australia and Americas, working on large-scale projects across the oil and gas, LNG, renewables, defense, power, infrastructure and petrochemicals sectors.
The global provider of essential integrated services, EnerMech, has appointed a new Regional Director for Australasia.
Paul McCarthy has more than 30 years’ experience in corporate leadership and operational management roles in the energy, resources, defence and infrastructure sectors. With significant global experience, Paul’s most recent role was Asia Pac Operations and Maintenance Director for a global engineering and services company.
His cross sector background will assist EnerMech in extending its footprint in Australia’s fast expanding infrastructure sector while strengthening the business’s operations in LNG and traditional oil and gas industries.
He said: “The Australian LNG sector is entering the next phase where major plants are enhancing capacity through brownfield projects improvements, maintenance and shutdown optimisation. We have worked across all of the LNG facilities and have strong relationships with the operators and main contractors and this puts us in a strong position to be at the centre of this new cycle of investment.”
EnerMech has successfully completed mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) projects on major road and tunnel networks in New South Wales and is extending its presence on similar ongoing projects.
With the Australian government committed to spending in the region of $10 billion on road and rail networks to meet the requirements of a fast growing population, the company is looking to secure significant ME&I construction and commissioning workscopes.
Paul McCarthy added: “We have a proven track record of delivering integrated services on large scale transportation and oil and gas projects. As the infrastructure and oil and gas sectors move to the next phase of significant investment, my objective it to demonstrate how EnerMech’s nimble and flexible approach will provide high quality and efficient services benefiting the end user with cost and asset performance benefits.”
EnerMech Chief Executive Officer, John Guy, added: “Australasia has been the fastest growing region in EnerMech’s global operations and under the stewardship of Paul McCarthy I am confident that our presence will continue to flourish and we will become established as the go-to company for integrated services of the energy, infrastructure, resources, mining and minerals sectors.”
Arup and EnerMech have joined forces to deliver enhanced inspection through EnerMech’s specialist inspection and integrity team MInteg. The application of Arup’s proven digital capability with MInteg’s practical and technical knowledge, provides a game changing solution in the asset integrity space, allowing MInteg to overhaul the inspection process.
The revolutionary inspection enactment tool AIM enhances our inspection service through the use of remote visual inspection tools and real time reporting in a gaming environment. This reduces the time needed to capture and record inspection data by up to 30%. In turn this allows asset owners to understand the status of their equipment and get to the right answer far quicker than the traditional approach. By understanding this data in a more succinct and real time way Opex can be reduced, reliability increased, and data can be fully understood at the time of inspection.
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