Overview

Client: McDermott

Sector: Energy

Services: Phusion Platform

Technology: Information Management and Software

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Client Overview

McDermott utilise the Phusion platform to support an efficient and structured process for information collection, validation, and handover on the Tortue Project.

Using Phusion’s innovative and intuitive applications, McDermott have formed a full data management solution, enabling the ability to manage the entire Subsea scope not only for one EPC but two in parallel within the same environment.

Challenge

McDermott is a fully integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions, operating in over 54 countries, and with 40,000 employees. In 2019 McDermott were awarded a sizeable Subsea Production System (SPS) fabrication subcontract for the BP Greater Tortue natural gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal.

Their customers trust their technology-driven approach to design and build solutions that deliver certainty, innovation and added value to each project. McDermott’s approach to the Tortue project was no different as they strived for new methods to drive efficiencies, synergies and enhanced delivery times.

With a reputation for using the latest software and services to support the delivery of information on engineering projects, McDermott selected Phusion to provide the EDW applications solution for the Tortue Project.

Solution

Phusion’s solution is providing McDermott with a suite of SaaS applications (including Pick & Link, Collect, Generator and Intelligence) to support the Engineering Data Warehouse (EDW) requirements of the BP Tortue Project.

The initial scope commence during the FEED phase and is now currently executing in the EPCI phase. As the project continues to evolve McDermott are working closely with Phusion to provide ongoing support and innovating for EDW.

The solution delivers a secure and complete tag/data management cloud-based solution that can expand or shrink-in-line with the project requirements.

Data Class Library management, validation and error handling, now go hand-in-hand with Tag allocation and Purchase Order management. Combine this with project Document references, and McDermott have a fully validated means of creating digital treads for all assets.

The solution is backed up by the interactive, dynamic and extremely powerful reporting capabilities that reaffirm data validity and data completeness whilst tracking progress, trends and aiding decision making.

Results

McDermott now have a complete turnkey solution for digitising and validating asset information, that provides them with:

• Complete control – full SaaS solution that is intuitive to use and easy to govern simplifies the data management process.
• Seamless information handover – fast implementation and streamlined validated processes ensure an efficient handover process
• Powerful real-time reporting – ensures that all project stakeholders are informed with web-based real-time information and timeliness of data collection activities being performed by McDermott, their sub-contractors, and suppliers
• Increased efficient – smooth collection of data and automated validation provides a more efficient method of information management