Platform project improves Chemtech expertise
Platform project improves Chemtech expertise
During eight months of intensive work, under the leadership of Petrobras, around 35 Chemtech engineers took part in the CAK (Chemtech – Aker Kvaerner – Kromav), a consortium created to develop the FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) project for the world’s largest deep-water heavy-oil production unit, the FPSO-BR P-57.
This work has improved Chemtech’s expertise in the management and delivery of large scale interdisciplinary projects. It has involved instrumentation, process, HVAC, telecommunications, and much more. The project was entirely developed using Brazilian labor and within the national territory.
Chemtech FEED solution – also employed in a pilot plant for heavy-oil processing, in a gas unit in the state of Espírito Santo, in on-shore facilities, and in petrochemical plants/refineries – allows you to evaluate if a plant is worth building, the approximate investment cost, how it will operate, how it should be built, and much more. It is a hybrid stage between the basic project and the executive/detailed project.
FEED provides a more accurate estimate of the final cost of the enterprise, besides reducing the total time needed for delivery. “This means anticipating plant start-up, since several time-consuming factors that need to be defined throughout the executive/detailed project are solved in advance with the FEED. Similarly, some problems are better avoided or solved if they are tackled earlier in the enterprise lifecycle”, says Daniel Moczydlower, Chemtech project manager.
Check the FEED FPSO-BR P-57 case and see what Chemtech can do for your company too. This case will be presented during the OTC 2006 (Offshore Technology Conference), from May 1 to 4, in Houston, USA.
About Chemtech
Chemtech ( www.chemtech-siemens.com ) was founded by three chemical engineers, in Rio de Janeiro, in 1989. It is specialized in services and IT solutions for process industries (oil & gas, petrochemical and chemical, metals and mining, paper & pulp, food & beverages). In March 2001, the company became a member of the Siemens group and it is now part of the I&P (Industry and Plants) division of the I&S (Industrial Solutions and Services) group. Since then, Chemtech has started to interact with other Siemens divisions and to offer more complete and sophisticated solutions to its clients.
Chemtech has its head office in Rio de Janeiro and support offices in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, and Houston.
Among Chemtech clients are Exxon Mobil, Saudi Aramco, and Petrobras. It also works with the 10 largest companies in the petrochemical and chemical industry in Brazil, with the 5 largest paper companies, the 4 largest mining companies, 3 of the 5 largest steel companies, and 4 of the 6 largest consumer product companies, according to the ranking of Exame magazine.
In 2004, thanks to believing in the importance of constant training and improvement of its professional team, Chemtech was chosen as one of the 150 best companies to work in in Brazil and one of the 9 best in Rio de Janeiro by the Guia Exame – Você S/A, a publication well known and reputed within the entrepreneurial and business environment.
In 2005, was chosen again as one of the 150 best companies, by the same publication.
