Brownfield surface facility and gathering network upgrades. Project scope optimisation and development.

Due to mixed phase flow in gathering network excessive liquids were stopping out flow from four wells in the Peat gas fields. Wellhead separation and a liquids gathering network were identified for installation to return these four wells to service.

Scott provided the project engineering, the stakeholder engagement and lead collaboration for this lean project on a low margin asset. Early in the project collaboration identified that the existing network was suffering from severe corrosion with a significant reduction in its operational life. During project estimates and optimisation the incremental cost to pre-lay piping for this network replacement concurrent with the liquids network was identified as small. A proposal was provided to the asset management group and sanctioned increasing the projects scope and providing a significant long term saving.

For improved landholder relations a minimum disturbance approach was successfully implemented during pipeline installation.

Approximately 20KM of piping was installed for this project - under budget and LTI / MTI free.