| dc.description.abstract | This master thesis is written on the subject of BP Norway’s installation of a new field centre
(PH), at Valhall. The project, called Valhall Re-Development (VRD), needed to outline
procedures on how to verify performance of equipment installed into the process module at
PH.
The purpose of developing these procedures is to make a program on how to verify that BP
Norway, as the purchaser, receives the equipment and systems they have ordered. The aim of
the performance test is to verify that the equipment guarantee points are capable of achieving
rated production.
Systems that have been specified in the thesis include the seawater system, where a total
system description has been given along with maintenance program, operational modus and
performance tests.
Other systems that have been specified through the thesis are rotational equipment like
firewater pumps, cooling medium pumps, oil booster pumps, oil export pumps and export
compressors. For this equipment, a brief performance verification program is outlined to
verify that the equipment is capable of meeting the designed criteria’s and the specifications
BP Norway has set.
Along with the technical part that evolves around the process module at PH, the thesis also
consists of a literary part that discusses the various aspects of designing a new system and
what phases that has to be considered. This part describes the two parties involved in a trade
and what the purchaser has to consider during the designing period. In this lies verification of
quality assurance, design criteria’s, performance specifications, verification tests etc.
The second part of the thesis gives a well-designed program on how to verify the promised
performance and how to locate faults and mismatches. The thesis also consists of a discussion
part where different aspects of the thesis are represented. This includes problem approaches
related to the procedures and aspects that could lead to gaps in the resulting part. | no_NO |
