whynotchemeng : Graduate

Apologies for the delay since the last posting; work has been busy and I was allowed to take a week's leave to go skiing...well deserved in my opinion!!! So a quick update on what I have been doing in the past few weeks and a look forward to the next month.

Since my last post I have been continuing with the detailed design phase of the gas-condensate subsea tieback project I am working on (details of the job can be found in previous entries). I have spent time in a HAZOP (hazard and operability) safety study providing process support to review our design; completed calculations to provide Instrument Engineers with process data for Venturi/Coriolis flow meters, pressure relief valves, etc; looked in the HP/LP interfaces and pressure protection over the design. I shall touch more on HP/LP interfaces in the next entry: what they are and how they are managed. Hopefully this would be useful consideration for those of you about to do design projects.

Over the next month the detailed design shall be tapering off so a lot of my job will consist of checking vendor information that comes back from the equipment/instrument orders to ensure that everything being fabricated meets the required specfications.

Until then....