Astrimar selected as a training provider for Oceans'17

"Moving Risk Based Inspection to Predictive IM for delivery of Resilient Subsea Installations" is a half day tutorial being provided by Astrimar at the Oceans'17 conference in Aberdeen

Given the current economic climate, many in the subsea industry are considering how the cost of subsea inspection, monitoring and maintenance can be reduced without compromising safety and integrity and how we can make the subsea industry more resilient to changes and disturbances.

Astrimar's tutorial will cover the basic principles underpinning risk based inspection and the type of modelling and analysis tools needed to move to a more predictive regime for managing subsea installations. The tutorial will include discussions on the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It will also include discussions on the emerging discipline of resilience engineering and its relationship to the more traditional fields of risk and reliability engineering.

Further information about the tutorial and the Oceans'17 conference (running from 19th to 22nd June), including details of how to register, is available on the Oceans'17 website

Astrimar to present at ITF Technology Showcase in Aberdeen on 1st March

We are looking forward to presenting our pRIOriti-AIM tool for predictive risk based asset integrity management

The overriding challenge for field operators in today's financial climate is delivery of cost efficient integrity management without compromising asset integrity or production availability. For some operators this challenge is amplified by the need to extend the life of ageing assets. In responding to this, the industry is increasingly implementing risk based inspection to optimise inspection frequencies and to make better use of remote monitoring and data collection systems. Astrimar have developed an advanced predictive integrity management tool, pRIOriti-AIM, to support this initiative through the application of advanced prediction and data analysis techniques.

The development of Predictive Integrity Management capability will take the industry to the next step beyond conventional risk based inspection to deliver asset resilience. A Predictive Integrity Management strategy helps companies to:

• Achieve higher capabilities in their ability to anticipate and forecast when equipment is degrading and when failure is likely

• Monitor for trends to identify changes of condition and rate

• Inform decision making on when to inspect

• More effectively prepare and respond to failures and major damage

• Learn how asset performance depends on operating conditions and environment.

Astrimar are delighted to be presenting their pRIOriti-AIM tool at the ITF conference. Demonstrations of the tool are also available at our stand on the Tech Bar in the conference Innovation Hall and we look forward to meeting you there. More details about the event can be found on the ITF Showcase website

Additional Training Dates for 2017

More dates now available for our popular lunch and learn training sessions

Following on from the success of our free 1-hour Desk2Desk Online Learning webinars we have added further dates for these to our 2017 calender together with a new session on risk based asset integrity management. Some additional dates for our classroom courses are also now available.

Issue of our 2017 training calendar

2017 training dates are now available, including some new courses, to support growing industry demand for reliability engineering

Astrimar has always tailored their training courses to address industry needs. We are therefore offering some new courses as part of our new 2017 calendar to meet the growing demand for application of reliability engineering both in design/delivery of equipment and as part of risked-based asset integrity management. Our new courses include some free 1-hour Desk2Desk Online Learning webinars in addition to our new classroom courses.

We also want to make sure our training continues to offer the best value and so, recognising the current financial constraints across the energy industry, we have kept all our course fees at our 2016 rates, including our early booking, multiple course, and group discounts with one-day courses available for less than £300. More details are available on our training pages http://www.astrimar.com/training.aspx or from our training department training@astrimar.com.

Launch of our new Desk 2 Desk Online Learning

In response to our clients’ continued focus on cost management and resource efficiency, we are pleased to launch our new Desk 2 Desk Online Learning initiative to provide the industry with cost-effective and enhanced value training. Both free lunch & learn sessions and formal skills sessions are scheduled.

Our Desk 2 Desk Online Learning provides a cost-effective, flexible solution to help you achieve your learning objectives in a way that is easy to fit in around your work / life commitments.

Our Desk 2 Desk Online Learning gives the same live access to one of our expert trainers, as if you were in the classroom and enables interaction with the trainer and any other delegates logged in at the same time. You are free to ask questions, discuss experiences and work on breakout exercises to support the learning experience.

Our expert trainers will provide you with detailed explanations and real life examples. They are also on-hand to discuss any queries you may have through the online sessions. We use interactive exercises and quizzes to reinforce learning. You can also share your experiences and questions with others involved in the training.

We have launched our Desk 2 Desk Online Learning with a modified version of our popular FMEA /FMECA training course (6 hours split into 3 x 2 hour sessions) and a free Lunch and Learn session on Introduction to Technology Qualifcation Assurance.  Look out for more of our courses to follow in this format soon.

For information about the scheduled sessions, take a look at our training page, or our Eventbrite profile page.

Enhanced New Technology Qualification Training Course announced with SUT

2-day extended training course being provided in Aberdeen to support deployment of new technology

Following on from the success of previous courses, and in response to demand, Astrimar are very pleased to be running a newly extended 2-day course with SUT on the Qualification of New Technology. 

The course will provide enhanced insights into the new guidance to be released in the substantially revised API recommended practice API RP 17Q, planned for release later this year.  In addition to covering the industry best practice approach to the qualification process and application of technology readiness levels, including appropriate testing at each stage, the enhanced sessions will also include statistical techniques for reliability demonstration (including estimation of test duration and number of replicates) and extended practical exercises.

This year's course will take place in Aberdeen on Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th September. Further details can be found in our training pages and on the SUT website 

Astrimar offer services through the Industrial App Store

Astrimar have signed up to collaborate with innovative tailored IT solutions provider Intelligent Plant to provide efficient and affordable reliability and integrity tools and services via their Industrial App Store

Astrimar is excited by the opportunities offered in collaborating with Intelligent Plant to provide app-based tools and services to support the oil and gas community and wider energy, utilities and water industries.  Already, Astrimar has established Service Apps for:     

•    Tailored FMECA preparation and pre-population service to efficiently provide the basis for
     robust and resource efficient, value added effective FMECA workshops    

• Analysis service to evaluate valve signature data through performing statistical analysis to
    estimate valve failure rates and optimise test intervals to keep within acceptable risk levels

These services complement Intelligent Plant tools and services already on the Industrial Appstore including their pioneering tool for analysis of valve signatures to identify anomalous performance and their simple P&ID generation tool.

Astrimar has a vision for adding further tools and service apps in the coming months, packaging niche services and solutions for key reliability engineering and integrity management.

Astrimar to present at Water and Wastewater Engineering 2016

Astrimar will be talking about reliability and integrity management practices and learnings from the subsea oil and gas sector at the IMechE Water and Wastewater Engineering conference

Astrimar Technical Director John Strutt will be sharing lessons and practices from the subsea oil and gas industry in relation to management of reliability and integrity, including technology qualification, at the IMechE conference taking place in London on 7th and 8th June. John will outline latest best practice incorporated into the revised subsea engineering recommended practices: API RP 17N for reliability, integrity and technical risk management; and API RP 17Q for technology qualification. John's presentation will also cover the increasing use of reliability based tools and the shift towards predictive data analysis techniques as part of asset integrity management and how better use can be made of inspection and monitoring data. The applicability of these processes and techniques to create a more efficient water and waste water sector will also be discussed.

Astrimar to present at Wind Farm Data Forum

Astrimar will be presenting learnings from Oil and Gas at the Fleet Monitoring and Data Analysis Forum in Berlin on Progressing Our Industry's Future with Information Sharing, Standardisation and New Approaches

Astrimar Technical Director John Strutt will be sharing lessons from the oil and gas industry in relation to management of reliability and integrity, including technology qualifcation, at the Wind Farm Data Forum in Berlin on 25th May. John will outline latest best practice incorported into the revised API RP 17N for reliability, integrity and techncial risk management and API RP 17Q for technology qualification. John's presentation will also cover the increasing shift towards predictive data analysis techniques as part of asset integrity management and how better use can be made of inspection and monitoring data. John will also be leading a break out session on How to Gather Data from On-site Technicians Quickly and Make Them Useable for Analysis.

Astrimar to present at SUT Event

Astrimar will be talking about technology qualification at the SUT Aberdeen branch May evening meeting – Embrace Technology to Maximise Economic Recovery

Astrimar director Caroline Roberts-Haritonov will be talking about "How can we qualify new technology to give operators the confidence to use it"  at the SUT Aberdeen evening meeting Embrace Technology to Maximise Economic Recovery on 25th May. 

In a drive for greater confidence in new technology, Operators are increasingly asking for greater qualification assurance evidence, including an understanding of residual risk and technical uncertainty, that is fully traceable to the technology requirements and potential failure modes / degradation mechanisms. This also includes evidence of reliability performance requiring greater focus on reliability testing and analysis than previously done, as well as smarter use of analysis to inform where testing is not practical.

The presentation will provide an overview of industry best practice for technology qualification, including learnings being incorporated into the new API RP 17Q currently under development. It will also provide practical examples of expectations for qualifying new subsea equipment and lessons learned from supporting industry organisations in best practice implementation, including subsea pumping technology qualification.

Astrimar to host Subsea UK visit

Astimar join Fugro and Litre Meter in hosting visitors as part of a Subsea UK South East regional event for the Milton Keynes area

We are very much looking forward to welcoming visitors to Astrimar as part of the Subsea UK Milton Keynes regional event taking place on Wednesday 11th May.  We will be demonstrating our new Risk Based Inspection Optimisation software tool, pRIOriti and visitors will get the opportunity to try out the tool before heading over to Bletchley Park where we are also looking forward to networking with the other event delegates.

pRIOriti RBI Lunch and Learn

Demonstration of Astrimar's risk-based inspection optimization tool on May 10th in our Houston office

Astrimar are hosting a lunch and learn to demonstrate our recently launched Risk Based Inspection Optimisation Tool - pRIOriti.  The tool enables operators to make forecasts of probability of failure by making better use of inspection data to forecast equipment performance and hence determine optimal inspection intervals potentially saving money by defensibly increasing inspection intervals and prioritising on the biggest risks.

To book your free place go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/astrimar-lunch-learn-inspection-optimization-tool-prioriti-demo-tickets-24841639011

More information about pRIOriti is available at  http://www.prioriti-rbi.com

Note: places are limited and must be booked in advance

New Houston office address

Astrimar relocate to new office location in Houston. Please check you have our new address and telephone.

Astrimar are pleased to announce that we are relocating our Houston office from March 14th 2016 to accommodate our growing business opportunities in the Houston area and we look forward to welcoming you there.

Our new contact details are:

14521 Old Katy Road, Ste. 232
Houston, TX 77079
+1 281 506 7607 

Astrimar to present at ITF Technology Showcase in Aberdeen on 9th March

Astrimar will be joining RECL to talk about their new well plugging technology including prediction of reliability performance

Over the next 20 years, North Sea platform decommissioning and well ‘plugging and abandonment’ (P&A) is estimated to cost > £50billion. Current P&A technologies are based on cement plugs, which are known to be unreliable, leading to potential environmental damage, and expensive well re-abandonment.

In light of these current issues Rawwater Engineering Company Limited (RECL) has, in the last two years, been working on finalising a new technology based on non-shrinking bespoke bismuth alloys which expand upon solidification when cast at target depth within the bore of a well casing. These highly advanced bismuth alloys, termed metallic cement, offer high integrity metal-to-metal seals for zero leakage P&A plugs. The application of the metallic cement technology in spent oil wells will lower the cost of permanent P&A as well as meet regulators demand for a lifetime of >3000 years.

Through a combination of field trials and workshop trials on higher performance alloys, RECL has proved the concept of deploying the metallic cement technology,   successfully qualifying to ISO 14310 and API 11D (V0) with Certificate of Feasibility and Statement of Endorsement from Bureau Veritas. The metallic cement technology has now achieved EU technology readiness level 6 (API RP 17N TRL 4) pending commercialisation. The current metallic plug seals are less than 600 mm in length and are designed to function effectively at operating temperatures and differential pressure of 70°C - 160°C and 6000 psi respectively.

Plug reliability is an important requirement and RECL and Astrimar have been working together to identify and develop models for predicting plug reliability performance. These advanced modelling tools have the potential to enable both measurement data and theoretical models to be integrated in reliability predictions.

Astrimar launches pRIOriti

Innovative new Risk-based Inspection Interval Optimisation software tool

Come and see Astrimar at Subsea Expo 2016 (Stand 69) for a demo of pRIOriti, our exciting new Risk-based Inspection Interval Optimisation software tool.

pRIOriti uses scientifically based, asset specific analysis methods to optimise how often, and in what priority, you inspect your subsea equipment.

For the first time, you can make effective use of annual inspection results to understand asset risk and optimise future inspection. 

Using pRIOriti helps you to reduce inspection costs and operate smarter – essential for survival in today’s industry

Live Demonstrations

We will be running pRIOriti demonstrations on Stand 69 at the following times:
 

Wednesday and Thursday

Friday

10:00    12:00    13:30    15:30

10:00    13:30

Each demo will last approximately 15 minutes.

Come and join in, or contact us to arrange an individual demo at a more convenient time/location or if you would like more information.

Astrimar exhibits at Subsea Expo 2016

Astrimar will again be exhibiting at Europe's largest annual subsea exhibition and conference taking place in Aberdeen on 3rd to 5th February 2016

Astrimar will be at stand 69 this year and we look forward to seeing you there, www.subseaexpo.com.

Christmas Greetings

Astrimar would like to thank all our clients for their support over the year and wish everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year holiday

Astrimar to present at Subsea Integrity and Efficiency Conference

Astrimar to present at the joint SUT and Subsea UK conference on 1st December on the use of subsea inspection data to estimate failure probability and optimise inspection intervals

Astrimar director Liz Garry will be talking about the use of subsea inspection data to estimate failure probability and optimise inspection intervals at the SUT and Subsea UK joint industry conference taking place in London on Tuesday 1st December.

Application of a simplified state-space model for estimating risk based inspection intervals will be presented which enables asset specific equipment probabilities of failure to be estimated for different failure modes based on historical asset inspection data previously obtained; these can then be used in conjunction with operator risk acceptance criteria to optimize equipment inspection intervals to support a reduction in inspection and intervention costs whilst minimising ongoing operational risk.

The presentation will share the learnings from a pilot study with a leading subsea operator and outline the data requirements for practical implementation based on typically collected data.

Astrimar to present at Offshore Engineering 2015

Astrimar to present at the IMechE Conference Offshore Engineering 2015 on the 7th and 8th of December in Aberdeen

Astrimar director Dr Caroline Roberts Haritonov will present a talk on “Qualification and Assurance of Subsea Technology” at Offshore Engineering 2015. Her presentation will review the subsea industry’s approach to technology qualification and the increasing demand from operators to demonstrate reliability and integrity performance ahead of operation, including:

• Reliability, integrity and technology qualification guidance provided in the new API RP 17N second edition (2015)

• A summary of industry perspectives from a recent API 17Q update scoping study addressing areas of technology qualification where detailed guidance is required

• Shared learnings from implementing the current guidance in key technology projects

• Current plans for provision of detailed technology qualification guidance in a new API RP 17Q

For more information on the event please go to http://events.imeche.org/ViewEvent?code=C6251

Astrimar exhibits at SSIC 2015

Following last year's successful event, Astrimar will again be exhibiting at the annual Subsea Integrity Conference taking place in Houston on October 5th and 6th, 2015

Astrimar are exhibiting at the annual Subsea Integrity Conference in Houston in October and we look forward to seeing you there. Astrimar technical director John Strutt is also supporting the conference sessions including participating in a panel discussion.

More details about the conference can be found at http://www.upstreamintel.com/subsea-integrity/