A leading general contractor with offices in the Americas, Empresas Y&V (Y&V) provides comprehensive engineering, procurement and construction services to clients engaged in production and oil refining, gas production and petrochemical processing. With more than 1,500 highly qualified employees, comprehensive technological knowledge and proven project management expertise, Y&V solves all project-related challenges from the development phase through successful completion.
Identifying goals
Pacific Rubiales Energy Corporation awarded Y&V Group a US$35 million project for six water treatment plants (units 15 through 20) at the Central Processing Facility 2 (CPF2) for crude oil treatment at the Rubiales field in Colombia. On the fuel performance catalyst 2 (FPC2), the recovery of oily water cream takes place in water treatment plants (WTPs).
Currently, the plants distribute the flow of water from the skimming tanks with oil content between 600 and 800 parts per million (ppm) equally between the water treatment plant packages to reduce the oil content to 1 ppm. The treated water at the outlet of the WTP, with an oil content of less than 1 ppm, goes to a pool of water that is treated before being injected into the well.
The project involved 20 pieces of equipment for each plant such as pumps, filters, decanters, flotation cells and pipes with diameters ranging from small bores of one-half inch to 2-inch up to large 42-inch bores. Y&V’s assignment included all of the basic and detail engineering for the six water treatment plant units.
Overcoming challenges
Y&V used Forte 3DWorx to develop the 3D models, ortho-graphic drawings, isometric drawings and bills of material interfaced with Aspect Pipe Stress for analyzing and generating reports on flexibility of the piping systems. Focusing on knowledge management, it implemented Forte 3DWorx within the company for equipment and piping designs to address projects that required both short deadlines in the deliverables and precise and efficient execution. “We managed to reduce the times of flexibility analysis by extracting Aspect Pipe Stress files directly from Forte 3DWorx for analysis in Aspect Pipe Stress,” said Nicola Continelli, Piping Leader at Y&V.
Realizing results
Forte 3DWorx helped Y&V speed the delivery times for isometric drawings and Forte ReviewWorx helped them identify and address interference issues in the 3D model. It also reduced the amount of time for configuration and learning.
“As a Venezuelan engineering company operating in Colombia, we emphasize knowledge management and chose Forte 3DWorx for the design of equipment and piping even though our experience had been with other design tools, and the results were beyond all expectations,” Continelli concluded.
