Project summary
This project consists of a global energy consortium joined together to design, build and operate a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in British Columbia. The goal of this project is to export some of Canada’s excess natural gas to Asian markets, using a product recognized as both affordable and cleaner than other hydrocarbons - while also being safe to store and transport. This project utilized a cloud environment for FEED. Upon full build-out, the facility will be made up of a variety of buildings and equipment used to process and store LNG. It will also support infrastructure, including power supply and waste collection and treatment facilities.
Benefits of a cloud approach
This project is the Lead Operator’s first experience with a full-cloud approach. The goal to improve business processes, from design and handover to operations. Octave's hosted environment enabled these processes with Octave Cloud, facilitating real-time information sharing with partners and contractors, regardless of location.
The Lead Operator included its product catalogue in its integrated engineering environment and connected it to the other planning tools, thus sharing data for up to 60% of the equipment coming from suppliers.
Octave Cloud supports the Lead Operator’s “copy and paste” approach, i.e. the reuse of information from planned plants and partial projects.
Experts in the Lead Operating company believe that by applying a data-centric approach as early as the FEED phase, and by avoiding rework in later phases, savings of 1.5% will be achieved.
Octave Cloud for operations
Octave Cloud can help operators to maintain quality, consistency and the high-value of data-centric systems for both large and small projects. This environment can transition from project to operations faster and much more effectively by providing:
A seamless handover from FEED to detail design
Early access to common project plans, design data and equipment data
More efficient procurement and economies of scale
A seamless handover to commissioning, startup and handover