Petrolinvest d.d. (Petrolinvest), the engineering company based in the city of Sarajevo, has successfully completed a recent project using Octave Forte 3DWorx (formerly CADWorx Plant Professional) and Aspect Pipe Stress (formerly CAESAR II). “Octave Forte 3DWorx and Aspect Pipe Stress helped us produce accurate isometric drawings and bills of material that perfectly matched the original plant model eliminating many possible mistakes and slow design times,” said Mr. Kemal Kurtovic, Senior Piping Engineer at Petrolinvest.
Petrolinvest, a joint venture between Energoinvest Sarajevo and Technip Paris, is an engineering company with lengthy experience in the design and construction of complex industrial process plants in the Balkans, Mediterranean and Middle East. Petrolinvest is located in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Identifying goals
One of Petrolinvest’s recent clients was the Novi Sad Oil Refinery located in the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. The Novi Sad Oil Refinery experienced enormous destruction during the 1999 NATO bombing of Novi Sad and, in the years since, has seen extensive reconstruction. The US$25 million Novi Sad project awarded to Petrolinvest involved the design of a light gasoline isomerisation plant being added to the Novi Refinery. The finished plant would enable production of high-octane components that are necessary for the production of unleaded gasoline, reducing benzene and aromatics emissions to the environment. Overcoming Challenges Petrolinvest used AutoCAD® for its previous projects that involved maintaining a large library of 2D standard piping components and typical arrangements. “We had to develop isometrics first and only then could we produce complete bills of material. It took a lot of time to finish and we could never be sure whether the project was accurate,” said Mr. Kurtovic. “We looked at several different 3D plant design solutions and selected Forte 3DWorx because it was easy to use and it was less expensive than other alternatives.”
Realizing results
Once Petrolinvest started using Forte 3DWorx and Aspect Pipe Stress, it saw a considerable improvement in design times, accuracy and overall project quality.
With Forte 3DWorx, Petrolinvest finished their designs within a three-month period. The company prepared a complete composite model that was made up of 13 separate 3D models. Then, using CADWorx Equipment, Petrolinvest prepared AutoCAD equipment drawings that were included in each XREF model. Aspect Pipe Stress allowed Petrolinvest to perform accurate flexibility analysis of the project’s process lines. The use of comprehensive and automatic error checker in Aspect Pipe Stress, allowed for the review of all inputs and the identification of those areas that needed immediate attention.
“We are very happy to be the first users of Octave's valuable products in this part of Europe. Because of the successful results of this project and proven product quality, we plan to acquire a complete set of tools offered by Octave,” said Mr. Kurtovic.
