
Capabilities
Subsea Systems
We have significant Feasibility, FEED and EPC(m) experience in the design, analysis, procurement and delivery of subsea flowlines, gathering pipelines, manifold, riser, umbilical and subsea systems for offshore field developments. Furthermore, we have been involved with many of the innovations in materials, installation techniques, and design methods that have taken place throughout the industry.
We are known to be involved in fast track developments often times regarding complex under water systems, installation analysis and campaigns in varying water depths. Our understanding of subsea systems can be broken down into the following: Subsea Field Architecture Fenchurch Michelson has in-depth knowledge and experience in subsea systems architecture and undertakes subsea system projects starting from concept selection and field development where we help operators to go through the different stage gates. If the project goes into execution, we do detailed design and analysis, equipment delivery and offer offshore installation support. During definition of the subsea field architecture, we place great emphasis on the following constraints:- Client preferred development plan and strategy
- Fluids to be produced, injected and exported,
- Flow assurance and operability requirements,
- Design life, water depth and project geographical locations,
- Economic, risk, planning and installability.

PLET
Our expertise covers the whole scope
of work concerning the design of PLET (Pipeline end termination) and ILT
(in-line tee) to ensure suitability in tie-in of flowlines, spools,
manifolds and well jumpers. Our experience extends to:
- Installation method and vessel selection
- PLET, Mud mat interaction with seabed
- Soil conditions
- Flowline expansion
- Lateral buckling, etc.
- Wall thickness design of Mother pipe and bends
- VIV assessment and Mechanical design
- Slugging analysis
- Seabed analysis, including rigging definition
- Equipment specification and vendors follow-up
- Engineering drawings, from pre-fabrication up to assembly drawings.
Structures
Fenchurch Michelson undertakes designs
on a variety of foundations, with great emphasis on structural integrity and
soil structure interaction:
- Shallow foundations such as mudmats
- Suction piles
- Gravity based foundations
Riser Design
The design of all types of riser
systems is part of our core business. We analyse and
size the full range of risers as well as conceive innovative solutions in order
to provide cost effective and modern technology solutions to our clients.
Bearing in mind that different types of
risers are suitable for different field developments needs, we have experience
with the following types of risers:
- Steel Catenary Risers
- Flexible Catenary Risers
- Free-standing Hybrid Risers
- Umbilicals
- Top Tensioned Risers and Subsea Well Systems
- Fixed Platform Conductors and Risers.
Subsea Tiebacks
With the experience and appropriate software suite,
Fenchurch Michelson is well positioned and understands the complexities
involved in the design of long conventional subsea step-outs or tie-backs.
We provide optimised field proven designs to address cost
reduction and mitigate risk, and to address issues bedevilling long subsea
tie-backs, including control system power distribution (voltage drop),
communications (signal loss) and elimination of umbilical HP tubes.
We also ensure integration of complete life cycle planning in
the overall design with slots for future expansion included in design and field
architecture.
Our very experienced pipeline engineers, alongside our flow
assurance engineers, routing specialists and geotechnical engineers work as
an integrated team to carry out routing and optimised infrastructure lay out;
steady state and transient flow analysis to address cool down and start-up
conditions. This ultimately ensures the development of suitable mechanical
design packages, that will ensure that pipelines and associated systems are
installed successfully.



