ESR Technology. Engineering, Safety & Risk

Dolphin Energy awards risk services call-off contract to ESR

Warrington, UK. ESR Technology, one of the industry’s leading engineering, safety and risk management consultancies, today announced that it had been awarded a contract by Dolphin Energy Limited to supply a broad range of safety and risk management services.

Now fully operational, the Dolphin Gas Project is one of the largest trans-border energy projects ever undertaken in the Middle East. Today Dolphin Energy delivers 2 billion  standard cubic feet of natural gas per day from Qatar’s North Field reserves to meet the growing energy needs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. The gas is extracted via two offshore wellhead platforms and then transported to the gas treatment and compression plants at Ras Laffan via sub-sea pipelines, prior to onward transmission to the UAE and Oman.

Under the call-off agreement, ESR Technology will provide a broad range of key safety and risk management consultancy services to meet the needs of the Project. The scope of the agreement covers the provision of:

• HAZIDs
• HAZOPs
• Quantitative Risk Assessments
• Design Reviews
• Risk Reduction Evaluations
• HSE Safety Cases
• Safety Reviews
• Safety Critical Systems Evaluations
• Performance Standards Evaluations
• Fire and Explosion Risk Assessments
• Reliability, Availability and Maintainability Analyses
• Vulnerability and Escalation Management
• Escape, Evacuation and Rescue Evaluations
• Emergency Readiness Analyses
• Consequence Modelling
• Safety Integrity Level Assessments
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
• Human Factors Evaluations

"We are delighted to be supporting Dolphin Energy with a broad range of safety and risk management services," said Neil Ketchell, ESR Technology's General Manager for Oil and Gas Safety. "The project is being led by our established Abu Dhabi team and supported by our wealth of experience back in the UK to ensure that we meet the very high safety standards required."

About Dolphin Energy Limited

Dolphin Energy Limited was created to develop substantial energy projects throughout the GCC and to create long-term economic wealth and new business opportunities for GCC citizens, far into the future.

Dolphin Energy’s major strategic initiative, the Dolphin Project, involves the production and processing of natural gas from Qatar’s North Field, and transportation of the dry gas by sub-sea export pipeline from Qatar to the UAE, which began in July 2007.

The long term customers for Dolphin gas from Qatar are ADWEC (Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Company), DUSUP (Dubai Supply Authority) and OOC (Oman Oil Company). Each has signed a gas supply agreement with Dolphin Energy for 25 years.

Dolphin Energy is owned 51 percent by Mubadala Development Company, on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi – and 24.5 percent each by Total of France and Occidental Petroleum of the USA.

Detailed information about Dolphin Energy can be found on: www.dolphinenergy.com

About ESR Technology

ESR Technology is one of the industry’s leading engineering, safety and risk management consultancies.  The company provides independent technical expertise, products and services to help its customers ensure asset integrity, improve reliability, manage safety and risk and transfer best practice.

ESR Technology was previously the engineering, safety and risk division of AEA Technology which was formed from the commercial arm of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.  Its heritage means that it has more than 40 years experience of the application of engineering excellence to demanding projects.

ESR Technology’s highly skilled, world-class consultancy teams have in-depth experience of working with customers across many sectors including oil and gas, power generation, aviation and space.

ESR Technology also hosts five internationally renowned Centres of Excellence. They are the National Centre of Tribology, the National Non-Destructive Testing Centre, the European Space Tribology Laboratory, the Pump Centre and HOIS.

For further information about ESR Technology visit: www.esrtechnology.com

Press contact
Phil Ramskill 
ESR Technology Ltd
Whittle House
410 Birchwood Park
Warrington
WA3 6FW
UK
Email: phil.ramskill@esrtechnology.com