REFERENCE PLANNING FOR EPC PIPELINE PROJECTS

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19 years 10 months

Hi Nicole.

Welcome to Planning Planet - a few points.

Please do not liven up old threads - start a new topic and you will get a better response.

Its not a good idea to leave your email in the open forum - there are spammers about.

There have been many discussions on pipelines on PP so search the topic and take your pick.

The main point about linear projects such as pipelines is that you need Time Distance software such as Tilos or Vico or even Asta Powerproject v 12.

Best regards

Mike T.

And I have just noticed that you put the same thread in a different topic - that is a definite breach of etiquette and I will delete them when I find them.

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13 years 8 months

Good day to you,

i just want to ask if you could help email me a sample of pipeline schedule, im new to this kind of oil&gas work, it will be a big help for me to learn how it goes, pls send to my email: use private message service thank you.

nicole

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19 years 9 months

Mr.Sam,

Please send me the list of activities, duration and relationships details through my email-id shafi686@yahoo.co.uk for the cross country piping project.

 

Thanks in advance.

Shafi 

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19 years 5 months

So pls do me favor, I also need that tasks and schedule wise...

Could u directly email to me aizamcapri@gmail.com either maz.aizam@simedarby.com....



Myself also involved with TNI which we’ve umbilical cable and pipeline...at the moment ....we’re searching for DLB..derick lay barge to bring all matl at middle east ...



Intec have been assigned to accomplish engineering design analysis.....

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21 years 7 months

Sanjeev,



Our company involves in pipelying contracting business mostly onshore. Apart from that we also specialise in a front end engineering/conceptual/detail engineering design for gas and /or oil facilities.



Regards,



Pasang Muli

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18 years 8 months



Hi Sam ;



It is purely an onshore pipeline.It is a purely underground cross country , gas , pressure pipeline.



Apart from some road and raiway crossings there are expected to be a max of 5 river crossings which are likely to be done by HDD method.



The pipeline is likely to be of a maximum length of 1200 km and is to be divided into spreads of suitable length.



Apart from the pipeline ( as per the feasibility studies )there shall be compressor stations , launcher / receiver stations and Terminal Gas stations for Power Plants , Fertiliser plants etc which the pipeline is to cater to.Mettering facilities , SCADA , contol room , sectionalising valves , CP system etc shall be there as in normal cases.



Can you plz do me a favour by sending me a copy of one/more of similar cases ; of detailed activity wise (level 3 brekdown for activities);sample/s of P3 schedule.Addl details like activity duration with critical activities for all civil , mech , elect , inst,and procurement list for material and equipments shall be quite handy to me as a ready reference.



My e-mail i-d is and .



I shall sincerely appreciate any assistance and support from you in this connection.



Regards



Sanjeev Koul


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21 years 9 months

Sanjeev I work for a pipeline design company so have done plenty of EPC pipeline project schedules here are some of the items that you may want to consider.



Your eventual schedule will depend on what your pipeline project is. Is it an onshore pipeline or offshore pipeline or both?



For onshore pipelines you will need to consider the construction methodology i.e is it an above ground or below ground pipeline or sections of both. Your schedule should also allow for any shore, road, or river crossings typically HDD is employed these days for this but there are other construction techniques that may be used depending on the situation. Also in your construction schedule you need to allow for pipeline trenching / blasting, clearing the pipeline ROW, pipe handling logistics, trench back filling, set up of pipeline stringing facilities, setup of a construction camp if appropriate, weather downtimes, NDT, field joint coating, end station construction, pipeline flooding guaging and hydrotesting / pre comm and comm.



For offshore pipelines you need to consider the lay methodology S or J lay number of pipelay barges required, pipehaul requirements, vessel mob time, weather down times, setup and laydown, span correction, tie-ins, pipeline stabilisation i.e. rock dumping, trenching or gravity anchor installation. Pipeline flooding gauging and hydrotesting / pre commissioning.



You need to allow for all the procurement and contracting activities including for example, linepipe procurement, coating, flanges, valves, barred tees, pig lauchers & receivers, pipelay / pipeline installation etc.



It is also important to schedule collection of survey data including bathymetric, metocean, geotechnical and pipeline route data before the start of the design activities as this is where many projects get burnt because the data almost always comes late or they base their design on preliminary data and this results in design changes / large variations.



In general I find that pipeline project planning is relatively straight forward compared to offshore platform / plant construction planning as there a lot fewer activities to manage and keep track of and the schedules are generally quite simple due to there only being a handful of procurement and contract packages.