Suite of electrical services and tools launched to
the oil and gas sector
Research shows operation and maintenance teams collaborating
closer than ever with the supply chain to achieve greater efficiency
and value creation
A suite of electrical services and tools targeting electric motors, generators, variable-speed drives and low voltage and
medium voltage switchgear for offshore platforms is launched by ABB. The suite focuses on key industry drivers
including cost reduction, production efficiency and overall safety of electrical plant.
The services and tools are launched following feedback from ABB-lead technical workshops, during which technical
authorities were asked about their key focus for the next five years. Among the findings is a need for closer working
relationships between operations and the supply chain in order to provide critical data, better informed decision making
and deliver maximum upltime and plant availability. The objective is to accurately determine where cost efficiencies can
be attained.
“With an ever increasing pressure to reduce persons on board (POB), the offshore sector faces a greater requirement for
more guaranteed equipment uptime,” claims Stuart Young, ABB’s UK sales manager for oil and gas. “Operators are
looking for ways to save money and yet operate for longer and safer. This demands a better understanding as to when
maintenance needs to be carried out; operators want to be made aware of potential abnormal situations arising in
advance of them happening.
“Predictive maintenance techniques can help determine whether critical equipment can continue to run safely for an
extended period of time, in order to deliver maximum business value.”
ABB’s range of services and tools will improve equipment reliability and support obsolescence issues in aging assets and
have been tried and tested throughout many onshore industries.
Among the electrical services offered are:
 HV Power Care
 Drive Care
 Motor Care
 Automation Care
 LV Power Care
Each of the above offer bespoke contracts for the relevant product type, with three levels of support:
Level 1 - Technical
 Rapid response contractual support options
 Training requirements for products
 Technical telephone support contracts
 Call-out response options
 Workshop repair agreement levels
 Annual support resource hours agreements
Level 2 (Level 1 plus:) - Preventive
 Remote monitoring & diagnostics
 Application-based training
 Preventive maintenance schedules & kits
 Annual inspections of equipment & life cycle
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Recommended spares inventory
Contract management reporting and KPIs
Level 3 (Levels 1 & 2 plus:) - Complete
 Asset monitoring & condition based diagnostics
 Life cycle management of equipment
 Extension, upgrade & retrofit integrated
 Spare parts inventory optimisation
 Engineering & safety services
 Consulting & legislation compliance
Each of the above services can draw upon a range of specialised tools or solutions developed by ABB, some of which
include:
Breaker Retrofit
For instance HV and LV Power Care may harness Breaker Retrofit. Previously isolating a substation was a big and costly
project. It resulted in lost production through the need to shut down the plant in order to re-new, test and commission
the substation. Breaker Retrofit means that only one breaker or switch at a time needs to be isolated, thereby providing
a staged shutdown. The service also applies to third party switchgear. By providing model numbers of competitor
equipment, ABB can assess if a stock solution is available or if a tailored solution can be engineered.
LEAP & MACHSENSE
The Motor Care service can benefit from ABB’s life expectancy analysis programme (LEAP) or condition monitoring
service, MACHSENSE. Operators want maximum uptime from their equipment so ABB’s range of condition monitoring
solutions is paramount for predicting the healthcare status and remaining life of a machine or when maintenance is
required.
LEAP is a condition and lifetime assessment of stator windings for generators and large induction motors, the diagnostic
tool of which gives a clear indication of how long a machine will run before failure, thereby enabling intelligent
maintenance and asset replacement planning.
MACHSENSE is a continuous remote condition monitoring service for motors and generators with key condition
parameters.
ABB InSight
Used within Motor Care, the ABB InSight is a robotic crawler fitted with five cameras that scans the air gap in a motor or
generator to visually inspect its status, thereby reducing equipment removal and downtime, inspection costs and risks of
secondary damage by avoiding the need to withdraw the rotor. This avoids the expense of disconnecting large machines,
replacing them with a hot spare and transferring them to the factory for testing. With ABB InSight the cost and time
saving are immense as the test is done within hours, in-situ.
Remote condition monitoring
Drive Care can benefit from remote monitoring such as DriveMonitor; an intelligent monitoring and diagnostics system
which allows secure access to a drive from any global location. Today remote monitoring is not just about spotting a
problem but about predicting the problem, determining how devices operate within their current conditions and how
they are interacting. More importantly it is about being able to repair the fault remotely.
Life cycle management
For all of its electrical products, ABB is promoting a four-stage life cycle management model, during which various
services will or will not be available. The four-stages are “active”, the sales and manufacturing phase; “classic”, the
guaranteed product and support phase; “limited”, the product is coming to the end of its useful life; “obsolete”, the
product can no longer be supported.
In conjunction with this model, ABB can undertake an installed base assessment which identifies - normally from a single
line wiring diagram - the status of all equipment. From this a heat map can be devised which shows the items of
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equipment most at risk and in need of an upgrade or retrofit. This procedure facilitates support planning, spares holding,
obsolescence management and upgrade options.
To assist in funding investments in new products and services, ABB is offering (subject to each case and terms and
conditions) a scheme whereby repayment of the upgrade is made through a service contract, thereby avoiding a capital
expenditure, while allowing acquisition of the equipment through operational costs.
ABB is a supplier of power and automation products, systems, solutions and services to the oil, gas and chemicals
industry, with a complete and integrated scope of supply capability that ranges from plant electrification to control,
optimization and safety systems, smart field instrumentation, analyzers and telecommunications systems. ABB is active
in all segments - onshore and offshore upstream, midstream and transportation, refining, petrochemicals and chemicals
– with the aim is to boost the productivity and efficiency of the entire value chain.
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For more information please contact:
Stuart Young
Tel: 01224 592 123
Stuart.young@gb.abb.com
www.abb..com/service
ABB Limited
Hareness Road
Altens Industrial Estate
Aberdeen
AB12 3LE
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Photo caption: ABB’s LEAP is a condition and lifetime assessment of stator windings for generators and large induction motors
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