Scope of Work:

Kentz in joint venture with Elsag Bailey (DCS manufacturer) was awarded the Detail Design, Procurement and Construction for the above Yanpet Infrastructure Expansion Project.

The Project consisted of 235,000 man-hours of engineering work executed in a 16-month period from date of award. Kentz mobilised the entire engineering team to Yanbu and executed the project in close proximity to the client. The average monthly engineering man-hours was 14,700.

The project was executed on a 60 hours per week basis. Average manpower was 68 engineering staff with associated administration and management on top of this number. Kentz implemented its in-house design management tool 'Document Management & Tracking System (DMTS)' in conjunction with Primavera to schedule and progress the design work, in order to meet the extremely demanding engineering schedule. The project scope was by default made up of multiple packages ongoing simultaneously with the Control System, it being the common area of interface. Kentz managed the existing drawings and new drawings which numbered over 100,000 drawings using our above DMTS.

Through the engineering phase of the project Kentz had multiple submittals of the various packages to the client at the same time. This took dedicated management to ensure that client comments were correlated and incorporated within the various package simultaneous in order to meet key milestone dates.

Kentz scope included Engineering, Design, Procurement, Manufacturing, Construction, Installation, Testing, Commissioning and Start-up for the Power Desalination and Seawater Cooling Plants consisting of:

• Local Dispatch Centre (LDC).
• Unified Control System (UCS).
• Management Information System (MIS).
• Interconnection of the LDC, UCS and MIS system to enable the exchange of real time and historic data and object between the three networks.
• Fibre Optic Cable (FO) System.
• Digital Fault Recording (DFR) and Dynamic System Monitoring (DSM) for switchyard and substations.
• Dual DC Battery system for the 115 kV Switchyard Building 23.
• UPS system for the building 23 emergency lighting system.
• Replacement of faulty/obsolete analysers and field instruments.
• Provision of telephone call back modems to help diagnose and update the UCS, LDC and MIS system through direct contact with suppliers.
• Project I/O count 26000.

Client : Royal Commission, EPCON (Bechtel & Parsons) and YANPET