The Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro Project in Queensland is a first-of-its-kind natural battery storage facility. The project involves the world-first conversion of a disused gold mine into a pumped storage hydroelectric power generation facility.
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East Rockingham Waste-to-Energy
The East Rockingham Waste-to-Energy facility is expected to process approximately 300,000 tonnes per year of residual waste from non-recyclable materials in the Perth metropolitan area to deliver 29 MW of baseload electricity capacity.
Kwinana Waste-to-Energy
Kwinana Waste-to-Energy will be the first facility in Australia that integrates recovery and reuse of waste with the generation of electricity to deliver renewable baseload power to the metropolitan communities in Western Australia. The facility will use world-class technologies to process 460,000 tonnes per year of residual non-recyclable waste for energy recovery as well as ash by-products for use in construction materials.
Oil & Gas
Otway Offshore Phase 4
The Otway Offshore Project Phase 4 modifications include upgrades to the Thylacine Platform and subsea infrastructure. The scope covers the installation of seven electrical flying leads and two hydraulic flying leads, production spool leak testing and electrical and hydraulic function testing.
AssetHive Lite (formerly Completions Connect) will offer a single repository for validation and certification activities to be carried out for all mechanical, electrical, instrument and controls work at the Otway Offshore Project. Field mobility will be enabled through the use of AssetHive Lite’s mobile application offering access to information in the field while offline.
Goodwyn Platform
The Goodwyn platform is connected to the condensate-rich Goodwyn gas field, located 23 kilometres south-west of the North Rankin A platform and about 135 kilometres north-west of Karratha.
Woodside extended its engagement with Silverhorse to scale out the AssetHive technology for use at Goodwyn with the primary focus being on improving efficiency of inspection and maintenance activities using a new way of working that integrates digital workflows with clean, contextual data.
North Rankin Complex
The North Rankin Complex (NRC) is a single integrated facility comprised of two interconnected production platforms, North Rankin A (NRA) and North Rankin B (NRB), and associated subsea infrastructure.
Following the successful deployment of the AssetHive technology at Woodside’s Karratha Gas Plant, the system was scaled out to the North Rankin Complex. Given its offshore location, a large area of focus has been the management of coatings and asset integrity.
Karratha Gas Plant
Karratha is a 200 hectare LNG/LPG/natural gas plant in Western Australia that forms part of the North West Shelf project. Silverhorse partnered with Woodside to introduce an automated external corrosion inspection and repair process.
Clyde Terminal Conversion Project
The Clyde Terminal Conversion Project is part of an upgrade by Viva that will enable the terminal to receive, store and distribute finished fuel products, while halting refining.
Northern Endeavour FPSO
The Northern Endeavour FPSO is moored at the Laminaria-Coralina oil field in the Timor Sea and is operated and maintained by Upstream Production Solutions. The vessel is owned by Northern Oil and Gas Australia.
Hazardous Area inspections for the FPSO are managed using the AssetHive Lite platform in synchronisation with the mobile platform. An inspection schedule is generated in the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and mirrored in AssetHive Lite to produce an inspection campaign. Work packs are generated in AssetHive Lite and synchronised with the tablet to enable mobile access offshore to simplify the execution of inspections, improve work efficiency, standardise common tasks and improve data capture, accessibility and transparency/reporting.
Corrective actions and defects identified during inspections are also recorded offline on the mobile tablet and passed back to the CMMS to generate corrective service requests.
Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG)
Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) will be the world’s first project to turn gas from coal seams into liquefied natural gas, or LNG. This major, integrated project involves:
- Expanding QGC’s existing natural gas production in the Surat Basin of southern Queensland.
- Building a 540km buried natural gas pipeline network linking the gas fields to Gladstone.
- Constructing a natural gas liquefaction plant on Curtis Island, where the gas will be converted to LNG for export.
This project had both the Constructor and the Owner using AssetHive Lite to manage construction and commissioning of the entire gas plant. It was the first coal seam gas liquefaction plant, with a seamless completions process.
Devil Creek Gas Plant
The Devil Creek Gas Plant located in Western Australia’s northwest is the State’s third domestic natural gas processing hub. Gas to supply the Devil Greek facility is extracted from the Apache-operated Reindeer field approximately 80 km northwest of Dampier. It is brought to the mainland via a 105 km offshore and onshore raw gas supply pipeline.
This project had both the Constructor and the Owner using AssetHive Lite to manage construction and commissioning of the $1.3 billion gas plant. The plant has a gross production capacity of 215 TJ/day.
Ningaloo Vision FPSO
The refurbishment of Ningaloo Vision included an upgrade of topside process modules, swivel replacement, hull and tank renewal and turret/subsea modifications.
AssetHive Lite was used to manage the process and provide the handover MDR back to operations.
Mining
Tianqi Lithium Hydroxide
Silverhorse Technologies was engaged by MSP Engineering to provide its AssetHive Lite technology for the Tianqi Lithium Hydroxide Process Plant Project (TLK LHPP Project).
AssetHive Lite was implemented to enable a systematic handover of all systems, ensuring that tracking and reporting of all testing during Construction, Pre-commissioning and Commissioning against all equipment, components, devices and lines is managed and documented. The system was used for tracking and management of punch lists, handover certification, documentation and associated activities.
The system provided a centralised repository for all equipment tag information and management real-time reporting on progress towards completion and handover of systems.
Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum
The Pilgangoora Lithium-Tantalum Project is one of the largest new lithium ore deposits in the world, located in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The mine and processing facility will produce a 6 per cent spodumene concentrate that will be upgraded into battery-grade lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide to be used in lithium-ion batteries.
The project utilised AssetHive Lite to automate the management of paper-based work orders to deliver task efficiency, while also improving the quality of information capture, both in the field and during tracking of work completion.
AssetHive Lite provides a standardised process for the generation and execution of maintenance work orders to the project, covering equipment within the fixed plant operations while directly interfacing with the Company CMMS for all work order management.
Work is synchronised with the mobile platform to enable access to information on mobile devices in the field providing a seamless process for task completion, information capture and reporting.
Cobre Panama
Cobre Panama is a large open-pit copper development in Panama operated by First Quantum Minerals.
The project is utilising AssetHive Lite as a Commissioning Management System to provide the overall reporting of completion status at component, equipment, system, plant/facility and project level. The system records all verification activities for the project, reflecting the status of each item of equipment during construction, testing and commissioning for all associated facilities.
AssetHive Lite provides simplified, automated work pack generation, punch list and certificate pack building and real time progress reporting to the project.
Wiggins Island
The terminal is owned and being developed by coal exporters to provide increased long-term export coal capacity. Construction began in 2012 with the terminal being commissioned and handed over in 2015.
The AssetHive Lite role in the project included the provision of governance, transparency and technical integrity through the construction and commissioning phases.
West Angelas Power Station
The West Angelas Power Station is part of Rio Tinto’s Power System Upgrade 330 project and comprises a 100MW Open Cycle Power Station using low emission GE LM6000 PF Sprint Gas Turbines with the ability to run on natural gas and diesel fuel.
The project is being completed by UGL. AssetHive Lite is providing a governance framework for the project.
Civils
Brisbane Metro
Brisbane Metro is a key part of Brisbane’s greater transport network connecting the city to the suburbs. The first stage of Brisbane Metro will provide a 21-kilometre service connecting 18 stations along dedicated busways between Eight Mile Plains and Roma Street, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and the University of Queensland (UQ).
Melbourne Metro
The Melbourne Metro Project is the biggest transformation of Melbourne’s rail network and includes twin 9km tunnels under Melbourne’s CBD with 5 new underground stations.
WestConnex M4-M5 Link Tunnels
The WestConnex M4-M5 Link Tunnels project is creating a 33-kilometre tolled motorway linking Sydney’s west and south west.
NorthConnex
NorthConnex is one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects and will connect Sydney’s Orbital Network to the National Highway route as a way of easing congestion for freight traffic and improving connectivity across NSW as a whole.
AssetHive Lite and its mobile platform are used as the governing process management and execution systems to deliver completions and commissioning on the $3bn project to ensure the complete and safe handover.
AssetHive Lite integrates the project’s construction and commissioning schedule to provide a clear and auditable link between the schedule and what is being executed. This seamless link allows for efficient replication of work packs which mirror the typical repetitive nature of tunneling projects. It is governed by a construction industry standard QC process which includes the capturing and controlling of witness and hold-points.
Airport Link & Northern Busway, Brisbane
The Airport Link and Northern Busway. This $4.8 billion project claims to be Australia’s largest ever road infrastructure project and was built by a Thiess/John Holland joint venture. The project comprised two tunnels and an airport connecting roadway.
- Full use of completions management software to manage the completions and commissioning process from end to end.
- The key to success has been that AssetHive Lite supports project processes well, providing transparency that translates into improved governance.
Legacy Tunnel
Legacy Way is Brisbane City Council’s 4.6km road tunnel that will connect the Western Freeway at Toowong with the Inner City Bypass (ICB) at Kelvin Grove.
Legacy Way opened in 2015 and it is anticipated that it will almost halve peak hour travel times between the Centenary Bridge and the ICB. Construction was the responsibility of Transcity, which is a joint venture between Brisbane-based BMD Constructions, Italian tunnelling company Ghella and Spanish tunnelling and civil infrastructure company, Acciona Infrastructures.
Silverhorse Technologies’ role in the project included provision of governance, transparency and technical integrity using AssetHive Lite for the project.
Utilities
Beenyup Water Treatment Facility
The Advanced Water Recycling Plant processes waste water to a drinking water standard and returns up to 14 billion litres (extendable to 28 billion litres) to the groundwater supply.
Victoria Desalination Plant
The Victoria Desalination Plant is a $3.5 billion initiative by the Victorian Government to secure a water supply to Melbourne and surrounding districts. The plant is the largest in Australia supplying 150 billion litres of water a year. Construction began in 2009 with water being delivered in 2012.
The AssetHive Lite role in the project included the provision of governance, transparency and technical integrity for the construction and commissioning of the plant.
Moranbah Project
The Moranbah Project is to build a fully integrated Ammonium Nitrate manufacturing complex with an output of 300,000 tonnes per annum. The $935 million project began construction in 2010 with commissioning planned to be complete in 2012.
Silverhorse Technologies’ role in the project was a focus on project governance providing transparency and technical integrity through the use of AssetHive Lite.
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