ConocoPhillips Alaska — CPAI Managed Environment

The CPAI Managed Environment program is designed to provide cost and project execution savings through a standard environment for design in which three EPCs can execute and deliver projects valued at roughly $500 million per year. Goals of the program included: maximizing data re-use wherever possible; standardizing specifications and deliverables; ensuring data consistency, correctness, and completeness; and managing data across the facility lifecycle.

The entire AutoPLANT suite was used in this project. Bentley Professional Services assisted in creating a custom CPAI environment of arctic specifications and standard details that would work in conjunction with the AutoPLANT suite without compromising the ability to upgrade the core AutoPLANT platform as needed.

The program embraces three initiatives:

• The managed environment establishes a common AutoPLANT work environment customized to CPAI arctic projects in terms of catalogs, specifications, reports, drawings and other deliverables and operating seamlessly among three participating EPCs.
  
• Material masters extract standard commodity numbers from the existing CPAI arctic procurement catalog (SAP) and assign these to the AutoPLANTcatalog to ensure consistency and accuracy in the subsequent derivation of piping specifications, design, and material take-offs.
  
• eWarehouse base configuration from which AutoPLANT generated project data would be checked and evaluated (correct, consistent and complete) prior to transfer into existing functional check-out, operations and maintenance systems.

ConocoPhillips Alaska anticipates a 20 percent savings in engineering costs from the managed environment initiative; $5000 per $1 million savings in capital spending from the material masters component; and 20 to 30 percent in total engineering costs from the data-reuse initiative.

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