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Organization
Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) or WGENS

Market
Plant

Location
Aberdeen, Scotland

Project Objectives

  • Design and build an offshore platform to tap the rich Clair oil field, previously inaccessible because of its complex geography.
  • Enable cost-effective teamwork between engineering firms on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, through a managed environment for engineering and construction data.

Fast Facts

  • Collaboration on the project linked not only U.S. and U.K. engineers, but also scores of vendors, regulators, and contractors in six countries, as well as owner-operators.
  • WGENS’ managed environment has made collaboration more efficient, helped hold down project costs, and helped win contracts.

Bentley products used

  • Bentley ProjectWise

 Just 42 miles off Scotland's Atlantic coast, the rich Clair oil field seemed tantalizing but out of reach since its discovery in 1977. The reservoir's complex geography frustrated attempts at a cost-effective plan for tapping the largest untouched field on the U.K. continental shelf.

But in 2001, oil giant BP named a team of engineers split between Scotland and the United States to design and carry out a low-cost solution—made possible in part by a managed environment for engineering and construction data, built on the Bentley ProjectWise collaboration server.
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