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TAKE FIVEMATTHEW RICKERT, SIEMENS

Siemens working to eReliability, field services key in oil and gas segment

COMPRESSORTECH2 spoke with

Matthew Rickert, business

development, Gas Turbines for

Siemens, about the FPSO projects and

other topics. Rickert joined the company as

part of the Rolls-Royce Energy gas turbine

acquisition in 2014. That same year, Siemens

acquired Dresser-Rand. He was with Rolls-

Royce for five years before the acquisition.

WHAT TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING IN THE FPSO MARKET? We’re seeing a lot more interest in DLE (dry

low emission) technology for combustors.

We haven’t had a lot of projects that have

gone forward with DLE, but we’re getting a

lot more questions in the early phase of

projects that, I think point to customers

moving towards DLE. What DLE – dry low

emissions – does is allows you to reduce

your NOx and your CO emission levels

without using water. So you can basically

swap out the existing turbines today,

reduce your emissions by 90% with that

DLE technology and still get good, reliable

performance. In the past, DLE has not been

as popular offshore because the reliability

figures for DLE were not as strong as for the

non-DLE engines, but we’re getting to the

tipping point now, where our DLE engines are

just as reliable as the non-DLE engines. In

addition, the fuel flexibility of DLE engines is

rapidly approaching the capability of

standard combustion turbines.

I think we’re going to see that as

a growing trend for offshore

and FPSO applications.

HOW BIG OF A MARKET IS FPSO FOR YOU SIEMENS? Traditionally, it has been a big market for us

and it remains a key market focus. Reliability

and service capability are two critical

requirements for offshore operation and

both are key areas of strength for Siemens.

FPSOs have been an area of focus for us to

grow and after the acquisitions of Rolls-

Royce Energy and Dresser-Rand, we’ve

seen some growth in the FPSO space due to

our expanded gas turbine and compressor

portfolio and expanded field service

capability.

HOW DO YOU DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF AGAINST YOUR MAJOR COMPETITION? The biggest differentiators for us are:

number one; we’ve now got the industry’s

largest service network for gas turbines

and compressors. Service in oil and gas is

absolutely critical. The turbines are providing

power for the vessel and if power goes

down, they’re not producing, and that can

The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) market is a key one for Siemens.

The company won a contract to supply Statoil a compressor train for a floating FPSO vessel

in the Johan Castberg oilfield. In 2018, the company also won contracts to place SGT-400

gas turbine generators and electric motor-driven (EMD) DATUM compressors for an FPSO in

the Mediterranean, SGT-A35 gas turbine generators and SGT-A35 compression trains with

DATUM compressors for two FPSO projects off the coast of Brazil.

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TAKE FIVEMATTHEW RICKERT, SIEMENS

always had an annual inspection. We come

out and do a borescope inspection and

now with more of our digitalization tools,

the ability to monitor the engines during

operation and put that into our analytic

software, we’re looking toward pushing

those intervals out further and further. We’re

getting a lot of customers questioning ‘do

we need to do borescope inspections now?

Are we at the point that we can rely on the

analytic software to give us signals when

there’s an issue?’ And so we’re pushing in

that direction. We’re not fully there yet, but I

don’t think we’re far off.

THIS INDUSTRY CAN BE SLOW TO ADOPT NEW THINGS. HAS THAT BEEN AN ISSUE WITH DIGITALIZATION? It’s definitely an issue. As you said, this

market is slow to change, but what’s pushing

them is, with tighter margins on these oil and

gas projects, they’re looking for opportunities

to improve the margins. They’ve really

become aware of the cost of downtime and

be millions of dollars a day of downtime. So

it’s absolutely critical to get the unit back

up and running as quickly as possible. So

service is the number one thing that we have

to execute with any of these customers.

Second is the reliability of our turbines. We’ve

got a proven track record. We’ve even got

some customers who’ve done side-by-side

studies comparing us vs. our competitors’

products that have shown that we had

a higher reliability on our gas turbine. So

reliability and track record on these gas

turbines in this space is absolutely critical.

WHAT KIND OF QUESTIONS ARE YOU HEARING FROM POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS? In the early stages, they all want fleet

statistics: How many units do you have

running, what’s the availability, what do the

reliability numbers look like? And then what

are your service intervals? There’s a big push

in the industry right now to reduce

the amount of scheduled inspections. So

right now, traditionally gas turbines have

o eliminate downtime

Siemens has won a contract to supply

Statoil a gas turbine driven compressor

train for a floating production, storage

and offloading (FPSO) vessel in the Johan

Castberg oilfield. The compressor chain

incorporates a 41 MW SGT-750 gas turbine,

which will drive two DATUM compressors.

This will be the first time an SGT-750 will be

used in an off-shore application, according

to Siemens. In 2018, the company also won

contracts to place SGT-400 gas turbine

generators and electric motor-driven

(EMD) DATUM compressors for an FPSO in

the Mediterranean, SGT-A35 gas turbine

generators and SGT-A35 compression trains

with DATUM compressors for two FPSO

projects off the coast of Brazil. Siemens

also supplied aeroderivative SGT-A35 gas

turbine and associated auxiliary systems

for Nova Gas Transmission Ltd. pipeline

expansion.

so they’re seeing that digitalization can not

only eliminate unscheduled downtime, but

can also eliminate scheduled downtime. So

all of that translates right back to the bottom

line of the project. A big area of focus on our

packages is on minimizing the downtime.

For example, the amount of time it takes to

change out a component, when we do have

to go out and do a scheduled service event

or an unscheduled service event. Most of the

components that need to be serviced on a

regular basis, we have brought to the front

end of the packages. We’ve located them in

areas where you don’t have to remove grates

to access them. We’ve utilized digitalization

tools by building a 3D model where you

could actually simulate walking through a

gas turbine package. We then brought in our

service engineers to actually simulate how

you would change out a component. They

could walk through and say, ‘well, you know,

this pipe’s kind of in my way. Is there any

way we could relocate the pipe? Let’s make it

easier to get in and out.’ CT2

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