FLOATING PRODUCTION SERVICES
Our people and management teams have a long and established track record in developing, building, owning and operating Floating Production units such as FPSO’s, FSO’s, and FSRU’s.
HBA focuses on medium size converted or refurbished FPSO and early production solutions. HBA utilises its strong commercial awareness, technical expertise, and network of partners and contractors to propel the project to an early commercialisation. HBA’s geographical area of focus is predominantly Asia, Africa, and South America.
Working with world class technology providers, HBA has been able to adapt its floating production expertise to develop class approved offshore renewable products such as FAPSO (floating ammonia plants), FSS (floating substations). These new technologies promise to unleash offshore energy, cut cost and schedule.
EPCM
HBA specializes in the execution of floating production systems EPCI projects covering project management, customer relationships management, design and detailed engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning, and offshore installation works. Our project execution model provides strong emphasis on HSE, Quality, Sustainability and Compliance in all areas of customer coordination, design, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning.
- HBA select the most suitable vendors, contractors, and shipyards from all over the world to undertake the conversion of existing vessels or construction of new hulls, fabrication of topsides module facilities, fabrication of mooring system components, manufacturing of offloading equipment and installation of all completed equipment on board the units.
- HBA has developed strong relationships and experience with leading contractors and shipyards from all over the world and select the most optimal solution while outsourcing the construction of hulls, fabrication of the topsides facilities, mooring system components, manufacturing of offloading equipment and installation of all completed equipment on board the units.
- HBA has a strong in-house project execution resource pool comprising project engineers, construction superintendents and managers, safety and quality personnel, supply chain competence, project planners, estimators and cost controllers, mechanical completion, commissioning, and start-up experts.
- Upon successful completion of the systems and facilities at the offshore location, we hand over the floating production systems to either customers or our operations teams for the start of the production service.
Engineering
HBA provides bespoke engineering services across the entire project execution value chain. The singapore based senior and lead engineers working from Singapore are backed by our OilTech 21 design office in India. This combination of high-end work coupled with cost effective technical design and support services provides HBA with a unique competitive edge of efficiency, cost and ability to scale projects.
HBA provides bespoke services centered on floating solutions such as:
- Marine and naval architecture including all aspects of floater and tanker specification
- Mooring system design
- Turret design and specifications
- Top-side design
- Power system designs and optimization
- E-house and control systems
- Gas handling and processing
- Interfaces management and controls
- Offshore AC/DC Substations
HBA has experience in wide range of projects and assignments. This combined with the decades of operating experience ensures that our designs are current, and operator friendly. A solid base of engineering standard documentation ensures a consistent and optimized approach of engineering.
Project Execution
From engineering to procurement of materials and equipment, and fabrication and integration, to finally testing the facility before hand over to the Operations team, project execution is complex. It requires extreme discipline to ensure that HBA teams, subcontractors and yards work together seamlessly to deliver on time and on budget
HBA project execution division is responsible for ensuring a structured, methodical, disciplined, executable approach to project execution. HBA has a strong in-house resource pool comprising project engineers, construction managers and supervisors, safety and quality personnel, supply chain engineers and managers, project planners, estimators and cost controllers, mechanical completion, commissioning, and start-up engineers and managers.
HBA project execution utilises the latest software such as primavera and PEGASUS and is armed with an extensive data base of executed projects. This historical database provides easy access to critical data allowing quick benchmarking alignment and estimating.
Frontloading of engineering and procurement activities is essential in project execution to ensure sufficient time for construction teams to execute plans and build the facility. This in turn allows for a thorough and timely commissioning process where individuals who combine the best of project and operations experience test the unit adequately to ensure a smooth start-up.
Operations & Asset Management
HBA’s AMO group controls the risk of operation and assures stability and continuity of operations and production and safety throughout all activities.
HBA AMO strategy is risk based, incorporating best practices and ALARP principles. By understanding the balance between the cost of failure and the cost of maintenance, our teams can focus the right resources on the right equipment at the right time and provide significant cost reduction to the overall OPEX throughout the project lifecycle.
HBA AMO teams are assigned to the project team early on ensuring operating input throughput the project development and resulting in a smooth and efficient commissioning and start up.
PAL SYSTEM
- HBA is committed to leverage its renewable energy knowledge for generation of green hydrogen, green ammonia and other global decarbonizing initiatives.
- The PAL software has 16 interdependent modules including: CMMS ( Computerised maintenance management system) , Crewing , HR, budgeting rotation, dry docking, coupled with strong and reliable satellite communication. HBA AMO receives instantaneous operating data and records allowing for timely intervention and operational efficiency.