Projects
Expert Review - Process and Chemical Engineering
Would your project benefit from an independent peer review by a team of seasoned industry experts?
Do any of the following resonate on your project?
- Still ‘optioneering’ and want to settle on a single concept to proceed with Front End Engineering Design (FEED)?
- Is your project heading for a Final Investment Decision (FID)? How confident are you on scope, schedule and cost for when you present to your management, board or investors?
- How does the project’s Internal Rate of Return (IRR) look? Has everything been included in the project economics?
- Does the design and cost estimate include process safety (particularly Safety Integrity Level (SIL)), constructability and maintainability requirements?
- Have you considered the impact of permitting and consenting in terms of HSE, EA and local authority approvals?
- Are the project teams young and lacking major project leadership experience, both from the client’s side and the engineering contractor? Have they covered all bases?
The above are all ‘Project 101’ questions that have been shown historically to have a significant impact on project cost and schedule if not addressed at the right time.
We can provide a bespoke team whose members have decades of project experience, large and small, to work with you to perform an independent health check of your project. This can be at any stage, from feasibility and concept development, through Front End Engineering Design (FEED) completion and ahead of Final Investment Decision (FID).
The expert or ‘cold eyes’ review typically consists of three stages:
1. Pre-work: A series of calls to discuss scope requirements. This can be all-encompassing (recommended as everything interlinks) or just specific areas for review (eg. HSE or cost estimate). We will propose the team composition and discipline focus depending on your requirements. The team will then review the necessary project documentation, prepare and send out clarification questions ahead of the next stage.
2. Review Day: The expert team and the client’s team meet face-to-face. This typically lasts one day and generally is centred around a ‘nose to tail’ PFD review as the focal point of the discussion, but is used to trigger other scope items such as offsites and utilities impacts of the project.
3. Follow-Up: Preparation and issue of an audit-style report containing findings and client recommendations. This can be tailored to your requirements, eg technically focused for the engineering contractor to follow up, or a more high-level executive summary for management review, or both.
The typical review team consists of a core of four people – project leader, senior process engineer, power and controls engineer, and process safety engineer. This can be tailored as required, supplemented/substituted by other disciplines (eg. mechanical, structural) depending on project scope discussions.
Duration is generally 2-3 weeks: 1-2 weeks part-time for pre-work, and 1 week to issue the report after the review day.
The whole process is flexible and can be tailored to your specific needs.
