Sub-sea engineering firm JP Kenny has bought a design software license package from Dassault Systems to improve its design and installation operations for large Western Australia gas-field projects.
The Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis software, or FEA, helps analyse the impact of “events” like cyclones on pipelines and their throughput.
“Abaqus has reduced simulation times and improved the efficiency and accuracy of pipeline design and route mapping,” said pipeline business leader, Gordon Cowper.
The sale bodes well for other engineering outfits and oil companies contemplating long offsets and other complicated pipeline operations deeper, semi-tropical water and the foul-weather north.
In a short survey of Norwegian oil and gas process outfits, ¬OilGas24.com discovered Dassault Systems CAD-type suits behind a number of recent drawing-board successes, including “round-rig” maker Sevan Marine.
“A relatively small organization like Sevan Marine could develop and handle … a huge project,” a Sevan project manager said of IBM, which markets Dessault sofware under a 20-year deal.
Dassault’s distributors in Norway are understood to be PLM Technology and Technia.
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