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TAKE FIVEMATTHEW RICKERT, SIEMENS
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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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