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MSi Kenny Sponsors the 2012 PSIG Conference
MSi Kenny will sponsor and participate in the 43rd annual 2012 PSIG (Pipeline Simulation Interest Group) conference on May 15-18, 2012 at the Hilton Santa Fe Golf Resort & Spa at Buffalo Thunder in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The conference features renowned scientists and authors honoring their contributions to the Pipeline Simulation Industry.
For more information about the 2012 PSIG Conference click on psig.org.
MSi Kenny Ranks as One of the Top 5 Largest Houston-Based Software Development Companies within the Oil and Gas Industry
On April 25, 2012, the Houston Business Journal ranked MSi Kenny as the fourth largest Houston-based software development company serving the oil and gas industry. MSi Kenny delivers advanced technology for the optimal design and operation of oil & gas production, pipeline and processing facilities. MSi Kenny is a Wood Group company. Wood Group is an international energy services company with $6 billion in sales, operating in 50 countries worldwide and employing more than 39,000 people.
MSi Kenny, Developing New Business Relationships with SINOPEC
On Tuesday March 6th 2012, MSi Kenny hosted 20 delegates from SINOPEC, China. The Houston Mayor’s Office of International Trade and Development asked us to present our capabilities to the SINOPEC delegation, allowing us to take additional steps to expand our services within the Chinese market. The delegation was interested in the characteristics of multiphase flows, the separation of fluids in multiphase flows, and simulation software used to model multiphase flows. Overall, the meeting was a success, which developed new relationships for future business opportunities between SINOPEC and MSi Kenny.
MSi Kenny Sponsors the 2012 AIChE Spring Meeting in Houston
MSi Kenny is happy to announce we have agreed to be a silver sponsor to the 2012 AIChE Spring Meeting and 1st International Flow Assurance Forum to be held in Houston from the 1st of April through the 5th.
MSi Kenny, a leading provider of multiphase flow assurance solutions worldwide, is proud to be a part of this event showcasing both technology advancements and practical applications of flow assurance modeling to the energy industry.
MSi Kenny is always looking for talented people who are in search of challenging careers in this field. If you are attending the conference and would like to meet with senior members of MSi Kenny to discuss job opportunities in more depth, please visit the Careers section of our website to learn more.
For more information about the 2012 AIChE Spring Meeting click on http://www.aiche.org/conferences/2012/Upstream.aspx
MSi Kenny is now ISO 9001:2008 Certified
MSi Kenny Houston received ISO 9001:2008 certification in January 2012. Houston is the fourth MSi Kenny location to achieve this milestone. Our Perth office was the first to receive ISO 9001:2008 certification in 2009 and the London and Aberdeen offices were certified in 2011. MSi Kenny has been delivering superior software and consulting solutions to the oil and gas industry since 1996, and we are pleased our Quality Management System (QMS) is formally recognized by the International Organization of Standardization (ISO).
MSi Kenny had been utilizing an ISO 9001 compliant QMS since 1998, but has recognized additional benefits for our customers through formal certification as we have continued to grow globally. Because the ISO 9001:2008 standard is well established, customers can continue to expect a high level of reliability and transparency when working with MSi Kenny.
You can learn more about ISO 9001:2008 by clicking on www.iso.org.
Hess Awards Wood Group Kenny FEED contract for Equus Project
Wood Group Kenny has been awarded a contract to carry out the front end engineering and design (FEED) for the subsea development of Equus, Hess Exploration Australia's first deepwater gas project in offshore Western Australia.
The Equus project development consists of natural gas and condensate gas fields and is located 180km North of North West Cape and approximately 300km West of Karratha in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia, in water depths of up to 1,200m.
The subsea and pipelines FEED contract award is valued at $8 million (AUD) and will see Wood Group Kenny perform the subsea, umbilical and flowlines FEED.
Under the contract, the international subsea engineering company will deliver a work scope that includes flow assurance; subsea engineering; flowlines, export pipeline and tie-ins design; material selection and integrity management.
Work will commence in December 2011 for a duration of 12 months. Wood Group Kenny will execute the work from a dedicated project engineering office in Perth, Australia.
Steve Wayman, CEO of Wood Group Kenny said: "This is a significant contract for Wood Group Kenny and we are excited to be working with Hess on their first offshore deepwater project in Western Australia.
"Equus is a complex development and one of the key challenges for us will be engineering the export pipeline that is to be routed up the North West Shelf escarpment. We have a team of some of the best subsea engineers in the business though and look forward to working with Hess to devise fit-for-purpose subsea engineering solutions."
This contract follows the award of the subsea FEED contracts for Browse and Julimar to Wood Group Kenny, reinforcing the company's position as the regional leader in subsea and pipeline engineering.
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MSi Kenny exhibits at Subsea Tieback
MSi Kenny will be exhibiting with Wood Group Kenny at the Subsea Tieback Exhibition at the Moody Gardens Convention Center in Galveston, Texas from 6th-8th March 2012. Our booth is 309.
Browse Virtuoso Model Development Fall Update 2011
by Elliott Dudley
MSi Kenny and the Browse flow assurance team are breaking ground in Perth with the development of an integrated transient model for the Woodside’s Browse LNG Development. This is the first Virtuoso® product developed for use during the FEED phase of a project and has already provided new insights into the operability and dynamics of the Browse offshore network.
Transient flow assurance work to date has required making simplified assumptions to account for topsides processing. The Virtuoso simulator now allows dynamic modeling of the topsides processing to study the flow assurance implications of control philosophies and proposed operational procedures.
Following the completion of the model validation process, recent work has successfully simulated restarting the offshore network following a complete process shutdown. With the ability to simulate a wide range of operational procedures, the Virtuoso model is already proving to be a powerful tool contributing to a robust and operable FEED design.
Wood Group Kenny wins the “Subsea Company of the Year” at the 2011 Subsea Energy Australia Awards
Wood Group Kenny won the highly prestigious “Subsea Company of the Year” award at the inaugural 2011 Subsea Energy Australia awards dinner held at the Perth Convention Exhibition centre last Friday night.
This award was secured against robust and extensive competition from a wide range of local and international Subsea Companies, with judgement being provided by a select panel of Oil and Gas specialists, drawn from a number of key Operators, Construction Contractors / Vendors and Engineering firms. This success further demonstrates our collective reputation and capability in the Subsea market place and the esteem in which we are held by our peers, the Offshore Oil and Gas fraternity at large and the competition judges.
During the ceremony, Preben Nielsen, one of MSi Kenny’s Perth Consultants, was nominated for ‘Emerging Talent of the Year’ and received an honorable mention. This award is given to an engineer with less than 3 years experience who contributes to both commercial and technical growth of the company.
See the full article online in the May issue of SUBSEA World News at www.subseaworldnews.com.
Field Experience with Virtual Metering Technology
by Dr. Prashant Haldipur
This article presents field experiences with the implementation of virtual well metering technology. This technology is used to obtain well-by-well flow rate estimates using conventional pressure and temperature instrumentation in a wellbore and tree without the need for expensive physical multiphase flow meters. The article focuses on a Virtual Metering System™ (VMS) for a four well subsea development in the North West Shelf (NWS) of Western Australia which was commissioned in October 2007. The article presents field data comparison and shows that this technology has provided very reliable and accurate flow rate predictions; historical data suggests that monthly reconciliation factors less than 5% can be achieved.
MSi Kenny and Shell Present Perdido Simulator in Offshore Engineer Magazine
Increased uncertainties about operating in ultra-deepwater typically result in over-designed production systems with resulting increased costs. Prasanna Parthasarathy and Kellin Nelson of MSi Kenny and Shell's Howard Littell discuss how high-fidelity integrated field modeling prevented overdesign and reduced uncertainty for Shell's Perdido spar in the Gulf of Mexico.
See the full article online in the August issue of Offshore Engineer Magazine at www.offshore-engineer.com.
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