Offshore Production

Vertech provides the complete range of inspection, integrity management and specialist brownfield project solutions to the offshore production sector. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver high quality and innovative solutions to even the most complex problems. Our inspections allow our clients to meet statutory obligations whilst providing valuable data to evaluate and monitor the condition of production assets as an enabler for effective and efficient maintenance planning. Our brownfield project teams include multi-disciplinary, high mobility tradesmen who provide intelligent solutions and a best-in-class delivery of technically challenging projects.

Vertech is the leading service provider to the offshore production sector proven by long term contracts for offshore integrity management and repeat engagements by major operators for their most complex projects. These include derrick decommissioning, flare tip replacements, major riser and conductor IRMs, underdeck platform construction & commissioning, and subsea tie back modification projects decommissioning and specialist crane projects to name a few.

Fixed Platform (FP)

A fixed platform consists of a jacket (a tall vertical section made of tubular steel members supported by piles driven into the seabed) with a deck placed on top, providing space for

crew quarters, a drilling rig if required, and production facilities. The fixed platform is viewed as economically feasible for installation in water depths up to 1,500 feet.

Asset Integrity Engineering
Jacket & Structural inspection
Pressure system inspection
Remote digital visual inspection
Conventional NDT inspection
Advanced NDT & robotics
Rope Access Maintenance
Brownfield modification
Specialist & Access services
Flare tip maint & replacement

Floating Production System (FPS)

These are semi-submersible unit(s) which can be equipped with both drilling and production equipment. They are anchored in place with wire rope and chain or can be dynamically positioned using rotating thrusters.

Production from the subsea wells is transported to the surface through production risers. The Inpex, Ichthys Explorer CPF is the world’s largest semi-submersible production platform, and the first in Australian waters.

Marine Class Structural inspection
Pressure System Inspection
Remote Digital Visual Inspection
UAV Survey & Inspection
In water UWILD & ROV survey
Conventional NDT inspection
Advanced NDT & robotics
Rope Access Maintenance
Specialist & Access Services
Marine & Integrity Engineering

Floating Production, Storage & Offloading System (FPSO)

FPSO’s are large tanker type vessels moored to the seafloor. An FPSO is designed to process and stow production from nearby subsea wells and to periodically offload to a smaller shuttle tanker. FPSO’s in Australian waters that are connected to the seabed are under the jurisdiction of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA).

Current operating FPSO’s in Australian waters include The Okha, Ngujima-Yin, Montara Venture, Pyrenees, Ichthys Venturer and Ningaloo Vision with future projects including Barossa, Scarborough Browse, Buffalo (Re-Development), sunrise and Crux.

Special survey management & implementation
Pressure System Inspection
Remote Digital Visual Inspection
Class accredited UAV Inspection
In water UWILD & ROV survey
Conventional NDT inspection
Advanced NDT & robotics
Rope Access Maintenance
Crop & renew Surveys
CSE management and rescue

OFFSHORE PRODUCTION SERVICE LINES

Asset Integrity Management

Vertech and our sister company Sonomatic provide engineering and operational support for our clients to maximise the production and life of their assets. This is achieved by combining years of integrity experience with specialised engineering, planning, execution, data analytics, statistical methods, and custom software. Our integrity services include high-level strategies through to detailed engineering analysis, Risk based inspection, non-intrusive inspection (NII) inspection and maintenance planning.

Marine Integrity management

Vertech Group provides a broad array of engineering and repair capabilities to support our clients in managing the integrity of their marine assets. Our team has a wealth of experience working with class accreditation and defence bodies to deliver surveys on a five-year cycle or plan/deliver a Risk-Based Inspection (RBI). Our services include high-level strategies, engineering analysis, shipyard marine consultancy, project optimization, and work pack generation to achieve optimal delivery.

SPECIALIST ACCESS MANAGEMENT

As a pioneer of rope access in Australia, Vertech’s solutions-based approach drives innovation in specialist access systems and their management. Whether clients require decking systems, confined space entry, custom solutions, or rope access, Vertech will assess each scenario and provide the best method or system to meet the deliverables of the scope. Our world leading IRATA and training centre, custom-built test tanks, and specialist workshops allow us to plan and deliver the best access solution for the job.

BROWNFIELD PROJECTS

Vertech have consistently delivered excellence on some of the most complex implementation projects in the offshore production sector. Through robust project planning and management, pre-mobilisation mock up training and highly skilled implementation teams we have delivered cost, time and safety efficiency to asset modifications, upgrades, decommissioning and specialist remediation projects. Our experience in brownfield projects has seen us build and deliver curated packages such as the V-FLARE & V-COMM with no challenge to big.

UAV & DRONE DIGTAL TWIN

Vertech Group is the first company in Australia to be recognised as an approved service supplier by Lloyd’s Register for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) inspections of classification vessels and structures. In addition to this, with the assistance of our group partner’s AUAV, we are able to provide clients with digital twins of assets through AUAV’s proprietary data management software; inSite.

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING

Vertech has a wealth of conventional and advanced NDT experience across the marine sector and can provide a full suite of accredited NDT services, recommendations, or solutions to ensure compliance with international standards. Vertech Group is certified to ISO 17205 as an NDT inspection body by the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA). Our NDT inspection personnel are highly qualified, skilled, and experienced in applying a wide range of conventional and advanced inspection methods to marine structures.

IN-WATER INSPECTION

Through our subsidiary company, Geo Oceans and JV company Blue Ocean Marine Services, we have become a leading Mini-ROV and AUV Marine Class inspection provider. Backed by a team of industry experts and a suite of cutting-edge software solutions, we can deliver best-in-class remotely operated underwater inspection results to our clients. Geo Oceans’ award-winning marine class technology has seen us complete diver-less and unmanned inspections, including UWILDs, ballast tank inspections, in-water surveys, mooring chains, and riser inspections worldwide, driving significant safety and cost benefits.

MARINE CLASS INSPECTION

Vertech Group provide the most comprehensive array of services in Marine class inspection in Australia. Our teams have safely and successfully delivered marine class inspections on every Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) in Australia and New Zealand, as well as FPSOs in the Asia Pacific, West Africa, GOM and South America regions. Our IRATA rope access, accredited NDT inspectors, UAV and class accredited ROV inspections are world leading in the marine inspection market.

CONFINED SPACE ENTRY & RESCUE

Vertech has provided high-mobility, experienced teams to support and deliver a complete emergency response and confined space entry (CSE) management service for shutdowns and turnarounds across Australia. Our people hold qualifications such as IRATA rope access, confined space entry (CSE), gas test atmosphere, long line breathing apparatus (BA) and advanced first aid certification, leaving our client’s site implementation teams to deliver their shutdown activities with the confidence that they have the best in the industry available to respond in any situation.