Engepack is a pioneer in the manufacturing of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) packaging in Brazil. It has the largest and most modern PET preform factory in Brazil which provides packaging solutions to its customers in the food and beverage industries – soft drinks, water, juices, teas, dairy products, edible oils, mayonnaise, etc. – and household products.

The purpose of ESCO’s operational excellence audit is to assure that the plant is operating safely, and to its maximum design capacity, building a roadmap to address potential issues, and improving the efficiency of their asset, people and operations. Further, ESCO will also identify areas that pose a significant business risk and identify mitigation actions, plus assure return on investment (ROI) by focusing budget on fixing high priority opportunity initiatives.

ESCO’s approach includes an initial asset health check tool / operational excellence audit, followed by a software-based analysis to validate the issues and a diagnostics phase including an engineering analysis summary. Finally, the project will deliver a sequence of steps with a list of prioritised improvements based on projected ROI vs effort.

ESCO’s office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will head up the project, with support from the company’s global asset integrity management team, who have delivered business performance improvement and operational excellence programs globally for the last two decades.

“We are thrilled to partner with Engepack on this innovative project, and we look forward to leveraging our global AIM expertise and local Brazilian market knowledge to drive operational excellence and improve efficiency for the plant, which in turn will allow Engepack to deliver an even more efficient service to its customers,”

says Peter Adam, Group Managing Director for Asset Integrity Management.

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The Korsnäs offshore wind farm is located on the west coast of Finland, in the Baltic Sea. The wind farm is a joint project between Vattenfall and Metsähallitus. It has a planned maximum capacity of 2.5 GW and an annual production of 7 TWh – enough capacity to power 350,000 electrically-heated detached houses by renewable energy.  

ESCO’s scope of work includes a comprehensive navigational risk assessment, including quantitative risk modelling, stakeholder engagement and recommendations for risk mitigation measures. The findings will also include consideration of the risk effects of sea ice in the vicinity of the development site during the winter season. 

The contract has been awarded to ESCO’s operations based in Hamburg, Germany, and will be carried out by the company’s global Ports and Harbours consultancy team, with specialist support from sister company JMC.

“We are pleased to provide our expertise in navigational risk analysis to support this pivotal step in Finland’s renewable energy development. This follows many years of successful collaboration by our team on similar work for Germany’s Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency – BSH – to assess shipping risks from offshore wind sites across the North Sea. This project win is therefore, a testament to our established technical reputation in this field.”

Tilo Klappenbach, ESCO’s Country Manager to Germany

ESCO’s global Ports and Harbours consultancy includes a full-lifecycle service offering for maritime infrastructure projects, from supporting the financing of assets with engineering and technical due diligence, to safety, regulatory and environmental compliance support, operational asset integrity management, fixed object damage assessment, marine casualty management and expert witness support. The team includes maritime and multi-disciplinary engineering expertise and has a track-record of working across assets in more than 20 countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific.

ESCO is part of Oslo-listed consultancy group ESCO Consultants ASA.

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The software will offer vital support to decision-makers responsible for creating decarbonisation roadmaps, pathways, or making decarbonisation investments. This includes shipowners, charterers, cargo owners, ship and port managers, as well as policymakers and advisors. Financial institutions and insurers will also benefit from the software, as it helps them navigate the complexities of decarbonisation policies and related decisions.

”Such a tool does not exist in the wider maritime industry today. Maritime stakeholders therefore risk taking suboptimal decarbonisation decisions where they utilise information that can only look a year or two ahead as basis for investments that have a 20-30 year horizon. We will apply our expertise within maritime operations, vessels and ports design, energy and emission modelling to develop the new software. This will enable us to provide advanced predictive analysis and simulations, assisting our clients to navigate the complexities and uncertain conditions of their decarbonisation strategy.”

Stefano Scarpa, Associate Director for Maritime Decarbonisation & Global Emissions Consulting Lead

The project is co-founded by Innovate UK and will have a duration of 24 months. It will engage software engineering capabilities that will be co-located with ESCO’s maritime decarbonisation team in London, UK, and draw upon expertise from academics from the University of Strathclyde and the University of Plymouth.

ESCO has supported maritime decarbonisation projects with solutions for renewable energy production, energy storage and cold-ironing, alternative fuels and electrification, climate change adaptation, emission audit, assessment and abatement (AAA) consulting and shipboard carbon capture and storage.

ESCO is part of Oslo-listed consultancy group ESCO Consultants ASA.

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The IJmuiden Ver Beta, Ijmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek 2 grid connections are integral to the Offshore Wind Energy Roadmap 2030 of the Dutch Government by which TenneT will develop a total of seven 2GW offshore wind grid connections by 2030/2031.

Combined, the cables for the three projects are over 500 kilometres in length and will export 6 GW of electricity to the grid, enough to power up the equivalent of six million homes.

ESCO’s Germany branch, based in Hamburg, will manage the project, which will be undertaken by a team of multi-disciplined marine and engineering consultants. The project will run until 2029. ESCO has not disclosed the value of the contract.

ESCO’s scope of work includes the technical review and approval of all documentation, procedures and drawings related to the warranted activities, as well as suitability surveys. ESCO’s German operation will also resource on-site attendances at both fabrication and loadout sites, as well as offshore, to review and approve warranted transportation and installation operations.

“This project award represents our continued strong collaboration with TenneT to support its critical subsea cables operations and electrification campaign. We are very pleased to have been selected to support this important 2GW program, which will make a significant contribution to the transmission of clean net-zero energy to the Netherlands, Germany and beyond in Europe.”

Tilo Klappenbach, ESCO’s Country Manager in Germany

TenneT, is one of Europe’s leading Transmission System Operators.

ESCO is part of Oslo-listed consultancy group ESCO Consultants ASA. ESCO specialises in marine warranty services, marine assurance and risk, maritime consultancy services, and engineering and consultancy.

ESCO Germany shares an office in Hamburg with our sister company, the renewable energy consultants, JMC.

Together we provide a comprehensive technical service offering, covering engineering, marine and consultancy services to support renewable energy projects from concept to operations.

Discover our track-record in German offshore wind in numbers:

• +5 marine navigational studies and quantitative navigational analyses for BSH
• +20 offshore wind farms
• +9 GW of capacity
• +4 wind energy yield assessments for BSH since 2020

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Egypt’s oil & natural gas company Petrosafe recently partnered with ESCO Consultants to host an industry seminar on the topic of asset integrity management and safety of petroleum facilities. 

The seminar, entitled “Managing Today’s Assets for Egypt’s Tomorrow”, took place in Cairo, Egypt and brought together industry representatives including national and international oil & gas companies, and government stakeholders.  

Tamer Gamil, Country Manager to ESCO Egypt, commented:  

“This seminar represented the value that our successful collaboration with Petrosafe can bring to the Egyptian energy market – working together to unlock technical solutions that support the long-term commercial bankability of Egyptian oil & gas. With Petrosafe we were able to bring those solutions to more stakeholders and to engage the wider industry in meaningful discussion.”

Tamer Gamil, Country Manager to ESCO Egypt

The event included a series of presentations, which focussed on the value of effective asset integrity management to operators, the importance of developing a strategy for maintaining efficiency and reliability in assets, as well as looking at solutions to ensure an asset is fit-for-purpose throughout its design life.  

The day also included a presentation on ESCO Training in process safety asset integrity for installations and pipelines.  

The technical programme was put together by ESCO Consultants’s energy and marine consultancy branch, ESCO, together with its design and engineering house, MSGlobal.  

“Together with MSGlobal, we bring unique value to the Egyptian energy market, combining our expertise in the operational lifecycle of a project and asset, with their process and asset design and engineering know-how. Finally, our well-established presence in the market, means we possess first-hand practical expertise in the challenges and opportunities faced by Egyptian oil & gas companies, positioning us best to find the most pragmatic solutions.”

Continues Tamer Gamil

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ESCO’s scope of work includes establishing a digital asset register, including equipment enrichment and bill of material (BoM) development, for client’s refineries located the USA and Canada.

In total, ESCO will provide quality assurance for approximately 16,000 pieces of equipment, including describing and classifying them in a new asset register. It will also provide quality assurance for approximately 10,000 BoMs to equipment assignment.

ESCO’s team in Calgary will manage the project. The work on the USA refinery was completed at the end of June 2024 and the Canada refinery will be completed by end of March 2025.

Afia McClenaghan, managing director of ESCO’s asset integrity management operation in Canada says…

“ESCO has a longstanding relationship with this client, and we are excited to grow our team and footprint with our asset integrity management services for these two refineries.

The objective is to realise cost savings and enhanced operational efficiencies for the refineries’ operations and we look forward to helping them achieve these improvements“

ESCO has coast to coast presence in Canada

ESCO’s extensive footprint runs coast-to-coast in the USA and Canada, supporting with the full range of marine assurance & risk services, ports and harbours consultancy, asset integrity management, and offshore and onshore wind consultancy.

Our Canada Asset Integrity Management team are based in Calgary and can support your business by offering invaluable advice and helping to implement a range of fully optimised asset management strategies including:

• Maintenance strategy optimisation
• Benchmarking and analysis
• Data migration
• Inventory and materials management
• Process safety management
• Asset life extension
• Training and competency

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The three subsea cables to be installed are 40 kilometres long in total. The installation will involve the crossing of dozens of other cables along the installation routes.

ESCO’s scope of work will include the technical review and approval of all documentation, procedures and drawings related to the warranted activities, as well as suitability surveys and where necessary dynamic positioning (DP) trials of the proposed fleet for operations. ESCO will also resource on-site attendances at fabrication and loadout sites, and offshore, to review and approve transportation and installation (T&I) operations.

ESCO Germany, based in Hamburg, will deliver the scope of work under an existing framework agreement with TenneT, a leading European grid operator.

“ESCO Germany has long been supporting TenneT’s subsea cable installations, driving maximum safety and efficiency throughout marine operations, thereby enabling maximum value from these all-important assets. We are really pleased to continue collaborating with them.”

Tilo Klappenbach, ESCO Germany’s Country Manager

ESCO’s scope of work will be concluded in 2026.

ESCO is part of Oslo-listed consultancy ESCO Consultants ASA and specialises in marine warranty services, marine assurance and risk, maritime consultancy services, and engineering and consultancy.

ESCO Germany shares an office in Hamburg with our sister company, the renewable energy consultants, JMC.

Together we provide a comprehensive technical service offering, covering engineering, marine and consultancy services to support renewable energy projects from concept to operations.

Discover our track-record in German offshore wind in numbers:

• +20 offshore wind farms
• +9 GW of capacity
• +4 wind energy yield assessments for the BSH since 2020
• +5 marine navigational studies & quantitative navigational analyses for BSH

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The facility on the Burrup Peninsula is located approximately 20km north-west of Karratha, Western Australia. Once the construction of the plant is completed, it will be the largest urea plant in Australia and one of the largest in the world.

Urea is a vital component of the agricultural fertiliser market with increasing demand as more efficient and intensive global food production is required to meet the needs of a growing world population. 

The construction of the Perdaman Industries urea plant will be modular whereby the modules for the plant are built in India and shipped to Australia. In support of the construction, over 50 long-lead cargos will also be transported internationally.    

ESCO will conduct module transport document reviews, site attendance in India and Australia related to load-out, marine transportation, discharge and road transport to the plant site, plus conduct vessel surveys. 

In total, 113 modules will be transported on a minimum of 15 roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) transports and 7 lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) transports.   

ESCO will deliver its marine warranty surveyor (MWS) scope as a subcontractor to Saipem-Clough JV. Equally shared joint venture reached the development and EPC contract with Perdaman Industries in 2022.  

“This is a substantial marine transportation project that involved a number of modules, ports and vessels. Our extensive marine warranty surveyor team is set up to manage such logistical challenges to ensure the safe transportation and delivery of all equipment.”

Kervin Yeow, ESCO’s Regional Director for Energy Services in Asia Pacific

ESCO will manage the project out of its office in Perth, Western Australia, supported by the company’s office in Mumbai, India.   

ESCO is part of Oslo-listed ESCO Consultants ASA, an independent energy and marine consultancy group to the global renewables, maritime and oil and gas sectors. 

ESCO Consultants in Australasia includes offices in Australia and New Zealand, with multi-disciplined teams, who provide the Group’s full technical offering across energy and oceans:

• ESCO – The energy and marine consultants – specialising in marine and consultancy service to support maritime and energy assets, construction, operations and decommissioning
• DGL – The energy and software consultants – specialising in multi-disciplined engineering consultancy to support wells and subsurface projects across an asset’s lifecycle
• JMC – The renewable energy consultants – providing technical advisory, owner’s engineering, and consulting for the commercial-scale development of renewable energy onshore and offshore
• MSGlobal – The design and engineering consultants – specialising in marine and vessel design, marine operations engineering and offshore energy design and engineering

Offices include Melbourne, Perth and Sydney in Australia, and Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. Contact our teams to find a surveyor, engineer or consultant near you:

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ESCO was appointed on this project by OLT Offshore LNG Toscana, the owner of FSRU Toscana.

In mid-April 2024, the FSRU Toscana was successfully towed with the support of two tugs, to the port of Genoa, Italy, where it began the first phase of an ‘extraordinary maintenance intervention’ campaign.  The FSRU Toscana was subsequently towed to the port of Marseille, France, where maintenance was completed. The FSRU has recently been towed to its site offshore Livorno, Italy, where it resumed commercial operations at the end of November 2024.

ESCO’s UK operations, headquartered in London, acted as MWS for the de-installation and to support the safe and successful delivery of the marine operations, including the tow-back from Marseille to Livorno, and the subsequent hook-up and pre-commissioning of the FSRU Toscana.

ESCO’s scope of work covered the document review of all project and operational documentation and drawings, suitability surveys of the proposed support fleet, management of risk assessment meetings HAZID and HAZOPs, and on-site attendance to ensure operations were carried out in line with approved documentation. The MWS project management was executed by Rudra Varma, ESCO’s MWS Project Manager.

“This was a technically interesting project to work on, due to the tight schedule and also to the complexities of de-installing the significant subsea infrastructure of an FSRU of this calibre. The project matched perfectly ESCO’s expertise and long track-record as marine warranty surveyor, with experience from installation to operations and maintenance, to decommissioning. Furthermore, we have a strong surveyor presence in Italy, which enabled us to provide the most pragmatic and rapid support to on-site attendance.”

Sergio Leone, ESCO MWS Contract Manager for the FSRU Toscana project

ESCO is part of the leading global independent consultancy ESCO Consultants ASA – delivering energy, marine, engineering and digital solutions to drive safety and sustainability in renewables, maritime and oil and gas markets. ESCO Consultants’s extensive global footprint across 43 countries worldwide, includes an office in Genoa, Italy, via the group’s engineering and design branch, MSGlobal Engineering.

Across ESCO Consultants, we provide a comprehensive technical offering to support FSRUs and other floating assets throughout their lifecycle, from initial concept and feasibility through to operations and decommissioning.

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