International engineering information management specialist, Pearson-Harper, has been awarded a £6.25million ($AUD10.3m) contract by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd.
The Pearson-Harper contract is to provide engineering information management (EIM) services and software solutions for the Gorgon Project. At $AUD43 billion the Chevron-operated Gorgon Project, which is developing the Greater Gorgon Area gas fields 130 kilometres off the north-west coast of Western Australia, is the country’s largest single resource project to date.
Pearson-Harper’s role involves working with the Project’s engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) teams to collect and manage the vast amounts of engineering information needed to build and operate the project. Headquartered in the UK and with offices in Perth, WA, Pearson-Harper will create a total of 24 new jobs across the two locations as a direct result of the deal.
Commenting on the deal, Steve Pearson, Chief Executive of Pearson-Harper, said: “This is a highly significant contract for Pearson-Harper. We are recognised around the world as a leader in engineering information management and we’re delighted and very proud to have been selected by Chevron to work on this important project.”
The Chevron-operated Gorgon Project includes the construction of a 15 million tonne per annum (MTPA) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to provide 300 terajoules per day to supply gas to Western Australia. Explaining some of the work involved, Daren Hinchliffe, the company’s Perth based Business Support manager said: “Staff and subcontractors from around the globe working on the Gorgon Project need access to exactly the same engineering information set all the time; ‘a single source of truth’.
At Pearson-Harper we first collect and verify the data and then enable access via PHusion, our website portal, to give 24/7 access 365 days of the year to the current data set.” “We host both the PHusion software and the information on our servers at Pearson-Harper. As an ultimate safeguard, our system is ‘dual hosted’ underpinning our Enhanced Disaster Recovery system and providing 100% integrity to both data and systems.”
Gorgon is operated by Chevron and is a joint venture of the Australian subsidiaries of Chevron (47%), ExxonMobil (25%), Shell (25%), Osaka Gas (1.25%), Tokyo Gas (1%) and Chubu Electric Power (0.42%).
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Source: Pearson-Harper, October 26, 2010;