Operations & Maintenance Consultancy

Operation and maintenance of generation plant covers the full productive life of an asset. At SgurrEnergy our staff have years of experience in advising clients in the safe operation and maintenance of various technologies of generation plant at all stages of the life cycle and with strict adherence to health, safety, environmental and industry regulations.

From commissioning and handover through to decommissioning or repowering, we can maximise revenue through plant performance optimisation, minimising downtime and prolonging operational lifetime by intelligent proactive maintenance regimes.

Our staff have managed and acted on behalf of clients in tendering and negotiating operations and maintenance contracts, provided fault and incident analysis/ investigation and reporting and managed and supervised component purchase, repair and change-out.

The list below outlines some of the core services offered through our operation and maintenance capability:

Asset Management:

• Commissioning
• Site inspection and audit (defect identification) pre take-over
• End of warranty inspection
• Creation and operation of a permit-to-work scheme
• Provision of a Senior Authorised Person to operate the client’s permit-to-work system

Compliance:

• Health and safety management
• Risk assessment and method statement review
• Safety rules training

Analysis:

• Incident, fault and failure analysis/ investigation and reporting
• Component performance, supply and purchase options
• Supply chain management
• Supply, operation and management of third party SCADA systems
• SCADA management and auditing
• Turbine performance enhancement by using our SgurrTrend software to analyse past and present SCADA data
• Noise and vibration analysis
• Supply, operation and maintenance of a plant condition monitoring system to identify when components will fail such that the components are procured before failure to ensure power production is maximised

Skills Resource:

• Placement or input from our teams of multi disciplined engineers

Site Resource & Review:

• Refurbishment and repowering options
• Weather and energy forecasting
• Technology and market reviews
• Due Diligence on operational sites

 

In addition to these core engineering services SgurrEnergy can provide electrical, control and instrumentation, mechanical and civil engineering resources. As the lifespan of the project comes to an end, SgurrEnergy can also review best options for the potential of a site for refurbishment or repowering and long term resource forecasts. In addition, SgurrEnergy can propose the best options in current market technology and can provide a review of site performance and market value.

 

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