SEIC Security Upgrade Project (SUP)
SNGS Deliver the first working system on a Block Valve Station.
After just 16 weeks of design, procurement and Installation activity SNGS were able to power up a fully functional Block Valve Station including CCTV facilities and Intrusion Detection System.
This is the culmination of many hours of hard work from the project team which has completed to date around 60% of the Security Upgrade works on 104 Block Valve Sites and around 25% on the LNG site.
The first kick off with meeting with SEIC was attended by Egbert Wijnen-Riems and Michael Reutt on the 16th of June 2009. From that point SNGS HR and Procurement department set to work hiring suitable candidates for the project team and letting contracts as diverse as renting project space to buying IP converters to transmit views to every corner of SEICs Facilities.
Neil Garner says:
“I had worked on the FEED with the clients Project Manager and SNGS s Michael Ruett and later Egbert. When I came over to Sakhalin I was overwhelmed with how quickly the team had been mobilized and how far they had proceeded with the Project. After a week Egbert left me to it, and I have to say in over 40 years or work, it is a privilege to work with such dedicated, hardworking and professional people”.
The SUP has peaked at around 95 people full and part time personnel, engaged on 115 individual sites, there will be approximately 10km of cable to be installed mainly underground, there are 231 CCTV Cameras to be installed, Just less than 200 seismic sensors to be buried in the ground, approx 10km of Intrusion Detection cable to be installed on Fences over the Island.
All this equipment will be available on the SEIC Fibre backbone for connectivity anywhere to SEICs connected assets and feeds new computer work stations and network video recorders.
In support of the telecoms work, we are also designing and fitting around 5km of new fence razor wire, excavating almost 10 km of trenching, fitting approx 600 to 700 security covers, and approx 600 new locking facilities. Erecting 10 new CCTV support poles, designing, manufacturing and fitting almost 4000 individual pieces of equipment and fittings.
The logistics of getting the right equipment and people to the right site and working during the depths of Winter is now our biggest challenge and to date we have met we have more than met that challenge.
Egbert says “The SUP team is a testimony to what can be achieved quickly if there is will and spirit to perform, we have that will and spirit throughout SNGS and I believe it is seen by SEIC as a positive differentiator compared with other companies. My sincere congratulations go to every participant of the SUP and together we expect to leverage new clients and projects from the successes of the SUP team".