Infrastructure systems form the backbone of facility operations. Pump stations, pipelines, compressor stations, terminals, and remote control centers must function reliably to support broader process systems. Their importance and project complexity are often underestimated and require experience and careful planning to ensure minimal process interruption.
Where Execution Typically Breaks Down
Challenges tend to start in the planning phase, affecting all activities downstream. These include:
- Integration with existing facility infrastructure
- Coordination across multiple environments and disciplines
- Interface management during key milestones of the project
- Scheduling and communicating across disciplines and vendors
- Milestone control to minimize impact to downstream events
- Maintaining reliability under operating conditions
An Operations Perspective on Commissioning
S2F executes the commissioning phase with a focus on ensuring that new or altered systems perform reliably as part of the overall facility. It starts in the planning phase where we integrate our practices and learnings of over 1300 projects successfully executed.
We see the commissioning phase not as the end of construction, but as the start of operations.
Experience in This Environment
Projects include pump stations, compressor stations, pipelines and valve stations, PLC and DCS migrations, upgrades or cutovers, factory acceptance testing, DRA skids, terminal expansions, marine terminals, rail loading/offloading, and supporting infrastructure systems.