The high global demand for more oil and gas resources to be found on existing fields from increased oil recovery, deep waters, or arctic conditions, imposes new technical challenges that cannot always be solved by empirical design.

New and innovative solutions must be based on a more theoretical approach, using modern software tools that cover the whole life cycle of the offshore installation.

The complexity of asset integrity management of offshore fields requires modern approaches compared to the traditional way of documenting condition reports, inspection plans, and maintenance packages.

Sesam is a life cycle management system delivering strength assessments and operational management, from design to operation to decommissioning. During the various stages of an offshore installation, several challenges can be addressed using Sesam:

• Higher costs increase focus on automation on design and production, reuse of existing solutions, and customisation to fit with the owner’s specifications, migration to a knowledge-based design, and high precision in the budgeting and bidding phase.
• Globally distributed work places additional demands on communication, knowledge transfer, follow-up, and access to the same product models.
• Close and interactive communication between design and construction is a key for developing a good product. At the same time, delivery on time requires the ability to handle changes through an efficient set-up of drafting and good routines for strength assessments. A model for asset integrity management is built on the design model, so that substantial productivity gains may be achieved.

DNV Software’s engineers have, together with key clients, responded to the need for more transparency and agility in the design process. Sesam gives your organisation a means for improved engineering performance by combining process support
and state-of-the-art services within the same portal. Using business process templates to describe engineering work is how DNV Software offers a way to capture, preserve and spread knowledge, facilitating a learning and acting global organisation.

Sesam is the most comprehensive software system for strength assessments of offshore structures. Using concept technology in computer-aided engineering has proved to be cost-efficient in all the design phases, since the same concept model can be used with different complexities. While Sesam has evolved as a marketdriven modular system enabling users to invest in a package of selected modules, integrated packages have also been developed to cover specific needs.

This allows you to tailor-make your Sesam installations to maximise features in a cost-efficient way. The packages share a common look and feel, which makes the system intuitive and easy to learn.