AMEC Paragon provides a complete suite of services to support its clients' existing facilities, including:

• Operations and maintenance
  
• Design and execution of retrofits and upgrades ("brownfield" projects)

Operations and Maintenance

Successful operations and maintenance begins long before facility start-up. Bolstered by AMEC's experience in operating and maintaining production facilities on behalf of international oil companies, AMEC Paragon provides services during the design phase that help to ensure safe and cost-effective operations and maintenance:

• Performing operational readiness reviews
  
• Developing efficient maintenance strategies
  
• Setting up computerized maintenance databases
  
• Generating maintenance and operating procedures
  
• Analyzing designs for reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM)
  
• Development of operator training and competency assurance programs

These services lay the groundwork for successful operations and maintenance execution. After facility start-up, AMEC Paragon provides the following:

• Operations and maintenance personnel who have undergone comprehensive training and competency assurance programs
  
• Long-term planning and management of operations and maintenance work
  
• Operational improvement and optimization consulting

Brownfield Projects

Most of AMEC Paragon's projects involve work within existing onshore or offshore facilities. For such "brownfield" projects, AMEC Paragon provides complete lifecycle services: project management, engineering, procurement, construction management, and completions and commissioning.

AMEC Paragon's brownfield project success is based on a holistic, backward-driven approach:

• Holistic - design and implementation are inextricably linked
  
• Backward-driven - a good design is driven by implementation requirements, particularly with regard to safety, constructability, operability, and minimizing disruption to producing facilities

This approach has served our clients well on projects ranging from individual retrofits to major, integrated multi-facility modification efforts.