KFX® for Fire and Explosion Safety
KFX®
It is important for every company to use the most advanced technology available for fire safety design to safeguard personnel and facilities. Computational Industry Technologies (ComputIT) has worked for more than three decades to make significant contributions to improve safety in the industry, to reduce the negative impacts on the environment from oil and gas activity, and to contribute to large cost savings through the use of advanced and accurate methods for design.
ComputIT is a specialist company working internationally in the field of environmental and reactive flows. Our focus is on CFD-based turbulent flow and combustion using Kameleon FireEx KFX® for both analysis and design. KFX is probably the most advanced CFD code for gas dispersion, flare and fire simulation, and is gradually becoming an industry standard in this area.
Our fire safety approach is unique and our utilization of the most modern CFD and FE technologies for practical purposes has proven very useful for the industry. Visualisation is regarded as very important and is strongly emphasized in our analyses. We offer consultancy services in the areas of fire safety, combustion, environment and flares for all kinds of oil and gas platforms, FPSOs, onshore process plants and combustion devices in general. Our services include:
KFX handles all kinds of hydrocarbon fires; jet fires, spray fires and pool fires, as well as LNG dispersion and fires. KFX is commercialized by ComputIT.
ComputIT also works in close cooperation with Aker Solutions for structural fire response analysis and the streamlined interface between KFX and the finite element code USFOS provides a unique feature for optimum and safe design.
The main market of ComputIT is the international oil and gas industry, and in particular the offshore sector that we have been working closely with for about 30 years. We have been involved in most offshore fields in the Norwegian sector, in a lot of Gulf of Mexico projects, as well as for installations in Africa, in Middle East and in the Newfoundland area. Similar analyses have been carried out for onshore plants in several European countries, in Korea and in Taiwan.
Both the development and industrialization of KFX are done in collaboration with StatoilHydro, Total, ENI-group, ConocoPhillips, Gaz de France, BP, Sandia National Laboratories, engineering companies, risk management companies and universities worldwide. ComputIT has also been engaged by governmental bodies for the investigation of fire accidents. For instance, Professor Bjørn F Magnussen of ComputIT was engaged as a technical fire expert witness after the Piper Alpha accident.
The Horn Mountain is an operating oil and associated gas field located off the coast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.
Kizomba oil field lies in Block 15 offshore Angola, marking one of the first tranches of deepwater acreage offered by the Angolan Government.
The Dukhan field, operated by Qatar Petroleum (QP), is one of the largest producing oil fields on the west coast of the Qatar peninsula.
The Valemon field is located between production licences 050 and 193 in the Norwegian Sea. This gas and condensate field lies at a water depth of 135m.
The Valhall field was discovered in 1975 and came online in 1982. It is operated by BP, which holds a 35.95% interest while the remaining 64.05% interest is held by Hess Norge.
Kvitebjørn field is situated in block 34/11 of the Tampen area in the North Sea, Norway. The gas and condensate field lies at a water depth of 190m.
The original Ekofisk area development consisted of eight oil and gas fields, namely Cod, Ekofisk, West Ekofisk, Tor, Albuskjell, Eldfisk, Edda and Embla.
The Skarv and Idun fields are located between the Norne field (35km to the north) and Heidrun (45km to the south) in Production Licenses PL212, PL262, PL159. Water depths lie between 350m and 450m.
Ula oil field lies in block 7/12 (PL019A) in the southern Norwegian section of the North Sea. It lies at a water depth
Vincent oil field lies in production licence WA-28-L, 50km offshore Exmouth in Western Australia. Operated by Woodside E
The Brage field lies in the northern part of the North Sea at a depth of 140m. The field is situated in blocks 31/4, 3
The Veslefrikk field is located at a depth of 607ft in block 30 / 3 of the northern part of the North Sea. The field was
Varg field is situated at a depth of 84m in block 15/15 in the North Sea, Norway. The field was discovered in 1984 an
The Draugen oil field is operated by Norske Shell, which also owns a 26.20% stake in the field. The remaining stake is
The Chestnut oilfield is located in block 22 / 2a in the Central North Sea, about 290km east of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1
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StatoilHydro's Gjøa field lies in blocks 35 / 9 and 36 / 7 of the North Sea. The field was proven in 1989 and its
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The Mad Dog field is located in Western Atwater Foldbelt, Gulf of Mexico, approximately 190 miles south of New Orleans,
The Alvheim field lies on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, west of Heimdal, in production licence PL 203.
The Snøhvit development comprises three fields – Snøhvit, Albatross and Askeladd. These lie in the Baren
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The Kristin field is located in the south-west part of the Halten Bank in the Norwegian Sea.
The Ormen Lange field is located in the Norwegian Sea, approximately 140km west of Kristiansund, Norway.
The Snorre field lies in blocks 34 / 4 and 34 / 7, approximately 200km west of Floro in the Norwegian North Sea.
The Terra Nova field is located 350km east-south-east (ESE) of St John's Newfoundland and 35km south-east of Hibernia.
The Njord field is situated on Haltenbanken, in blocks 6407/7 and 6407/10, 130km north of Kristiansund and 30km west of the Draugen field.
The Jotun field is located on the Utsira High, between the Balder and Heimdal fields, approximately 200km west of Stavanger, Norway.
Troll is primarily a gas field, one of the biggest in the North Sea, holding 60% of Norway’s gas reserves.
Visund was developed using a semi-submersible steel drilling, production and quarters platform, connected to a subsea completion system.
The Åsgard oilfield lies on the Haltenbank in the Norwegian Sea, 200km from Norway and 50km south of Statoil's Heidrun field.
Balder is located in blocks 25 / 10 and 25 / 11, 165km west of Haugesund, in a water depth of 125m. The field was discovered in 1967, but it was only during the appraisal drilling in 1974 that the major part of the field was discovered.
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ComputIT has been awarded a NOK20m R&D contract from Norwegian authorities, through the Research Council of Norway, Statoil, Total, ENI, ConocoPhillips and Gassco, for the development of next-generation advanced fire-simulation technology for the oil and gas industry.
22 September 2014The annual educational course on oil and gas fire will take place 24-26 September in Trondheim, Norway.
30 July 2013The French newspaper Le Monde refers to ComputIT CFD expertise in an article related to the rowing competition in the London 2012 Olympics.
18 September 2012ComputIT is happy to inform you that together with Scandpower and SINTEF NBL, it will hold a seminar entitled 'Educational seminar on oil- and gas fires – frontline knowledge on experience and calculation tools' on 31 October – 1 November 2011. ComputIT, Scandpower and SINTEF NBL are the
28 June 2011It is a pleasure to announce that ComputIT has opened a new branch office in Houston, Texas, US. The office was officially opened on 1 July 2010 to support increased activities in the North America and South America regions, and we believe that ComputIT's presence in Houston will benefit our cust
9 March 2011Dr. Kristen Opstad and MSc Petter Aune have joined ComputIT. They are both specialists in fire development and fire mitigation, and have long and broad experience from fire research. ComputIT is pleased to announce the engagements of Dr. Kristen Opstad and MSc Petter Aune. Dr. O
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