For one overseas Oil Company Orchid produced separate Operations Manuals and Operating Procedures Manuals. The Operations Manuals contained material defined by the client to support the separate Operating Procedures Manual and to familiarise personnel with the systems / equipment.

The Operations Manual was divided into six volumes, as follows:

Volume 1 Introduction

Contained an introduction to the reservoir, the development of the field and the current and proposed oil/ gas production proposals. Also included platform and equipment locations and the basic philosophy of development control and shutdown.

Volume 2 Oil Production Systems.

Covered the principles of operation and control of all systems related to oil production, processing and export.

Volume 3 Gas Processing and Produced Water Treatment Systems

Covered the principles of operation and control of all systems related to gas processing and export, and all systems related to produced water treatment and disposal. Also covered the principles of operation and control of the process chemical injection systems.

Volume 4 Seawater Injection System.

Covered the principles of operation and control of all systems related to seawater treatment and injection into the reservoir. Also covered the principles of operation and control of the seawater chemical injection systems.

Volume 5 Utility Systems – Part 1

Covered the principles of operation and control of utility systems.

Volume 6 Utility Systems – Part 2

Covered the principles of operation and control of utility systems.

These were supported by:

• Equipment lists
• Equipment location plans
• P&IDs
• Equipment / Package GAs
• Equipment / vessel cross-sections

These Operations Manuals were provided in two formats:

• Traditional paper manuals with some copies printed on plastic pages.
• On memory sticks as structured / indexed PDF files.

Other Manual Types can be seen here.