Ingen Creates New Position and Prepares for Significant Growth

Ingen Ideas have created a new position in the company for a Flow Assurance Manager to lead and develop the expanding team focused on this service within Ingen.

Russell Cutler, an expert with over 20 years experience in flow assurance modelling in the Oil & Gas industry, has been recruited to create and head up the flow assurance team within Ingen to service clients in Aberdeen and internationally.  A significant increase in the number of flow assurance projects, both in the UK and overseas, has prompted this investment, together with increasing our service offering by directly offering transient analysis using specialist simulation software.

The position is underpinned by the significant investment in specialist software, OLGA, to allow Ingen to carry out transient analysis of oil and gas pipelines in house. Operations Director Andy Robertson comments that, “This investment in the new position and software is a significant step change for Ingen in the improvement and delivery of our services.  The investment in OLGA and recruitment of Russell further underpins our commitment and ability to deliver successful flow assurance projects, from concept to production.

“Our objective is to grow this team in house and create a further five positions over the next year, which based on our current workload and increasing demands from the Middle East, is well within our reach.”

Ingen Increases In-house Simulation Capability

Ingen Ideas has recently made significant investment to improve process and flow assurance simulation capability by adding the OLGA transient simulation package to the current service offering, which includes HYSYS Dynamics and RAVE integrated asset modelling. The ability to manage transient analysis in house and to a very high standard has become a key component in the company’s ability to support fast track developments for key clients, and to reduce any potential delays in analysis. Ingen has already secured several orders for work with the new package and believes that this integrated capability will be a very attractive proposition for new and existing clients in the UK and internationally.

Technical Director Robbie Leask comments, "although we've offered a successful transient analysis management service for 10 years, using specialist suppliers, our company has now grown to a size where we are best placed to execute this work in-house.  This investment will reduce project interfaces, improve delivery schedules and be a vehicle to further support our engineers' personal development.  We also see it as a research tool to evaluate in-house development projects, for example in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage, where we've been heavily involved for the last four years."

Ingen Celebrates 10 Year Milestone

Ingen Ideas recently celebrated the company’s tenth anniversary. Established in 2000, the company has grown from a small serviced office in Regent Quay to having a fully equipped engineering office in the city centre of Aberdeen with over forty staff, and a permanent office in Dubai servicing the clients in the Middle East. Over the past ten years the company has continued to make significant investments in software, both in the leasing of industry specific simulation packages such as Olga and Hysys, and in the development of its own integrated asset modelling software, RAVE. The company has also continued to develop its capabilities in simulation and field development optimisation both in the UK and overseas. During the past ten years the company has constantly developed the technical capabilities of the staff and has actively worked in exciting and innovating areas in the industry, such as the satellite accelerator scheme, promote licensing scheme, and more recently working in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage where it has participated in projects both in the UK and internationally.