TECHNOLOGY
A Scottish entrepreneur has invested £250,000 in a new cloud-based technology product aimed at helping the oil and gas industry better control costs and quality on projects.
Verum Solutions, led by Stirling-born Paul Milligan and which has offices in Glasgow and Monaco, expects to create up to five new jobs in Aberdeen on the back of the development and is also looking at opening a dedicated office in the city to support the rollout of the product.
The Qvis product aims to manage quality control and provide better visibility during the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) phase of large oil and gas development projects.
The technology gathers and presents project data on a traffic light system of quality control indicators during the construction stage, enabling firms to prevent cost and schedule overruns.
Milligan has more than 30 years’ experience of working in quality assurance and control in the oil and gas industry globally and said
0 Verum’s Paul Milligan with the firm’s accountant, Yoanna Milligan
PAUL MILLIGAN the inspiration behind Qvis came from experience gained throughout his career.
“Management practices for other aspects of project management, particularly health and safety, have evolved greatly and been very successful in driving incident rates down. Meanwhile, the overriding strategy to manage the quality control on projects has remained static,” he said.
“Through witnessing the same quality issues on almost every project associated with the delivery of equipment packages and, during construction and commissioning, it was clear that there must be a better way.”
The Qvis technology was recently successfully deployed on a large floating production storage and offloading vessel installed in the North Sea. Verum said safety and production systems were quickly commissioned onshore and the unit achieved first oil within what is believed to be record time and no quality issues have arisen.
Milligan said the technology
“Through witnessing the same quality issues on almost every project during construction and commissioning it was clear that there must be a better way.”