Protek Fire and Blast Wall and Cladding Summary

Solent Composite Systems Limited
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ProTek Fire and Blast Walls

Technical Summary
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS ................................................................................................................. 2
1.0 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 3
2.0 CONNECTION DETAILS....................................................................................... 3
3.0 RELEVANT PROJECTS ....................................................................................... 4
3.1 Ekofisk Tank (2/4-T) Control Centre.......................................................... 4
3.2 Tartan Alpha Intermodule Fire and Blast Wall........................................... 4
3.3 Ekofisk B11 Stairtower Cladding ............................................................... 5
3.4 Tartan Alpha Temporary Safe Refuge Cladding ........................................ 5
3.5 Eldfisk 2/7-FTP Fire and Blast Wall........................................................... 5
3.6 Britannia Lifeboat Fire Protection .............................................................. 5
3.7 Beryl Alpha Acoustic and Fire Protection Modules.................................... 6
3.8 Offshore Substation Transformer Fire Protection Modules ....................... 6
3.9 MOPUstor Yme Fire & Blast Wall Penetration Panels .............................. 7
4.0 SUMMARY............................................................................................................. 7
APPENDIX A - Typical connection detail drawings & photos

APPENDIX B - Fire and Blast Wall Reference List
APPENDIX C - Ekofisk Tank Control Centre Photographs
APPENDIX D - Tartan Alpha Fire / Blast Wall Photographs
APPENDIX E - Ekofisk Stairtower Photographs
APPENDIX F Tartan Alpha Temporary Safe Refuge Drawings
APPENDIX G Eldfisk 2/7-FTP Fire and Blast Wall
APPENDIX H Britannia Lifeboat Protection
APPENDIX I Beryl Noise Reduction Modules & Data Sheet
APPENDIX J Offshore Substation Transformer Protection Modules
APPENDIX K MOPUstor Yme Fire / Blast Wall Penetrations

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
This document provides information about the
engineering and design of ProTek Fire and Blast
Protection systems and their track record of projects.
The report describes how SCS meets the project

requirements with the ProTek Fire and Blast Wall
panels.
Connection Details for the panels to the steel
structure
Relevant Projects including accommodation
blocks as references
2.0 CONNECTION DETAILS
The ProTek fire and blast wall panels are designed to

be bolted to secondary steel structure to form a sealed
fire / blast wall that resists fire and blast loading and is
gas and water tight.
There are many bolted arrangements for the ProTek

panel and typical examples are given in the drawings
and photographs attached in Appendix A.
The design details rely upon a bolted connection

because the ProTek is manufactured from high
strength composite materials that cannot be welded. It
is therefore common for steel supports to be welded in
place for fixing the panels, which are bolted to the steel
supports to transfer the blast loads to the main platform
structure.
The ProTek panels are designed to deflect elastically

under the blast load so that they are not deformed and
are able to resist a hydrocarbon jet or pool fire if it
occurs after the blast.
The blast load is absorbed by the panels and
transferred to the bolted ends where the panel fixings
resist the bending and shear loading and transfer the
load into the main platform structure.
The fixings are also designed to restrain the panels
immediately after the blast overpressure. Following the
explosion the resultant air movement generates a
smaller negative suction load that pulls the panels away
from the wall putting the bolts into tension.
The connection details are calculated for every

application and form part of any engineering or
certification report that is produced for a ProTek fire
and blast wall.
Fixings are either galvanised high strength steel or 316

stainless steel.

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3.0 RELEVANT PROJECTS
SCS has provided ProTek fire and blast walls and

other protection systems for a number of demanding
offshore oil and gas projects, which are summarised
along with their performance requirements in Appendix
B.
Details of some of these projects are described below:
3.1 Ekofisk Tank (2/4-T) Control Centre
This project was part of a platform refurbishment by

Phillips Petroleum and was designed to improve the fire
resistance of the control centre by attaching thin and
lightweight fire and blast resistant panels to the existing
support structure.
Photographs are attached in Appendix C that show the

existing control centre both before and after the
ProTek Thin Wall H60 fire and blast wall panels
were installed.
In this case the fixing methods were based upon the

use of Hilti fixings that were attached to the main steel
supports. Panels were made to span 3.5m between
vertical supports and were built up over the entire 1,000
m surface of the control centre.
The project requirements also included an installed

system that did not reduce the positive pressure
integrity of the control centre. In addition there were a
number of environmental performance requirements for
wind, rain, snow and ice loadings.
The project performance requirements are 0.1 barg

overpressure blast loading and H60 fire performance. A
DNV Type Approval certificate was awarded for this
Thin Wall H60 product.
3.2 Tartan Alpha Intermodule Fire and Blast Wall
This project was part of a platform upgrade to divide an

existing module and to separate the divided module
with a lightweight fire and blast wall.
Photographs are attached in Appendix D to show the

installed ProTek fire and blast wall. This was
provided as a gas tight barrier to resist the effects of an
explosion load of 1 barg followed by fire loading for 1
hour jet fire (J60) and 2 hour hydrocarbon pool fire
(H120).
The connection method is a bolted arrangement to steel
plates that are welded to the main tubular structure
similar to that shown in the drawing in Appendix A.
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3.3 Ekofisk B11 Stairtower Cladding
This project was part of a platform upgrade to protect a

new stairtower that was constructed to provide safe
egress from a hazardous area of the platform.
Photographs are attached in Appendix E to show the

panels attached to the stairtower structure. The
ProTek panels were provided as a gas tight barrier to
resist the effects of an explosion load of 0.2 barg
followed by fire loading for 1 hour (A60).
3.4 Tartan Alpha Temporary Safe Refuge Cladding
This project was part of a platform upgrade to improve

the fire protection of a Temporary Safe Refuge on the
Tartan Alpha platform.
SCS were requested to design an A60 fire barrier to be

entirely sealed to prevent water ingress and maintain a
positive pressure within the refuge itself.
Drawings of the proposed ProTek solution are

included in Appendix F.
3.5 Eldfisk 2/7-FTP Fire and Blast Wall
This project was part of a platform upgrade to install a

new barrier to an existing platform offering protection
against an explosion load of 0.3 barg followed by
hydrocarbon fire loading for 2 hour to H0 standard.
A document showing a drawing of the fire and blast wall

along with details of doorways, pipe and cable
penetrations is given in Appendix G.
3.6 Britannia Lifeboat Fire Protection
This project was part of a platform upgrade to install

new accommodation on the Britannia platform, which
required an additional lifeboat to meet the regulations
for the additional personnel on board.
SCS provided a ProTek Fire and Blast protection

cladding system to prevent damage to the underside of
the new lifeboat from the effects of a pool fire in the sea.
The protection requirements are H0 for 1 hours
hydrocarbon fire at 200kW/m heat flux and resist
explosion loads of 0.1 barg
Photographs are included in Appendix H.

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3.7 Beryl Alpha Acoustic and Fire Protection Modules
In response to a growing problem of equipment

generating high noise levels placing restrictions on the
amount of time that can be spent in an affected area on
the Beryl Alpha platform SCS developed a concept of
cladding and enclosures to restrict the noise levels and
deliver fire protection.
The ProTek protection system is designed to restrict

the noise levels, which has been demonstrated by
testing to offer up to 38dB reduction. It also offers fire
protection to A60 standard and has to maintain a
positive pressure within modules housing the
equipment.
This is achieved by a series of sealed modules built
using ProTek panels around gas turbines and other
noise generating equipment. This also includes
moulded protection systems fitted around piping and
ducting to prevent noise being emitted elsewhere
around the platform.
Design drawings showing the arrangements are given

in Appendix I along with a data sheet outlining the noise
reduction characteristics to the Norwegian NORSOK
standard R-004 for piping and related systems.
3.8 Offshore Substation Transformer Fire Protection Modules
The development of offshore wind farms has led to a

requirement to site high voltage transformer platforms
offshore in order to distribute the electricity generated
back to shore.
SCS have led the development of modules that are

designed to offer fire and blast protection in the event of
a transformer explosion or fire to protect personnel and
other transformers on the platform.
This modular system is designed to be weather tight in

order to protect the equipment from the offshore
environment. It will also allow a controlled atmosphere
to be generated around the equipment with an
expectation that the module will maintain a positive
pressure.
This is achieved with proprietary sealing details
between panel joints and around any penetrations,
doorways etc.
A data sheet explaining the protection system concept

is attached in Appendix J.

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3.9 MOPUstor Yme Fire & Blast Wall Penetration Panels
This project is part of the Yme redevelopment and

required protection panels to be supplied to fit around
penetrating pipework and structural beams. The
double-sided protection panels are designed to meet an
explosion load of 0.7 barg, 15 minutes hydrocarbon jet
fire with an H60 requirement on one face and H0 on the
opposite face.
Photographs showing typical pipe and cable

penetrations are given in Appendix K.
4.0 SUMMARY
SCS has provided independently certified ProTek fire

and blast protection solutions over a period of 20 years
to meet a wide variety of demanding protection
requirements.
A selection of relevant projects are detailed within this

document to demonstrate the company track record in
meeting customers demands for innovative, long
lasting solutions that have low weight and require no
maintenance during their 30 year lifetime.

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APPENDIX A - Typical connection detail drawings & photos
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Typical view of ProTek Fire and Blast Wall section (from hazard side)
Typical view of ProTek Fire and Blast Wall section (from non-hazard side)

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View from hazard side of panel connection details at tubular showing bolts and gasket seal
View from hazard side of panel connection at structural member showing bolts and gasket seal

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View from non-hazard side of panel connection at structural member and tubular
Photo from non-hazard side showing panel connection for Ekofisk Fire and Blast Wall

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APPENDIX B - Fire and Blast Wall Reference List

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OIL AND GAS PROJECTS REFERENCE LIST
Performance FIRE & BLAST / WALLS & CLADDING

Requirements
H0 fire rating Ekofisk Alliance Manufacture and supply of fire protection panels for
0.3 barg blast Phillips Norway Eldfisk 2/7
J45 jet fire rating

Enron India Design, manufacture and installation of passive jet fire
H60 fire rating
protection for ESDV actuators and escapeway/lifeboat
0.1 barg blast
muster area for the South Tapti gas platform offshore
Bombay
H60 fire rating Phillips Norway Retrofit fire and blast protection for EKOFISK B11
0.26 barg blast platform
A60 fire rating Phillips Norway Design and manufacure of A60 stair tower cladding for
0.2 barg blast EKOFISK B11 platform
H60 fire rating Elf Enterprise Detail design and manufacture H60 bulkhead fire
0.03 barg blast protection on CLAYMORE 'A' Platform
H60 fire rating Phillips (Norway) Manufacture and supply of H60 fire protection panels for
0.3 barg blast escapeway on EKOFISK
H15 fire rating

Elf Enterprise Manufacture and supply of radiant heat protection panels
No blast
for CLAYMORE
H60 fire rating Phillips (Norway) Design, development and supply of special H60 fire and
0.1 barg blast blast panels for EKOFISK Control Centre refurbishment
H60 fire rating BP Design and supply of fire protection panels on HYDE
No blast
Texaco Design, development and supply of lightweight jet fire and

J60 jet fire rating 1.0 bar blast wall for TARTAN ALPHA
H120 fire rating
1.0 barg blast
APPENDIX C - Ekofisk Tank Control Centre Photographs

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Photos showing Ekofisk Control Centre before and after ProTek Thin Wall H60 panels fitted
Photo showing general view of Ekofisk Control Centre with ProTek Thin Wall H60 panels fitted

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APPENDIX D - Tartan Alpha Fire / Blast Wall Photographs

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Photos showing ProTek Fire & Blast Wall fitted within tubular structure

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APPENDIX E - Ekofisk Stairtower Photographs

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Photo from hazard side showing ProTek A60 Stairtower panels during installation
Photo from inside showing ProTek A60 Stairtower panel fixing and gasket seal details

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APPENDIX F Tartan Alpha Temporary Safe Refuge Drawings

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APPENDIX G Eldfisk 2/7-FTP Fire and Blast Wall

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Solent Composite Systems Ltd
Confidential
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ProTek Fire and Blast Walls
This document has been prepared to provide some further details about ProTek Fire and
Blast Walls and the general interface and installation details.
Attached below is a GA drawing ref. PH/406-A-01670 Revision E04 showing a typical fire and
blast wall installed on the Conoco Phillips 2/7 FTP platform.
Attached on pages behind the GA drawing are photographs of some of the details on the Fire
and Blast Wall. Comments are included on the GA drawing to refer the reader to specific
photographs.
In principle the fire and blast wall is comprised of a set of nominally 100mm thick composite
panels that are bolted to a secondary steel structure that is attached to the main platform
steelwork by bolting or welding.
The ProTek panels are manufactured from lightweight structural composite that
incorporates the thermal performance and jet fire resistance within one moulded structure.
This obviates the need for separate insulation and liners and means that the panels can be
installed in one operation by bolting to the support steelwork.
The details shown on the drawing include doors, edge details, bolting arrangements, cable
and pipe penetrations. The basic principle is to engineer the panels by survey of the existing
blast wall area to fit around the pipes and cable penetrations and to incorporate the door
opening. The panels are manufactured with openings to fit around these existing features.
This allows panels to be installed rapidly.
Cable Penetrations
The panels are designed to incorporate standard proprietary Marine Cable Transits (MCTs)
such as those supplied by MCT Brattberg, Lycab or Hawke. The MCTs are bolted onto the
panels such that the penetration blocks can be fitted around the cables during the final stage
of the installation.
Pipe Penetrations
A similar approach is taken with pipe penetrations where openings are moulded into the
panels to accommodate the pipes. The photographs of the fire and blast wall show a detail
where the panel is moulded to fit closely to the pipes with a small installation clearance that
seals up in the event of fire.
However larger openings can be incorporated for pipes that have movement due to thermal
expansion or vibration. In this case a larger opening is moulded and is closed up with a
standard fire and blast resistant pipe penetration seal such as those supplied by Bestobell.
Doorways
The doorways incorporate standard fire and blast rated door systems supplied by others and
the panel openings are engineered to incorporate the door frames and steelwork to support
the fire and blast doors.
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Confidential
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2/7 FTP Blast Wall Details and Photographs
Photo 1 - showing Door Opening 2125 x 1750 (view from hazard side)
Photo 2 showing western edge of Door Opening 2125 x 1750 (view from hazard side)

Confidential
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Photo 3 - showing cable racks above Door Opening 2125 x 1750 (view from hazard side)
Photo 4 - showing cable racks and Door Opening 2300 x 1142 (view from hazard side)

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Photo 5 showing cable racks and MCT above Door Opening 2300 x 1142 and bolting
arrangement at the back of the panels to steel structure (view from non-hazard side)

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Photo 6 showing pipe penetrations (view from non-hazard side)
Photo 7 showing pipe penetrations (view from hazard side)

APPENDIX H Britannia Lifeboat Protection

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ProTek Lifeboat Protection Images

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APPENDIX I Beryl Noise Reduction Modules & Data Sheet

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Equipment module and piping protection system for noise reduction and fire protection

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APPENDIX J Offshore Substation Transformer Protection Modules

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Solent Composite Systems
Fire and Blast Protection for Offshore Substations

TECHNICAL INTEGRITY, ZERO MAINTENANCE, LOW LIFE COST
The advent of large scale offshore wind farms
is calling on more sophisticated technology for
transmission and distribution into the onshore grid.
Many of these systems utilise high voltage DC
transmission (HVDC), that ultimately will form part
of the international Supergrid.
The announcement of the UK Round 3, facilitating

25GW of new offshore wind by 2020, will advance
a new era of offshore substation technology, and
simultaneously a growing need to keep that energy
transmission safe and secure.
Protek lightweight composite enclosures for

transformers and other critical equipment provide
an economic solution for fire and blast protection.
The SCS design team understands the hazardous

environment offshore and has learned to design
for this harsh environment - inclement weather
- wide temperature range - relentless salt spray
and corrosion risk throughout the platforms life
- typically 30 years. In addition pollution prevention
is high on the list of risk mitigation.
Solent Composite Systems Ltd, Victoria Barracks, Albany Road,

East Cowes, IOW, PO32 6AA, United Kingdom. Tel +44 (1983) 292602 www.solentcomposites.com
Solent Composite Systems
Fire and Blast Protection for Offshore Substations

TECHNICAL INTEGRITY, ZERO MAINTENANCE, LOW LIFE COST
The size and complexity of offshore substations demands that the
investment is safeguarded and the personnel who maintain them can work
safely in a low risk environment. Composite enclosures for transformers
and other critical equipment as well as walk-ways and escape-ways provide
an economic solution requiring no inspection or routine maintenance and
therefore low life cycle cost. Each area is carefully assessed for fire and
explosion risk and protection structures are designed accordingly.
The lightweight ProTek composite multi-layer structure is virtually inert,
thus providing exceptional corrosion and weather resistance over a 30 year
life cycle - significantly higher than spray-up and steel systems - and can
be easily assembled onshore or offshore . ProTek composite panels are
mounted on a corrosion resistant steel frame to resist severe blast up to 1.5
barg and environmental wind and snow loads, thus providing an extremely
rigid but lightweight structure. Blast relief vents may be included within
the design to prevent overpressure build up whilst allowing quick and easy
on-site installation.
Capital investment and operating costs have to be carefully managed whilst
operational security, reliability and safety have to be maximised. Here SCS
experience plays a key role with hundreds of ProTek installations
already installed offshore in the North Sea.
Our heritage, your reassurance

Solent Composites Systems are leaders in the design and
manufacturing of innovative structural composite systems for the offshore
oil & gas industry. Today this high performance composite technology and a
quality driven heritage enable SCS to deliver high value, risk free solutions
to the offshore wind industry.
SCS has a fully integrated management system encompassing ISO 9001,
14001 and OHSAS 18001. In addition SCS has DNV verification for its
design methodology for composite fire and blast protection structures.
Solent Composite Systems Ltd, Victoria Barracks, Albany Road,

East Cowes, IOW, PO32 6AA, United Kingdom. Tel +44 (1983) 292602 www.solentcomposites.com
APPENDIX K MOPUstor Yme Fire / Blast Wall Penetrations

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Fire / Blast Wall Panels fitted around penetrating pipework

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APPENDIX A - Typical connection detail drawings & photos

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The report describes how SCS meets the project

2.0 CONNECTION DETAILS

The ProTek fire and blast wall panels are designed to

There are many bolted arrangements for the ProTek

The design details rely upon a bolted connection

The ProTek panels are designed to deflect elastically

The connection details are calculated for every

Fixings are either galvanised high strength steel or 316

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3.0 RELEVANT PROJECTS

SCS has provided ProTek fire and blast walls and

Details of some of these projects are described below:

3.1 Ekofisk Tank (2/4-T) Control Centre

This project was part of a platform refurbishment by

Photographs are attached in Appendix C that show the

In this case the fixing methods were based upon the

The project requirements also included an installed

The project performance requirements are 0.1 barg

3.2 Tartan Alpha Intermodule Fire and Blast Wall

This project was part of a platform upgrade to divide an

Photographs are attached in Appendix D to show the

3.3 Ekofisk B11 Stairtower Cladding

This project was part of a platform upgrade to protect a

Photographs are attached in Appendix E to show the

3.4 Tartan Alpha Temporary Safe Refuge Cladding

This project was part of a platform upgrade to improve

SCS were requested to design an A60 fire barrier to be

Drawings of the proposed ProTek solution are

3.5 Eldfisk 2/7-FTP Fire and Blast Wall

This project was part of a platform upgrade to install a

A document showing a drawing of the fire and blast wall

3.6 Britannia Lifeboat Fire Protection

This project was part of a platform upgrade to install

SCS provided a ProTek Fire and Blast protection

Photographs are included in Appendix H.

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3.7 Beryl Alpha Acoustic and Fire Protection Modules

In response to a growing problem of equipment

The ProTek protection system is designed to restrict

Design drawings showing the arrangements are given

3.8 Offshore Substation Transformer Fire Protection Modules

The development of offshore wind farms has led to a

SCS have led the development of modules that are

This modular system is designed to be weather tight in

A data sheet explaining the protection system concept

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3.9 MOPUstor Yme Fire & Blast Wall Penetration Panels

This project is part of the Yme redevelopment and

Photographs showing typical pipe and cable

SCS has provided independently certified ProTek fire

A selection of relevant projects are detailed within this

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APPENDIX A - Typical connection detail drawings & photos

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APPENDIX B - Fire and Blast Wall Reference List

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