Working with integrated digital workspaces like the 3DEXPERIENCE® – a software platform that provides holistic, real-time overviews of business activities and ecosystems – gives teams a single source of truth. “We’re helping customers shift from reactive problem solving to proactive innovation, grounded in real world physics guided by decades of practical engineering experience,” says Chee Wei. This allows us to uphold engineering excellence, facilitate seamless collaboration among multidisciplinary teams and translate complex simulation data into clear, actionable insights.
Engineering resilience with advanced simulation technology
Supporting energy, chemicals and resources with smarter, more durable infrastructure designs
Successful projects require adaptable, durable infrastructure, particularly in the face of the energy transition and ever-increasing cost and schedule pressures. To build more resilient infrastructure, teams need to pair domain know-how with model-based engineering and data continuity. Digital simulation solutions can help with this, shortening design cycles, improving decision quality and de‑risking delivery.
Unifying simulations for practical delivery
Adopting a blend of practical engineering experience and advanced technologies can accelerate innovation and refine designs throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring seamless data integration.
One way forward is through repeatable methods and adaptable solutions.
This approach is most effective when simulation platforms are integrated into day-to-day and workflows and adapted across projects teams. Worley Consulting’s role is making simulation a strategic capability – not an isolated tool; acting as a single point of reference combining consulting and simulation expertise to develop outcomes that suit each specific model.
Tools like the SIMULIA Abaqus can support the creation, analysis and visualization of models that closely replicate real-world material and structural behavior. Technologies like this allow consistent synchronization and accuracy. This applies to everyday studies and complex non-linear problems.
Building a digital backbone for decision‑making
“Digital simulation is no longer a validation step – it’s a design enabler.”
Chee Wei Tan, Director, Industrial Simulations and Analytics, Worley Consulting
Ensuring more streamlined, versatile projects is key to better timeline management and enhanced return on investment. To do this, we need a single source of truth that can streamline project data and enable real-time decision making, creating a digital backbone that integrates engineering, procurement and construction processes into a unified environment.
We work alongside project teams so simulation tools become part of everyday decision-making, rather than standalone add-ons, creating long-term value.
A solution with endless application
Supporting safer, more efficient operations for PETRONAS Carigali
In the offshore energy sector, complex engineering challenges can create bottlenecks conventional methods can’t solve.
Our work on the Kasawari Carbon Capture and Storage project demonstrates how advanced simulation can meet both environmental and operational goals. Managed by PETRONAS Carigali, this initiative is being developed to capture and store up to 3.3 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
In this instance, a combination of SIMULIA’s finite element analysis (FEA) and our offshore expertise was used to optimize structural connections, improve fatigue resilience and resolve critical engineering constraints. This enabled safer, more efficient operations without compromising the project schedule.
Challenging traditional planning, improving patient outcomes
Away from energy, our expertise has found an unexpected yet valuable application in the medical field. Our simulation specialists consulted with orthopedic surgeons at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore to simulate implant configurations for complex fractures.
We employed finite element analysis to deliver vital biomechanical insights that improved preoperative planning and patient outcomes. This led to a peer-reviewed publication highlighting the combination of technology and practice to challenge traditional planning.
Supporting
future innovations
through simulations
Advanced simulation solutions can enable more resilient, data informed design decisions, transforming engineering challenges into opportunities for innovation. Combining cutting-edge technologies with real world experience creates opportunities for everything from optimizing offshore platforms and enhancing resilience for critical infrastructure, to improving vehicle aerodynamics and advancing medical research.
Through software licensing, technical support, cloud-based high-performance computing and specialized analysis services, we can enable advanced simulation capabilities. Long-term partnerships, such as the one we have with Dassault Systèmes, allow us to integrate the right technologies, – like SIMULIA and 3DEXPERIENCE® – platforms and deployment models for each project.
Long-term value comes from choosing the right tools, deploying them effectively and embedding simulation into engineering workflows, sustaining success through consulting and support. This means earlier, better decision-making, strengthened designs and reduced delivery risk.
Contacts
Chee Wei Tan
Director, Industrial Simulations and Analytics, Worley Consulting
Samantha Stephens
Director, Industrial Simulations and Analytics, Worley Consulting
Transform complex simulations into actionable insights