Independent drilling contractors, Stena Drilling, has introduced a new well delivery and decommissioning service, Stena Wells, with the aim of combining the renowned drilling contractors with an experienced team of well delivery experts with promises of consistently providing their clients with safe, cost-effective and predictable outcomes.
The vision laid out by the company is to join forces with a pre-constructed team to deliver and execute all client expectations. Previously, operators will source external well construction and decommissioning activities, with the team having to familiarise themselves with the rig and the internal operations. By having a team already formed with the predetermined understanding of how operations are delivered, Stena Wells wants to remove that learning curve to enable a focused approach to operations.
In a video posted on their LinkedIn, director of Stena Wells, Dillan Perras, said, “Stena Wells comprises of two main elements; these are the building blocks of what we are trying to do. The first building block is Stena Drilling, a well renowned, international drilling contractor. The second part of the offering is the Stena Wells engineering team that brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, capabilities and competence. Stena Wells will provide the planning, the permitting, engineering, notification, construction or decommissioning of any well stock.”
Spirit Energy Production (UK) ltd. has engaged ABL Group to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) and marine consultancy services for the operator’s decommissioning portfolio in the southern North Sea and the Irish Sea.
Spirit Energy has contracted ABL on a three-year contract (with three optional one-year extensions) to provide the marine warranty scope for the operator’s decommissioning campaigns.
ABL, which has provided a wide range of marine and engineering services for decommissioning operations in some of the world’s most complex offshore structures, will provide MWS services for decommissioning operations involving the removal of topside, and jackets for the following three offshore oil and gas platforms: Audrey A & B, and Ensign.
Ashley Perrett, Engineering Manager, ABL Aberdeen, commented, “ABL has considerable experience in supporting clients with the safe, efficient and optimised decommissioning of their oil and gas assets. Our long history in the sector, combined with our participation in a number of industry firsts within decommissioning, gives us unique insight into the range of challenges which can impact these complex marine operations.”
ABL’s MWS scope of work includes technical document and procedural review, on-site attendance and marine consultancy support for offshore operations during the campaign. Suitability surveying of the proposed fleet for the campaign is also part of the scope.
Saipem S.p.A (Saipem) and Oil Response Limited (OSRL) have signed an extension of their existing Services Agreement to include the provision of FlatFish, Saipem’s underwater drone for environmental monitoring and inspection of asset integrity.
The existing contract between Saipem and OSRL provides for the storage, maintenance, training of personnel and readiness including the remote emergency response of the Offset Installation Equipment (OIE). The OIE is a unique system designed to intervene in case of subsea well spills in shallow water (up to approximately 600 m water depth), when direct vertical access is not possible.
The expanded Services Agreement encompassed the deployment of FlatFish, the subsea drone developed by Sonsub, Saipem’s centre for underwater technologies and robotics, for a wide range of offshore tasks, including survey, leakage detection, through water column plume and dispersant concentration monitoring, environmental assessment and patrolling.
Furthermore, the Agreement allows Saipem to enlarge the fields of application of FlatFish, making a fundamental step towards its commercialisation on a global scale.
FlatFish is a part of Saipem’s Hydrone robotic development program, consisting of a series of subsea drones which are able to perform fully automatic inspection, surveillance, maintenance and rescue operations efficiently, safely and in an environmentally friendly manner. In particular, FlatFish is able to autonomously perform complex inspections of subsea assets, thanks to the robotic technologies it incorporates: from integrated artificial intelligence to advanced navigation.
At the OWI MED 2022 conferenee, Abdullah Moustafa Mohamed Saad, Senior Production Technologist, Cheiron/Bapetco, will explain how changes in conditions lead to low and zero coat production gains.
The conference will be held in Athens, Greece, on 20 September 2022. The hottest talking points within the Mediterranean and North Africa region, along with the latest well intervention intelligence from the region will be discussed at the event.
Abdullah will help the audience learn about closed in gas wells in heterogeneous reservoirs and explore how changes in stimulation cost unlocks more economic potential.
Through his presentation, he will make participants analyse artificial lift optimisation and cost changes and explain them the impact of reduced back pressures from years of production loss, that could help in intermittent operations.
Visitors at the event can explore well stimulation methods and effective production enhancement strategies to increase well stock value in mature wells.
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OWI MED 2022 is back as a live event after last year’s inaugural virtual launch. The conference will be held in Athens, Greece, on 20 September 2022. The hottest talking points within the Mediterranean and North Africa region, along with the latest well intervention intelligence from the region will be discussed at the event.
Eman Sayed Shahin, Performance Lead and Senior Petroleum Engineer from Dragon Oil, will be presenting a case study on the success of advanced reservoir management via an integration between real-time monitoring system and classical reservoir model, in the Gulf of Suez.
She will review how the J-100 well was equipped with a real-time automation system, which helped detect problems in the well and reduce delays in receiving data from periodic visits to the well.
Eman will explore how this integrated work-flow highlights the integration between real time remote monitoring systems in offshore fields and how this can add considerable benefits to the business.
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Well-Safe has awarded a contract to Trendsetter Engineering for the utilisation of the Trident Intervention System and technical services for abandonments in the UK, North Sea.
The system will be deployed from the Well-Safe Guardian rig to conduct a multi-well P&A campaign for an estimated 320 day duration.
Trendsetter owns and operates five 15,000 psi subsea intervention systems for hydraulic, riserless light well and intervention riser-based operations. Their flagship intervention system, TRIDENT, utilises advanced technologies to provide high-spec capability in a lightweight and modular package, furthering Trendsetter’s goal of bringing innovation to subsea intervention.
Mike Cargol, Vice President of Rentals & Services for Trendsetter Engineering, commented, “We are excited to work with Well-Safe to bring TRIDENT to the North Sea for plug and abandonment operations. We look forward to providing our value-added intervention services and are eager to identify additional opportunities for collaboration for our two companies.”
Neil Ferguson, Operations Director at Well-Safe Solutions, added, “Trendsetter is an ambitious partner with a strong track record of technical delivery around the world. Adding this capability to the Well-Safe Guardian unlocks considerable operational improvements and time savings for our clients during well intervention operations.”
At the OWI MED 2022, being held in Athens, Greece on 20 September, Matthew Vick, Senior Subsea Wells Engineer from bp will speak about their Gulf of Mexico riserless intervention campaign.
Attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to access a case study from bp on their ongoing riserless Intervention Campaign in the Gulf of Mexico.
Vick will review the broad scope of well access equipment that can be utilised from a single vessel, including mechanical wireline, hydraulic via TRT, hydraulic via well service jumper hose and hydraulic via stimulation choke insert.
During the talk, he will explore an overview of the planning and execution of the campaign including well access, well integrity restoration, well surveillance, well stimulation and protection, and fishing.
OWI MED allows attendees to access new regulations and innovative LWI technologies to develop a best practice intervention strategy for production, integrity and P&A projects.
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In an operations update, EnQuest has indicated that it is making good progress in its decommissioning project in the UK, North Sea.
EnQuest stated that the Heather and Thistle plug and abandonment (P&A) campaigns are progressing well with six wells completed at Heather and nine wells completed at Thistle. As a result, the group remains on track to complete the P&A of 16 wells at each installing in 2022.
In addition, the company noted that the tender processes for heavy lift vessels for Heather and Thistle topsides and jacket removals has concluded. Contracts to complete the scopes (scheduled for 2024 and 2025) are expected to be awarded in Q” 2022.
EnQuest also reported that, at the Dons, subsea infrastructure within the 500 metre zone is progressing as expected. Two phases were completed during the first half of the year and the final phase is scheduled for completion in August.
Yerasimos Angelis, Managing Director of GA R&D Ltd., will be presenting a case study at the OWI MED 2022, which will take place in Athens, Greece on 20 September 2022.
He will speak about the highlights from over 300 U-line runs where this market-leading technology has reduced the cost and carbon impact of well intervention operations across the globe, including the North Sea.
The MD will explore U-line technology and how it can reduce cost and carbon impact of well-intervention. Along with demonstrating how the technology has improved the scope of well interventions that operators can achieve within budgets, he will also analyse how the services run on; slickline, e-line and fiber deployment.
The hottest talking points within the Mediterranean and North Africa region, along with the latest well intervention intelligence from the region will be discussed at the event.
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Thompsons of Prudhoe have successfully secured two decommissioning projects, working closely along with Heerema Marine Contractors and DeepOcean.
These two challenging contracts allow Thompsons of Prudhoe to provide a full turnkey dismantling and waste management contract solution to asset owner, Spirit Energy.
The six southern North Sea structures will be delivered into the Battleship Wharf Terminal by Heerema on two large North Sea barges during Q3 2023. The assets will be offloaded and transported using SPMTs to the purpose-built decommissioning facility in collaboration with our decommissioning partner the Port of Blyth and strategic subcontract partner Mammoet. In addition to this, DeepOcean will be recovering the subsea structures, rigid pipelines, flexibles, umbilicals and concrete mattresses and delivering them into the port using a variety of vessels from their versatile fleet.
After being involved in this important project since 2019, Thompsons of Prudhoe are proud to have now been chosen by two of the industry’s most recognised contractors to undertake these works. Mark Hill, Bid/Business Development Manager for Thompsons of Prudhoe, said, “We have worked hard over the last two-and-a-half years to establish a compelling and competitive decommissioning service offering. Having secured both, the topside and jacket dismantlement & disposal works for Heerema Marine Contractors, as well as the subsea waste management and disposal works for DeepOcean, is really beyond expectations."
Neil McCulloch, CEO of Spirit Energy and Industry Co-Chair of the Decommissioning and Repurposing Taskforce (DaRT), said, “Spirit Energy continues to create value with our industry-leading decommissioning capability and performance, and we are delighted that Thompsons have been selected, by our contractors, for the safe waste disposal of materials recovered from our assets. This builds on the excellent work that Thompsons have already carried out, at our South Morecambe Terminal, and demonstrates Spirit Energy’s ongoing commitment to support the local supply chain.”
Thompsons have begun working with all stakeholders including the Environmental Agency (EA) and the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to successfully deliver these works over the forthcoming months. These recent project successes demonstrate and showcase Thompsons objective to become a trusted decommissioning partner to the oil & gas industry.
Paradigm’s e-Winch Technology, used by Archer aboard the Seafarer vessel in Norway, has received praises for playing an important part in significantly increasing well intervention efficiency while reducing CO2 emissions.
In 2020, Paradigm Technology Services B.V, a leader in oilfield technologies, delivered four NORSOK e-Winch units to Deepwell AS (now Archer AS) of Norway, for continuous operations aboard the Seafarer vessel.
Step changes in efficiency, performance and safety were core principles throughout the design and engineering phase, with the four double-drum units containing a wide range of Paradigm’s existing proprietary solutions as well as some new designs. Features such as dynamic breaking and constant speed control (taken from a suite of advanced winch control software options) have added significantly to the safety of vessel-based intervention operations, whilst the new ‘hands-off’ drum exchange system enable drums to be changed out safely without anyone ever being in the line of fire.
A wide range of operations have been performed with the e-Winch units, including plug and perforation, pre-P&A activities (plug setting, tubing punching/cutting), zonal isolations, production logging, injection logging, DHSV replacements, GLV changeouts and tubing/screen punching. Over the past year, the success of the whole Seafarer vessel has been notable and has been attracting industry attention having performed work on a large number of subsea wells within a short time frame.
The control options afforded by the e-Winch technology has helped significantly with the operational performance, with four winch control locations available to the team; a local hand-held remote control, a local deck mounted Zone 1 panel, a full control chair system with control panel with camera feedback situated in the vessel’s control room, and full remote operation from shore (or indeed anywhere worldwide).
William Ash, Managing Director of Paradigm Technology Services, said, “We are incredibly proud to be playing a small part in the success of the incredible Seafarer vessel. To fit such an amount of winch functionality into the restricted footprint was indeed a challenge, but with the great collaboration of all involved it has resulted in an excellent technical solution which is also helping drive down CO2 emissions with the all-electric e-Winch technology”.
Bendt Nybøe, Technical Lead Archer Husoy, added, “Due to the flexible set up, the easy rig up, the special safe drum change out systems, the advanced winch control software, the winches are performing even better and easier than we predicted.”
OWI MED 2022 is back as a live event after last year’s inaugural virtual launch. The conference will be held in Athens, Greece, on 20 September 2022. The hottest talking points within the Mediterranean and North Africa region, along with the latest well intervention intelligence from the region will be discussed at the event.
One of the key discussions at the conference will be learning how implementing new digital systems can result in more cost-effective and efficient well intervention and integrity processes. Operators can explore preventative maintenance efforts which can mitigate potential problems such as corrosion.
Contributing to this topic, will be Mustafa Adel Amer, well integrity specialist from BAPETCO. He will throw light on well integrity management, right from a production obstacle to a production booster. Mustafa will review surface-controlled subsurface safety valve (SCSSV) failure statistics in BAPETCO over the period 2010 to 2018. Mustafa will also explain the assessment of risk of failing in SCSSV and analyse wells criteria to define safe well operation with failed SCSSV.
Mustafa will be holding a panel discussion on ‘value of well integrity in reducing methane emissions’. It will seek answers to what the global industry can do or is currently doing to bring down its methane emissions from oil and gas operations. The discourse will explore the role of well integrity to reduce methane emissions for existing wells still in production and analyse whether well integrity has an impact in reducing methane emissions in abandoned wells.
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