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- Region: Latin America
- Date: Sept, 2022
The third well intervention in the Baúna campaign, comprising the installation of a new electric submersible pump in well SPS-92, has been completed and the well brought back on line.
Commissioning of the newly installed pump is progressing well, with the pump expected to be operating at target levels within the next two weeks. Current oil production from the well is approximately 9,500 bopd, compared with 5,500 bopd prior to the intervention. Production from the first two interventions continues to be optimised and together with SPS-92, this has taken total oil production from the Baúna field to approximately 22,000 bopd, towards the upper end of preintervention campaign expectations.
In light of the already strong results achieved from the intervention campaign, and as the BAN-1 expected production uplift of a few hundred bopd is relatively small, Karoon has decided to defer the BAN-1 intervention, to optimise both the overall programme and rig utilisation. Consequently, the Maersk Developer rig will now move to the Patola field, where the first of two new development wells is expected to commence drilling in the next few days.
Julian Fowles, CEO and Managing Director of Karoon, commented, “We are very pleased to have completed the three major interventions on Baúna with no significant safety or environmental incidents. Production has increased from approximately 12,600 bopd immediately before the intervention programme to approximately 22,000 bopd now, with potential further upside as the SPS-92 new pump commissioning is completed, taking production towards the upper end of our targeted uplift range of 5,000 – 10,000 bopd. This is an excellent result, and I would like to thank our Karoon Brazil team, who have significant expertise and a strong track record operating in offshore environments, and our contractor partners, for all their hard work in delivering this programme safely and efficiently. We look forward to commencing drilling on the Patola field, our first development project since taking over as operator of the Baúna concession, once the rig has been mobilised to site.”
- Region: Latin America
- Date: Sept, 2022
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. has entered into a two-year extension of its well intervention charter and services contracts with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for the Siem Helix 2 well intervention vessel offshore Brazil.
The negotiated extension is scheduled to conclude in December 2024.
Scotty Sparks, Helix’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, commented, “We are glad to negotiate this contract extension and look forward to continuing our long and productive working relationship with Petrobras. Market conditions globally and in Brazil have been improving, and demand for our world-class assets and experienced crews has been steadily increasing.”
The Siem Helix 2 is a purpose-built, advanced well intervention vessel capable of performing a wide range of subsea services including production enhancement, well decommissioning, subsea installation, offshore crane and Remotely Operated Vehicle operations, offshore construction and emergency response. The vessel is currently performing riser-based well intervention activities in the Santos and Campos Basins and to date has completed more than 60 well interventions for Petrobras.
Sparks added, “The Siem Helix 2 has consistently provided industry – and global-leading well intervention services to Petrobras. This two-year extension demonstrates the capacity for Helix to continually provide innovative solutions to fit client needs, backed by our experience and proven track record, and supports our Energy Transition business model of offering clients the ability to maximize production from their existing wells.”
- Region: Latin America
- Date: Aug, 2022
At the rapidly approaching Offshore Well Intervention Latin America Conference (OWI LATAM), members of the oil and gas community will meet to provide updates on the well intervention market and hear how each other are navigating the current operating environment.
Among the host of unique panel discussions and presentations, David Carr, Senior Vice President – International at Helix Well Ops, will examine examples of innovative LWI vessel-based solutions for complex well integrity issues and production enhancement purposes. In doing so, he will help to improve the efficiency of future well intervention projects.
Attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to review multi-service campaigns completed on an integrated vessel and how this can solve a variety of challenges operators face when embarking on intervention projects.
In addition, there will be the opportunity to engage with Carr on how collaboration with an international and multi-disciplinary team has led to seamless operational efficiency, as the Senior Vice President opens the floor up to discussion.
To view the full programme click here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Date: Aug, 2022
During the forthcoming Offshore Well Intervention Latin American 2022 (OWI LATAM) conference, held in Rio, Brazil, Joao Batista, Wells Technology R&D Manager at Repsol Sinopec Brasil, will hold a session discussing the new Economical Technologies in the region.
Attendees will discover the innovative new technologies within the decommissioning and intervention space that they are encouraged to implement within their own well work.
As well as this, the detailed sessions will dig into recognising the challenges of deepwater technology development in Brazil and work to build a plan to bridge the gaps between knowledge and technology.
Batista will then review the Brazilian O&G ecosystem compared to the ANP levy funds in order to best navigate the activity in the region.
OWI LATAM returns for its third year on 18-19 October and will feature presentations from a number of world-leading experts within the oil and gas community as well as the opportunity to come together and collaborate with renowned global well intervention companies.
To view the full programme click here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Topics: Integrity
- Date: Aug, 2022
At this year’s Offshore Well Intervention Latin America 2022 (OWI LATAM) conference, South America’s leading offshore forum, Rafael Purificação, wells integrity lead at Trident Energy, will guide attendees through well integrity challenges in mature developments.
The conference will allow participants to access new regulations and innovative intervention technologies in order to develop best practice offshore strategies for production, integrity and P&A projects.
Adding his chapter to this exciting upcoming exhibition of expertise, Purificação will begin by comparing current monitoring and testing methods to ensure barrier verification for well integrity throughout Latin America. He will then establish the acceptance criteria for new technologies within the region to ensure that those looking undertake campaigns are equipped with the most effective toolbox possible.
Finally, the wells integrity lead will analyse the probabilistic quantitative approach to well integrity in mature fields to create standardised workover programmes before opening the floor for questions from the audience.
Purificação’s expert presentation will be one of many at OWI LATAM as it returns for its third year on the 18-19 October 2022 in Rio. Representing the annual meeting point for members of the offshore oil and gas community in South America, this is an opportunity not to be missed!
View the brochure here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Topics: Decommissioning, Integrity
- Date: Aug, 2022
The forthcoming Offshore Well Intervention Latin America 2022 (OWI LATAM) in Rio, Brazil from 18-19 October, will host a session on Transformative LWI Technologies by Rafael Rodriguez Fulco, Manager for Rigs Technology and Wells Reliability at Petrobras.
The detailed presentation will focus on riserless intervention and fostering a competitive solution exclusively for Brazilian portfolio. Rafael will evaluate a Brazilian P&A and workover scenario for riserless intervention to understand the strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
Attendees will be given a chance to understand Petrobras’ riserless homologation process timeline so that they can appropriately plan for integrated well integrity projects.
The session by Rafael will further review the competitive technical specification that embraces commercial and technical challenges to ensure best-in-class technology.
OWI LATAM will give the offshore community to convene and discuss scenarios specific to the Latin American market and come up with solutions in well integrity management tailor-made for the region.
To view the full programme click here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Topics: Integrity
- Date: July, 2022
South America’s leading offshore well intervention and integrity discussion forum, the Offshore Well Intervention Latin America 2022 (OWI LATAM) be held in Rio, Brazil from 18-19 October 2022 and is set to feature a presentation by Danilo Colombo, Reliability and Risk Assessment Advisor at Petrobras.
Danilo will be using the session to discuss taking risk-based decisions in well integrity and establish how Petrobras has used the ‘MyBarrier’ platform to improve its integrity management.
The presentation will also allow the attendees a visual into the company’s cases of ‘Quantitative Risk Assessment’ to identify potential failures before they occur. Danilo will then explore the future of well integrity using data management and digitalisation to mitigate human factors and steps to make the correct risk-based decisions every time.
OWI LATAM is all set to feature some of the world’s leading well integrity and intervention experts from global companies who bring with them the knowledge and expertise to spread across the Latin American offshore market.
To view the full programme click here:
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Topics: Decommissioning
- Date: July, 2022
Marcelo Victor Tomaz De Matos, Plug and Abandonment (P&A) Advisor at Petrobras, will deliver a session on the company’s P&A updates and future plans at the Offshore Well Intervention Latin America 2022 (OWI LATAM), which will be held in Rio, Brazil from 18-19 October 2022.
The speaker will outline Petrobras’ decommissioning forecasts to prepare for the upcoming wave of P&A activity. During the session, attendees can also expect to have access to the company’s P&A activities and performance results in subsea wells to take away best practices in mitigating future liability.
The presentation by Marcelo will also let attendees discover Petrobras’ P&A R&D roadmap, current challenges, and new techniques and technologies that can be applied to upcoming campaigns.
OWI LATAM is South America’s one-stop shop to gain first-hand knowledge from the world’s leading decommissioning and P&A experts as well as a hub for insightful sessions on new technologies.
To view the full programme click here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
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Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Date: July, 2022
The Offshore Well Intervention Latin America 2022 (OWI LATAM), which will be held in Rio, Brazil from 18-19 October, will host a presentation by Matthew Vick, Senior Subsea Wells Engineer from bp.
Attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to learn about the company’s riserless intervention campaigns 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 LATAM allows you to access new regulations and innovative LWI technologies to develop a best practice intervention strategy for production, integrity and P&A projects.
You can view the full programme here:
https://www.offsnet.com/latam/conference-brochure
Or reach out to the details below:
Rachael Brand
Project Manager
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- Region: Latin America
- Date: May, 2022
Karoon Energy Ltd has reported that its contract with Maersk Drilling for the Baúna intervention campaign has commenced, following the receipt of all permits and regulatory approvals required.
After loading supplies and equipment for the programme, the rig departed Rio de Janeiro on 8 May BRT and arrived at the PRA-2 well site in license BM-S-40 (Baúna), southern Santos Basin. The rig moored, using pre-installed mooring buoys, and the first Baúna intervention in the four-well campaign commenced on 15 May BRT.
The intervention campaign, which is aiming to add 5,000-10,000 bopd to Baúna production, comprises the installation of new electric submersible pumps in the PRA-2 and SPS-92 wells, installation of gas-lift equipment in SPS-56 and re-opening of the lower zone of the BAN-1 well.
The campaign is anticipated to take four to five months to complete. The Maersk Developer rig is then scheduled to drill two development wells on the Patola Field and, subject to the receipt of required regulatory licences, one or potentially two control wells on the Neon oil discovery.
Karoon Energy’s CEO and Managing Director, Dr Julian Fowles, commented, “The commencement of the Baúna intervention programme represents the culmination of more than 18 months of detailed planning and hard work from the Karoon teams and our contractor partners in Australia and Brazil.
“Our key focus is on delivering this campaign safely, efficiently and on schedule, in close cooperation with the operator of the drilling rig, Maersk Drilling. We will update the market on progress in the June 2022 quarterly report.”
- Region: Latin America
- Date: Apr, 2022
To help TotalEnergies – an oil and gas company – with a deepwater plug and abandonment (P&A) challenge offshore in the Brazilian pre-salt, Welltec, an international provider of robotic well solutions for the oil and gas industry, designed and manufactured a unique solution utilising a 414 Well Cutter equipped with a new Tiger Claw cutting element.
The well had been designed without a completion disconnect device, adding difficulty to the overall series and increasing the timeframe, if additional intervention and fishing was required.
To maintain optimal efficiency, a tool capable of cutting beyond the outer diameter of the 6 5/8 inches super 13Cr tubing and through the control line flatpack (with two Incoloy tubes) would be required. Furthermore, it was crucial that this be achieved in a single run.
P&A is a necessary operation at the end of a well’s productive years. Efficiency is vital during preparation and execution phases in order for operators to minimise costs, especially given the asset will be decommissioned and no longer producing.
Prior to the operation, multiple tests were carried out at the headquarters and subsequently at a local base in Brazil. These were done to ensure that a clean cut could be achieved all the way through to the flatpack in scenarios involving different cutting locations, in consideration of margins of error, as well as levels of slack or tension on the flatpack which would affect the cut.
Test cut locations included just below the clamp (15 cm), within the tubing connection (to see if the additional material could be cut), and in the middle of two clamps where it was anticipated the control line may be too slack.
Despite successful test cuts just below the clamp, and within the tubing connection, the client opted for a middle of the tubing cut. A 414 Well Cutter was run in hole with specially designed Tiger Claw cutting element and activated six meters below the clamp.
As an additional precaution, a physical limitation was implemented to restrict the cutting range of the Tiger Claw to 8.2 inches, therefore de-risking the operation in terms of the 8.5 inches outer casing being compromised. The angled cutting arms were able to cut through the tubing and control line flatpack as predicted.
After pulling out of hole, the operator was able to pull the completion, seeing the control line flatpack shear six meters below the clamp. As a result of this operation, TotalEnergies was able to save time with tubing retrieval, avoiding the delays that would have followed a cut to only the tubing.
The newly designed Tiger Claw cutting element provided an increased cutting range in comparison to its predecessors, guaranteeing a continuation of cutting beyond the outer diameter of the tubing, and through the control line flatpack.
- Region: Latin America
- Topics: Decommissioning
- Date: Feb, 2022
Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. has been awarded a field decommissioning contract by Trident Energy do Brasil (Trident Energy).
The project, located offshore Brazil in the Pampo and Enchova Clusters in the Campos Basin, is expected to commence in late 2022 for a firm period of 12 months with options to extend.
Helix will provide a riser-based well intervention vessel (either the Siem Helix 1 or Siem Helix 2); a 10k Intervention Riser System; project management and engineering services; and, in conjunction with Helix’s Subsea Services Alliance partner Schlumberger, fully integrated plug and abandonment well services.
Trident Energy owns and operates four platforms in the Campos Basin, and its Brazil operations are part of a global organisation backed by Warburg Pincus with a stated focus on operating and redeveloping mid-life oil and gas assets.
Scotty Sparks, Helix’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, commented, “We are pleased that Helix has been awarded this major decommissioning contract. This is another step forward in the execution of our strategic objectives which include diversifying our client base in the region while continuing to provide best-in-class and global leading decommissioning services. We look forward to developing our relationship with Trident Energy.”
Daniel Stuart, Helix do Brasil’s Director of Operations, added, “Our rigless well intervention services offer a lower cost and lower greenhouse gas intensive solution for decommissioning offshore wells compared to rig alternatives. We believe that delivering this milestone field decommissioning project will support future growth in the region, and lead to additional opportunities.”
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