Reducing the use of Helicopters
Proportionately reducing the cost of helicopters (amortised across the field to be £1.4M per platform) and non-productive labour, whilst minimising the associated risk to personnel.
We apply innovation to achieve transformation. Nowhere is this more apparent than the impact that our Remote Operations and Minimum Manning solutions have on offshore assets.
There, our systems are supporting operators in Oil & Gas to revolutionise safety, monitoring and maintenance practices, and transform how they operate forever.
They are also achieving dramatic improvements in efficiency, a reduction in OPEX, and enhancements to ‘end of life’ forecasts for ageing brownfield assets.
Future-fit, automated assets
In addition to the need to ensure the safety of offshore workers, OPEX costs are a threat forcing operators to consider early decommissioning of their assets.
Remote operation, and automation of production and monitoring from onshore, maximises the life of ageing assets, saves money, increases efficiency and improves safety.
Our solutions rescue the life of many aged assets aligning them to current legislation and regulation, and ultimately returning them to commercial viability.
Our remote operations have been proven to reduce intervention time by up to 60% over a two year period.
Our integrated control and safety systems (ICSS) and electrical control systems can be operated from an onshore control room.
By investing in automation, and our state-of-the-art safety and control systems, topside plant and accommodation can be removed, and your asset and operational maintenance costs, will be significantly reduced.
It’s a solution that has already helped Centrica to achieve a 60% reduction in manned interventions via helicopter, and a return on investment within two years.
Transferring Life-Support Equipment
Transferring life-support equipment from the installation to the access system.
Reducing Intervention Time
Reducing intervention time by 60%
Reduction in Insurance Costs
Enhanced safety and a reduced risk profile, resulting to a reduction in insurance costs.
Redundant Plant
Removing redundant plant and rationalising the replacement of obsolete equipment.
Minimum manning, reduced costs and maximum safety
Some oil and gas installations need costly manned intervention to complete a variety of activities; primarily maintenance, modification, well services, inspection and fabric maintenance.
The amount of work required to complete inspection and maintenance activities on ageing assets, tends to increase with time.
Larger installations generally have accommodation and are manned throughout the year, but smaller installations tend to be normally unmanned (NUI).
These NUIs require engineers to be deployed by helicopter to deliver the required work. Longer interventions, particularly for NUIs, can require the support of large accommodation vessels at high additional costs.
Our remote operations solution combines distributed control systems (DCS), emergency shutdown systems (ESD) and fire and gas safety systems to enhance existing operations and maintenance, and:
Restart after level B shutdown
Enhance the quality of data acquired
Streamline maintenance
Protect assets from cyber threats
With additional remote technologies, you can achieve:
Start-up from all shutdown events
Monitoring to verify safe restart to production
Reinstatement of power
Wellhead control
Lens-cleaning for fire and gas monitors
Integrity monitoring
Safe-intervention monitoring
Enhance safety, and minimise manned interventions
Our solutions allow offshore installations to remain unmanned for longer without concerns over safety, integrity or production.
We’ll bring leading experience, and focused minds to drive your project. In close collaboration with you, they will develop a blueprint for the retrospective upgrade of manned platforms or normally unmanned installations (NUI), that would otherwise require regular intervention.
The result will enable these assets to become almost entirely unmanned and remotely controlled from an onshore control room in real-time, including black start situations.
Remote operation of all offshore platform systems can include -
Alarm management
Asset monitoring
Fire & gas detection and control
Emergency shutdown and restart
Electrical system monitoring and remote control
How we've helped other businesses like yours
Case Study
Oil & Gas
Centrica Energy Simplification
Remote operation of the DP6 offshore gas platform to improve safety and minimise manned interventions.
Case Study
Oil & Gas
E.ON Babbage ICSS
Integrated control and safety system on the newly developed Babbage platform
Minimum Manning in a New Climate
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced operators to make changes to help keep workers socially distanced, but this raises the question of whether the reduction in personnel leaves enough manpower to keep these platforms running in their current form.
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