NECE SECURES NEW NORTH SEA CONTRACT
Integrity monitoring solutions specialist North East Corrosion Engineers (NECE), part of the ICR group, has secured a significant contract for the provision of corrosion and microbial monitoring services on four North Sea assets.
The contract will run for three years with the option for a further two years.
SERVELEC CONTROLS TO INSTALL SAFETy SySTEM FOR NEW NORTH SEA APACHE WELL
Servelec Controls, an independent integrator of mission-critical control and safety systems, has been awarded a contract with oil and gas exploration and production company Apache Corporation to modify the fire and gas safety systems on the Beryl Alpha platform to enable the safe expansion of its current processing capability.
Apache’s new North Sea discovery, named Callater, will begin producing during the second half of 2017 and is of great strategic importance to both Apache, and the UK Continental Shelf. Servelec Controls has developed a practical and flexible engineering solution to modify the existing system and meet the ambitious timescales set for the installation.
Increasing the current processing capability of the Beryl Alpha platform requires the expansion of the complex legacy fire and gas safety system, including detection, control and extinguishing systems. The Servelec Controls modifications will enable the continuous monitoring of all equipment for the Callater subsea tieback from well head to platform and ensure the early detection and notification of any abnormal situations such as fire or combustible gas release.
Servelec Controls is one of the largest independent system integrators, established with many of the leading automation equipment manufacturers worldwide. Servelec Controls specialises in industrial control, safety and real-time information systems delivering full turnkey engineering solutions and is an industry leader in the design and implementation of functional safety systems. SIRA CASS accredited and members of the 61508 association, our TUV Certified engineers ensure best engineering practice in accordance with IEC 61508. To find out more about the services Servelec Controls provides, please visit
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NECE had previously provided corrosion and microbiological monitoring service on two of the North Sea installations. The new contract establishes NECE as the preferred supplier for corrosion monitoring and microbiological monitoring services for all four assets.
“Our ability to deliver a complete and packaged integrity monitoring service, covering a broad range of solutions, saves clients having to engage multiple suppliers and creates clear cost and logistical efficiencies for them,” said NECE’s Business Development Manager, Chris Mountford.
“In mature regions, such as the North Sea, corrosion and microbiological monitoring are vital to ensure that the integrity of aging assets is maintained.”
NECE provides a range of integrity monitoring solutions for a number of operators in the North Sea.
ICR’s Chief Executive Officer, Bill Bayliss, said: “With the improvements and changes made within the ICR Group of companies, both managerially and operationally, we are starting to see the dividends of all our hard work. We are motivated to ensure that the ICR business will continue to grow at pace in the coming months and service many new clients both internationally and in the UK.”
The ICR group includes five companies delivering world class integrity, maintenance solutions and technology to an international customer base in the oil and gas, energy and defence sectors through its subsidiaries NECE, Chemical Injection Utilities (CIU), Walker Technical (WTR) quickflange and Moss.
TRENDSETTER ENGINEERING AND ADD ENERGy AWARDED CONTRACT TO PROVIDE CONTINGENCy ASSURANCE AGAINST POTENTIAL HIGH FLOW DyNAMIC KILL OPERATIONS FOR A MAJOR OPERATOR
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined expertise to provide market leading engineering and hardware support services to the industry’s most challenging problems in a nimble and responsive environment. The companies have recently been awarded a contract to supply engineering expertise and access to Trendsetter’s patented Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) in support of an operators’ drilling campaign on a newly sanctioned field development.
The RWIS has been designed and built to greatly increase the pumping capacity of a single relief well by enabling the ability to pump in excess of 200 bbl per minute of kill mud through a single relief well, utilizing multiple vessels as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells.
The RWIS is installed on the relief well wellhead beneath the blowout preventer (BOP) to provide additional flow connections into the wellbore. Using high-pressure flex lines, the inlets enable pumping units from separate floating vessels, in addition to the relief well rig, to deliver a high-rate dynamic kill.
Additional benefits generated by this hardware include an increase in redundancy and flexibility of operations by moving the additional required pumps and mud storage to the remote vessels, allowing for the potential for an off-bottom kill which could provide a faster relief well intercept, thus reducing spill volumes to the environment.
A kill operation with two or more relief wells is recognized as being a challenging operation. In the event of multiple relief wells being required to dynamically kill a well, all relief wells will have to successfully locate and intersect the blowing wellbore. The blowing well must be killed through a simultaneous coordinated kill operation. Assuming a blowout where a relief well intervention is the only option and that the kill requirements are expected to be very demanding, the use of the RWIS provides a viable cost effective solution.
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