INDUSTRY NEWS Oceaneering and Aquaterra Energy Ink
Decommissioning Collaboration Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oceaneering International Services Ltd. (Oceaneering), to offer complete decommissioning and late life solution packages to the North Sea oil and gas industry.
complement this by drawing on its intelligent engineering and extensive project management expertise, together with its own equipment inventory, to support projects.
Under the MoU, the companies will offer tooling and services in four distinct areas: platform well abandonment, subsea well abandonment, topside and jacket removals and subsea removals. Oceaneering will bring an expansive tooling portfolio and track-record in cutting, severance and dredging to the partnership. Aquaterra Energy will
James Larnder, MD at Aquaterra Energy said: “This collaboration with Oceaneering has been driven by a customer need for more complete solution players in the market. It’s not hard to see why: more than £15.2bn will be spent on decom in the UKCS over the next decade, with 2379 wells expected to be decommissioned in the North Sea over the next ten years. We’re ready to tackle this challenge alongside Oceaneering and offer a seamless solution to clients.”
Leigh Martin, Snr Manager for UK, Europe, Africa at Oceaneering
comments: “Partnering with Aquaterra Energy in the decommissioning sector, offers the market a trusted established alternative, that provides superior value supported from local facilities.”
With an initial focus on the Southern North Sea, the companies will utilise Aquaterra Energy’s Great Yarmouth facilities to ensure rapid deployment of technology and personnel offshore. Aquaterra Energy is also developing a new decommissioning and late life conductor retrieval system to bolster the combined offering, which is due to be ready for deployment in mid-2020.
Larnder comments: “We’re really proud to be making this strategic move for our business with Oceaneering by our side and expect this to catapult us forward in 2020.”
HTL launches Bespoke Hydraulic Cutter for
Offshore Industry Market Leader In all industries where hazardous machinery and materials are present, safety is the optimum priority. Statistics show that 80% of errors which occur during manufacturing are due to human error.
For this reason, many companies acquire bespoke equipment tailored to suit their safety and production standards. Utilising bespoke equipment supports the efficiency and accuracy within the workplace optimising overall machine usage and increasing safe productivity.
An example of this is, HTL Group were approached by a global market leader in dredging and marine services to design and manufacture a special purpose hydraulic cutter for umbilical cables to use on ship decks providing a solution to their problem.
HTL worked closely with the client to understand all of the operational issues, providing engineering concepts, agreed design and operating parameters resulting in a Bespoke Hydraulic Cutter capable of cutting offshore umbilical up to 200mm diameter. The cutting operation is by a hardened
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steel cutting blade, energised with 400tonnes of force. The equipment has significantly improved general and operator safety due to its configuration and remote operation being a safe distance away from any cutting activity.
Through some very innovative design features the client is able to overcome any labour intense complex tasks reducing production downtime onsite by up to 80%.
In conclusion when a standard Catalogue Product just isn’t the right solution, HTL Group’s in-house design team are here to provide a cradle to grave engineered to order, safe and efficient solution, to fit your company’s needs.
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