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of a major project. Visible leadership wind farms. It is a hydraulical, controlled by integrated electronics, and effective collaboration achieved motion-compensated, lightweight with no connections to the surface. more than 500 days of subsea gangway providing a stable point on Operators can install well comple- construction without a lost-time the workboat foredeck. Designed to tions faster, eliminating the need for

Activity incident. The teams initial role, in be retroftted and used in up to 2m repetitive and costly interventions, response to storm damage to Maersk waves, it increases typical operabili- saving about 36 hours per comple-

Oil’s Gryphon FPSO, was to establish ty by 0.5m. The frst system was suc- tion – or about $1.5 million per a clear vision and a common purpose cessfully deployed on the Rhyl Flats job. Red Spider was bought by oil of safe construction in reinstating wind farm. Houlder said: “Analysis services giant Halliburton earlier this subsea architecture. from our sea trials calculated a po- year.

tential annual upswing in workboat

Online Elec-

Aberdeen-based operability from 75% to 94% in typi- Corroded stud bolts seriously tronics specializes in design and cal wave conditions. This is based impact an asset’s integrity and un- manufacture of pipeline pig moni- on proven safe access in 1.7m waves. scheduled pressure releases can have toring equipment and pipeline data The maximum TAS design parameter a devastating impact offshore. This

Stork Tech- communications systems. Over 15 is over 2m signifcant wave height. led to Holland-based nical Services years, it has developed a range of At today’s workboat charter rates developing a more more than 40 products and systems and energy prices, an increase to sophisticated method of removing that have become industry standard. 94% working days on a site such as and replacing corroded bolts. Stork

Building on its North Sea experi- RWE’s Rhyl Flats wind farm equates introduced the frst Hot Bolt Clamp ence, global exports have increased to a yearly saving of up to £750,000 technology in 2012, with thousands 40% in the last four years with from workboat uptime and improved of connections reworked in the foreign markets now accounting for turbine operability.” North Sea, without shutdown and more than half of sales annually. It with 100% success.

Red continues its own research and de- Aberdeenshire-based

Spider Tendeka velopment and has hub operations in ’s full-bore ball valve is used Holland-registered ’s

Dubai, Singapore, Australia, Houston during subsea completions. The wireless gauge allows real-time fow and Brazil. e-Red-FB is permanently deployed and shut-in data to be transmit- as part of the tubing string. It is a ted to surface. The gauge has been

Houlder

London-based and computer-controlled valve that can successfully trialed in the North

Southampton-based BMT Nigel Gee be repeatedly opened and closed by Sea. Through a unique tool design, have developed a Turbine Access remote command using a closed- a series of short pressure pulses are

System for operations on offshore loop hydraulic circuit, powered and created using the energy of the well.

These pulses are then decoded on surface to provide pressure, tem- perature, and well status. The gauge can be retroft to existing wells, can optimize asset performance, reduce costs and is fully retrievable. It is equally effective in oil and gas wells, as well as water injectors.

Edinburgh-based Web Rigging

Services’ have developed a system for temporary underdeck access for fabric maintenance on offshore structures. The patented Web Deck combines modern, strong, light- weight materials and innovative design. In comparison to traditional, suspended scaffolding, the system has 87% fewer contact points and 75% less volume. The Web Deck is lighter and reduces installation time by up to 80%.

BMT and Houlder’s access system

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