Page 38: of Offshore Engineer Magazine (Aug/Sep 2016)

37 39

available as a rental item.

Helix also recently completed the ? rst coiled tubing intervention from an

LWI (light well intervention) vessel in

Changing the North Sea with a WIU2 notation.

SUBSEA

This operation opens up the potential for major cost savings for North Sea intervention. Innovative engineering was required to prevent coil fatigue and the game compensate the CT lifting frame.

On the decommissioning side, we are

In advance of OE’s 2016 Deepwater developing a large bore environmental

Intervention Forum, held in Galveston, containment system that we expect will allow us to expand our open-water

Texas, Audrey Leon discusses the next tubing pulling activities in the Gulf of game-changing technologies with

Mexico, as well as potentially bring this methodology to other basins, such as the forum’s board members.

the North Sea and Brazil. This technol- ogy further extends the capability of

Category A and B intervention vessels, and should reduce the risk of abandon- ment by allowing for better de? nition of the rig spread that will ultimately perform the upper abandonment.

What are some of the positives occur- ring in the industry at the moment?

Jason Leath: Competitors are not only talking to each other; they are even teaming up. It also looks like service

The Helix Well Enhancer.

providers may be recognizing operators

Photo from Helix Energy Solutions Group.

as partners or investors rather than just bags of money. In turn, operators may be seeing the service provider as a special- hat are some of the interven- for riserless interventions. To date, only ty tool to be polished and maintained.

W tion technologies you are slick and electric line options have been

Alex Lawler: currently following – are there any available. The ability to use coiled tub- The emerging technolo- ing in a riserless application offers an gies of yesterday have become the proven potential game changers?

array of downhole options not previous- technologies of today. The amount of

Jason Leath, Lomac Oil & Gas: I ly available to the industry. On another successful operations continues to build, am most excited about the success Wild front, there are intriguing developments demonstrating not only the technical

Well Control has recently had with their with regards to casing cut and pull op- viability of the intervention industry, but annulus isolation tool (OE: July 2016). In erations. Rigless options and open-water the safety and cost ef? ciency. More and the past, less effective methods may have pressure control applications are being more operators are becoming comfortable been utilized in attempt to correct dif? - developed and tested. with rig-alternative options to execute cult annulus issues. But, now because of their intervention and P&A (plugging and

David Carr, Helix WellOps: this proven game-changing tool, opera- Helix abandonment) backlog. It’s undeniable tors may have the backside access that’s is always looking at ways in which that the intervention sect of the industry been needed. technology can be employed to im- has a bright and expanding future.

prove the cost-effectiveness of well

Alex Lawler, LLOG Exploration: David Carr: intervention, as well as reduce the cost The current downturn is

Riserless deployment of coiled tub- of decommissioning. Our ? rst 15,000 requiring operators to look at very dif- ing should be available within a year. psi intervention riser system, which is ferent commercial models for their well

This capability will be a step change being developed with OneSubsea – a intervention and abandonment require- fellow member in the Subsea Services ments. This involves moving away

Alliance – will allow for the ef? cient from the traditional ‘day rate’ model to a

OE’s Deepwater Intervention Forum will intervention on high-pressure wells in more collaborative and mission-aligned be held this August 9-11, 2016, at the deepwater without the need for a 15K approach. This is a positive develop-

Galveston Island Convention Center. subsea BOP (blowout preventer) and rig, ment for service companies that have the

For more information, please visit: which remain high cost assets, even in experience, the technology and a strong www.deepwaterintervention.com.

the current environment. It will also be ? nancial structure to tackle it.

August 2016 | OE oedigital.com 40 040_OE0816_Subsea2_dif_jl1.indd 40 7/22/16 11:56 PM