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Perenco contracts Maersk Resolute rig
UKCS
DENMARK’S Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with Perenco, an independent Brit- ish-French rm, for the lease of a jack-up rig.
Perenco intends to use the rig, known as the Maersk Resolute, to drill three new wells at the Ravenspurn and Wollaston elds in the British sector of the North Sea, Maersk Drilling said last week. It noted that the independent com- pany was due to begin drilling in October of this year and would need the rig for a period of approximately 150 days.
Neither Maersk Drilling nor Perenco have divulged the value of the deal, but the Danish company said in its statement that the contract for the rig included eight one-well options.
e Maersk Resolute, built in 2008, is now operating under contract with the Dutch rm Petrogas and is due to wrap up its current drill- ing programme in September.
Maersk Resilient
In related news, Maersk Drilling is due to start moving another jack-up rig from its eet, the Maersk Resilient, to another UK Continental
Shelf (UKCS) site by the end of July.
e Maersk Resilient is now operating in the
North Sea under a 120-day contract with Ith- aca Oil and Gas, a UK-based company, but it is set to wrap up work within the next week. e rig will then relocate to the Harvey eld to drill an appraisal well for International Oil & Gas (IOG), another independent British operator. e new well will take about 60 days to com- plete with full coring and testing.
IOG said on July 24 that it hoped to spud the well at Harvey on August 3. But it noted that the deadline was dependent on the release of the Maersk Resilient from its current contract.
e company appointed Fraser Well Man- agement to serve as operator of the Harvey appraisal well in September 2018, and another contractor, Fugro GB Marine, wrapped up geophysical and geotechnical surveys of the drilling site late last year.IOG has asked Halli- burton Manufacturing and Services to provide o shore drilling services for the well, and the parties were reported to be close to signing a dealinMay.™
Siemens to serve as one of BP’s main electrical contractors
UK
BP has struck an agreement with Siemens that provides for the latter company to serve as one of the former’s main electrical contractors for onshore and o shore upstream projects around the world.
Under the deal, the German conglomerate will provide design and engineering services for BP projects. Within the framework of such pro- jects, it will assume full responsibility for supply and procurement, project management, instal- lation support and commissioning support for electrical distribution systems.
Siemens will also grant the British super-ma- jor access to its technology, including digitisa- tion services designed to reduce safety and environmental risks. Additionally, it has agreed to provide design and engineering services related to the establishment of integrated net- works connecting BP’s smart engineering tools and components and operating under a single solution.
The parties have not commented on the value of the deal, which has a term of ve years.
New retail systems
In related news, BP has arranged to collaborate with REPL Group, a UK-based retail informa- tion technology consultancy, on the introduc- tion of new technologies for its US retail outlets.
In a statement, REPL said it would work with the super-major’s main US o ce in Chicago to bring BP RESET, “a new cutting-edge head o ce, back o ce and stock management sys- tem to operate in thousands of its retail stores globally,” to BP lling stations in the US. BP is already using the system in other countries to update and streamline all of its point of sale and back o ce systems.
BP RESET is designed to “form a future lead- ing platform for BP’s digital strategy,” REPL said in its statement. It will allow BP lling stations to access cloud-based technology to optimise their operations and foster the development of digital applications for hand-held terminals that employees can use on site, it added.
Markus Krieger, a programme director for BP, said that co-operation with REPL would give a boost to the super-major’s retail business. “[We] can now access detailed data-driven insights to boost employee engagement and enablement, alongside delivering an excep- tional customer experience,” he said. “ anks to a fully integrated, intelligent set-up that has the ability to introduce the power of machine learning to the forecourt, speed, convenience and control will be possible for hundreds of our employees across our stores and head o ce, as well as our customers.”.™
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