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throughout the globe, as Neste increases its intensity and the environmental footprint of scheduling to help oil and gas businesses
SAF production. operations. optimally produce, maintain, transport and
This supply agreement is enabled by PDC is led by industry experienced manage compliance of their assets.
Neste’s ambitious growth strategy, which will specialists with a strong track record in safety “Our customers today must deliver
see the company producing 515mn gallons and in environmental, regulatory, operational, economical production, responsible
of SAF (1.5mn metric tons) per year by the and compliance management. compliance, and keep frontline workers safe
end of 2023. Neste has been producing and PDC has appointed Petrofac as the even as the labour supply diminishes,” said
delivering SAF since 2011 and has a proven decommissioning services provider. Petrofac Brandon Ambrose, CEO and Founder of
track record of supplying SAF to customers in will use its proven decommissioning program EZ Ops. “We see an opportunity for oil and
Europe, Asia and the Americas. management systems, tools, and processes, gas operations to rise to these demands by
UNITED AIRLINES, May 11, 2022 deployed by a local team, who together have taking advantage of all the data available and
plugged and abandoned more than 600 wells applying AI. With the acquisitions of Drift
and decommissioned over 100 facilities. and Payload, we are going beyond optimising
SERVICES The alliance has selected Danos, a leading field operations, to optimise truck ticketing
Gulf of Mexico offshore services provider and transport logistics ensuring that the
Promethean for over 75 years, to support field operations action workers need to take are clear to help
and the decommissioning programme. With
our customers operate most efficiently and
decommissioning nearly 2,500 employees, Danos has a proven responsibly.”
With Payload and Drift, EZ Ops further
history of operational excellence and safe
alliance with Petrofac operations. optimises oil and gas operations synthesising
millions of data variables to make data-driven
The project will be led by an integrated
begins decommissioning team based in the Promethean and decisions in real-time to guide field operations
and fluid transportation in a way that
Petrofac West Houston office and using
operations in the Gulf of the latest digital software to deliver the equips producers to perform economically,
decommissioning project with comprehensive
responsibly and with frontline workers
Mexico dashboards, full transparency and delivery equipped with technology to do their best
assurance.
work – a vision EZ Ops defines as operational
Promethean Decommissioning Co. (PDC), PROMETHEAN DECOMMISSIONING CO., May excellence.
a pure-play decommissioning operator, and 11, 2022 As part of the Payload acquisition, Chris
Petrofac, a leading provider of services to Lambert, chief executive officer and David
the global energy industry, have formed an EZ Ops acquires Payload Werklund, founder and chairman of Payload
alliance to decommission the South Pass are departing the company.
60, South Pass 6 and East Breaks 165 fields, and Drift to optimise oil and EZ OPS, May 09, 2022
offshore Gulf of Mexico.
This work is in accordance with the gas operations from the
Decommissioning Orders issued by the US ENERGY TRANSITION
Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety field to delivery, doubling
and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Detmar Logistics and
February 2022, following the termination of its customers
Fieldwood Energy’s leases. Pioneer Natural Resources
The legacy offshore fields and assets EZ Ops, a Canadian leader in oil and
include nine platforms, 200 wells and 32 gas operations technology, has acquired enter multiyear agreement
pipeline segments, with a BSEE estimated two premier transportation and logistics
decommissioning cost of approximately companies: Payload Technologies, a cloud- for ESG-focused frack sand
US$200mn over a multi-year campaign. based solution to digitise field tickets and
PDC’s mission is to deliver safe and regulatory manifests, and Drift Technological last mile logistics
efficient decommissioning operations. As Solutions, a specialist in logistics optimisation
operator, PDC brings a lean, integrated, best for efficient fluid management and truck Detmar Logistics has entered into a first
practices and technology-driven business routing. The combined entity brings of its kind multi-year last mile logistics
model which minimises GHG emissions / together world-class data insight and activity services agreement with Pioneer Natural

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