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who brings over 30 years’ experience in of the 1970s early 1980s, they have been Consulting firm wins contract
the Norwegian and international energy producing Dutch offshore gas to heat our
sectors. homes and fuel the economy,” Neptune’s at Johan Sverdrup
With a focus on the planning and managing director Lex de Groot said. “It’s
drilling of wells in the Barents, Norwegian, our responsibility to decommission these International marine and engineering
and North Sea, his career includes eight platforms, take everything with us and leave consulting firm LOC Group has been
years as Stavanger Regional Manager for the seabed in a clean state”. awarded more work at the Johan Sverdrup
wells with AGR. He added: “All three platforms were oil ield from Norwegian operator Equinor.
The formation of Exceed Norge reflects brought onshore and the associated LOC said on June 23 that the contract
its parent company’s ongoing strategy to materials will be recycled or reused as much was awarded to the Norwegian entity of the
strengthen and diversify its profile, in terms as possible”. LOC Group.
of both geographic footprint and services The company will provide marine
offered. warranty surveyor (MWS) services for
Exceed Norge’s overarching objective BP invests in methane leak the subsea umbilical, risers, and flowlines
is the implementation of new commercial (SURF) development on the Johan Sverdrup
models, applied to exploration drilling and idenfication software oil field in the North Sea.
well plug and abandonment (P&A) activity. The scope of work is for part of the
Simpson explained: “Never has there BP has invested $5mn in Satelytics, a Phase 2 development of the field. The group
been a more appropriate time to adjust geospatial analytics software company has been providing MWS services on the
commercial models for the benefit of the that uses advanced spectral imagery and development of the Johan Sverdrup field
operator and supply chain communities. machine learning to monitor environmental since 2015.
“With several decades’ robust experience changes, including methane emissions. LOC’s work under this contract falls
behind us, the Exceed Norge team has Satelytics collects high-resolution under an existing frame agreement.
identified gaps in existing industry service spectral imagery from the planet’s surface The work will include a review of the
levels. We aim to lead a change in this using satellites, drones, and planes. project, procedural and technical design
respect, bridging those gaps with the Its technology combines these images documentation relating to marine
introduction of alternative contracting with proprietary algorithms to create operations, as well as on-site attendances to
models and working with the wider unique electromagnetic signatures that can approve operations for project critical cargo,
industry on a collaborative basis”. be used to detect environmental changes, pipelines, cables, and umbilical.
including methane releases or leaks. In addition, the SURF development
The software visualises these data sets includes substantial subsea infrastructure of
Neptune to decommission on interactive displays that give end-users a approximately 100 km of rigid pipelines.
Kevin Sirski, managing director and
clear and actionable picture of operations,
Dutch platforms and alert them to facility risks. naval architect at LOC Norway, said: “LOC
BP said on June 23 that its $5mn
Stavanger is very pleased to be continuing
North Sea-focused Neptune Energy has investment would enable Satelytics to its work on the Johan Sverdrup Field with
decommissioned the L10-C, L10-D and develop its technology further and scale Equinor, a leading global energy company.
L10-G platforms in Dutch waters. its applications throughout the oil and gas “We have been a long-term provider
The platforms have been providing sector. of MWS services for Equinor on this field
offshore natural gas to the Netherlands for Use of the technology has the potential and we are delighted that we will continue
around 40 years and ceased production in to be part of the British oil major’s aim to working on this exciting development
2016. install methane measurement at all major through to the completion of Phase 2 in
According to Neptune’s statement oil and gas processing sites by 2023, publish 2022”.
on June 24, more than 3,400 tonnes of the data and then drive a 50% reduction in LOC Group also announced on Tuesday
steel – around half the weight of the Eiffel methane intensity of its operations. that it secured a five-year contract from
Tower – were removed as part of the Morag Watson, BP SVP of digital Japan’s Inpex for work on the Ichthys LNG
decommissioning program that was carried science and engineering, said: “Satelytics is project in Australia.
out by Neptune Energy and Boskalis, using modernising the energy sector by making The deal covers the provision of marine
the Bokalift1 vessel. data about physical assets more accessible warranty services and marine assurance
The steelwork was removed from the and digestible, leading to better decision for the project and its associated drilling
seabed and placed on the vessel in a series making. operations.
of lifting operations. “We are excited to work closely
The removal of rock will return the alongside their unique team of scientists
seabed to a clean state and will mark the and technologists to help them evolve their
completion of this extensive operation, technology and to continue to move the
Neptune explained. needle on industry digitalisation”.
“These three platforms had come to
the end of their economic lives and, as

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