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Equinor is exploring new ways of working with suppliers to withstand market volatility, increase efficiency and ensure sustainable margins.
Particularly within project development, early engagement of key suppliers is increasingly a preferred approach. This enables concept optimisation and robust execution planning, and it offers suppliers an opportunity to assume a greater role in overall value creation.
A lot of focus is made on working with suppliers in more integrated ways, as one team, to eliminate waste embedded in interfaces, empower suppliers and increase their responsibility. An important measure is introduction of new incentive schemes in the agreements that reward safe and effective deliveries.
“Going forward we will work even closer with the best suppliers to demonstrate that safety, efficiency, quality and costs can go hand in hand. Our aim is to create value together with suppliers and find win-win solutions for all parties involved”, says Krantz-Underland.
Equinor (Norway), March 2 2020
Socar’s Petkim petchem complex sees record output
Turkey’s only integrated petrochemical production complex—operated by Petkim,
a subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s national oil company Socar—has said it achieved all-time high output volume in 2019.
Located in Aliaga, Izmir province on
the Aegean coast, its production rose 24%
y/y to 3.4mn tonnes, according to a Petkim statement on March 2. Income reached Turkish lira (TRY) 11.67bn, up 25% y/y, while net profit stood at TRY764.2mn.
“The integration of the STAR refinery [which produces petrochemical feedstock] contributed to the results in a positive way,” Anar Mammadov, head of the SOCAR Turkey refining and petrochemicals department, said.
“Instead of importing naphtha [feedstock] from different parts of the world, we now take it from the STAR refinery via pipeline thus increasing our efficiency, the security
of supply and operational capability,” Mammadov added.
bne IntelliNews, March 2 2020
Wintershall Dea to use Island
Constructor for Norwegian
well intervention
German oil and gas firm Wintershall Dea has received consent from the Norwegian offshore regulator to use the Island Constructor vessel for well intervention
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activities on the Vega and Maria fields located offshore Norway.
The regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), said this week that Wintershall Dea would use the Island Constructor vessel, starting from mid-March 2020, on production licenses 248 and 475BS/ CS.
The application period extends to December 31 2022.
The consent applies to light well intervention involving cable-based well maintenance, whereby a cable is run directly through the water down into the well without using a riser.
The well intervention activities are to be carried out by Island Constructor which received an Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) in September 2010. The vessel, built
in 2008 and designed for well intervention, is operated by Island Offshore Management.
March 4 2020
Nexans to supply subsea cables for Marjan project
French offshore cabling specialist Nexans has been awarded a purchase order to supply subsea cables for the offshore Marjan increment development mega- project on the eastern coast of the Arabian Gulf.
Nexans said that it would supply two lengths of 90 kilometers of 230kV HVAC three-core subsea power cables with an internal fiber optical element.
The company will deploy its Nexans Aurora cable-laying vessel, still under construction, to complete the Marjan program work.
Ole Kristian Mysen, export sales manager for submarine and land systems at Nexans, said: “Nexans is delighted with the trust shown in us, and we’re looking forward to adding the Marjan increment development project to our strong track record of subsea projects, building on over 60 years of experience in submarine cable systems around the world.”
The composite submarine cables for the link will be produced by Nexans Norway plant in Halden, while the fiber optical cable will be produced by the company’s specialized factory in Rognan. The
cable installation is expected to begin in February 2022.
Discovered in 1967, the Marjan field is one of the oldest and biggest offshore oil and gas fields in the Arabian Gulf. It is currently undergoing expansion under the Marjan increment program (MIP) announced in 2017.
Saudi Aramco, the owner and operator of the field, announced the implementation of MIP to expand the crude production from the field to 800,000 barrels per day.
It will help the oil major to maintain
its overall maximum sustained crude production capacity at 12 million barrels a day.
Front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies were started in 2017, while multiple developmental work packages
for the expansion project were awarded in 2018 and 2019.
This development program includes a new offshore gas-oil separation plant, and 24 offshore oil, gas, and water injection platforms.
It is also worth mentioning that Saudi Aramco awarded $18bn worth of contracts for the engineering, procurement, and construction to boost production from both the Marjan and Berri offshore fields in July 2019.
March 3 2020
Framo secures maintenance contract from Aker BP
In an important step in the modernisation of the Norwegian shelf operations, Aker BP and Framo have entered a long-term maintenance contract for seawater lift pumps where compensation is directly linked to facility uptime, effective from
5 March.
In 2018, the two companies with technology
company Cognite, embarked upon a digital pilot project for predictive maintenance of the seawater lift pumps on the Aker BP-operated Ivar Aasen field. The pilot has been a resounding success. The newly signed maintenance contract covers all the five field centres where Aker BP is operator.
“A considerable effort has been made on the part of Aker BP and Framo to establish a full- fledged smart contract,” says Aker BP head of operations and field development Kjetel Digre. “The contract represents a huge step within digitalisation and predictive maintenance. Going forward, algorithms and sensor data will help us to increase uptime and reduce maintenance on our seawater lift pumps.”
The contract has a duration of six years, with an option for an additional six years and is a continuation of the pilot contract signed by Aker BP, pump supplier Framo and Cognite during ONS in 2018.
This marks a milestone as Aker BP and pump supplier Framo are now taking the digital pilot work a step further to a long-term collaboration through Aker BP’s smart contracts are performance-based model agreements, where compensation is determined by the systems’ reliability and performance.
“Cooperation with Cognite and sharing data have been essential in arriving at algorithms, digital dashboards and an incentive model that ensures value for both Aker BP and Framo. This way of working is in line with Aker BP’s strategy of creating added value together with strategic partners,” adds Digre.
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