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“Neptune Energy reports that a cement faces unprecedented challenges at this time Lithuania’s natural gas transmission company
plug has been inserted against the reservoir and new digital technologies are enabling Amber Grid said on October 9.
so that barriers have been restored. Work E&P companies to be more efficient, Tests were carried out on a 38-km long
is still under way to remove the two drill maximize the value of their activities, reduce section of the gas pipeline. Around 45% of
string sections from the BOP,” the safety costs and support employees. the total construction work of the project
regulator said. “We see significant opportunities to has been completed since the beginning of
“The PSA regards the incident on Gjøa enhance the safety and productivity of our pipeline construction in January and this
as serious, and an investigation team global drilling and wells activities, reducing share is expected to increase to 60% by the
drawn from its specialist staff is starting non-productive time and supporting our end of the year.
work immediately. global teams’ ability to work together to share The gas pipeline will connect the gas
It will concentrate on the planning knowledge and best practice. markets of Lithuania, other Baltic countries
of the well and implementation of the “By consolidating data from Neptune’s and Finland with that of the European
drilling operation up to the point when the four enterprise data management (EDM) Union.
incident occurred,” the PSA said. environments into one system in the cloud,
Neptune’s drilling and wells teams can access
all well data from any location, at any time; Romania’s government
Neptune uses Halliburton collaborate and share resources; ensure agrees with investors on
consistent approaches across the business
tech to cut well planning and reduce costs associated with using amending offshore law
multiple software platforms.”.
times, costs EQUINOR, October 5 2020

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has after elections
reached an agreement with oilfield services Serica Energy starts Romanian government officials have
and technology company Halliburton, for the promised the investors involved in Black
used of Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well intervention work at Rhum Sea offshore gas projects that Romania’s
construction suite of cloud applications, that offshore legislation will be improved after the
could save the oil company $20mn a year, by field offshore UK parliamentary elections.
reducing well planning time, and automate “We have held discussions with Black
engineering calculations. Oil company Serica Energy said offshore Sea producers and investors, to whom we
Neptune Energy said the move would operations had commenced at an intervention promised that we would improve the offshore
consolidate all global drilling and wells project at the Rhum field off the coast of legislation immediately after we have another
activities, improve efficiency, and reduce Scotland. structure in Parliament. Thus, the investors
non-productive time, leading to potential Awilco Drilling’s WilPhoenix semi- will be able to recover their investments by
annual savings of more than $20mn. submersible drilling rig had arrived on working with stable, predictable and, most
The three-year agreement – part of location and was safely installed over the R3 importantly, non-retroactive legislation,”
Neptune’s digital subsurface program – will well. said Niculae Havrilet, state secretary at the
create a platform for Neptune’s digital well The current work programme would Ministry of Economy and Energy.
program. It aims to reduce the duration for involve recovering equipment left in the well He argued Romania must speed up
planning wells from weeks to days, automate by the previous operator and removing an the using of its gas resources before the
engineering calculations and consolidate obstruction believed to be in place across European Union brings in bans on gas
data currently held across multiple global parts of the downhole completion. similar to those brought in for coal.
locations into one. The well would then be recompleted, with Draft legislation has already been agreed
“Moving to a cloud-based solution will rig operations planned to last about 70 days. with investors involved with Black Sea gas,
enable Neptune to incorporate artificial The R3 well was already connected Havrilet assured, speaking of a win-win
intelligence, machine learning, and data to subsea production infrastructure and relationship with the investors. .
analytics to solve upstream challenges production was expected to start in early
and support the company’s overall digital 2021.
transformation,” Neptune Energy said.
Further, Neptune Energy said that
Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 cloud Part of Poland-Lithuania
applications will enable Neptune to build
“digital twins” of its wells to not only plan pipeline GIPL undergoes
and track their progress throughout their
lifecycle but to model opportunities to tests
optimize performance and predict potential
problems before they occur. Lithuania has tested the quality of the first
The suite is also expected to bring benefits section of the new gas pipeline, GIPL, that is
to optimising inventories of Neptune’s plant, expected to go online in the end of 2021.
people, and production resources. Hydraulic tests confirmed that the
Neptune’s Global Head of Drilling & pipeline was capable of sustaining its
Wells, Brett McIntyre, said: “The industry maximum designed pressure loads,

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