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from OGV Energy - Issue 66 - March 2023 - Asset Integrity

from OGV Energy - Issue 66 - March 2023 - Asset Integrity, page 35

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Seaway7 and Saipem Announce Fixed Offshore Wind Commercial Collaboration Agreement

Seaway7 announced that it has entered into a commercial collaboration agreement with Saipem to jointly identify, bid and execute fixed offshore wind projects.

Seaway7 and Saipem will pursue selected projects where the combined utilisation of the companies’ complementary world-class assets, technologies, products and competencies will generate significant synergies and improve project economics.

Seaway7 and Saipem will deploy key enabling assets and capabilities to cover activities such as front-end engineering design (FEED), procurement, construction, transportation and installation of foundations and inner-array cables, as well as the installation of substations and wind generator turbines. The target projects are large integrated turnkey developments in Europe, the UK and the US, with the possibility of expanding to other geographic areas.

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The collaboration will enhance operational flexibility and enable early engagement with both clients and the supply chain to optimise design and execution strategies, and to secure critical enabling assets, including vessels and yards.

Gianalberto Secchi, Chief Operating Officer of the Offshore Wind Business Line at Saipem commented: “The agreement with Seaway7 represents an important milestone to offer a more competitive value proposition to our clients on certain integrated fixed wind projects. Together, we will be able to provide a full set of services for wind farms in line with Saipem strategy to best serve the growth in renewable power production projects”.

Stuart Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer at Seaway7 commented:

TechnipFMC picks up $250m contract in Angola

Three more FPSOs were later deployed - Dalia, Pazflor and Clov - in what became known as a 'golden' block due to a plethora of major finds.

New York-listed TechnipFMC said it has been awarded what it calls a "significant" contract to supply flexible pipe and associated hardware for the "first subsea life extension project" by TotalEnergies and its partners in West Africa.

The company - whose head of subsea is Jonathan Landes - defines a "significant" contract as having a value between $75 million and $250 million.

The contract covers the engineering, procurement, and supply of flowlines and connectors for the Girassol Life Extension project.

“We are very pleased to partner with Saipem for this cooperation which builds upon the successful collaboration on the Seagreen project. Working together, we will be well-positioned to efficiently utilise complementary assets and capabilities to create differentiated technical solutions and further optimise project execution. Importantly, the strengthened offering will also expand the potential market for EPCI opportunities through our combined fleet and expertise”.

Stena Drilling announces contract extension with bp for Stena IceMAX

TechnipFMC has landed a contract worth up to $250 million for work on TotalEnergies' Girassol field in Block 17 offshore Angola where production has just been shut-in on its Dalia field for maintenance work to be carried out.

Discovered in the mid-1990s, Girassol opened up Angola's deepwater Congo basin play, hosting the French supermajor's first floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the country.

This additional subsea hardware aims to extend the life of the Girassol field by bypassing the rigid pipe bundles installed before production began in 2001.

Meanwhile, at Dalia, which produces about 120,000 barrels per day of oil, production stopped yesterday in order to carry out one month of scheduled maintenance activities.

According to ANPG, Angola's upstream regulator, the shut-down will last until 26 March this year.

Stena Drilling is pleased to announce that a contract extension has been signed with bp for Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) Stena IceMAX.

This extension shall see the MODU mobilise to the United States Gulf of Mexico in direct continuation of the initial one (1) well programme (estimated 90 days) offshore Newfoundland, for a further scope of two (2) years.

Stena Drilling are delighted to be able to announce this contract extension with bp for the Stena IceMAX and look forward to commencing operations later this year.

Subsea7, DeepOcean win contracts for Irpa and Verdande projects

Subsea7 in consortium with ocean services provider DeepOcean has won two contracts from Equinor for the Irpa and Verdande field development projects in the Norwegian Sea.

According to Subsea7, its share in the contracts is valued in the range of $50m and $150m. Its partner DeepOcean’s share is over $60m.

Located in the Aasta Hansteen area, the Irpa gas project, calls for a subsea tieback of nearly 80km to the Aasta Hansteen floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Subsea7 and DeepOcean will be responsible for the engineering, transportation, and installation of a monoethylene glycol (MEG) pipeline, a production riser, subsea structures, umbilical, and tie-ins.

Equinor submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Irpa gas project to the Norwegian government in November 2022. The project is expected to involve an investment of NOK14.8bn ($1.46bn).

The Verdande project is located in the Nordland Ridge area. With an investment of NOK4.7bn ($460m), the oil and gas field will be developed via a subsea tieback to the existing Skuld field and Norne FPSO facilities.

Subsea7 and DeepOcean will handle the engineering, transportation, and installation of a 7.5km long pipe-in-pipe production pipeline, flexibles, umbilical, subsea structures, and tieins for the Norwegian oil and gas field.

Subsea7 Norway senior vice president Monica Bjørkmann said: “We are delighted to have been awarded these two contracts by Equinor. The awards continue our long-standing collaborative relationship with Equinor with a focus on safe, efficient and reliable operations.”

Mark Rushton, CEO at STC INSISO, said: “BGF’s investment proposition was particularly attractive to us for 2 reasons; firstly because of their strong track record of supporting innovative Scottish businesses, and secondly because of their people who gave us immediate confidence and were culturally aligned to our team from day 1 of the journey.”

STC INSISO secures £2 million BGF investment to support ambitious growth strategy

Aberdeen-headquartered problem-solving company, STC INSISO, has announced a £2 million investment from BGF to support a growth strategy focussing on the company’s ever-evolving suite of software products.

STC INSISO’s products, which span culture, safety, and solutions to improve business processes and performance are already widely trusted and used across industries including oil and gas, construction, marine and utilities. Its COMET software platform, which will now receive an accelerated roll-out following BGF’s investment, generates high quality input data to identify systemic risk and gives users a solid foundation for making sound decisions to ensure future incident prevention.

STC INSISO’s annual revenue for 2022 was £4 million and that figure is predicted to grow significantly over the next two to four years. The investment has already resulted in the creation of three new product development positions, and further recruitment will continue this year.

Arrash Nekonam, Chief Technology Officer at STC INSISO, said: “Our overall objective is not only to grow vertically, but to maintain our track record of consistently delivering for our clients across a range of industry sectors as demand for our software solutions continues to increase. We are delighted that BGF will embark on this journey with us.”

The deal was led by Keith Barclay, an investor based between BGF’s Aberdeen and Edinburgh offices.

Keith said: “STC INSISO has an impressive software product portfolio which has proven invaluable to professionals in a wide range of industry sectors. The team’s bold ambitions have been evident in each of our interactions, and I look to working in partnership with them to see these materialise.”

BGF is the UK and Ireland’s most active and dynamic investor of equity capital in growing companies. Its Scotland and Northern Ireland team reported strong momentum in 2022, delivering a series of highly successful exits and investing £42 million in a diverse range of growth economy businesses. Notable BGF deals taking place in Aberdeen in 2022, included leading an £8 million investment alongside Scottish National Investment Bank into biopharmaceutical company Elasmogen and the highly successful exit from cloud technology business Inoapps.

Subsea7 said that the project management and engineering for the projects will immediately begin at its offices in Stavanger, Norway. Fabrication of the pipelines will be carried out at the company’s spoolbase at Vigra, Norway.

Offshore operations are expected to be executed in 2024, 2025, and 2026 by making use of the fleet of vessels of both Subsea7 and DeepOcean.

DeepOcean Europe managing director Olaf Hansen said: “We have learnt to know Equinor through many years of close collaboration with their organisation and multiple operations on the Norwegian continental shelf.

“They are a demanding but fair operator that constantly challenges us suppliers to further improve safety and reduce emissions and operating costs. We consider winning this contract as a confirmation that we are doing the right things.”

Engineering firm, Quanta has secured another three-year framework extension agreement to provide continued engineering support for an existing oil and gas client.

This framework agreement extends the existing contract for an additional three years and covers the full range of engineering, procurement and construction services (EPC).

The deal is testament to the excellent working relationships that Quanta builds with its clients.

Formerly known as Fabricom Offshore Services until a management buy-out in 2018, Quanta is a key North Sea supplier of EPC services and boasts a strong oil & gas client-base. Its innovative approach to brownfield modifications is helping oil and gas companies increase efficiencies and maximise oil and gas production on ageing assets.

Nick Oates, CEO at Quanta EPC, said: “This is fantastic news which comes quickly off the back of two other framework extension contract wins. We are delighted to win the work and are looking forward to strengthening our relationship with our valued client further on future projects.”

Chris Smith, Partner

Chris is a Partner at Norman Broadbent Group and leads the international Power, Renewables & Utilities practice. He assists investors, developers, asset owners and service providers with executive recruitment (C-suite / SVP / Director levels), leadership assessment and planning proactively for future challenges around human capital.

Prior to Norman Broadbent, Chris worked for a smaller boutique search firm and gained broad experience supporting clients across EMEA, the Americas and Asia Pacific within the following sub-sectors: utilities (water/gas/electricity), offshore/ onshore wind, nuclear, hydrogen, CCUS, waste to energy, conventional power, energy storage, EV infrastructure and industrial engineering.

Alongside his extensive talent management advisory experience, Chris is formally accredited by the AESC (Association of Executive Search & Leadership Consultants) and a qualified psychometric and behavioural competency assessor.

Venterra makes three senior appointments. The offshore wind servicing company grows in Europe, Americas and APAC regions.

Offshore wind servicing company Venterra Group has appointed three senior executives to drive its global business development.

Paul Alcock (pictured) becomes group business development director based in London, Scott Anderson is appointed as vice president, for AsiaPacific and Drew Carey is the new vice president for the Americas. The roles will be to represent the group’s expanding activities in the fast-growing UK and European, Asia Pacific (‘APAC’) and Americas offshore wind markets working closely with our member companies.The business aims to generate accelerated growth in the fast-expanding market and urgently add the skills and capabilities needed for the energy transition.

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Venterra’s chief executive officer Rob Jewkes said: "We are delighted to have three such talented and experienced executives driving growth alongside our member companies in key regions of our global market. Paul has led Acteon’s new business and closer integration of services in the renewables segment, responding to client needs formore coherent, joined up activities. Scott will lead the development of Venterra’s growing presence in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia. Drew has been a true pioneer bringing marine science into US offshore wind. He will capitalise on Venterra’s newly opened office in Providence, Rhode Island and our member companies’ growing work with US developers as they build local supply chains.”

Bp

BP's head of onshore wind and solar David Anderson will step down at the end of the year, the company said on Friday, the latest veteran departure under renewables boss Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath.

Anderson, who has been with BP for over 16 years, will be replaced by Noelia Álvarez Marivela, who joined BP from EDP Renewables in August 2022, BP said in a statement to Reuters.

Dotzenrath herself joined BP in March last year after heading RWE Renewables in what BP CEO Bernard Looney hailed at the time as a sign of how the energy company was attracting executives experienced in renewables to help BP shift away from oil and gas.

She has overseen large staff growth and changes in her division, bringing in several highprofile hires such as Matthias Bausenwein who joined from Danish wind power firm Orsted to lead BP's offshore wind division.

GE Renewable Energy appoints new HR leader for Middle East, North Africa and Turkey

GE Renewable Energy recently appointed Sultan Albalawi as HR Leader – Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (Renewable Energy, Grid Automation)

Having about 18+ years of experience as a practitioner in driving HR strategy, Sultan has been driving HR strategy in HR businesses

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European Energy has announced that Jacob Gotfred Johansen will take over the reins as executive vice president, head of asset management from 1 March. Johansen is current Head of Business Performance at Maersk Drilling. In his new role, Johansen will be in charge of the company’s 1GW of renewable energy capacity in the form of operational solar and wind parks. The company is also responsible for the operation of a number of other renewable energy projects that the company does not own itself.

Johansen said: "I think that European Energy is one of the most interesting Danish companies at the moment. Today, European Energy is involved in more than 24 countries with renewable energy projects. I am looking forward to becoming part of the team and the great task of internationalising the operation and ongoing maintenance of our assets."

Sultan will be responsible for executing key HR initiatives and driving the regional HR strategy and HR functional excellence. He will also enable process improvement for Renewable Energy – Grid Automation and HRBP for Digital Saudi & Bahrain.

Global sustainable development firm Arup has announced seven new senior leaders to strengthen its energy offering. Jemima Bruin-Bland, Neil Copeland, Mike Copson, Craig McCafferty, Graeme McCann, Sally Prickett and Robert Silver will help the firm to place sustainable development at the heart of its business.

Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally. In the UK, its 45-strong Operations Consulting group – mostly based in London and Solihull offices – is a multi-disciplinary group bringing together specialist skills in people, processes and assets to deliver excellence to our clients’ operations.

Part of that includes a growing focus on sustainable development. The firm itself has pledged to go Net Zero by 2030, while also assisting clients with the shift, and supporting numerous clean energy projects around the world.

Mark Neller, Energy Business Leader, UKIMEA, at Arup, commented, “We are excited to welcome our new colleagues to Arup. Their recruitment is part of a wider plan to strengthen the leadership of our Energy Business and more generally, build capacity and capability to accelerate the energy transition and support our clients thrive through the journey to net zero.”

Iberdrola names Felipe Montero CEO of new German business.

Iberdrola has integrated its business activities in Germany under the name Iberdrola Deutschland and has appointed Felipe Montero as CEO of the new company.

Iberdrola Deutschland, a fully owned subsidiary of the Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, will be headquartered in Berlin and will focus on the operation of large renewable energy assets and the supply of energy transition-related services. Its offshore and onshore divisions will participate in the planning, construction and operation of wind farms and solar plants. The commercial division will offer commercial and industrial customers various supply solutions, and the integrated solutions division will support storage and hydrogen solutions for industrial use.

Newly appointed CEO of Iberdrola Deutschland, Felipe Montero, said in a statement: “The combination of all activities under one roof with an integrated 360° business model allow us to offer our customers and partners the best services to achieve their decarbonisation targets while leveraging the capabilities of the global Iberdrola group.”

Ougaard joins the company from Vestas Wind Systems, where he, since 1999, held a number of senior positions including Chief Operating Officer for Vestas Offshore and for MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and most recently Head of Construction for Vestas in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

Ougaard will join the company as of 1 March, 2023.

Bladt appoints new Chief Operating Officer

Flemming Ougaard will take on the role from March this year.

Bladt Industries has appointed Flemming Ougaard as its new Chief Operating Officer.

Ørsted appoints senior Biden administration official as VP of strategy

Global energy giant Ørsted has appointed senior Biden administration official and clean technology expert Dr Varun Sivaram as group senior vice president for strategy and innovation.

In this global leadership role, Sivaram will oversee Ørsted Group’s corporate strategy and lead the development and deployment of transformative technologies and digital innovations.

Before joining Ørsted, Sivaram served as managing director for Clean Energy and Innovation and Senior Advisor to

“Making big changes to a company of our size and complexity is not an easy task and takes quite a bit of time, but we are making really good progress. We have a great team, great customers and a very promising order pipeline,” said Anders Soe-Jensen, CEO of Bladt Industries. With this new Executive Committee in place, I am convinced that we also have the right profiles with the experience and knowledge in place to lead and further progress our journey and to take Bladt to the next level.”

Secretary John F. Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate.

He has also served as chief technology officer of ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy company; on the faculty of Columbia University and Georgetown University; as director of the energy programme at the Council on Foreign Relations; as a consultant at McKinsey & Co.; and as senior energy advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor.

During his tenure with the Biden-Harris administration, Sivaram built and led the First Movers Coalition, a partnership between the US government and the World Economic Forum that has convened more than 70 world-leading companies to invest in the next generation of innovative climate technologies.

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The complete package for well decommissioning

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Well-Safe Solutions provides a ground-breaking approach to the safe and cost-efficient decommissioning of on and offshore wells. We offer a specialist well abandonment service that allows operators to meet the challenges and regulatory imperatives around decommissioning, while significantly reducing costs.

Well-Safe Solutions and Apache Corporation sign P&A Club decommissioning deal

cumulative experience gained by our specialist decommissioning teams on both assets across hundreds of wells to date.

“This ‘learning curve’ of knowledge, built up through our exclusive focus on well decommissioning operations, enables clients to reap the benefits of scope aggregation when adding a number of wells – or even a single well - to a campaign.

This work will begin in 2024 as part of a continuous campaign, enabling Well-Safe Solutions to maximise schedule flexibility and improve efficiencies of scale for the member companies within the campaign.

Well-Safe Solutions and Apache Corporation have signed a multi-year framework agreement to decommission wells in the North Sea, as part of the decommissioning specialist’s Plug and Abandonment (P&A) Club offering.

The deal provides the US-based energy producer with access to specialist decommissioning assets the Well-Safe Defender and Well-Safe Guardian to P&A its well stock.

Chris Hay, Director of Strategy and Business Development at Well-Safe Solutions, said: “We are ready to assist Apache with their well decommissioning requirements, affording them the flexibility to book their wells into our campaigns when required.

“Our multi-well, multi-operator P&A Clubs give our clients cost certainty and leverage the

“By building a strong track record solely in well plug and abandonment operations, instead of continually switching between drilling and decommissioning, the cumulative experience gained ensures the delivery of safe and efficient operations.”

According to the North Sea Transition Authority, it takes 31 days on average to decommission a subsea well from a North Sea rig.

As an example, Well-Safe Solutions’ practical experience on four North Sea wells during summer 2022 is comfortably within the top P25 performance quartile of this average, with the shortest well decommissioning window 7.9 days and the longest just 15.5 days.

Separate to the frame agreement signed by both companies, Apache has secured a slot for Well-Safe Solutions to plug and abandon subsea wells in the UK Continental Shelf.

Exceptional first year gets decom specialist off to flying start

A leading light in the decommissioning waste sector has marked the end of an exceptional first year in business by announcing that it has delivered contracts worth £3 million.

Phoenix Decom is based in Aberdeen and has strategically located operational outlets at Peterhead and Lerwick as well as Aberdeen. It was set up during the Covid-19 pandemic by respected industry leader Craig Smith, supported by a knowledgeable team of trusted industry professionals who have collective experience of more than 200 years.

Against the odds, the company has flourished to become the leading one-stop shop for independent, modern, integrated solutions for the management and disposal of decommissioning waste in the subsea sector.

The P&A Club’s sharp focus on operational and cost efficiency aligns with industry regulator the North Sea Transition Authority’s target to reduce the cost of decommissioning upstream oil and gas infrastructure in the UKCS by 35% by the end of 2022.

Pauline Innes, North Sea Transition Authority Director of Decommissioning, said: “There are hundreds of suspended wells across the UKCS that are ready to be decommissioned and impressive cost savings can be achieved from taking a campaign approach to the work.

“We encourage every operator to look at available opportunities to decommission and adopt the most efficient, value-for-money option.”

This latest development follows a year of sustained growth for Aberdeen-based Well-Safe Solutions.

In December 2022, the Well-Safe Protector mobilised for Ithaca Energy following an extensive well P&A refit. Once complete, it will move directly to its next scope for Neptune Energy later in 2023 after securing this contract in September 2022.

The company prides itself on offering a fresh contemporary approach, and achieves dynamic, tangible and environmentally compliant outcomes for all clients and on all projects.

To date, the team has managed more than 20,000 tonnes of subsea decommissioned material from the North Sea with firm emphasis on careful application of the waste hierarchy and, crucially, avoiding landfill as far as possible.

Year two is also off to a flying start with plans to recruit up to 12 additional people to the team and ongoing £500,000 investment will further expand services and introduce electric vehicles to the company’s growing fleet.

To find out more, visit phoenixdecom.com

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OGV Energy - Issue 66 - March 2023 - Asset Integrity

by OGV Energy