Aker BP has extended by five years an alliance agreement offshore Norway with SLB and StimWell Services, according to an April 3 company press release.
Since the cooperation started in 2019, the trio has collaborated to help Aker BP boost oil production and efficiency at the company’s operated fields on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, employing digitalization and various technologies.
Accomplishments to date include simultaneous operations using jackup rigs, speedier development of previously locked-in barrels, and what Aker BP claims has been the world’s first autonomous intervention operation.
Currently, the alliance manages planning and execution of activities via digital workflows, which are said to have increased productivity, reduced risk and led to improved success rates. The future focus will be on further advances in offshore well intervention and stimulation.
Goals include further digital transformation through deeper integration between subsurface and operations; expanded use of Aker BP’s integrated operations center for remote operations; and faster deployment of new technologies.
The alliance will also support the process of bringing new wells on stream, with a newly upgraded stimulation vessel used to optimize the new Valhall wells at the production and wellhead platform (PWP) that is bridge-linked to the central Valhall complex and also connected via a 50-km subsea pipeline to the unmanned Fenris platform.
"Stimulation has been critical in unlocking and increasing the recovery from tight reservoirs such as Valhall," said Sami Haidar, managing director with StimWell Services. “During the last five years, the alliance working together, managed to successfully develop very tight areas of the field, by using innovative technology, which significantly reduced the execution time, and CO2 footprint and making it economic.”
