Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian drilling rig contractor Constellation Oil Services and HMH have announced the signing of an integrated maintenance support contract for the blowout preventers on the semisubmersible drilling rigs Alpha Star, Gold Star and Lone Star.
The contractual services agreement will last for five years, with the option for extension. The partnership model is said to be unprecedented in Brazil, and part of its remuneration is conditioned on performance, in a risk-sharing model.
In this format, Constellation says that it will be able to focus on drilling operations and, together with HMH, will share responsibility for maintaining the BOPs of the three drilling units.
The agreement provides for parts supply, predictive and preventative maintenance, optimization of time-based maintenance using data from equipment, “between well” maintenance, continued certification and 24/7 engineering support from the HMH team onboard Constellation rigs.
BOP maintenance is one of the main contributors to uptime in drilling and well intervention campaigns. With this change in the paradigm of equipment maintenance and asset management, the expectation is that drilling units will be available to customers for longer and longer.
01.12.2024
