New Chapter for Norway
For the first time, Aker BP and DeepOcean have conducted an advanced subsea operation without requiring key personnel to be offshore.
A job that previously took two weeks offshore was completed in a single working day, controlled from a remote operations center in Haugesund.
Together with its strategic partner, DeepOcean, Aker BP wrote a new chapter in Norwegian offshore history when a well at the Idun Nord field in the Skarv area of the Norwegian Sea was stabilized, hundreds of meters below the surface, without engineers having to leave shore.
What would traditionally require a full offshore rotation of up to 14 days was, this time, completed in around 12 hours.
The well was stabilized by filling the borehole with gravel, a typical IMR task (inspection, maintenance, and repair). However, the vessel Dina Star was originally mobilized to map the seabed around Skarv, not for intervention work.
From the Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Haugesund, the team coordinated activities onboard Dina Star in real time.
The actual seabed work was carried out by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), also controlled from shore.
