Planning a stacked rig reactivation? Get a credible, efficient and reliable drilling unit.
Overview
Rig owners face difficult decisions in today’s market when committing resources to reactivating a stacked drilling rig. The rig reactivation process can be extensive and unpredictable. We help you achieve the first crucial step in maximising your return on investment: making sure your latest drilling unit is ready to go on time and within budget.
Our rig activation services can assist you in achieving an efficient, high-quality reactivation of your Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), jack-up rigs, coiled tubing or intervention well control equipment (IWCE). We’ll help you meet class requirements and industry expectations for the rig itself and the drilling systems.
Service breakdown
You can use our specialist team to manage your full rig reactivation or to support a specific phase of your project.
Reactivation assurance
If you’re planning a rig reactivation in-house using your own management and personnel, we can offer an assurance service as a third-party independent company, that will help to verify work performed and provide more credibility of the unit's ability to perform. This can help increase the marketability of the rig to potential clients.
Certification and compliance
Depending on where the rig will next operate, you’ll need to comply with requirements from authorities such as DBT, DESNZ & DSIT (formerly BEIS), BSEE, NOPSEMA and Havtil. We provide a level of assurance that all systems and components of the MODU are inspected, tested, fit-for-purpose and meet compliance as per class, regulatory and industry requirements.
Commissioning
Decades of expertise to gain from
With our extensive experience of commissioning drilling rigs, clients can gain value, efficiency and compliance in a major capital project. Our commissioning services cover onshore or offshore drilling rigs including newbuild assets, stranded assets and assets that require reactivation from cold or warm stack status.
Our services include:
- Review and development of commissioning plans
- Commissioning and project management oversight
- Review of reactivation project plan
- Rig readiness verification
- Gap analysis / compliance verification for operating region
- Project management / shipyard surveillance
- Review of equipment test plans
- Witness Hardness in the Loop Testing (HIL)
- Witness Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT)
- Witness Systems Integration Testing (SIT)
- Witness of sea trials
- Witness of BOP deployment & testing