Drill-ship activity begins in shipshape fashion

The Noble Bob Douglas drill ship has completed its five-year special periodic survey  and mobilized to Guyana.

It’s expected to start drilling an exploration well in Guyana in April, after which the team plans to execute a batch development drilling campaign. This includes setting the 36-inch and 20-inch casing on the initial seven Liza Phase 1 wells, which will take around 35 days.

Logistics and Drilling are working closely together to plan the supply of this complex operation. It involves transporting about 700 joints of casing to the rig, as well as around 3,000 metric tons of cement and 70,000 barrels of water-based mud.

Once the seven-well batch operation is completed, the team will start setting the intermediate and production casing strings on six wells. This work is expected to continue until the end of 2018.

Preparation, one-team working together, and close attention to safety are key to the team’s success so far. They completed a drill well on paper and risk assessment exercise before the activity began and progressed the entire rig crew through Safe Choice training.

Engineering, planning, manufacturing, construction and tooling mobilization is ongoing around the world, including in Georgetown, Trinidad, Houston, Mexico, Singapore and Indonesia.

The team has done an outstanding job in managing the demanding startup workload, while maintaining the high performance of the exploration and testing program on the Stena Carron rigline.