Background
IPT Global partnered with a major global operator to standardize and optimize fleet-wide BOP testing. This collaborative initiative resulted in over 33 days or 800 hours of deepwater rig time savings per annum for the customer. In addition to creating value through gained efficiencies, IPT Global continues to protect value for this client through enhanced assurance of well barrier integrity across their operations.
The Challenge
Prior to this fleet-wide initiative, the operator did not have a standard approach to BOP testing. Operations varied across regions using a combination of SureTec PressureTesting, circular chart recorders, and competitor digital chart solutions. This was an opportunity to ensure effective implementation of process safety policies and to drive efficiency across global operations.
The Solution
IPT Global’s performance advisor partnered with the client’s teams to ensure accelerated learning by utilizing big data and analytics that made performance visible and transparent. Implementation of IPT Global’s PressureTesting solution fleetwide increased efficiencies in regions where inferior solutions were previously used. Adoption of one standardized digital solution allowed for consistent assurance practices to meet internal requirements, compliance with regulatory requirements, and remove sources of human error from operations.
During test design and planning, all test plans were created and optimized using PressureTesting’s TestPlanner module to ensure compliance and consistency with company policy and regulations. IPT Global’s SMEs generated and optimized test plans based on decades of experience across multiple global operators. A wholesale reduction of three to four test steps per test resulted in reduced component wear and tear, extending mean- time between failures while reducing maintenance and operational time and costs across the fleet.
In addition to test step reduction and optimization, deepwater projects that adopted the PressureTesting digital solution benefited from over 25% time savings per test with IPT Global’s advanced algorithms. Algorithms that are not only fast and efficient, but stringent and rigorous as well, providing industry-leading assurance that all leaks are detected early.
After global implementation of SureTec PressureTesting, all of the regional operations were fully documented in standardized reports and archived in IPT Global’s cloud-based collaboration hub. IPT Global’s performance advisor consulted with the client teams to define custom performance metrics and KPIs to track within PressureTesting. Once this information was transparent across the fleet, the team was able to identify opportunities for performance and process improvements and to share key learnings.
Results
Through a collaborative and trusted partnership, the fleet-wide implementation of SureTec PressureTesting resulted in more than 800 hours, or 33 days, of critical path time savings per year for BOP testing. This was achieved through a global initiative to consult with IPT Global SMEs, who identified opportunities to reduce waste in test plans by eliminating steps; and by implementing the most efficient and robust digital solution for well barrier verification.
IPT Global’s performance advisor was able to provide a holistic perspective across the operations to share best practices, and identify accelerated learning opportunities that improved overall operational efficiency. Applying PressureTestingas a global digital solution was a critical step towards removing sources of human error from operations and to ensure that all regions were following standard practices and procedures.
