Often more complicated than the original installation and subject to a wide array of governance and scrutiny, decommissioning projects can now benefit from MODS Connect, eliminating paper from key workflows, ensuring transparent and accessible status and archival information for enhanced productivity.
Use MODS Connect for efficient, compliant, traceable decommissioning, with the following paperless processes:
- Site visualization
- Digital work packages
- Digital materials management
- Digital certifications, weight management and completions
- Monitoring weights of removed components for accurate, safe, efficient removal and transport coordination.
- Ineffective handovers, loss of archival information and data gaps.
- Ensuring suitable equipment, materials and people are to the correct specification and in situ as needed.
- Balancing competing workflow priorities.
- Navigating reams of paper & massive hard-copy dossiers for information.
- Communicating and clarifying contractor responsibilities.
- Transferring site-specific knowledge to the contractor.
- Ensuring contractors follow the work plan and are accountable.
- Avoiding conflicting or potentially dangerous simultaneous operations.
- Visibility, management and traceability of critical equipment reuse such as cleaning and flushing status.
- Delays caused by obtaining approvals and signoffs.
MODS Connect takes the uncertainty out of decommissioning by digitalizing workflows associated with work packages, materials and completions so that your projects flow in a predictable and streamlined manner:
> MODS Connect Materials: Intelligent inventory control of materials, equipment and components to ensure delivery on time, in sequence and to the correct location.
> MODS Connect WorkPack: Digital work packs ensure more intelligent, transparent and accountable project execution.
> MODS Connect Completions: Facilitate a controlled, staged transfer of responsibility back to the owner-operator via an intelligent centralized database.
MODS Connect features activity management with interactive scheduling and visible SIMOPS for integrated work front management. An integrated, modular solution, digital decommissioning with MODS Connect helps execute decommissioning projects, heightening efficiency and ROI with compliant, on schedule and transparent works.
Offshore environmental sensitivities are wide ranging and include microbiological ecosystems, fish and fisheries, marine mammals, seabirds, conservation habitats and seabirds.
Vulnerable to oil, chemical and sediment discharges, acoustic disturbances or other disruptions, an environmental impact assessment as part of a broader decommissioning plan must be conducted well in advance of deconstructing the asset.
Companies are not allowed to simply abandon outdated offshore wells, nor would they want to. Regulatory authorities require costly guarantees upfront to ensure the environmental integrity of offshore these wells: that they are properly boundaried and without environmental problems associated with any project phase, including decommissioning.
MODS Connect makes decommissioning works traceable, and workers accountable. Digital data integrity management prefaces workflow management. This tightens project oversight so that tasks occur in the correct sequential order and as efficiently as possible, mitigating mistakes and decreasing the project’s environmental footprint.
Further, our digital decommissioning solution aids your compliance reporting. The main US oil and gas regulators, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), dictate that oil and gas companies report all expenses, including costs associated with platform dismantling and site clean-up within 120 days of decommissioning completion.
With MODS digital decommissioning solution in place, and especially when integrated with your financial management platform, archival project information is easily available on a computer or mobile device, eliminating time-consuming paper-based systems and manual processes from your environmental compliance reporting.
Decommissioning is a project unto itself with several phases, effectively asset abandonment, structure removal and structure recycling. In the offshore oil and gas industry, for example, the first stage is to secure well operations, followed by removal of the pipes and structures that connect the platform to treatment ground centers.
Environmental risk mitigation is crucial. Waste disposal follows the removal phase, which entails identifying appropriate storage sites for non-polluting waste and processing any pollutants for recycling and/or disposal.
Post-decommissioning activities require risk-based monitoring as well as potential long-term management plan for any remaining infrastructure.
Decommissioning demands sophisticated techniques and robust project oversight. Project planning, with the right digital solution in place, aggregates “like” activities and in the correct sequence, reducing project expenditure and footprint.
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