Decommissioning oil and gas infrastructure as well as other industrial facilities is often more complicated than the original installation and is subject to a wide array of governance and scrutiny.
Our bespoke industrial digital-decommissioning solutions remove paper, ensuring project status and other essential information are accessible, transparent and traceable, guaranteeing accountability as well as reducing project expenditure and footprint.
Decommissioning risks and challenges, which impact project cost and compliance, include:
- Ineffective handovers from operations to decommissioning, loss of archival information and data gaps.
- Ensuring suitable equipment, materials and people are in situ when and where needed, and to the correct specifications.
- Balancing competing workflow priorities.
- Navigating reams of paper and massive hard-copy dossiers for information.
- Communicating and clarifying contractor responsibilities and transferring site-specific knowledge to the contractor.
- Ensuring contractors follow the work plan and are accountable.
- Avoiding conflicting or potentially dangerous simultaneous operations.
- Management and tracking of critical equipment reuse such as visibility of cleaning and flushing status
- Delays caused by obtaining approvals and signoffs.
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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Companies are not allowed to simply abandon outdated offshore wells, nor would they want to.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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As flexible as it is comprehensive, MODS Connect is the connected software solution that puts intelligence behind every part of your asset lifecycle management. The suite includes a foundational visualization platform with 5 intelligent modules that allow organizations to build an ecosystem best suited to the needs of specific projects or entire portfolios.
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