Overview

With ever increasing complexity in the world of “big oil”, operators and their joint-venturers seem to continually expand their exposure to both political and financial risk in order to meet an insatiable demand for energy in some of the most remote corners of the globe. Sometimes you have to look a little closer to home for the next big opportunity…

The Quad 204 Project located West of the Shetland Islands was the first project of its kind to invest record breaking capital to “suspend” an oil-field, remove the Schieahllion FPSO, invest billions of dollars in new Subsea Infrastructure and billions more in new topsides facilities (The Glen Lyon FPSO) in order to “refresh” a key strategic oil field for the UK and now produce approximately 12% of the United Kingdoms oil demand.

BP and its partners (Shell, Siccar Point Energy and Chryssor) took on the challenge of delivering another 25+ years of life to one of the most strategic oilfields in the basin in  a backdrop of volatile oil price and one of the physically harshest environments to work in the world.

This presentation reflects on the highs and lows of this huge engineering challenge. It discusses the lessons learnt on start-up and early operations of major projects and how new remote monitoring / advance collaboration with support engineers / design engineers helps deliver world class projects and sustainable operations.

Speaker

Kristoff Beanlands, a chartered Chemical Engineer by background, has worked in engineering and technical operations roles both offshore and onshore all around the world for BP over the past 15 years. He feels truly fortunate to have joined this massive project as first steel was being cut in South Korea and Schiehallion was being taken off-station in 2012/13 and still be there 6 years later to lead the operations teams to achieve peak oil rates (141 mboed) from the facility in June 2018 before finally leaving the project in August 2018.

Time

18:00 — GMT

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