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Re-routing a drilling rig’s high pressure gas vent in the North Sea

Drilling rig Ensco 122 and platform K14-FA-1, North Sea

As part of the interfacing of drilling rig (Ensco 122) with nodal gas platform (K14-FA-1) in the Dutch sector of the Southern North Sea, Pinnacle undertook significant works to re-route the main platform high pressure gas vent, as well as designing an interface for a 27m personnel gangway between…
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Safe and reliable boat landing

How can shuttling costs be reduced for two ageing gas platforms in the Southern North Sea?

That was the question posed by our client. The answer: substitute helicopters for boat transfers Pinnacle were appointed as structural engineering consultants to develop a safe and reliable boat landing in order to meet the demands of two gas platforms in the latter stages of their…
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Structural support of fracking operations

Maintaining full production throughout structural works

In July 2014, Shell/NAM commenced a well clean out and fracking project on the L02-FA-1 gas platform, located within the Dutch sector of the Southern North Sea (SNS). The plan was to carry out a process of Coiled Tubing (CT) clean out followed by a Perforating Run and then Fracking. To execute…
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Shell ONEGas L13-FD-1 Velocity String Project

Well rejuvenation campaign to gas wells in the Southern North Sea

In 2011 Shell / NAM commenced a campaign of well rejuvenation to gas wells within the Southern North Sea, which had become closed-in and no longer productive. In March 2013, the Seajacks Kraken visited the L13-FD-1, normally unmanned installation (NUI) gas platform, in the Dutch sector of the …
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