An Advanced QAQC Strategy in Drilling Management to Anticipate Contractor’s Effiecient Survival Mode

Abstract

In survival mode due to low oil price situation, contractor drilling services modified their personnel qualification, equipment standardization and tighten services leverage in order to reduce the operational cost to be able to win the tender and keep utilization of the services, personnel and equipment. The modification sometimes does not consider their existing standard operation guidelines. The modification impacts significant low performance for their reliable operation, onshore support, etc. which even could touch high operational risk for Company. In the past, company normally just received the QAQC report from contractor's independent company, and limited only to equipment matters. However, in this recent condition of the contractor, Company then must re-design and re-concept the mind set of drilling operation management to prevent non-productive time (NPT) and operational risk. QAQC is one of the most critical parts on drilling operation management for safe and reliable operation. QAQC shall cover end to end drilling operation in relation to contractor's equipment, procedure, personnel, safety management, logistic, etc. starting from preparation, transportation until execution and back to their shore base. All impacts related to contractor's failure will be company account; therefore QAQC supervision must cover all potential area failure.
This paper contains a case history happened in the last drilling campaign PHE WMO about contractor condition to survive which impacting their standard and performance, also PHE WMO's advanced strategy on QAQC to mitigate contractor's condition in order to achieve safe and reliable operation and the process of communication and placement of the strategy to the contractor and all stake holders to ensure the smooth implementation. PHE WMO success cut overall NPT 50% from the last previous campaign with no safety recordable case.