Wireline Spring 2018

Efficiency | Best Practice

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know we need to continue to champion if we are serious about improving efficiency across the basin.” The effectiveness of industry-led guidelines is echoed by Mariesha, citing the positive impact of moves to secure standardisation in subsea developments. “Before the oil price slump, I think we’d all become set in our ways. The financial pressures presented us with an opportunity to look at our ways of working and to ask tough questions on whether these could be simplified.” This simplified approach is at the core of the ETF’s Subsea Standardisation Guidelines . Many operators recognised the additional cost burden and scheduling implications that came with bespoke requirements. The potential of future subsea developments and other small pool reserves could be maximised by employing more cost-effective ways to carry out

these projects. The guidelines encourage companies to take a new, more standardised approach to specifications, technology, processes and hardware. “This gives the supply chain an opportunity to provide the best solution for the job, letting industry standards do their work and driving up best practice in the process,” Mariesha adds. She continues: “The question often asked is ‘will industry-wide standardisation ultimately unlock efficiency gains in the long term, but hinder the individual successes/ unique selling points of companies in the short term?’. My response to that would be absolutely not. From the very beginning, we have always been keen to emphasise that these are guidelines and are in no way prescriptive. So, if you find that only some of the guidelines work for your company, that’s fine. Others might work better if tailored to fit your own >

This gives the supply chain an opportunity to provide the best solution for the job, letting industry standards do their work and driving up best practice in the process.

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