Wireline Issue 52 Winter 2021

Chris Adams at Flylogix and Charlie Booth at NZTC

norm for most of the industry, and Chris and Charlie are pleased and encouraged to see the group willing to share and help develop solutions that should help drive changes across the sector. Adds Chris: “The operators have been so willing to be open with each other in terms of sharing data, feedback and learning from these development cycles. They recognised very early on that there was a massive benefit to be had from sharing data. Everyone was aware of the sensitivities… but people realised very quickly if it was done in the right manner that it has tremendous value and that has massively accelerated our ability to develop this technology.” “We really could not have done it without the Net Zero Technology Centre’s input, certainly not at this pace,” he continues. “Looking forwards, the first priority now is driving routine high-level measurement throughout the UKCS. What we’d love is to be measuring every asset throughout the basin, what we’re noticing is that the bigger the dataset the better position you’re in, because you can start to see trends across assets and that’s really powerful.” While this project is ongoing, it is hoped that the development phase will be completed and the resulting technology ready to deploy as a service. This would see the Net Zero Technology Centre step back, having fulfilled its role as facilitator. Flylogix meanwhile, says it intends to open hubs across the UK in Shetland, Aberdeen, Norwich and Blackpool, enabling it to fly anywhere within the UKCS to support the routine measurement of assets. The proposed commercial service is priced to deliver routine measurements through the year based on individual assets, but having seen the appetite amongst operators grow during the past year, Chris says the company is “very much working to match our commercial and operational model to that industry pace.” There are some areas requiring further work - particularly questions surrounding how these valuable collaborative discussions can be preserved once the project is ended (OGUK’s Methane Action Group has been mooted as a potential forum).

for mitigation. Individually, this is a valuable service, but both organisations have seen even greater benefit come from the more collaborative group sessions where results are shared more widely. “They decide what they can share with the rest of the consortium and then bring that to a group session where they’ll share those results and have discussion, and that’s where the real value is,” says Charlie. “They ask questions and they can bounce ideas off each other, it’s really great to see.” It’s fair to say that this kind of openness is not the see trends across assets and that’s really powerful.” “What we’d love is to be measuring every asset throughout the basin, what we’re noticing is that the bigger the dataset the better position you’re in, because you can start to

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