Wireline Magazine Issue 51 - Summer 2021

LOGIC oversees new contracts, Flightshare scheme for 2021 LOGIC is a not-for-profit wholly owned subsidiary of OGUK that operates as the custodian for cross-industry projects that aim to increase the efficiency of working practices. Q2 saw the publication of Edition 3 of the Marine Construction Standard Contract. This edition was developed under the auspices of OGUK’s Standard Contracts TFG, which works to ensure that all the LOGIC standard contracts are kept current and in alignment with changes in the law and legal practice. The LOGIC team would also like to remind members that the suite of Standard Contracts also includes resources for decommissioning. Another LOGIC system, Flightshare, provides a mechanism for companies to share excess seat capacity on North Sea helicopter flights. A new deed covering the LOGIC Flightshare 2021 scheme became effective as of 1 April, and will now run for five years.

and improved continuity of work, enabling companies to retain personnel and equipment in the region. Promoting this multi-operator, multi-well campaign approach is at the heart of the work being done by OGUK’s Improving Partnerships Task Group, which links in with the North Sea Transition Forum’s Wells Task Force. In its ‘Building Back Better’ position paper, it puts forward a business case which also highlights how a new mindset will help create the optimum conditions for successful campaign projects. Read ‘Building Back Better: The Business Case for Multi-Operator Well Campaigns in a Diverse Basin’ via the OGUK website.

operators and supply chain as they seek to carry out well operations on the UKCS. Getting that right means the industry retains the skills, resources and competitiveness it needs to maximise economic recovery from the UKCS while successfully transitioning to a net zero future. A key priority in the OGA’s 2021 Decommissioning Strategy focuses on encouraging operators to adopt a campaign mindset. In well decommissioning, aggregating work-scopes could have great potential for cost reduction, but it’s about much more than sheer costs. If multiple operators took up this approach, the supply chain would benefit from increased project visibility, the ability to drive schedules, better asset utilisation

Building Back Better with multi-operator campaigns

OGUK’s Improving Partnerships Task Group has published a new position paper on improving partnerships. Launched during the same week as a presentation by OGUK operations manager Keith Wise at the SPE Well Decommissioning Conference and an update to the OGA’s Decommissioning Strategy, a timely theme links these events together.

Chiefly, it is about sharing the ambition to find better ways to deliver value to both

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