Tuesday 6 April 2021

Since purchasing the Well-Safe Protector in September of 2020, the team and partners have been working extremely hard to achieve the milestones set out as part of ambitious rig readiness and onboarding programs.

Following an intense shipyard stay in Norway, under ever-tightening COVID protocols, and a December cross-North Sea rig move, the Well-Safe Protector arrived in Invergordon. It has since undergone a complete Special Periodic Survey, and all operational equipment has been fully re-activated & tested. The Well-Safe crew are now focusing on integrating all our processes and systems by taking lessons from the Well-Safe Guardian experience in preparation for rig acceptance audits in the coming weeks.

One of the key milestones was achieving the HSE Safety Case, which was completed, submitted, and approved by the regulator ahead of the planned schedule and is now in place. Thanks to the team’s dedication onshore and offshore, along with the support of Marex, for delivering this result.

With all technical documentation in place and the completion of the drilling equipment, the 7-month project involving over 105,000 manhours of work, incident-free, is now complete.