Modified Offshore Drilling Operation—Serban Well (Nunukan Block)

Burhanudin Ahmad, Alfian Simamora, Farid Rosyidin, and Victor Siregar, PT Medco E&P Indonesia
Copyright 2007, SPE/IADC Middle East Drilling Technology Conference & Exhibition

SWAMP BARGE
This paper was prepared for presentation at the SPE/IADC Middle East Drilling Technology
Conference & Exhibition held in Cairo, Egypt, 22–24 October 2007.
 1 OVERVIEW
Where is located? What happened?

TABLE OF 2 OPERATION
CONTENTS
Platform, Site Preparation and Equipment Lay Out, Barge Setting, Rigging
up Procedures, Supporting Facilities, Operation Summary

3 CONCLUSION

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 NUNUKAN
BLOCK,
EAST
KALIMANTAN

Overview Operation Next Phase

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Serban 1 Serban 2 Serban 3
1980’s 2000’s

Overview Operation Next Phase

 WILD IDEA!!
Using Landrig

Overview Operation Next Phase

 Step we need
to consider...
Determine the size and number of supporting barges
Lay Out Rig 03 required.

Requirements for the existing rig candidate and on

Determine platform size 02 the number of wells planned.

Onshore 1000 HP with cantilever mast – sling short

Choose Rig Candidate 01 rig floor elevator type
(Senoro-4 well, Central Sulawesi).

Overview Operation Next Phase

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Platform
23x28m designed for 2 wells
with 750 ton capacity (excluding
weight of the platform)
Top Deck
To position substructure, mast, and well control
equipment.

Lower Deck
Working area for wellhead and BOP handling.

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Flow

Pile Preparation
Four (4) piles of 42” supporting pipe were
pilled (38 m depth) before platform
installation.

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 There are 3 drilling service barge (DBS)
in Serban 3 (288 ft x 80 ft). With capacity
8000 tons cargo capacity.
2 Site Preparation 4

Platform Equipment Lay Out

Fabricated onshore and assembled on the 3 The existing rig equipment was laid out
barge before transported to the site. The barge on the platform, on the drilling services
is 180 ft x 50 ft with 7 ballasting compartments.
barges, and at the onshore camp area in
Barge Preparation consisted of barge
Bunyu Island.
reinforcement, fabricating platform support on
the barge, and arrange pump and its piping for
balasting.

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Equipment Lay Out
 - Stairs (from top to lower deck)
- Bridge from DSB 2 and 3
- Grating in platform second deck to
ease BOP
5 Additional Site Facilites

Equipment modifications
- Piping (extension flow line to rig floor, HCR 6
valve line to choke manifold, choke
manifold line to poor boy gas separator.
- Cutting ditch (solid control eq. To hopper
barge
- V door extension
- Walkway construction for flare line and
burner package.

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 Barge Setting
Fender Piles 1 3 Spudcan Pipes
(30” pipe size at DSB-1/DSB-3 side and 9-5/8” spudcan (6 were installed at the
20” pipe soze at DSB-2 side) side of each DSB)

Design

Supporting Piles 2
13-3/8” supporting piles, (8 piles for DSB
1 and 3, and 6 piles for DSB-2)

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Same like onshore with additional
modification to suit up :
- Mast supporting, modified to 7 m,
(onshore 2,4 m)

Rigging up 8

Supporting Facilities
7 ◼ 1 standby crane barge with 125 ton capacity (1200 HP tugboat)

◼ 1 hopper barge with 900 m3 max capacity for storing mud and disposal

◼ 1 landing craft transportation for material and equipment transportation

◼ 2 speedboat for passenger transportation

◼ 1 fire fightng boat and medical evacuation

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 Operation Summary
Whole drilling project running successfully. But need improvement
Do Activities Scheduling
Properly Water Level Constraint
Set priority in case simultaneous. Many activities need minimum water level
condition.
06 01
Very High Dependence on
Provide 2 units of Crane Crane Barge Service
Many simultaneous activities can be done.
05 02 Only have one, postponement was happened due
Contribute lot in terms of time and cost efficiency. to crane limitation.

Do Site Preparation Plan in

04 03
Detailed Very High Time Consuming
Do and invite SHE staff from the beginning to Prepare the site preparation and equipment
avoid unplanned works due to safety reason. setting. Additional time especially was required to
revise original barge setting design

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ACHIEVEMENTS
Succesfully drilled and safely in
2006

Daily operational rig cost rate was almost

70% LESS THAN the swamp barge rig cost
It has been proven that this modified system
can be reliably applied for shallow water
depth offshore drilling.

The daily operation rig cost of Serban-3 well

was cost efficient. In the future, significant
cost saving will become apparent.
THANK YOU!
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