UK Oil and Gas Industry Association : Xodus wins subsea contract with Apache

January 23, 2017

Xodus Group has won a contract with North Sea operator Apache to deliver subsea engineering services for two new infill well developments at the Nevis and Skene fields in the Northern North Sea. The project includes a novel idea of designing and fabricating spools with no requirement for metrology focusing on time and effort savings. The latest win follows a number of successful projects delivered for the operator over the last 18 months, including the concept, Front End Engineering Design and detailed design studies for the Beryl field's Far North Triassic subsea tie-back, which was 4km in length. This consisted of a production flexible, gas lift flexible and an electro-hydraulic controls umbilical tied back to the Beryl Bravo platform. In addition to performing the detailed design, Xodus also package managed the delivery of the production flexible on behalf of Apache and helped the operator to achieve first oil just 11 months after drilling the well, ahead of schedule and over 30 percent under budget.