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Subsea maintenance service delivery: Mapping factors influencing scheduled service duration

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The oil and gas (O&G) industry on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) leads the world in terms of the number of subsea O&G installations. Ensuring the dependability of these assets is critical. Non-intrusive inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services are therefore needed to reduce risks. These services are planned and executed using a mono-hull offshore vessel complete with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), a module handling system and an active heave compensated crane. Vessel time is shared between competing jobs, using a prioritized forward-looking schedule. Extension in planned job duration may have an impact on O&G production, service costs and health, safety, and environmental (HSE) risks. This paper maps factors influencing the job schedule efficiency. The influence factors are identified through reviews of literature as well as interviews with experts in one of the large IMR subsea service providers active on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The findings show that the most obvious factors are weather disruption and water depth. Other factors include job complexity, job uncertainty, IMR equipment availability, as well as the mix of job complexity.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Operations and Maintenance, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, N-4012, Norway

    Efosa Emmanuel Uyiomendo & Tore Markeset

  2. Shell Petroleum Development Company, Warri, Nigeria

    Efosa Emmanuel Uyiomendo

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Efosa Emmanuel Uyiomendo graduated with the B.Eng. degree from University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria in 1991, the MBA from Warwick Business School, UK in 2006, and the M. Sc. degree in offshore technology (operations and maintenance) from University of Stavanger, Norway in 2009. Following National Service, he joined Shell Nigeria in 1993 as production supervisor with responsibilities for operations and maintenance of oil and gas assets.

His career has taken him through support services, health, safety and environment (HSE) and planning. His research interests include operations and maintenance, performance management, industrial services, strategy and risk management.

Tore Markeset received the B. Sc. degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Stavanger, and the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, USA. After working in the industry for a number of years within process, mechanical and reservoir engineering, he received the Ph.D. degree in offshore engineering (operations and maintenance) from the University of Stavanger. Currently, he is a professor of mechanical engineering (operations and maintenance) at the University of Stavanger and adjunct professor at University of Tromsø, both in Norway.

His research interests include industrial services (product support, innovation, strategy development, sourcing strategies, contractual relationship performance) and industrial asset management (operations, maintenance and support management, design for performance, and production performance management).

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Uyiomendo, E.E., Markeset, T. Subsea maintenance service delivery: Mapping factors influencing scheduled service duration. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 7, 167–172 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-010-0167-7

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