Delivering a customised capping stack to a major operator in South America.

An operator in South America faced a mandatory request by the country regulatory agency to maintain a dedicated capping stack system in country. This was a condition to ensure they were granted the correspondent environmental permit to move forward with the exploration and drilling campaign of a promising offshore Oil and Gas project. Delays to the delivery could have had an impact on the timing and facilitation of this venture. 

An additional challenge was the tight deadline driven by the FPSO schedule, and the project resources planning. All this was complemented with the customer’s high standards, equipment customisation requirements along with mandatory documentation, industry testing and certification protocol requirements. 

Working alongside Trendsetter Engineering, the OEM of the Capping Stack, we took on the challenge by organising a dedicated team of specialists to manage this project. In coordination with the customer, one of our long-term members, we integrated a network of specialised subcontracting services, and with close interaction with the regulators, the existing capping stack was refurbished in record time and upgraded to reflect additional operational considerations that the client required. A job like this can take up to 18 months, but thanks to Trendsetters technical expertise in rapid response engineering, it was completed in just six months.