Strategic alliance formed to serve offshore drilling

By combining Stress Engineering Services’ wide-ranging engineering expertise within all aspects of offshore drilling with the extensive footprint of KONGSBERG Dynamic Positioning (DP) and automation systems within the existing Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU) fleet, the alliance can offer integrated services, systems and support to drilling contractors, oil and gas companies, original equipment manufacturers and other manufacturers in the upstream sector, covering all stages of a drilling and work over operation from planning, execution, post operations and condition-based maintenance.

Kongsberg Maritime and Stress Engineering Services will together improve and develop new functionality for the KONGSBERG real time Riser Management System (RMS) with focus on riser and wellhead fatigue in addition to enabling improved efficiency of drilling and work over operations.

The RMS is fully integrated with other KONGSBERG systems installed on MODUs including K-Pos DP, K-Chief marine automation, acoustic systems and the KONGSBERG Information Management System (K-IMS), for data aggregation, data analytics and remote access and monitoring. Stress Engineering Services will provide enabling technology such as their Subsea Vibration Data Loggers (SVDL) and Real-time Fatigue Monitoring System (RFMS) to assess riser and wellhead fatigue.

Kongsberg Maritime and Stress Engineering Services will also cooperate in the area of floating production systems. KONGSBERG’s experience within the design and analysis of flexible riser and umbilical systems will be combined with SES’ riser expertise within floating production systems for both green field and brown field applications.

“We are pleased to have joined forces with Stress Engineering Services, a well-established expert engineering company in the oil and gas sector,”said Jon Holvik, President, Kongsberg Maritime. “We believe that together we can better leverage the unique competencies, technologies and products offered by KONGSBERG and Stress Engineering Services to serve our clients with smarter and more cost-effective services and solutions.”

Chuck Miller, Vice-President of Stress Engineering Services commented: “Offshore operators and drilling contractors are looking for ways to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. By working with KONGSBERG, we can together provide drilling system services that empower engineers to more efficiently make informed decisions in the ever-more challenging offshore drilling environments.”