Control and Development of Simultaneous-Operations Drilling, Workover, and Well Services: Successful Case in La Hocha Field

摘要

Text 30 lines max. (Font: Arial, Normal, 11pt, justified, 1.5 line spacing) The operator company, committed to its performance in industrial safety, occupational health, the reduction of its environmental impacts and the protection of its assets, towards the year 2004, it developed its concurrent operation guidelines for places where two or more high-risk operations are carried out, which include drilling, completion, work-over, well-service activities, well production, and civil, mechanical and electrical works of facilities. This is solely done to identify all hazards, evaluate and control all risk-taking in these activities to avoid the occurrence of incidents involving people, the environment and damage to company equipment. It was necessary to conduct several activities at its production field, LA HOCHA 1 location, to apply our concurrent operation guidelines on that platform as a result of a production increase and the development of new projects. The activities conducted on the same location, La Hocha 1, were: 1. LH 9 well intervention using Flush By equipment 2. LH 7 well workover Service 3. LH 1- LH 7- LH 8 LH 9 Production 4. La Hocha 25 Drilling 5. CPF Cosntruction. Two purposes were defined on La Hocha concurrent operation plan; the first is handling, authority relations and responsibility in matters concerning HSE, and the second is to establish procedures and guidelines which must be implemented when various activities are conducted simultaneously including drilling or production operations on a platform or a worksite which for this specific case was La Hocha 1. After carrying out these concurrent activities, we were able to fulfill our proposed goal of zero injuries to people, no environmental impact, no equipment damage, the fulfillment of all the plans prepared for each operation, and most of all recognition for the company for its excellent coordination and communication work performed during concurrent operations on La Hocha 1 Platform.