BP awards RLWI deal to C-Innovation

Marine services company C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has been awarded a significant contract to perform Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) activities for BP in the Gulf of Mexico. 

Island Performer; Source: Wikimedia; Author: Sabung.hamster – under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license

The company said on Wednesday that the initial contract calls for both mechanical as well as hydraulic acid stimulations, which will be executed from C-I’s flagship Gulf of Mexico assets, the offshore construction and light well intervention vessels Island Venture and Island Performer.

The work will be performed in water depths of up to 6,500 feet on different assets within the Gulf of Mexico and is currently forecasted to start as early as July 2019.

David Sheetz, C-I Subsea Manager, said, “This Well Intervention award from BP is a continuation of other Subsea Intervention work C-I is performing as the main contract holder. This contract compliments the multi-year IMR agreement currently in place with BP and other operators in the Gulf of Mexico.”

C-Innovation will be utilizing Wild Well’s 7Series Subsea Well Intervention System, a hydraulic stimulation kit from Caltex Oil Tools as well as the full suite of Halliburton’s numerous wireline, E-Line, coil tubing and pumping units.


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