Claxton Forms Alliance With LR Senergy To Offer Full Decommissioning Service

Claxton Engineering Services Ltd, an Acteon company, has formed a collaborative alliance with energy services firm LR Senergy to provide clients with a fully managed, technically proficient end-to-end offshore rig-based decommissioning service.

Nick Wood, VP commercial, Claxton, said, “Combining Claxton’s decommissioning expertise with LR Senergy’s wealth of well engineering and project management capabilities will provide customers with access to a unique combination of experience and skill sets for all decommissioning scenarios. LR Senergy has an enviable track record in the end-to-end management of global well engineering projects. Its decommissioning offering focuses on delivering safe and cost-effective rig-based solutions tailor-made for clients’ specific requirements.”

The new alliance builds on a long-established relationship between the two companies, which have worked on a number of shared global projects including platform installations, drilling operations and field workover programmes. By working collaboratively, Claxton and LR Senergy have provided clients with tailored, fully project managed, technically innovative solutions to decommissioning challenges, which have the potential to add significant value to clients’ operations.

Chris Chilcott, subsea engineering manager – wells, LR Senergy, said, “Our collaboration with Claxton is successful because we both have highly experienced teams with a complete focus on project delivery. Both companies strive to provide clients with a tailored, technically excellent service that best suits their needs. By establishing this alliance, we can formalise this service offering to provide our customers with a range of fully managed, integrated decommissioning solutions.”

By collaborating with LR Senergy, Claxton adds rig-based decommissioning solutions to its extensive decommissioning service portfolio, which comprises platform, subsea, rigless and vessel based campaigns.

Claxton supports well decommissioning by providing risers, wellhead removal, conductor severance and solutions to overcome integrity issues with platforms or ageing well infrastructure. Claxton also offers the widest range of tooling and skills under one supplier, whilst delivering cost-saving opportunities though simultaneous operations.

Claxton, an Acteon company, is the leading supplier of engineering and services for shallow-water, jackup-depth markets. The company draws on more than three decades of industry experience to provide services for well systems, structures and pipelines across the lifetime of a field – from pre-drilling to drilling, production and decommissioning. Claxton provides first-class tailored engineering and holds a large on-call rental inventory. Claxton’s responsive service, alongside numerous field-proven innovations, has established an enviable reputation for the company. For more information, visit www.claxtonengineering.com.

About Acteon
Acteon provides a range of global subsea services from surveying, installation, asset integrity management through to decommissioning. Acteon’s companies are 2H Offshore, Aquatic, Claxton, Clarus Subsea Integrity, Conductor Installation Services (CIS), Core Grouting Services, InterAct, InterMoor, J2 Subsea, LDD, LM Handling, MENCK, Mirage Machines, NCS Survey, Offshore Installation Services (OIS), Probe Oil Tools, Pulse Structural Monitoring, Seatronics, Subsea Riser Products (SRP), TEAM Energy Resources and UTEC Survey. Acteon’s companies share knowledge and experience to add value and create effective, tailored solutions for clients across four business segments: survey, monitoring and data; risers and moorings; seabed foundation technologies; and project support services. For more information, visit www.acteon.com.

About subsea services
Acteon’s aim is to define, shape and lead subsea services through best-in-class expertise offering full market coverage across the whole life of a subsea field. Acteon’s integrated approach to subsea services makes it easy for clients to combine capabilities to meet their specific project needs. Acteon’s subsea services companies share knowledge and experience across four business segments to deliver highly efficient solutions tailored to a client’s unique challenges, thereby reducing overall cost, risk and complexity.

Risers and moorings
Acteon provides deepwater riser engineering, structural analysis, riser, conductor, flowline and pipeline services to add value and create effective, tailored solutions. Acteon offers world-leading capabilities in high-pressure, high-temperature risers, temporary and permanent moorings, design, supply, installation, relocation and decommissioning. With the largest global inventory of offshore mooring equipment, Acteon also provides global inventory management with rapid delivery.

About LR Senergy
LR Senergy is a global integrated exploration, production and energy services consultancy, providing technical expertise to a broad client base of operators, investors and energy vendors. Its core areas of knowledge include wells, production optimisation, geoscience, facilities engineering and alternative energy solutions, with services spanning the complete asset life cycle, from reservoir to refinery and beyond. The company also develops and supports innovative software technologies as well as delivering a suite of technical training courses.

The only global, independent provider of outsourced well engineering and operations, LR Senergy’s Wells team offers well project delivery and management with a full life-cycle approach, encompassing all aspects of well construction. Key offerings include drilling engineering and production enhancement, well integrity, assurance and QHSE, wells abandonment, deepwater, HPHT and remote operations, rig contracting, contracts and procurement and subsea, wellhead and well control equipment engineering.

Established in 2005, the company became LR Senergy after becoming part of the Lloyd’s Register Group, and has a global talent pool of around 600 people across a network of locations in the UK, the Middle East, Australia, South East Asia and the Americas. For more information, visit www.lr-senergy.com.