Delivering specialist subsea services across the entire life of field: Acteon

Acteon, a subsea specialist company, brings together best-in-class expertise, products and services to work closely in sharing innovations, reducing cost, risk and complexity for operators, drillers and contractors. Subsea services are defined as the provision of specialist equipment, personnel and services that can operate from any available or fit-for purpose vessel. Formed in 2004, the company’s combined strength, skill and experience enables it to provide unique skills and technologies for the entire life of the field, from exploration to decommissioning.

Acteon delivers subsea services to support operators, contractors and drillers. The company primarily helps its clients navigate what can be a complex sector and provide expert project advice and subsea services solutions under one roof. Through an integrated services approach that brings together complementary branded services, Acteon is one of the few companies to provide industry-leading capabilities across this operational environment.

Acteon’s raison d’être

The subsea specialist brings together various companies to combine the benefits of being a global business with those of being an independent market specialist; delivering additional customer value through integrated operations, technical innovation and service excellence when working individually or collectively. Its success is founded on fresh thinking, innovation and encouragement through which new ideas emerge as responses to understanding client needs and delivering what is required to meet them.

Acteon fiercely believes in preserving the character, drive and focus of its team as the company expands. The company is represented in all the major offshore oil and gas capitals and is involved in projects in most of the world’s prime exploration and production arenas.

Capabilities and Services

Segmented into four key capabilities, Acteon’s expertise encompasses surveying and monitoring, risers, moorings, seabed foundations and support services.

Surveying and Monitoring: Acteon offers unrivalled capabilities in high precision subsea measurement and management of assets and the asset environment, delivering expert productive field management worldwide.

Risers: Acteon is the world’s leading riser company and a world leader in temporary and permanent moorings – offering design, supply, installation, relocation and decommissioning services.

Seabed Foundation Technologies: Acteon provides world-class expertise in large diameter drilling, handling, hammering, piling and grouting.

Support services: The company’s project support services are wide ranging in breadth and coverage. Amongst them are specialist manpower provision, project activity management, advanced engineering solutions, full back deck services and machine rental.

By focusing on the provision of equipment and services as its core business, rather than the demands of owning or operating vessels, Acteon branded services are able to concentrate closely on the requirements of clients. This often results in novel, project-enhancing solutions to operating challenges. Acteon companies work collaboratively and flexibly to provide unrivalled support, allowing for the delivery of complex projects around the world across the entire life of field.

Here are three of Acteon’s successfully completed projects:

Multi Operator Abandonment Campaign

OIS, an Acteon company successfully completed its 17th multi-operator well suspended abandonment campaign in the North Sea. A total of six subsea wells were abandoned on behalf of Nexen Petroleum UK, Talisman Sinopec Energy UK and Hess Services UK.

The multi-operator model, which enables operators to share project costs, combined with the rigless approach, provides a cost-effective way to decommission non-revenue generating assets and comply with Oil and Gas UK guidelines when compared to a rig based alternative.

CASIM Used Off Crane Barge to Set Tree Down On Wellhead

An advanced system designed to safely and economically lower subsea equipment proves that complex installation procedures can be taken off the critical path and performed from small, easily available vessels instead of costly drilling rigs and construction vessels.

The compensated anchor-handler subsea installation method, or CASIM, was developed by deepwater mooring systems specialist InterMoor. It can be used to install equipment such as suction-embedded plate anchors, suction piles, subsea trees and manifolds.

Shell BC10 Conductor Pre Installation

Approximately one month of deepwater drilling rig time was saved by Shell Brazil E&P during early development work in Block BC10, in the Campos Basin. This was the result of an innovative template and conductor installation exercise, which involved a number of industry firsts, performed by Acteon Company InterMoor.

Working in up to 1950 m of water from the back deck of a class DP2 anchor-handling vessel (AHV) with an attendant cargo barge, InterMoor successfully installed; two artificial lift module (ALM) templates, one four-slot weighing 55 tonnes and a second two-slot weighing 35 tonnes, Six foundation conductors for the two templates.

The company’s executive team has a wealth of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry and expertise across a range of business areas. Acteon continues to grow by focusing on and developing new, complementary niche services that extend its life-of-field capability in support of clients.

Meet Richard Higham, the oil industry extraordinaire

Richard Higham, Group Chief Executive of Acteon has over 20 years’ oil industry experience including six years as a drilling/petroleum engineer with Amoco and six years with Amerada Hess as a chief petroleum engineer. These positions gained him significant experience working in numerous overseas markets including Houston, the Netherlands, Spain and Oman. Richard joined the company in 1989 and holds a BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from Leeds University.

“From exploration to decommissioning, Acteon brings together a wide range of branded services with recognised specialists in each field.”