P&A Engineering Is Not Getting Simpler
And The Time Spent Around The Engineering Keeps Growing
P&A teams today spend more time proving and reconstructing decisions than making them.
ALARP comparison designs are built by hand.
Compliance checks happen late, then trigger rework.
Submissions are assembled from spreadsheets, drawings, and Word documents.
Campaigns are planned in Excel.
When things change offshore, designs fall out of sync.
You know the answers. But demonstrating them takes weeks.
We've lived this process. And we believe it doesn't have to work this way.
Where the time Really Goes
Very little time is lost doing engineering.
Time is lost:
- Building alternative designs by hand to demonstrate ALARP.
- Interpreting compliance after the design is finished.
- Re-building submissions for each reviewer.
- Maintaining spreadsheets to plan campaigns.
- Reconstructing what happened offshore after the fact.
This work is necessary. But it is not where engineering judgement adds value.
We believe engineers should spend their time designing wells. Not assembling evidence.
