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Friday, March 8, 2013
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Riser Engineering and Software Solutions Company MCS Kenny Launches New Business Stream to Strengthen Services to Drilling and Wells Sector
Riser engineering and software solutions company, MCS Kenny, part of Wood Group Kenny, has announced the creation of a new business stream focused on the provision of specialist software and engineering services to support drilling and well operations. The launch of the new business stream coincides with the release of a major update of the company’s DeepRiser™ software, which now includes a drilling riser recoil modelling capability.
MCS Kenny has a strong track record in drilling and well intervention riser work, and already supplies a broad range of engineering services as well as the software products DeepRiser and Optima®. The company has brought these two areas together to form the new drilling and wells business stream in order to strengthen the range and level of services that they offer to clients.
Donogh Lang, Director of the drilling and wells business stream explains "At MCS Kenny we felt we were uniquely placed to offer our clients a more joined-up approach by bringing our software and engineering expertise together into one distinct drilling and wells business stream – I am confident that there will be a leveraging effect with respect to the knowledge and expertise from the two sides that will enable us to step-up what we offer. We are already planning further development of our Optima suite of on-board riser management software, and we intend to offer an enhanced range of services to complement this. For example, shortages of qualified personnel can make it difficult for drilling contractors to recruit, and this may mean that they are not getting as much from on-board riser management systems as they could. We will be expanding our services to provide additional training and support, to help ensure that they are getting maximum benefit from the software’s capability.”
Lang continues: “Another area where the new business stream’s combined product and service offering can provide a unique capability is subsea wellhead fatigue. The potential for well damage from fatigue loading applied by drilling and intervention risers is a key issue within the industry at the moment. We are addressing this with new software and service capabilities for monitoring and tracking wellhead fatigue during drilling and intervention operations.”
MCS Kenny’s DeepRiser software is an integrated engineering application that is used to optimise and streamline the design and analysis of drilling risers. The latest update was undertaken in response to some of the challenges associated with the move to exploration and production in deeper waters. A significant issue associated with drilling in water depths of 10,000 feet or more is control of drilling riser recoil behaviour after an emergency disconnect, which may be required if the vessel’s station-keeping capability is lost in extreme weather conditions or through failure of the dynamic positioning system. In these scenarios, the riser must be quickly disconnected and lifted to avoid damage to the lower marine riser package and the blow-out preventer. However upward movement of the riser must also be controlled to ensure that there is no compression in the riser or tensioning lines, and that the telescopic joint does not collapse, and these conflicting requirements are more severe in deeper water.
Lang concludes: “MCS Kenny has maintained a continuous update of DeepRiser for over 10 years and it is used extensively across the drilling industry. The new update, version 3.1, is the first commercially available software to have a drilling riser recoil modelling capability and we hope this will further reinforce DeepRiser’s position as the industry standard for drilling riser analysis”.
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