Rig Inspections, Surveys, Audits

BIE can help you limit downtime and increase savings by improving your drilling programs’ reliability, safety, and environmental impact.

Drawing on our long experience and wide range of combined services, we can provide an effective and comprehensive suite of onshore and offshore technical surveys and inspections. We can provide various levels of complexity and duration to suit any client’s specific requirements. We also have extensive experience with various types of Desktop reviews and services.

Project Management

BIE can assist with in maximizing your return on investment to ensure that the delivery of the drilling unit is on-time and on-budget, as well as fit for purpose and to specification. Project management services can assist you in achieving a higher quality end product and a safer and more efficient operating unit. Help to avoid unnecessary delays before mobilizing the rig and allow immediate corrective action if the quality of the work provided by the construction yard and/or the contractors does not meet the applicable standards.

Shipyard Services

Where clients have insufficient resources to provide their own full-time personnel to monitor shipyard work on their assets, but still require a level of due diligence with regards to their assets under construction or repair. BIE can provide 3rd party witness services for mechanical completion activities and/or commissioning activities, trials and testing. Also we can provide experienced personnel to witness FAT services, where required, worldwide.

Depending on the scope, we can provide full time support for a client or intermittent support only when required.

Rig Intake

BIE can provide comprehensive Rig Intake Services to cover all aspects of Inspection, Rig Pre-Selection, Final Acceptance, Regulatory Compliance, Crew Competency, Safety Awareness and Asset Management systems. It is more suitable for the high-risk projects in areas of high regulatory oversight and where an Operator requires a high level of assurance.

This service is more detailed and extensive than just a standard Rig Acceptance program and covers all aspects of selecting the right rig for the intended operation and is designed to show that adequate due diligence has been conducted by the Operator. Where suitable, a shorter less complex service is available on demand.

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