2nd PARTY QUALITY MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE
Bureau Veritas is a global drilling & completions quality assurance and engineering services provider. Our acquisition of TH Hill Associates in 2012
enabled us to complement our inspection services with specialization in drilling, completions, and subsea equipment. As the authors of the globally recognized Standard DS-1®, we are on the forefront of new drilling technology and challenges, which we engage on a daily basis supporting a dynamic industry.
Bureau Veritas has a dedicated team of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) technicians and project managers, highly experienced in drill pipe, bottom hole assemblies, specialty tools, and handling equipment.
We also have an in-house engineering team that provides consulting services to optimize your design and ensure your drill string’s structural integrity no matter the conditions.
Services
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Drill Pipe Inspections
As drill pipe inventories become more challenging to manage, our clients have increasingly become exposed to Non Productive Time, high repair bills, downgrades and damages that are beyond repair. Without representation, risk increases and the consequences can be significant.
Our highly experienced team of technicians work on site as client representatives to mitigate non conforming or near end of life inventory reaching the well site without client notification and approval. Areas of focus:
- Inspection Category selection
- Inspector qualification
- Inspection Witness
- Traceability
- Repair dispositioning
- Post repair inspections
- Documentation control
- Witness load out
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Drill Pipe Analyzer
Effective drill pipe management and insights give operators a data driven advantage. Bureau Veritas’s Drill Pipe Analyzer, shines light on supplier performance and operational impacts that may be negatively impacting productivity. Solution benefits include:
- Reduced NPT
- Operational benchmarking leveraging recent industry data
- Predicative analysis
- Insight action planning
- Enhanced productivity
- Cost avoidance
- Rapid data interpretation
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Drilling and Completions Tools
BHA components and Specialty tool readiness are imperative to ensuring that our customers can reach total depth without unnecessary quality related events associated with inspection, assembly and testing.
Common areas of focus:
- BOM review
- Engineering notice review
- Inspection procedure review and witness
- Refurbishment procedure review and witness
- Assembly procedures, drawings and check sheet review and witness
- Testing procedure review and witness
- SIT, FAT
- Witness load out
- Material Release forms, job travelers and tool transmittal records
- Post run damage assessment and verification
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OCTG Mill Surveillance
Casing quality is critical to successful well construction plans and operations. As it is used to stabilize the well, isolate zones, prevent contamination and protect follow on well operations, well managed casing manufacturing operations can result in a successful project or significant prolonged remedial challenges.
Bureau Veritas has significant experience supporting operators during the manufacturing process in accordance with industry standards as well as the post mill receiving inspection, storage and preservation of your casing. Our services are designed to promote the following:
- Enhanced reliability
- Cost Reduction
- Regulatory alignment
- Mitigate NPT and delays
- Streamlined communication and productivity
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Supplier Assessments
Bureau Veritas has significant experience partnering with operation and supply chain teams around the globe to implement proactive vs. reactive quality engagement with new or potential service providers. When sourcing and evaluating new technology, quality management systems or executing projects in new geographical region, Bureau Veritas provides highly qualified personnel to assess service provider processes, alignment with industry standards, quality systems, personnel qualifications and inventory readiness. Our team can deploy personnel with API Q1/Q2, ISO 9001 lead auditor experience to lead your initiative, allowing clients to make informed decisions. Our services facilitate the following:
- Risk Mitigation: Identifies quality, safety, and regulatory and industry compliance gaps prior to products reaching the well
- Collaboration: Encourages suppliers to demonstrate continuous improvement and understanding of client initiatives. STAs also facilitate meaningful dialogue with suppliers and better understand capabilities
- Performance Assurance: Validates that suppliers meet technical specs, and possess the ability to fulfill and deliver orders
- Supply Chain Optimization: Identifying strengths and weaknesses across service providers can reduce cost associated with inventory availability, lead times and response times.
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Drill Pipe Mill Surveillance
Bureau Veritas has significant experience supporting operators during the manufacturing process of Drill Pipe in accordance with industry standards as well as the post mill receiving inspection, storage and preservation of your Drill Pipe. Our services are designed to promote the following:
- Enhanced reliability
- Cost Reduction
- Regulatory alignment
- Mitigate NPT and delays
- Streamlined communication and productivity
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Project Management
Our highly experienced project management team works with operators as they move from transactional reactive quality assurance to a proactive, structured, data driven results oriented program. Our team can be leveraged remotely or in house to manage control and distribution of specifications, daily inspection activities, risk based inspection programs, supplier technical assessments and failure analysis activities. We partner with operations teams and supply chains on a daily basis. Additional benefits include but are not limited to the following:
- Inspection program management
- KPI and NCR management
- Benchmarking analysis
- Inspector resource management
- Vendor coordination
- Supplier assessment management
- Documentation management
