C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has signed a two-year contract for continued Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) services onboard the Island Venture offshore support vessel.

The new contract follows a previous agreement in which the Island Venture performed interventions on multiple deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico. David Sheetz, C-Innovation’s vice president, explained, “This new award is a continuation of nearly three years of setting new standards in the RLWI space. We are constantly working to change the way the industry looks at RLWI work to increase production in this ever-changing market. We look forward to the next few years on this project, and we are already making plans to expand the offering, including numerous dock upgrades to facilitate even more efficient fluid handling and waste removals to minimize required between-wells maintenance time.”

With no safe vertical access to several subsea wells under a platform, the C-I Subsea Projects Group was able to find a solution by utilizing a well service jumper to perform well interventions. This collaborative effort between C-I and the operator was a first for the industry and allowed C-I to perform the intervention without disrupting the platform’s operations.

George Wilson, C-I’s RLWI project manager, stated, “C-I is committed to ensuring the continual improvement of the quality, health, safety and environmental aspects of its operations and services. The two-year RLWI work is no exception: with over 1 million man-hours, C-I had zero recordable incidents. So far this year, C-I has clocked over 135,000 hours with no recordables.”

Sheetz added, “The contract award for additional RLWI work is a credit to the entire RLWI team. Our team continues to provide creative solutions and methodologies to perform interventions that have not been achievable from a conventional RLWI approach. The collaboration of various subsea disciplines within our group has contributed to the successes, and our offshore teams continue to deliver on every execution that comes their way. C-I’s subcontractors, Halliburton, Baker Hughes and Caltex Oil Tools, were also key to the new award. I am extremely proud to work with some of the brightest people in our industry.”

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has marked its 15-year anniversary of providing its customers with the most advanced remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems and industry-leading ROV services.

Since C-I was founded in 2007, it has grown into the largest owner and operator of Schilling Robotics ROV systems in the world, with a fleet of 57 work class ROV systems. In addition to ROV services, C-I has now expanded into providing AUV, offshore survey, pipeline and well intervention services. The addition of these services has steadily expanded C-I’s footprint on the oil and gas industry.

C-I’s chief operating officer, Richard Bourque, said, “The past 15 years has seen multiple ROV companies come and go, while C-I has continued to grow and expand our offerings with additional vessels and advanced solutions. The key to remaining successful during a time when new competitors emerged and existing competitors faded away has always been the loyalty and hard work of our employees and the support of our clients. Reaching this 15-year milestone is proof to our clients and competitors that we are, and will continue to be, a leading ROV services provider in the oil and gas industry.”

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has been awarded a multi-year contract for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) services with a major operator in the Gulf of Mexico.

The contract is for the provision of RLWI services onboard the M/V Island Venture, C-I’s flagship intervention vessel commissioned in 2017. The 160 m, DP3 vessel is ideally suited to perform deepwater riserless interventions in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected to perform intervention activities on eight to ten wells per year, including wireline and stimulations.

C-I’s vice president, David Sheetz, said, “This new contract is a direct result of our accomplishments with the same operator over the last two years. I am extremely proud of our teams and partnerships with both Halliburton and Baker Hughes to deliver the kind of success that allows us to continue to be the leaders with our Single Source Solution for deepwater RLWI in the Gulf of Mexico.”

“These are exciting times for our industry,” said Dino Chouest, president of C-I, “and the forward thinking and innovative ideas our teams have developed over the last two years are setting new standards in deepwater riserless well interventions. We look forward to expanding our offerings with additional vessels and advanced solutions in the near future.”

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has successfully completed its first remote survey scope in Guyana.

Remote survey operations are based in C-I’s headquarters in Mandeville, Louisiana, U.S. and conducted by C-Survey (C-S), an internal division of C-I. Remote survey is a very new and innovative technology and C-I is one of the first companies in the world to complete this work successfully.

This type of survey services enables C-S to be fully operational 24/7 without personnel being onboard the vessel, eliminating associated travel time and expenses, offshore health and safety exposure, and the need for COVID-19 related quarantines.

Tim Bingham, survey manager, C-I, said, “We are very excited to begin offering remote survey services to our clients and look forward to the continued growth of remote survey capabilities throughout the industry.”

Richard J Bourque, COO, C-I, added, “Bringing this capability to market is the result of a lot of time and hard work put in by our dedicated onshore and offshore personnel. We are proud to have another ‘first’ for C-I!”

C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has announced a one-year contract extension with BP for Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The Island Venture and team are currently mobilized and in the field working on one of BP’s assets.

The initial RLWI contract with BP called for both mechanical and hydraulic acid stimulations. These were executed from C-I’s flagship GOM assets, the Island Venture and the Island Performer, the only RLWI vessels operating in the GOM. The work was performed in water depths of up to 6,500 ft on different assets within the GOM.

C-I will supply and complete all project management and engineering to provide a complete RLWI system utilizing Baker Hughes’ 7Series subsea well intervention system, a hydraulic stimulation kit from Caltex Oil Tools, and the full suite of Halliburton’s numerous wireline, E-Line, coil tubing and pumping units.

David Sheetz, vice president of C-I said, “The RLWI approach offers tremendous increases in efficiency for well interventions at nearly half the cost of performing rig-based interventions. This allows for a much broader portfolio of wells to be logged and stimulated for increased production. We look forward to extending our offering of RLWI to numerous clients in the GOM and worldwide, providing a complete offering, which includes all services under a single solution provider to best utilize personnel and resources.”

Dino Chouest, president of C-I, added, “We are proud to continue growing our relationship with BP on the RWLI projects. C-Innovation is committed to supporting our clients in reducing greenhouse gas emissions during our operations. This project showed a significant reduction in emissions when compared to traditional methods being used today. This is an example of how we aid our clients in providing innovative, cost-saving solutions while reducing carbon footprint and not compromising the end result. I am confident that the knowledge gained and continuing innovations will contribute to the net zero targets being set by C-Innovation and many other operators in the oil and gas industry.”