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ABL has in-depth operational experience in how well control equipment is manufactured, maintained, and operated. Our approach can save both operator and contractor resources and time. We provide our expertise, giving customers the assurance that their well control equipment is fit for purpose, available, repeatable, and reliable.

We provide our expertise, giving customers the assurance that their well control equipment is fit for purpose, available, repeatable and reliable.

Richard Brennan

Well Control Equipment Manager

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Achieve confidence in your well control equipment

Our Well Control Equipment team comprises experienced subsea engineers, complemented by OEM training in well control equipment for both surface and subsea, with knowledge and a deep understanding of drilling unit components, operational sequences, routine maintenance, and safety while testing and performing maintenance functions on subsea equipment.

Our team of Well Control Equipment Engineers are competent and experienced in all major manufacturers of WCE covering surface and subsea drilling operations. This is further enhanced by skills developed over the years from operational, superintendent, and surveying roles at the sharp end of well control.

Our Well Control Equipment Engineers have earned a reputation as robust delivery partners in the field, cost-effectively enhancing operational efficiency and seamlessly adding professional experience and expertise where and when required.

Market challenges with well control equipment

For more than three decades, our team of experts have gained WCE experience through front-line reactivations, overhauls, re-certifications, end-of-well operations, drilling failures, and modifications and upgrades.

This has involved more than 2,300 successful well control equipment inspections, saving operators and contractors valuable time and resources. This degree of hands-on experience has also exposed our team to the leading challenges that our clients face, including:

Lack of available expertise.

Equipment obsolescence.

Lack of understanding of regulatory framework.

Shortages of OEM resources.

Geographical spread of resources.

Staffing issues.

Our Solutions

Our engineers have a deep understanding of drilling unit components, operational sequences, routine maintenance, and safety, while testing and performing maintenance functions on subsea equipment.

Our experience has been gained across front-line reactivations, over-hauls, re-certification, end-of-well operations, between well maintenance periods, drilling failure and modifications and upgrades.

Our global footprint enables us to provide our service globally and in any scenario.

This allows us to provide a wide range of both short-term and long-term WCE services, including:

Project Management
Technical Support
Operational Support
WCE Inspection, Verification & Acceptance
Equipment Suitability
Incident Investigation
Gap Analysis
High-Pressure High Temperature (HPHT)
Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD)
Accumulator Calculations
Intervention Well Control Equipment Systems
WCE Factory Acceptance Testing
Expert Opinion
Vendor Surveillance Service

The value we bring

Providing our service globally and in any scenario.

Vast subsea engineering experience with a specialised background.

Proven track record in well control equipment services.

24/7 immediate response support anywhere in the world.

ABL Group’s through life support for rigs and drilling operations

ABL Group offers multi-disciplined engineering expertise throughout a rig and drilling lifecycle through our sister companies AGR and Longitude:

Learn more about AGR’s expert services to support well operations, reservoir and site surveys, and well engineering across an asset’s lifecycle: Energy Consultancy, Resourcing and Software – AGR : AGR

Learn more about Longitude’s engineering support including rig engineering expertise, through-life engineering, design, and analysis for floating and fixed structures: Independent Marine & Engineering Consultancy and Survey Organisation (longitude-engineering.com)