The mobilisation of the SCILS onboard Deepsea Nordkapp went well. Traditional systems take many days to mobilise. The SCILS mobilisation was finished within one day. Before equipment can be run into operations it has to be tested on deck, the first testing of the SCILS onboard the rig should be both challenging and nerve-wreaking.
– When it was time to power the device on, we had some challenges, and I became a bit nervous. But with tremendous support from the onshore team and the “One Team” spirit at Aker BP, we managed to fix it, and our clients at Aker BP were happy, Tom Ole says.
The unit then began its descent, but it took some time before the SCILS had found its place on the seabed.