2016 was a particularly rewarding year for me in a professional sense, with the achievement of a safety improvement objective that I had been working on for several years. My objective was to develop and implement a solution that would mitigate a major accident hazard within the oil and gas industry. This hazard was something that I felt the industry didn’t need to accept nor need to manage via only weak controls (e.g. procedural controls), and that with some engineering the hazard could be materially mitigated.

• Reduces ‘locked to bottom’ heave compensation safety risks

• Builds on Gulf of Mexico sales

Readying the ARTP C-Series for transportation

• Innovative offshore engineering and construction firm ICON Engineering ties up with listed ENRA Group Berhad and its highly experienced Malaysian board.

• ENRA ICON will provide a fresh approach within Malaysia for lower cost field developments.

• Targeting marginal fields, ENRA ICON will break the mould to deliver low cost developments and brownfield enhancements.

• ICON’s most advanced ARTP Series of Heave Compensated Tension Lift Frame

• ARTP E-Series assumes rig’s primary compensation function

• Significantly reduces completions risks

• Proven solution to mitigate Major Accident Event Hazard after compensator lock up

• Effective on rigs with either active or passive compensators

• Meets short lead time and minimises cost, via rental program

ICON was engaged by Noble Drilling to assist in the conceptual development, detailed design, fabrication, installation and commissioning of a 300Te capacity tension deck for the newly built Noble Tom Prosser jack-up rig. 

The entire project from development of concept through to installation and commissioning was undertaken in 12 weeks. This included the fabrication and testing of a 300Te tension unit and a range of ICON's gripper clamps.

LNG operator INPEX Australia has emerged globally with best risk management practices while carrying out recent well completions and flowbacks for the Ichthys project, in the Browse Basin, offshore Western Australia.

Scott Warren, project manager at ICON Engineering, was recently awarded a safety award by INPEX for his work onboard the ENSCO 5006 drilling rig during the well completions stage on the Ichthys LNG project.

• Local content ‘double whammy’ win on Ichthys LNG project
• World first use of robust, long life composite subsea buoys
• Designed to withstand 1 in 10,000 year cyclone event

Perth-based ICON Engineering has just chalked up another order of its conductor tensioner units (CTU) into the Gulf of Mexico’s (GoM) offshore oilfields, saying its well valued products are avoiding the drastic cost cuts in the drilling sector.

Now that the dust has settled from the recent LNG18 conference held in Perth, ICON Engineering can report that Managing Director David Field and GM Equipment Steve Plain spent some quality time discussing matters of compensation with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop - heave compensation, to be precise.

ICON Engineering has completed the successful offshore trial rig up of its latest Heave Compensated Tension Lift Frame (CTLF), which can be run as the primary compensator, or as back-up to the rig's drill string compensator to safeguard against unintentional lock-up.

This innovative design suits coiled tubing and wireline intervention operations where heave compensation is required, notably deepwater drilling and completions activities. The CTLF can be run as the primary compensator, or as back-up to the rig's drill string compensator to safeguard against unintentional lock-up.

It was installed on a semisubmersible drilling rig and is currently in operation on a Western Australian project.

ICON Engineering has announced the launch of the Advanced Riser Tension Protector (ARTP) Equipment Range, representing a significant advance in coiled tubing lift frames (CTLFs) for subsea well completions, well testing and well interventions.

TOPIC S.A. of Tunisia engaged ICON Engineering to assist in the development of the Halk el Menzel (HelM) field located in the Gulf of Hammamet.

ICON's facility in Henderson includes a purpose built 40m testing tower, which was constructed as a unique onshore test facility, and 1000m2 of warehouse facilities serviced by a gantry crane.

ICON is globally recognised as innovators in Drive Pipe Conductor Tensioner design and its Conductor clamps are now installed on the 20% of the jack-ups currently in service worldwide.

ICON Engineering has doubled in size in the last 24 months in core business sectors including: drilling rig support, heave compensation technologies, and subsea engineering.

With the high demand for ICON engineers over recent years, ICON Engineering is now offering the secondment of our quality personnel into your team.

There are several reasons why ICON personnel may be the perfect fit to fill that important role in your team.

The expansion of ICON's subsea division continues with the detailed design of a mid-water arch and gravity base structure, to be installed in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia.

In March this year, ICON transported 100 tonnes of specialist drilling equipment from Europe to Australia in less than 48 hours door-to-door, including ground freight and customs clearance both ends.