Last week we welcomed Petrobras delegation travelling all the way from Brazil at our Perth office.

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Following the success of a previous campaign, which utilized a 3m Advanced Riser Tension Protection System (ARTP), ICON was commissioned by the same client to develop a new 6m system for their subsequent completions project. This system was deployed on a Semi-Sub Drill Rig.

A massive milestone achieved by ICON. Successful offshore mobilization of equipment and personnel for a crane installation scope. There has been a huge volume of work completed to get to this point, and the client is satisfied with ICON’s preparation and readiness for commencing the execution phase offshore. 

ICON Engineering was awarded a Feasibility Study by an International Energy Company for a potential development offshore Australia.  

The Feasibility Study was based around the tie-back of the new field to an existing platform located approximately ten kms away in fifty metres water depth.

Being transferred from the beaches of Perth to the beaches of Brazil is a tough ask, but someone has to do it.   One of our most senior field development engineers was seconded to assist in trouble shooting a Campos Basin field design the operator feared may be sub-optimal given the technical risk and market conditions.

An Operator required modifications to the Well Test System on the Valaris MS-1 in preparation for a Timor Sea gas field drilling and completions campaign. Icon Engineering debottlenecked the procedures and well test systems on the Operator’s contracted drilling rig on in the Timor Sea. 

ICON Engineering marked today’s International Women’s Day (IWD) and a doubling of its number of female employees over the past 12 months with a well-attended lunch that included employees and the Executive Team.

• Marginal projects re-assessed

• Previous concepts and budgets revisited

The current sustained oil prices have seen previously marginal offshore energy projects get a new lease of life as management teams look to green light previously uneconomic projects.

When a client required a quick and efficient solution for subsea asset protection that could be incorporated into its current drilling campaign utilising assets already in the field, ICON was the logical choice.

In a global first for this Client, ICON has completed the transportation and installation procedures for a Rig Installed Conductor Supported Platform (CSP), Topsides and Host platform connection bridge all using a Jack-up Rig inplace of a Heavy Lift Vessel. 

ICON was recently engaged by a SE Asian Operator to conduct Concept Study and FEED Engineering for its next-generation minimal facility wellhead platform. This wellhead platform design is proposed to be used at multiple future locations for its gas expansion programme. 

ICON recently received an urgent request from a North Sea client for the rental of a 30” conductor gripper clamp. Having this equipment available on the shelf meant that we were able to expedite the mobilisation, with the gripper clamp packed and ready for shipment on the same business day.

ICON Engineering recently achieved an impressive 5 ½ years of operating in challenging offshore environments without a Lost Time Incident. 

Managing Director David Field paid tribute to the efforts of his staff and long term HSE manager Dave Haliczenko in creating and maintaining a culture of safety to keep ICON’s employees and projects safe.

“This is a great achievement and we’re very proud to have achieved this milestone,” said Field.

It's great to get positive feedback. We received the following testimonial from one of our repeat clients following the successful completion of a challenging, Covid-impacted project.

ICON Engineering recently completed Site Integration Testing (SIT) on a spread of subsea Suction Cans and Tensioner Assemblies to assist the upcoming Plug & Abandonment (P&A) activities for an international operator in the Exmouth Sub-basin of the North West Shelf.  These Suction Cans and tensioners are to be used to mitigate against potential fatigue of the wellhead whilst supporting the significant weight of the Blow Out Preventor (BOP) during well decommissioning. 

ICON Engineering’s Equipment Rental division has recently deployed one of its Tension Lift Frames (TLF) along with a Hydraulic Power Units (HPU) and SFT Shipping Skid to West Africa to support their Client’s offshore drilling and completions program. 

• Award winning UK offshore specialist firm launches Australasian decom business 
• Industry stalwart appointed Australian leader 
• Inks collaboration with Australian offshore engineering firm, ICON Engineering

ICON Engineering Pty Ltd is moving office in August 2021 to allow for further expansion. Business activity has been increasing despite Covid-19 and we have been a bit squashed in our West Perth premises.

We have decided to move to larger offices closer to some of our clients into the hustle and bustle of the Perth Central Business District.  

The new office provides great facilities for staff, with pool, tennis courts, gym, and closer commute connections, and of course more room to brainstorm solutions to our Clients’ most challenging problems.

From August 9th 2021 our new address will be Level 16, The Forrest Centre, 221 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000.

• IK-Group and ICON Engineering have announced a strategic alliance, aimed at offering Operators upstream and downstream intervention, repair and decommissioning capacity.
• IK-Group and ICON Engineering tie up represents five decades of innovation and world firsts.
• IK-Group’s emergency engineering capability and product catalogue dovetails with ICON’s extensive offshore execution track-record.

ICON Engineering Project Engineer Rob Faulkner was recently awarded an offshore safety award for his efforts on the Maersk Deliverer semi-submersible drilling rig by INPEX, operator of the Ichthys LNG project.

• 1st Australasian CAN-ductor installed and recovered as planned

• 1st CAN-ductor installed and recovered by AHTS

• Offshore Engineer hits alpine heights in fundraising speed climbing record

• Mt Everest and Mt Lhotse double summit in 24 hours as finale

How to reduce wellhead platform capex costs by standardising components, installing platforms using jackup rigs instead of barges, and employing suction pile technology will be explained by industry leaders in Kuala Lumpur this week.

• The newly installed Conductor Anchor Node (CAN) features on the 2018 AOG Conference magazine cover of Oil & Gas Australia

• It is ICON and Neodrill's first deployment of a CAN in Australasia

• Wellhead platform is 1st field development project in West Africa

• Builds on 2017 African CCTLF sale by drilling unit

• Wins subsea wellhead foundation installation contract for deepwater Woodside well

• CAN-ductor saves drilling days, reduces operational and environmental risks

• ICON to deliver engineering design and fabrication services

• Celebrates 20 years with contract from Woodside

ICON has won a significant scope of subsea rig interface work on Ensco's DPS1 semi-submersible drilling rig for the Greater Enfield development

• Reduces ‘locked to bottom’ heave compensation safety risks

• Builds on Gulf of Mexico sales

Readying the ARTP C-Series for transportation

• 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.

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.