TubeLock
Tubular handling - HESS
During a recently completed
UBD / MPD Drilling and Comple-
tion
Campaign in 2013 to 2016 car-
ried out in the Danish North Sea.
HESS decided to use the Tube-
Lock® ‘Tubing Racking System’
offered by Global Gravity to be
the system of choice for use
through the entire completion
Campaign.
Project data:
• Transport and logistic hand-
ling 4½” S13Cr% 110 tubing
• More than 3 years off use
without an incident
• Global Gravity Supervisor
involved on and offshore
• +20 shipments over the
years
Challenges:
• Minimum deck space due to
fluid treatment system
• Risk of damage to the tu-
bing’s
®
• Mounting centralizer onshore
• Measuring and tally onshore
• Space optimizing and mini-
mum tubular handling
Improvements:
• Improved QHSE throughout
the loading / transportation,
• Improved equipment prote-
ction – for chrome materials
especially,
• Improved QA on compiling
/ checking running tallies
ahead of time,
• Minimal footprint required on
the rig,
• Ability to pick pipe from the
racks using knuckle-boom
crane to TFM
• Running tally prepared in
advance
• Easy to man handle, easy to
use
” Hess says, With full focus
throughout the Campaign to Manage
Risk & limit exposure to un-safe con-
ditions, the TubeLock® racks allowed
us to prepare our tubulars on-shore,
witnessed by HESS – Inspect, Drift,
Tally (Pre-doping optional) – with a
spreadsheet compiled, forwarded to us
/ rig showing detail of the tubes loaded
& the loading position on the vessel.
The feedback from the rig DSV,
tool-pusher & Completion Supv. & Logi-
stics Controller was very positive being
seen as a ‘pro-active’ step in improving
QHSE and making tubular handling
safer and less risky at the rig, where
space was at a premium.
Going forward I can see no down-side
in trying to improve the management of
our tubulars in the industry – They are
in essence the part we leave behind
for 20+ years – so I believe we should
invest a little to gain a great deal – all
round, ever strive for improvement and
safer working environment.
Kevin Manning
”
Well Completion Engineer - HESS
HSEQ and Certifications
The TubeLock® System has been through very harsh tests to
demonstrate the strength and document the certified hand-
ling.

Design approval
TubeLock® has an approved Design approval from DNV ac-
cording to Lifting Appliance sec. 2.22

HSEQ and certification are cornerstones in the offshore indu-

stry and a constant focus in our operation.
Our HSEQ and certifications are the sum of the knowledge
and experience we learn from these testings.

The system was nominated for a safety prize at the ”Task

Force Zero” conference in Esbjerg in March 2012.

OUR GOALS
zero accidents
safe and smart tubular handling
Globalgravity.dk
cost reduction on handling support@globalgrativy.dk
Increase efficiency in drilling operations Tel: +45 76 56 99 00