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A key component of Upstream Wells & Projects improvement journey is the safe and efficient planning and execution of Commissioning and Start-Up (CSU) activities, including the process of handing over the completed assets to the operator with the assurance of technical integrity and successful first year production. This phase of the project delivery process is particularly critical, because it introduces the additional risks of “Live” hydrocarbons and the additional complexity of multiple execution parties and the transfer of responsibilities. NAPTA’s PDS^® equipped to define a standardised work process for CSU planning and execution and the Project-to-Asset (P2A) transfer phase, to enable project teams to continually improve their delivery performance.

The objective of NAPTA’s Operational Readiness services is to ensure that the facilities (be it green field or brown field) are designed and built to agreed standards, operate and maintain with optimum manning levels, utilise appropriate smart technologies, are started-up flawlessly and meet the Production Promise. In addition this service provides assurance that the future Asset Owner is fully prepared to receive, operate and maintain the facilities.

Contracting and Procurement (C&P) Strategy is a critically important element of Front End Development. To support optimum replication and standardisation and across the entire Capital Projects, the C&P Strategy development process has been moved to earlier stages, pre-FEL2 Phase, in the NAPTA’s PDP^®. With this shift in the C&P activities alongside the project life cycle and by using a rigid structure, it helps achieve earlier convergence between Upstream Wells & Projects Development, Delivery and C&P community by leveraging standard technical and supply chain solutions. The NAPTA’s C&P Strategy supports optimised delivery of fit-for-purpose facilities that meet business requirements through:-

As specified in the NAPTA’s PDS^® and after framing an upstream opportunity in the FEL1 and FEL2 Phases, several key Front End Technical Documents will be developed as per NAPTA’s Project Development Process (PDP^®). These documents are, but not limited to, Project Initiation Document (PID), Feasibility Report (FR), Concept Selection Report (CSR) and Field Development Plan (FDP). Application of this proprietary process is mandatory and provides for standardised Governance, Assurance and Delivery process for capital projects undertaken by NAPTA Corporation where NAPTA’s PDS^® adopted for the Wells and Projects Development and Delivery.

NAPTA’s negotiation support covers a range of proprietary analysis; the process is set by the dynamics of the negotiation process. Negotiation support may include a perception analysis of the commercial position of the opposite party – this needs development of a set of assumptions together with the customer. The bid process, progresses by parties, will be analysed on their impact on economic results; the process of bid development and conditioning will be analysed and options for moves required to close the negotiation gap will be generated. Bids by various parties will be ranked as part of the process.

Economics services may be specifically applied to bid analysis with full quantitative analysis from Government and Oil Company’s perspective. This includes the impact of bid price (signature bonus) on economic return to the government and/or the oil company, in terms of customer specified indicators (e.g. Net Present Value, Earning power/Internal Rate of Return, Value to Investment Ratio). Under Risk Service Contracts, such as existing contracts, the annual fees to the oil company can be established to provide the required rate of return. For Greenfield assets, this will take exploration risk into account.

We offer services including conceptual Well Engineering solutions through detailed design and construction to final offshore and onshore commissioning. Everything that NAPTA and its strategic international Well Engineering partners do is underpinned by hard won operational experience, gained through more than 40 years in the industry.

What is and who are the Front-end Development Manager? Which services they provide through the project life cycle? Answers to these questions are the services we, in the NAPTA International B.V., can offer to our business partners and shareholders while framing an upstream opportunity in the oil and gas industries.

Concept Engineering is the multi-discipline surface engineering activity that supports opportunity development from Business Framing (FEL1) to completion of the Scope Development (FEL2) within the NAPTA’s PDS^® and align with the NAPTA’s PDP^®.

Studies of past sub-surface projects, which have followed the Strategic Decision Based Integrated Reservoir Modelling (SDB-IRM^®) process, have demonstrated that an effectively planned project delivers a higher standard of result with more focus on the project-specific decisions and deliverables.