Question

Just as you are walking out of yet another meeting discussing options for the development of the new oil zones, one of your Company’s Sr Managers in charge of Procurement comes in, and loudly reminds everyone that your company in fact actually has a spare subsea tree in storage. Given that they have this expensive asset on the books, and it is available right now, he wants the subsea team to plan to use this tree, in case the oil zones are proactive and are to be developed.

Question 1: What are the important issues to be evaluated when considering the use of this tree?

You do some digging, and find out this tree was not used because the intended well came in dry. But also that this particular tree had some unknown damage in one of the sealing areas (need more detail?), and because they had an extra tree from this program, this one was moved to the end of the delivery schedule. You were unable to find much documentation on its current status, or whether this was fixed.

Question 2: How would you go about determining whether this tree is usable or not, explain?

Answer 1