Sponsored Projects

The Industry Sponsor Programme aims to ensure the pace of delivery and deployment at scale of technologies to address priority industry needs is met by harnessing industry ownership of the challenge.

Overview

The objective of the Industry Sponsor Programme (ISP) is to deliver bulk field trials of technologies at low cost and deliver industry with the verification data required to evaluate field performance. It is intended that this approach to support technology qualification will facilitate acceptance of the multiple technologies by operators and regulators.

There are currently two Industry Sponsor Projects (ISPs) in progress, one seeking participants and others planned, all designed as collaborations to support efficient fast-tracking of TRL 5-7 technology developments through field trials.

Non-Intrusive Inspection Field Trial Accelerator (NIIFTA)

NIIFTA is a Technology Leadership Board initiative with Kellas Midstream as the industry lead, involving collaboration from NSTA (Contributor) and the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC) and comprising of several onshore terminal operators. The objective is to demonstrate deployment and provide verification of the output from NII technologies to promote industry and regulator confidence and acceptance.

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Alternative Plug & Abandonment Barriers

Led by Spirit Energy and including Harbour Energy, NZTC and other partners, 5 field trials of thermite material in onshore Canadian wells have been completed. The objective has been to generate deployment data points, to enable qualification and verification of technologies which could be used as alternatives to conventional cement barriers. Building on this ISP, NZTC has launched a £600k collaboration to accelerate qualification and commercialisation of a fuller portfolio of critical technologies for P&A efficiencies.

Through Tubing Evaluation and Verification for Rigless P&A Trials

Led by Repsol Sinopec Resources UK and supported by NZTC, this technology has the potential to support new approaches to well abandonment, improving assessment of in-situ barrier material enabling more cost-effective P&A. This project forms part of the NZTC collaboration scheme, looking to obtain £600k per annum to accelerate qualification and commercialisation of the portfolio of Through Tubing Evaluation and Verification technologies.

Want to get involved?

Through the Industry Sponsor Programme, the TLB wishes to install a greater sense of Industry ownership, offering Sponsors a platform on which to share and collaborate.

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