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Introduction
1000 flowing wells, what does it mean to me?
This is the last ONEgas newsletter of 2013, a year in which we can be proud of a
number of significant safe production achievements such as significant
improvement in personal safety, beating our availability by some 5%, getting
several new wells approved, having a second rig in the field and signing a
contract with a new rig for the longer term etcetera. Things all of us must see as a
stepping stone to put the competition behind us in the next year(s) to come. I want
ONEgas to be proud of being the best in Safe Production in the Southern North
Sea.
In management speak we need two things to decisively win. We need to continue
doing the ordinary things we do extraordinarily well AND we need to bring those
parts of our business that is not yet having steady top-performance every day to a
place where it has. Nice management speak, but probably not so easy to
translate to what it means for each of us.
1000 flowing wells by end of 2014 is what we will use to help all of us see how
we contribute to daily business delivery. 1000 wells is NOT a target, rather the
direction we are heading. How does it work? Between the Groningen Land and
ONEgas assets we have some 1200 wells, of which 805 flow today. We want to
keep these wells flowing and add another 200 or so. To translate for ONEgas we
have 367 wells of which some 130 flow today. If we can have 300 flowing that
would be great.
To flow a well we need not only the well , but also the facility, the platform, the
pipeline, the gas plant to be operational to process and transport our gas safely
to our customers. This, however, is not enough, we need to drill new wells,
develop new fields, explore and have helicopters, trucks, permits, boats, joint
venture agreements, chemicals, contracts, materials, safety cases etc etc. And
most importantly we need the right people. Each of us is in some way or form
contributing to making or keeping a well flow. Therefore we want everybody to
think every day what he or she does to have a well flowing, and subsequently to
decide what to do to have more wells flowing than today. It might still sound a bit
complex, but please start the discussion with your team what it means for you. In
the rest of this newsletter you read some great stories about having more wells
flowing. Just try to figure out how each of the stories relates to having safely
flowing wells.
Kind regards,
Ante
Inside this Issue
Introduction 1
Safety behaviors – Seafox4 2
Global Safety Day 2
MIE-IA - Revealing hidden failures 3
Project Shell Better World 3
ONEgas Bacton vs Great Yarmouth Golf
Challenge 4
Improvement Award 4
Driving Continuous Improvement – 1000
flowing wells 6
Live well connector brings closed-in wells
back to life! 6
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Safety Behaviors
Bart van de Leemput - VP Netherlands & Germany, Herman Hegge – Onegas
West Operations Manager & Gordon Huxley - Sole Pit, Galleon, Skiff & CBH
OIM & Field Supervisor award 6 members of the SeaFox4 scaffold team. A well
earned safety award for stopping their job during their tool box talk, when they
identified the risk assessment was inadequate for their job. The Permit was
stopped, returned and changed to suit the risks identified – excellent example
Summary of SF4/Clipper activities:
- 185,00 man-hours executed
- Replaced 200 valves
- Opened all vessels and removed 25 tonne of sand
- 1300 Joints broken and tested
- Changed out Train 4 RB211
- Installed PH Bridge Pin and associated utilities
- Installed second PWRI pump on PW Platform
- Installed telecoms dish for Comms upgrade
- Installing New MEG pump PT Platform
- Completed all riser integrity works
- 10 weeks workscope, 5 weeks during annual shutdown and 5 weeks
during full platform Production
Global Safety Day

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MIE-IA revealing hidden failures
Within ONEgas the MIE (Maintenance Integrity Execution) journey has been on its
way for a few years and nearly all our six clusters have reached the 'calculative'
status. As a result, the MIE culture is fully embedded in our organization.
The two main business drivers for implementing MIE are to (1) improve the
efficiency of our maintenance (MIE-ME: Maintenance Execution) and (2) to assure
the technical integrity of our facilities (MIE-IA: Integrity Assurance). The latter is
achieved by identifying the Major Hazards, the bow-tie models, Safety Critical
Elements (SCE) and to assure that these SCE’s are maintained, tested or inspected
according to the Performance Standard criteria in an auditable manner.
An illustrative example of where MIE-IA has strongly improved the focus on
technical integrity is on K15-FA1, where the Temporary Refuge (the Living
Quarters) failed to meet its Performance Standard requirements. The Temporary
Refuge was found to be significantly failing both its leak tightness criteria (risk of
smoke & gas ingress) as well as its explosion/blast resistance. Triggered by these
'failures', the joined decision taken by Operations, our Technical Safety team and
the E&M Structural team was to close in the platform wells and to de-man the
platform to a minimum level in order to reduce the risk to an acceptable level. For
K15-FA1, blast resistance on the west wall has now been restored via
strengthening of the TR walls. The leak tightness problems are currently being
resolved in order to restore the integrity of the TR back to its full requirements.
This example shows how hidden technical integrity failures are revealed by the
MIE process, resulting in an early detection and mitigation of process safety risks.
With MIE now fully in place, we anticipate to find and resolve more of such
hidden flaws in the coming months and years, aiming to improve of the overall
safety of our installations. Further information about the MIE-IA program can be
found on Shell WIKI: http://sww.wiki.shell.com/wiki/index.php/Make_it_Safe_-
_Maintenance_and_Integrity_Execution_1_(MIE_1)
Joost van der Werf – Team Lead Maintenance Engineering
Climate and Landscape Change in
Borneo’s Rainforest (Shell Project Better
World – Earth Watch Programme)
Sean Cain is a Senior Operations Technician onboard the Sean Papa platform
(OGW), who recently returned from a field visit to Borneo. He was a successful
applicant in this year’s Project Better World Earth Watch Programme; a staff
driven initiative aimed at building awareness of sustainable development and
creating value for the company by providing volunteering opportunities in the
economic, environmental and social spheres in which Shell is a stakeholder.
Sean embarked upon his expedition on the 28th of August, meeting with the rest
of his team in Kota Kinabalu (East Malaysia on the island of Borneo) before

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travelling onto the eastern city of Lahad Datu and onto the rainforest camp in
Malua.
The next 10 day’s consisted of aiding numerous research teams gathering data
on; maintaining biodiversity, assessing how reforestation can be best achieved
and to establish the susceptibility of forest to erosion.
The importance of the worlds rainforests are summarised by learning’s Sean
made in the field, “Deforestation is in fact considered the second major driver of
climate change (more than the entire global transport sector), responsible for 18-
25% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
Sean describes the experience, “A fantastic opportunity to personally develop and
engage with scientists who passed on knowledge allowing me to raise awareness
for sustainable development. If I could I would do it all over again and would
recommend the SPBW-EW experience to everyone!”.
ONEgas Bacton vs Great Yarmouth – Golf
Challenge
The first Onegas Bacton v’s Great Yarmouth Golf Challenge took place on
October 4th. The event was well supported by Shell, AJS and third party
contractors, due to its great success it is planned to take place again next
year. Many thanks to Bob Craske and Liam Landamore for organising this event.
Improvements Awards
Continuous Improvement is
“What YOU realize to improve in YOUR day-to-day business”.
If each of us does this, together we will accelerate in explicit beneficial
improvements AND It pays-off.
AWARDS for realized Improvement Ideas proven Beneficial
On Thursday October 10th in our ONEgas “Talk-with-Staff”, again 3x
Improvement Ideas of our colleagues, who took the above challenge and started
to improve their day-2-day business, have been awarded with 4x i-pads.
In Talk-with-Staff they explained about their idea, how they brought it forward
and how they got it realized.
This time the winner of the MAIN award, a 10” I-PAD was:
 Patrick Tent
For his Idea and realization of the Cold Grinding application, which prevents
HOT work permits. Cold Grinding: a System to decrease Shut-down time and
Production Loss; “Saving time by Going Slower”. By making sure to use the
system (instead of only talk about it) we have gained money and experience in
practice. In addition we also learned from first application experience f.e. in
which situations to apply and what to add in preparation to create even more
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executing the Cold Grinding system to make it a successful implementation.
Though the process/system in itself is not fast, it creates the possibility of getting
execution of work OFF the critical time path= savings both on risks, time and
dollars; Real significant dollars if we apply the system and reduce critical Shut-
Down time and Production loss. IF you want to know more about Cold Grinding
reducing Critical SD Time: Contact Patrick or go to https://
shell.openspacecompany.com/shell/idea/view/706
In addition 2 ideas were selected to reward as well, as they also proved to have
significant improvement impact.
The additional winners of each a Mini i-pad were:
 Sander Verkaik and Mark Ridderhof
For their realization of their idea: SAP Work Preparation Course for Maintenance
Engineering enabling Customer Fit Delivery The idea and realization of it, is a
clear example of cooperation in your own work combined with being beneficial
for your colleagues and the ONEgas Business. Sander and Mark helped
Maintenance engineers to understand the Work Prep process and related SAP
more in detail, enabling them to provide the optimum input to SAP preventive
maintenance activities information. Compacted training of 1 day results in
information better fit for “next in line users”, less re-work and less data wrong-
issuing. IF you want to know more about Compact WorkPrep for ME: Contact
Sander/Mark or go to https://shell.openspacecompany.com/shell/idea/
view/719
 Chris Todd
On his Idea of Implementing: BlueBeam Electronic Mark-up Tool for PDF/CAD
files Reduced Throughput time >50%; Basically a simple piece of software saving
time by no need to work in CAD-files but in the BlueBeam Tool; During Define
Phase new/modified P&IDs are now created and checked in 2 days, normally this
would take 2 weeks for traditional CAD methods, this is a duration saving.
Actually 15 engineers already continue use BlueBeam so that detailed design can
start much sooner, Reducing throughput time in ONEmods. Chris “unfortunately”
had to take his “summer Holidays” at the moment of the award hand-out. Chris
was represented by Nick Clay who gained extensive experience with the
BlueBeam tool already; and contributes in daily use and libraries of the tool. IF
you want to know more about Accelerate Define using BlueBeam Mark-up Tool :
Contact Chris or go to https://shell.openspacecompany.com/shell/idea/
view/712
Congratulations gentlemen & Many Thanks from the ONEgas Management Team
for realizing the improvements. Your ideas and approach is a clear example of
“GET-Improvement-REALIZED”.

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Driving Continuous Improvement – 1000
Flowing Wells
Contribute to 1000 FLOWING WELLS and take “the risk” to GET REWARDED too
Do YOU have an improvement idea and dare to take the challenge to get it
realized and win the next Award!!!!
Of course, also you can realize more ‘front-line’ improvements.
Or are you actually doing more, but not taking the time to share this best
practice?
What you need to DO is just simple 5 steps:
1. Go to our ONEgas Improvement Ideas Tool https://
shell.openspacecompany.com/shell/login;
2. Record clearly What improvement idea you do want to realize /did
realize;
After that
3 Align with your supervisor and
4 Decide How to get things done to ensure quality;
5 and then most important, get ideas realized or in other words “Just-DO-
It”.
With your Improvement Idea, you will have the opportunity to may be win one of
the next awards;
AND (bottom-line where all our monthly payment comes from)
It will help us all realize a Sustainable ONEgas showing “Increasing Production”
and “Reducing costs” meanwhile “Ensuring Safety”, contributing to our common
goal of having of 1000 flowing wells in Onshore NL and ONEgas.
If ANY question, contact your supervisor, our Management or Ad Hagelaars
(Ad.Hagelaars@Shell.com) / Onno Jansen (Onno.Jansen@AJS-ISC.com)
Live Well Connectors Bring Closed-in Wells
Back to Life!
The Kraken Vessel is on a 2-year tour in the Southern North Sea. Currently we
are working on well interventions of closed-in wells that have not produced a
single gas molecule for more than five years. Many things have been tried in the
past (bailing etc.) but none were successful to date. We now have a solution that
will add a small but nevertheless important number to achieving our ONEgas/
Groningen/Land-wide target of ‘1,000 Flowing Wells’!
We have started to clean out wells with coiled tubing to remove pebbles and sand
that were blocking the production tubing, preventing gas to come to surface. After
Test on Barque PL-04, August 2013

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the cleanout we have to stop the solids coming back into the tubing and plugging
it up again. For this we have devised a smart solution to stop the solids: a section
of pipe with small holes that is ‘retrofitted’ in the lower part of the well.
This ‘retrofitting’ is a challenging job. Of course this needs to be done in a safe
manner, always working behind two barriers in the well. Together with Balance
Point Control (BPC) in Emmen a solution was developed that would do just that:
the ‘Live Well Connector’. We now can install our pipes in an existing well safely
and efficiently.
To date we have installed our live well connector solution on two wells (Barque PL-
04 and Galleon PG-06) and are currently working on 3 more wells this year.
Ultimately it’s the gas that counts: both wells were tested at a combined initial flow
rate of 425,000 Nm3/d [17 TJ/d].
Drawing of the Live Well Connector
The stones ‘to blame’