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Activity management involves the leadership andguidance of a project from start to finish, typicallythrough three phases: strategy development,planning and execution. Risk assessment andcontrol are crucial throughout.

InterAct’s project managers include experienced engineers andoperations personnel with a keen understanding of the metrics anddrivers for successful projects. They are adept at assessing risks,identifying critical-path activities and managing competing priorities.They place strong emphasis on safety and understand perfectlythe importance of cost and schedule control. These skillsconstitute traditional project management – just one elementof what we call activity management.

Activity Management

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What activity management involvesin practical terms

• Strategy development – Theidentification and formal evaluation of allthe available project options followed bythe selection of the best way forward.

• Planning – Contract strategy, costestimating and budgeting, stakeholderidentification, environmental evaluation,project permitting, scheduling andlogistics, and planning for necessaryfinancial approvals for project execution.

• Execution – Bid preparation, contractorselection, contractor management,equipment and materials procurement,regulatory compliance and traditionalproject management and sitesupervision.

InterAct’s project planning services

• Concept evaluation and selection

• Alternatives and feasibility analyses

• Risk evaluations

• Strategy development

• Cost estimation and schedulepreparation

• Decision support package preparationfor authority for expenditure funding

InterAct’s activity managementservices

• Logistics planning and coordination

• Cost and schedule control

• Third-party liaison

• Bid preparation and contractmanagement

• On-site supervision and constructionservices

• Operational procedure preparation

• Risk management

• Real-time problem solving

• Health, safety and environmentalissue oversight

Activity Management

We plan. We engineer. We deliver. You succeed.

Experienced InterAct drilling and wellsite supervisorsdeliver comprehensive well services for offshore andonshore fields in the most challenging conditionsworldwide. InterAct actively provides constructionmanagement support services and health, safetyand environment (HSE) professionals for a widevariety of projects, including production facilityinstallations, pipeline and platform upgrades,and facility decommissioning.

InterAct is the Pacific region leader in providing qualified,experienced crane operators and riggers for the offshore oiland gas industry to fulfill all types of material handling needs.All crane operators and riggers are trained by the InterActin-house certified instructor to the latest American PetroleumInstitute (API) RP 2D recommended practices.

Field Services


Drilling, completion and production

• Drilling and completion programdevelopment

• Wellsite supervision

• Drilling and field productionperformance improvements

• Workover and completion operations

• Integrated workover control system andhigh-pressure marine riser for subseawell completions and abandonments

Construction management services

• Site preparation and fabricationoversight

• Material procurement

• Vendor identification and selection(cost- and quality-based)

• Equipment inspections

• Facility installation and commissioning

• Job safety analyses

• Management of change documentation

• HSE program oversight andimplementation

• Onsite field supervision

• Quality assurance

• Project expediting

• Regulatory compliance documentation

Crane operation services

• Offshore API-qualified craneoperators and riggers

• Crane maintenance, inspection,refurbishment and repair

• Certified crane operation andrigger training

Other field services

• Electrical and instrument support

• General equipment maintenance

• Facility operations

• Structural fabrication, includingfield quality control inspection

InterAct’s Field Services


InterAct’s drilling and completion engineers workclosely with operators’ geologists and reservoirengineers to prepare cost-effective well designs thatreach their objectives and ensure maximumproductivity. We have successfully designed andmanaged drilling projects for horizontal andextended-reach wells, deepwater subsea wells,reservoirs with complex geological formations,and urban drillsites.

InterAct also provides production enhancement activities byundertaking facility and well economic analyses, wellborereviews and management of slot recovery projects.

Drilling Engineering andRig Mobilization Services


InterAct’s drilling engineering services

• Drilling and completion design

• Project scoping and cost estimating

• Directional planning and collisionavoidance procedures

• Drill stem testing, workover andstimulation programs

• Artificial lift design and optimization

• Subsea well intervention

• Rig and equipment sizing, contractingand procurement

• Safety valve control systems installationand testing

• Advanced tubular design and wellborethermal modeling using LandmarkStressCheck™ and WellCat™ software

• Third-party casing design verification

• Development of standard operatingprocedures

• Risk assessment and hazard review

• Well and drillsite permitting

• Injection well (underground injectionprogram) permitting

InterAct also supplies on- and offshorewellsite supervisors, both drillsitemanagers and workover site managers.

Rig mobilization planning andoversight

InterAct provides trained and experiencedfield staff and supervisors to plan andexecute drilling rig mobilizations anddemobilizations. We offer comprehensiveservices for all aspects of rig moves,including:

• Rig selection, sourcing and purchasenegotiations

• Rig drilling equipment inspection, repairand installation

• Rig construction, remanufacturingplanning and oversight

• Platform site structural assessmentsand modification designs

• Drilling rig layouts and wellsite planning

• Full interface and integration reviews,engineering, procurement andinstallation

• Marine logistics

• Crane and rigging planning

• Full turnkey rig-up or rig-downoperations

Drilling Engineeringand Rig Mobilization


InterAct’s engineering services range from planning anddesigning new facilities to optimizing existing systems.Experienced at working in both offshore and onshoreenvironments, our registered professional and fieldengineers provide innovative and practicalapproaches to meet our clients’ needs. Ourtechnical staff work closely with our fieldpersonnel to engineer reliable solutions thatwork both on paper and in the real world.

We offer special expertise in equipment layout and materialshandling for congested facilities with space constraints. Weprovide “debottlenecking” solutions to maximize throughputand efficiency of existing plants. When project requirementsdictate, we draw on outside associates with whom wehave long-established relationships to handle specific requirements in metallurgy, fatigue, hydrodynamics andother highly specialized disciplines.

Facilities Engineering


• Feasibility studies

• Solar-powered control systems

• Plant “debottlenecking”

• Facility design and engineering

• Facility decommissioning assessmentsand planning

• Procurement and fabricationspecifications

• Structural repair and platformmodifications

• Rigging plans for specialized lifts andequipment placement

• Marine installation design

• HAZOP and HAZID reviews

• Specialized operations andmaintenance manuals

• Platform and moored vessel installations

• Facility debottlenecking toaccommodate increased production

• Piping and instrumentation diagramupdates and safety analysis functionevaluation chart verification

• Feasibility studies

• Solar-powered control systems

Sample client list

• Amerada Hess

• BG Group

• BP

• Chevron

• ConocoPhillips

• DCOR

• SEMPRA Energy

• ExxonMobil

• Genesis

• Legacy Energy/Nimin Energy

• Linn Energy

• Marathon Oil

• Mosaic Oil

• Nexen

• Occidental Petroleum

• Orchard Petroleum

• Oxy Elk Hills

• Oxy USA

• Petro-Canada

• Pioneer

• Plains Exploration and Production (PXP)

• Shell

• Solimar Energy

• Statoil

• Talisman Energy

• Total

• Venoco

• Vintage Production California

• Wood Group

InterAct's Offshore andOnshore FacilitiesEngineering Services


InterAct personnel have extensive experience inmany subsurface, seabed and marine disciplinesthat enables them to provide the services requiredby our clients. InterAct provides various subseaengineering services that include fielddevelopment studies and management of frontend engineering; project surveillance; subseacontrol systems; integrity management;inspection, repair and maintenance;installation and intervention management;well intervention, workover andmaintenance; and riser analysis.

Subsea Engineering Services


• Field development studies andfront-end engineering

• Well intervention, workover andmaintenance

• Operations support

• Asset management

• Integrity management

• Inspection, repair and maintenance

• Riser analysis

• Materials and corrosion engineering

• Subsea control systems

• Rig-based and rigless subsea wellabandonment

• Slot recovery

• Installation and interventionmanagement

• Flexible pipelaying

• Installation equipment supply andlogistics management

• Contract and commercial management

Subsea rental services and mudlinerental equipment

InterAct has a rental integrated workovercontrol system (IWOCS) available withqualified service technicians to supportsubsea mudline completion, interventionand abandonment, or to perform systemintegration testing in manufacturing-facility, wireline-intervention-control andabandonment operations worldwide.InterAct has experienced personnel whocan develop, review and implementrunning procedures for your total subseamudline completion program.

Recent projects

• Rigless subsea well abandonmentusing SWAT™

• Subsea well abandonment rig sharingprogram (SWARS)

• Assessment of decommissioningliabilities and North Sea wellabandonment studies

• California State Lands Commission:Santa Barbara Channel subsea debrisremoval program

• BP: Cook Inlet, Alaska, submarinepipeline re-abandonment

InterAct’s SubseaEngineering Services


InterAct offers comprehensive environmental andregulatory services in support of oilfield operations.Our regulatory staff are dedicated to providinghigh-quality, timely and cost-effective services. We help our clients to achieve their project goalsin the most strictly regulated environments byassisting with permit acquisitions, environmentalreviews and regulatory compliance programdevelopment.

By working as the permitting agent or in support of our clients’regulatory staff, InterAct has earned the trust of agencyrepresentatives – an essential component for project success.Using a mutually beneficial approach, InterAct can minimizepermitting review times for complex projects andsuccessfully negotiate reasonable mitigation measuresthat meet the goals of environmental protection.

Permitting and RegulatoryCompliance Services


• Strategic planning

• Agency interface and coordination

• Permit application preparation andacquisition:

º Land use and conditional use permits

º Zoning clearances

º Full spectrum of Air Quality permittingservices

º Terrestrial and marine biologicalsurveys

º Fire department approvals;firefighting capabilities review anddesign

º Production and injection wellspermits, including well diagramdevelopment

º Visual impact simulations

• Permit scheduling and strategydevelopment

• Environment impact assessments forCalifornia Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) and National EnvironmentalPolicy Act (NEPA)

• Endangered Species Act consultations

• Essential Fish Habitat reviews

InterAct’s environmental & regulatorycompliance capabilities

• Practical mitigation plan development

• Mitigation monitoring programdevelopment and oversight

• Development of compliance plans

• Compliance tracking and reporting

• Regulatory training of field personnel

• Field test scheduling and oversight,for example, asbestos and emissionssource tests

• Compliance audits assistance andsupport, and mock audits

• Real-time permit variance negotiationsand acquisitions

• Air quality regulations and permitcompliance

InterAct’s EnvironmentalServices


InterAct scientists regularly negotiate, design andconduct environmental baseline, operational, post-drilling and decommissioning investigations for manyof the world’s largest oil and gas producers. Theseinvestigations document the existing conditions,evaluate and predict operational impacts, assessenvironmental risks and report compliancestatus. Many of these studies are in logisticallychallenging locations and cover a wide rangeof habitats, from sensitive coastal todeepwater (>2000 m) ecosystems.

InterAct is committed to providing cost-effective, timely andscientifically sound environmental services that address regulatorycompliance, protect the environment and help its clients toachieve operational excellence.

Environmental Services to theOffshore Oil and Gas Industry


InterAct’s nearshore and offshoreenvironmental services

• Physical oceanography, water quality,chemicals of concern, biologicalsystems and ecological habitats

• Negotiation of nearshore and offshoremonitoring programs with regulatorsand stakeholders

• Statistically sound, cost-effectivesampling designs

• International logistics addressing difficultand time-critical sample processing andholding times

• Deepwater (>2000 m) monitoring andsample collection

• Taxonomic identification of benthicmacrofauna and epifauna

• Marine mammal monitoring andecological studies related to noise andother environmental stressors

• Sediment profile imaging (SPI) surveys

• Forensic analyses of hydrocarbons todetermine source

• Large-scale data management,analyses and graphical presentations

• Ecological risk assessments in aquaticenvironments

• On-site, third-party quality assuranceoversight for marine environmentalmonitoring

• Develop and deliver environmentalmonitoring training programs foroperator personnel

Recent projects

• Long-term adaptive monitoring plan formajor US oil company for its offshoreexploration, development andproduction activities

• West Africa marine mammal field surveysand literature reviews for noise mitigation

• Four offshore Angola environmentalbaseline study reports (240–1500 m)

• Environmental baseline study dataanalysis and reporting for twodeepwater blocks in the easternMediterranean Sea

• Environmental baseline study analysisand reporting, offshore Vietnam

• Environmental baseline study analysisand reporting for three deepwaterblocks, offshore Liberia

• Designed, negotiated and conducted alarge-scale regional environmental baselinestudy in the southern Caspian Sea

• Designed, conducted and reported theresults for four post-drilling surveys in thesouthern Caspian Sea (50 to >1000m)

• Facilitated multiple technical workshopsand presented environmental baselinestudy and post-drilling results toscientific and regulatory communities

• Conducted multiple SPI surveys andsediment monitoring in the Gulf ofMexico, the Caspian Sea, the Russianeast coast, the Gulf of Alaska and theUS west coast

Environmental Services


InterAct provides a full spectrum of air quality permittingand compliance services to the oil and gas industry.Our in-depth knowledge of drilling and productionoperations makes us uniquely qualified and effectivein ensuring our clients’ compliance with theincreasing complexity of the air quality andgreenhouse gas regulatory framework.

Because InterAct is involved in facility design and construction, itefficiently incorporates air quality permitting and compliance fromthe start; facility equipment selection decisions are made withcompliance to the air quality regulations in mind.

Air Quality Permitting andCompliance Services


• New facility planning: air quality duediligence for new facilities:

º Production equipment selectionbased on emissions, thresholds andair quality rules

º Analyses of potential “road blocks”,permit requirements and applicabilityof air quality rules

º Permitting cost and scheduleanalyses

• Full air quality permit and compliancesupport of existing oil and gasfacilities: permit applications andmodifications, and permit compliance

• Equipment and permit audits

• Emission reduction strategydevelopment and related equipmentrecommendations

• Best available control technology(BACT) cost-effectiveness analyses

• Notice of violation (NOV) appeals anddispute resolution

• NOV fine reduction negotiations

• Face-to-face, on-site support during airdistrict facility audits

• Fugitive emissions and combustion unitinspection and maintenance (I&M) plandevelopment, modification andcompliance

• Training of operator technicians toperform internal fugitive emissions I&Mprograms: emission monitoring in thefield, record keeping and reporting

• Emissions reporting and inventories(annual, AB 2588/toxics andgreenhouse gases)

• Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) issue resolution

• Health risk assessments (HRA)

• Flare issues:

º Development of methods ofrecording and reporting of flared gasthroughput

º Flare minimization plan preparation

• Guidance on the required laboratoryanalyses

• Recommendations for dust minimization

• Assistance with various California airdistricts including Ventura CountyAPCD, Santa Barbara County APCD,San Luis Obispo APCD, San JoaquinValley APCD and South Coast AQMD

• Assistance with impact assessmentsand emissions calculations for MMS &EPA approvals

• Compliance with Title V federalregulations, federal permit applications

InterAct’s Air Quality Services


In January 2011, California legislation AB 1960 wentinto effect and established minimum standards foronshore production facilities. The new regulations,administered and enforced by the CaliforniaDepartment of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources(DOGGR), contain increased maintenance andtesting requirements for onshore operators.

InterAct provides regulatory compliance and engineering supportto help your facility to comply with these requirements. Ourgoals are to help you ensure that your facilities remain incompliance with these new regulations and avoid potentialviolations and fines.

DOGGR Onshore FacilitiesCompliance (AB 1960)


• Prepare or modify existing spillcontingency plans (SCP or SPCC) andsite plans to ensure they meet the latestrequirements

• File plans with the appropriate DOGGRoffice within the prescribed timelines

• Prepare blowout prevention and controlplans for critical or high-pressure wells

• Prepare pipeline management plans

• Advise on the new testing frequenciesfor tank foundations, bottom and sideplates, leak detection systems, etc.

• Conduct mock audits to ensure thefacility meets the latest requirements ofDOGGR

• Verify distances to environmentallysensitive resources and determine howthese may affect your operations

• Recommend preventive maintenanceprocedures designed to preventleakage or reduced operating pressuredue to excessive corrosion

• Ensure personnel are properly trainedand accurate training and qualificationsrecords are properly maintained

• Ensure full compliance with facilitydocumentation retention requirements

InterAct’s Services for AB 1960 Requirements


InterAct’s well diagramming services

• Detailed reviews of well history andmechanical condition, and graphicalrepresentations of the pertinent data inwellbore diagrams that DOGGR caneasily review for evidence that theproposed injection fluids will be confinedto the intended zone of injection

• A database-driven well diagrammingsystem providing storage, tracking andanalysis of detailed wellbore data

• Preliminary isolation reviews of all wellsbefore DOGGR’s review to giveoperators the opportunity to remediatepotential problem wells before thepermit application submission

• Assistance to operators in working outreasonable and innovative solutionsthat meet DOGGR’s requirements andminimize the costs incurred by projectdelays and/or having to re-abandon orre-cement wells

Injection well application preparation

InterAct has helped numerous operatorswith preparation of all or a portion of UICproject applications. Major elements ofsuch applications include:

• statement of purpose of the project

• detailed engineering and geologic study

• reservoir and fluid characteristics ofeach injection zone

• evidence that plugged and abandonedwells within the AOR will not have anadverse effect on the project

• casing diagrams and plugginginformation of the wells within the AOR

• proposed well-drilling andabandonment program

• injection plan

DOGGR and WellDiagramming Services


A recognized leader in offshore well abandonment,InterAct is frequently called upon to permanentlyabandon or reabandon old or problematic platformor subsea wells. Our project teams skills includeproject management, facilities engineering, drilling,well engineering, cost modeling and planning.Our integrated team and peer review approachensures that the latest technologies andpractices are utilized to incorporate the safest,most effective and economical techniques forwell abandonment. When it comes to wellabandonment, we practice the concept of"do it once, do it right."

Well Plugging andAbandonment (P&A)


• Full project management of both platformand subsea well abandonments

• Full operational preparedness planningand supervision of offshore P&A

• Tendering and management of thirdparty well services, including cutting,downhole severance, and dive supportservices

• Liaison of marine assets on behalf ofthe operator

• P&A planning and proceduresdevelopment

• Detailed engineering and generation ofoperational programmes. HAZIDs andrisk assessments

• Regulatory submissions

Worldwide P&A Services

• Indonesia

• Vietnam

• UK

• Gulf of Mexico

• West Coast US

• On & Offshore

• Operator liability assessment

• P&A design engineering and riskassessment

• P&A planning and proceduresdevelopment

• Abandonment optionstechno-economic appraisal

• Abandonment cost estimatingand scheduling

• Temporary or permanent wellabandonment or re-abandonment

• Subsea and rigless abandonment

• Regulatory notices andcommunications

• Sump remediation and drillsiterestoration

• Site clearance & restoration plans

• Well Categorization Reports thatreview well data and propose a wellabandonment design based on thewell category:

º Category 1: temporarily abandoned wellhead removal

º Category 2.1 and 2.2: rigless well abandonment

º Category 3: well abandonmentrequiring a drilling rig

Well AbandonmentServices


Well ReviewServices

InterAct is recognized for its expertise in facilitydecommissioning and abandonment. We offer one-stop shopping for facilities abandonment, from costestimating and permitting through to field execution.

InterAct’s offshore decommissioning service offering covers all phasesof work from cessation-of-production economic evaluations, siteenvironmental and structural surveys, hydrocarbon and hazardousmaterial removal (cleaning and flushing) to severing analyses andtopsides removal procedures. We offer innovative and cost-savingapproaches for equipment reuse and disposal.

Onshore, we have safely and successfully executed the removalof numerous facilities, tank farms, pipelines and large-scaleequipment within operating facilities and environmentallysensitive areas. Our offering includes site assessment andremediation planning along with site restoration andrevegetation capabilities.

Facility Decommissioning


• Pre-execution planning and economicevaluations

• Facility removal planning, estimates,schedules and bid packages

• Regulatory compliance and environ-mental permitting assistance

• Site assessment, remediation andrestoration

• Compliance, mitigation andexecution plans

• Execution management and sitesupervision

Facilities: fixed jacket and tension-legplatforms, floating vessels, marineterminals and onshore plants

• Well plugging and abandonment (P&A)procedures and planning

• Site surveys and evaluations: environ-mental and structural

• Piping and equipment flushing and dis-posal

• Platform deck preparation and removal

• Topsides and jacket toppling or removaland disposal

• Site clearance and surveys

Pipelines: offshore, nearshore/surfzone and onshore

• Site surveys and route and tie-inevaluations

• Onshore and offshore pipeline flushingand P&A

• Pipeline removal in sensitive coastalenvironments: surf zones, beaches,berms and wet lands

• Onshore pipeline removal throughcreek beds, sensitive habitats andarcheological sites

• Abandonment of railroad, road andhighway pipeline crossings

• Landowner/title, right-of-way, leaseand easement reviews andnegotiations

InterAct’s FacilityDecommissioning Services


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