About Fugro Well Services Ltd.

Fugro Well Services offers a full range of drilling and subsurface evaluation services to the oil and gas operators. After receiving feedback from our clients worldwide, it became apparent that there was a huge demand for smaller, cost effective drilling units. These units could be employed in all pre-drilling operations and thus take the simple tasks off any project critical path and away from expensive and increasingly rare MODU's.

Typical scopes of work include top hole drilling, installing conductor and surface casings (sometimes intermediate casings), installation of subsea templates, pilot hole drilling, Leak Off Tests (LOT) / Formation Integrity Testing (FIT's) to optimise well design, construction work, pulling and connecting flowlines, running Xmas trees and all well abandonment services. This work can perhaps best be described as de-risking of the well-site prior to the utilisation of any MODU.

Based on the above, Fugro made the decision to proceed with the construction of new lightweight drill ships and the first one, Fugro Synergy will be delivered from Bergen Yards around July 2009, fully commissioned by August 2009 and available for charter immediately after that.

For 40 years, Fugro has carried out many examples of this kind of work from our geotechnical drill ships. Fugro Well Services is Fugro's centre of excellence for drilling and well control operations and will take full responsibility for the safe and effective execution of all projects. FWS has today an organisation of competent project managers, drilling supervisors, drilling engineers, subsea engineers etc and is fully supported by the other Fugro companies with regard to special services such as ROV, survey, casing and conductor analysis, geohazard, subsurface risk evaluation etc.

By utilising Fugro's fleet of highly automated small drillships and calling on Fugro's extensive worldwide experience in the management, planning and execution of oil & gas drilling activities, Fugro can replicate these activities at considerably less cost and offline of any existing development or exploration drilling campaign.