TAQA Well Completions was honoured with two major awards at the 39th Offshore Achievement Awards in Aberdeen, recognising leadership in both industry collaboration and sustainability. The awards, hosted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen section, celebrate outstanding innovation and performance across the offshore energy sector.
TAQA received the Collaboration Award for its North Sea Standardisation Initiative (NSSI), a landmark effort bringing together service providers and operators across the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The initiative aligns screen design, equipment qualification standards, manufacturing tolerances, quality plans for handling equipment, and digital tracking across the supply chain. By standardising critical completion components across operators, NSSI has reduced equipment lead times from 16–30 weeks to as little as 10–12 weeks, enabling delivery from standardised stock in 1–2 weeks when required.
Beyond efficiency, the environmental benefits are significant. Through shared stock and the reuse of 5,202 screen joints, the initiative has eliminated 8,244 tonnes of CO₂, equivalent to the annual carbon sequestration of nearly 10,000 acres of forest or 135,000 seedlings grown for a decade.
The judges recognised the initiative as a powerful example of how industry collaboration can reduce cost, operational risk and environmental impact while improving supply chain resilience.
TAQA Well Completions also received the Sustainability Award for advancing lower carbon oil production through autonomous inflow control devices (AICDs), technology that regulates reservoir flow and prevents unwanted water and gas production.
