Well-completion services (Дания - Тендер #47066763)

Snubbing unit for recompletion of To-7 at Lille Torup

Energinet"s location at Lille Torup, Denmark

Gas Storage Denmark A/S (GSD) owns and operates Denmark’s two underground gas storage facilities, which are located in Stenlille in the central part of Zealand (aquifer storage facility) and in Lille Torup in northern Jutland (salt cavern facility).

GSD plans to execute the recompletion and gas fill of cavern Lille Torup 7 (To-7), which is currently brine filled. After the cavern To-7 is recompleted and the gas fill operation has taken place the installed debrining string has to be snubbed out of the cavern before the gas operation will start.

To allow the gas fill to take place, the brine will be moved from cavern To-7 to cavern Lille Torup 8 (To-8). Therefore, a flooding string has to be snubbed into the cavern.

The current contract concerns a snubbing unit performing the above mentioned operation.

Snubbing unit for recompletion of To-7 at Lille Torup

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Other complaints must be filed with The Complaints Board for Public Procurement within:

1. 45 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (with effect from the day following the publication date);

2. 30 calendar days starting the day after the contracting authority has informed the tenderers in question, that the contracting authority has entered into a contract based on a framework agreement through reopening of competition or a dynamic purchasing system, provided that the notification includes a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision;

3. 6 months starting the day after the contracting authority has sent notification to the candidates/tenderers involved that the contracting authority has entered into the framework agreement, provided that the notification included a short account of the relevant reasons for the decision.

4. 30 calendar days after the contracting authority has published a contract award notice in the Official Journal of the European Union which clarifies the reasons for the contract being awarded without prior publication of a contract notice (when the procedure described in section 4 of the Act on the Danish Complaints Board for Public Procurement (klagenævnsloven) has been followed).

Energinet shall follow the procedure in Section 4 of the Act on the Board of Appeal (Consolidated Act No 593 of 2.6.2016 on the Public Procurement Board of Appeal, available at: www.retsinformation.dk). Thus, the intended contract will not be concluded before the expiry of 10 calendar days with effect from the day following the date of publication of this notice, cf. Section 4 (1) (2) of the Act on the Board of Appeal.

Energinet"s location at Lille Torup, Denmark

Gas Storage Denmark A/S (GSD) owns and operates Denmark’s two underground gas storage facilities, which are located in Stenlille in the central part of Zealand (aquifer storage facility) and in Lille Torup in northern Jutland (salt cavern facility).

GSD plans to execute the recompletion and gas fill of cavern Lille Torup 7 (To-7), which is currently brine filled. After the cavern To-7 is recompleted and the gas fill operation has taken place the installed debrining string has to be snubbed out of the cavern before the gas operation will start.

To allow the gas fill to take place, the brine will be moved from cavern To-7 to cavern Lille Torup 8 (To-8). Therefore, a flooding string has to be snubbed into the cavern.

The current contract concerns a snubbing unit performing the above mentioned operation.

With reference to The Utilities Procurement Directive Article 89, paragraph 1, point c, concerning, unforeseen circumstances, the contract will be changed with regards to contract value and contract duration – point c states that the provision applies,

”where all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

(i) the need for modification has been brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting entity could not foresee;

(ii) the modification does not alter the overall nature of the contract.”

Ad (i) The need for the modification has been brought about by the fact that a minor leak in the last cemented casing has been observed. Energistyrelsen does not accept the minor leak from the last cemented casing during degassing of To-8, when the production string is cut, and the last cemented casing is the primary barrier. Energistyrelsen has asked Gas Storage Denmark to repair the production pipe before the snubbing pipe can be installed – this circumstance could not have been foreseen as the solution with cutting the production pipe was originally accepted by Energistyrelsen.

Ad (ii) The task of removing and reinstalling the production pipe does not change the overall nature of the contract, as the tasks still generally consists of the same elements.

The need for the modification has been brought about by the fact that a minor leak in the last cemented casing has been observed. Energistyrelsen does not accept the minor leak from the last cemented casing during degassing of To-8, when the production string is cut, and the last cemented casing is the primary barrier. Energistyrelsen has asked Gas Storage Denmark to repair the production pipe before the snubbing pipe can be installed – this circumstance could not have been foreseen as the solution with cutting the production pipe was originally accepted by Energistyrelsen.The task of removing and reinstalling the production pipe does not change the overall nature of the contract, as the tasks still generally consists of the same elements.