NORMS Center
NORMS is our 24/7 operations support center designed to add capacity to our rig crews during planning of nine different critical operations.
Each crew may only perform a significant operation a few times a year, but across our fleet we are performing these operations weekly.
The NORMS team collects learnings from each time a rig in our fleet conducts a critical operation and then can immediately apply them during the planning of a similar operation on a different rig across the globe.
Crewed by Experienced Offshore Professionals
NORMS is crewed 24/7 by experienced offshore professionals. The operators come from drilling, technical, and marine backgrounds, bringing added capacity to improve decision making. The NORMS crew rotates between offshore, center, and adjacent Operational Excellence functions. This ensures personnel are exposed to a wide variety of circumstances and maintain an understanding of how we operate across multiple functions.
- Full-time operators from drilling, technical, and marine backgrounds
- Daily shifts so NORMS is crewed 24/7
Suite of Technologies
NORMS features a suite of technologies to ensure successful collaboration. Screen displays provide a multitude of information in real time, including Noble Daily Operational Reports, weather patterns, various Power BI dashboards, and a live video stream for after-action review purposes only.
The information overview allows the rigs to expand their operational capacity by leaning on NORMS for planning purposes along with live monitoring when helpful. It allows the right information to be available to the right people at the right time.
Planned Operations
Initial selected critical operations supported by NORMS include:
Running riser/BOP deployment
MPD hookup and commissioning
Well testing
SIMOPS with adjacent production
Complex non-standard lifts
Extreme weather management
Well control
Rig moves
Diving and ROV operations <50 meters from keel
The center is located at our corporate headquarters in Houston, TX.