Proserv Makes Real Waves in Subsea Sector
Proserv won a multi-million dollar contract in Angola, underpinning the company’s fast-evolving subsea status and increasing demand for its sampling system innovations.
Proserv is to design and manufacture a subsea sampling system for BP’s PSVM field development which, with a water depth of 2,000 meters, is believed to be the deepest offshore project in Africa.
The system, which is being designed, manufactured and tested by Proserv’s dedicated teams in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, can go to a maximum water depth of 2,500 meters as well as interface with two and four-slot subsea manifolds. It is also fully compliant with corrosion society, NACE International, and meets the high engineering standards set by the American Petroleum Institute.
Proserv’s sampling system will interface with the subsea production system to support the monitoring of PVT properties in the production fluid as various levels of these elements can cause flow assurance issues such as scale build up.
The cylinders for the sampling system will be designed at Proserv’s specialist manufacturing centre in Greenbank, Tullos, with the whole sampling system to be manufactured and assembled at the company’s Birchmoss facility in Aberdeenshire.
The contract is the second one that Proserv has undertaken for BP Angola on the PSVM development. The company previously provided two similar subsea sampling systems for Block 18 through FMC Technologies.
Proserv, which is headquartered in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, has fast emerged as a specialist in exploration and production, drilling and infrastructure technical solutions and services to the global energy industry.
The company has experienced exceptional growth over the past 12 months particularly in the subsea services sector.
Proserv operates worldwide from 30 sites in six geographical regions namely North U.K., Africa, South U.K., Europe, Scandinavia, the Americas, Middle East, North Africa, the Far East and Australia and currently employs over 1,700 people globally.