"CTO in Focus" - Gareth Davies, Baker Hughes
. So, there's a number of things we offer, but we're also thinking a little bit beyond that in terms of automated decision making. I don't think we're quite at the AI level, but we certainly come into more intelligent forms of, “if this, then that” type of design around chemical injection or valve closure for example.It's got a number of connotations. For us, we're exploring two of those that I just described and hopefully we'll expand from both of those and work with our customers to evolve those solutions in time as well.Talking about AI, as well as digitalization
Subsea Tiebacks: A Troll with a Kinder Surprise
back to balance and stabilize the oil column, so that oil recovery at Troll West Could be maximized.Aker Solutions was awarded the contract for the subsea production systems, Nexans was contracted for 27km of umbilicals with power, fiber optic and hydraulic cores, as well as a MEG services line for chemical injection. DeepOcean was contracted for marine operations, including installing the two integrated template structures (ITS – into which the Xmas trees are installed) with manifolds, two pipeline foundation structures (with 11m-deep legs for installation in soft soil), pipeline end manifolds (PLEMS)
TechnipFMC Orders Oceaneering Connectors for Gulf of Mexico Projects
in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM).Oceaneering said that its M5 connector provides an easy-to-install, fly-to-place connection solution that enables injection of gas or chemicals into subsea infrastructure and serves as an access point for future subsea field intervention activities such as gas lift, chemical injection, well stimulation, hydrate remediation, flooding and venting operations, acid injection and scale squeeze.Oceaneering Rotator CTVs regulate the flow of chemicals—scale, wax, and corrosion inhibitors, for example—delivered to subsea production systems. Their functions are diverse
Aker Solutions Wins ADNOC Umbilicals Contract
umbilicals for the Dalma gas development project located offshore the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf.The scope includes four steel tube umbilicals totaling more than 100 kilometers. The umbilical system will provide power supply, communication services and chemical injection fluids. It will connect the subsea equipment to three new wellhead platforms and link the topside equipment located on the offshore control platform to equipment located onshore."This is the first subsea umbilical award by ADNOC in the UAE and the first subsea award for Aker Solutions
Ocean Power Technologies Pact with NEC Energy Solutions
provide sea floor energy storage for offshore operations.OPT's subsea battery solutions will enable the powering of subsea equipment, sensors, and communications, and the recharge of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and electric remotely operated vehicles (eROV). They can power sensors, chemical injection systems, and even electric trees and control systems, which regulate the flow of oil, chemicals, and water and gas injection and disposal.According to data from Fior Research, the global subsea battery sales market is projected to grow to over $668 million over the next five years as industries
Interview: Antony Croston, Trelleborg Offshore
a patented technology whereby the amount of uplift acting within a structure can be increased or decreased during service. Its primary application is within the ‘subsea shuttle’, a developmental concept that is intended to provide a cost-effective way of subsea structure installation or chemical injection. For the installation version of this concept, payloads are ‘shuttled’ from the surface to the seabed via a submersible barge, controlled via wire rope deployed to two service vessels. Once in position, the buoyancy can be removed from the barge through pumping as it is no longer
New Study Will Examine Hydrate Blockage in Subsea Jumpers
Manager with ITF, said: “While previous studies have evaluated hydrate blockage risk for inclined pipe segments, the HyJump Project seeks to enhance that knowledge further. It will investigate the viability of allowing gas to sweep liquids from the affected section, further analysis of chemical injection to clear blockages and aims to deliver novel insight and experimental data that may be used to enhance existing multiphase flow/analysis tools, or service as a guideline to support risk-based system designs or operating conditions.” Currently, there are limited laboratory-based
Tackling Subsea Blockages
which completes in days rather than months with minimum vessel requirements. A rapid response service also minimizes HSE exposure, reducing the requirement for diver intervention programs, and diver intervention inside lines that might have trapped pressure. Typical blockage locations include chemical injection umbilical, production risers, manifolds, flow lines and pipelines. Pipe-Pulse is effective in all of these applications even in long-distance or large-diameter pipework. Pipe-Pulse works remotely and can locate and remove blockages in pipework up to 50 kilometers distant. This deblocking
SUT to Host Deepwater Sessions at Offshore Europe
of the solution.” The second session, ‘Subsea Challenges for Enabling Deep Water Production’ takes place on Thursday 10th September from 9.30am to 12.30pm and will cover innovations addressing key challenges from integrity and flexible riser fatigue to subsea processing and chemical injection. Presentations include: GE Oil & Gas, FMC Technologies, Wood Group Kenny, One Subsea, Plexus PLC and Lux Assure. Dr Bob Allwood, CEO of SUT said: “As the industry delves into deep sea frontiers, new underwater technologies are required that can support safe exploration and production
February 2024
