Floating Production – A Growing Segment in Transition
the same stakeholders and supply chains, competing for increasingly scarce resources.To receive a full version of Inteletus analysis, click hereThe established floating production segment is forecast to experience continued growth through this decade, driving demand for, among other things, moorings, subsea systems, umbilicals, risers, flowlines and the large anchor handlers and subsea support vessels that will install and maintain the elements.At the same time, the floating wind segment will move from demonstration and pilot scale projects to pre-commercial and commercial scale arrays and will consume
TechnipFMC to Supply Subsea Systems for Shell’s Sparta Development
Oilfield services company TechnipFMC has been awarded a ‘substantial contract’ by Shell for the supply of subsea production systems for Sparta development in the Gulf of Mexico.This will be the first integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (iEPCI) project to use high-pressure subsea production systems rated up to 20,000 psi (20K), according to TechnipFMC.The work scope includes manufacturing and installation of subsea production systems, umbilicals, risers, and flowlines for Shell’s Sparta development.The tree systems will be Shell’s first to be
BIRNS Introduces 6,000m Open Face Rated Coax Cable Assemblies
new 40 cycle open face hydrostatic testing protocols yielded even lower insertion losses: at 8800 psi, losses of only -0.35dB at 3.0 GHz with a VSWR of 1.2. The new certification of 6,000 meters open faced resistance will provide a wider range of highly advanced connectivity options for developers of subsea systems, according to BIRNS
UH Aims to Develop Subsea Pipeline Inspection Autonomous Robot
divers will be needed,” said Chen, noting that a prototype of the ROV has been tested in his lab and in Galveston Bay. The experiments demonstrated the feasibility of the proposed approach for inspecting the looseness of subsea bolted connections. Preliminary studies were funded by UH’s Subsea Systems Institute.The UH researchers are collaborating with Oceaneering, and Chevron will evaluate the technology’s commercialization
Subsea Europe Services Appoints Niemeyer to Head R&D
Subsea Europe Services has opened a new R&D center at its premises in the Ocean Technology Campus Rostock. The new department is led by Dr. Frank Niemeyer and has been established to enable the subsea systems, services and solutions provider’s mission to simplify the acquisition of marine data by leveraging new integrated, autonomous and digital technologies.Following Dr. Niemeyer’s appointment as Head of Research And Development in January 2023, Subsea Europe Services plans to grow the department further with new data science, mechatronics, software development and platform management
Subsea Infrastructure Power Looks at Renewables
(NZTC) in Aberdeen, Harbour Energy, Serica, and Mocean Energy (the WEC provider) and Transmark.This will see wave energy firm Mocean Energy’s 20m long, 56-tonne, 10kW rated Blue Star 10 wave machine coupled with Verlume’s third Halo system to demonstrate the ability to work reliably with subsea systems, such as oil and gas wells, carbon capture and storage sites or even subsea vehicles.The project includes testing these systems with Semstar5 subsea electronics equipment from Baker Hughes (although not connected to any live facilities), with which Verlume and Mocean have a nonexclusive memorandum
Lander Lab #4: Underwater Releases
;Teledyne Benthos UTS-9500 Universal Topside, an acoustic release deck command unit and overboard hydrophone. (Photo Teledyne Benthos)Manufacturers of the integrated acoustic release design include:Applied AcousticsDesert Star Systemsdevelogic GmbHEdgeTechiXblueTeledyne Benthos Sonardyne Subsea SonicsDownsides include this type of release can be heavy, with a water weight of up to -62 lbs, limited to 6km (Benthos has a 12km version), and only a single release function. The air weight is 79-lbs, plus the weight of a 17” glass sphere to lift it (+57-lbs buoyancy, 51-lbs air weight)
Marine Minerals – A New Opportunity for Subsea Oil and Gas Technology
Conference (UTC) keynote speaker Tore Halvorsen says. But it needs knowledge from the oil and gas industry to make it happen and Norway could lead that drive, both in terms of technology but also licensing and regulation, he will tell UTC, during June 14-18.Tore Halvorsen, previously SVP Subsea Systems at TechnipFMC, is CTO at Loke Marine Minerals, which was founded in 2019, with TechnipFMC and Wilhelmsen as technology partners and investors. It’s targeting the Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone and international waters.“The green transition is fully dependant on critical minerals
"CTO in Focus" - Gareth Davies, Baker Hughes
, Baker Hughes has taken a unique life-of-field approach to create its Aptara subsea system – an integrated suite of 50% lighter, modular, optimized, and structured products.Engineered to be a TOTEX-lite family, Bakers Hughes says that this next-generation portfolio challenges conventional subsea systems to make installation, production, and intervention simpler and more efficient. The individual products, comprising trees, well heads, pumps, flexibles, and connectors, are all building blocks of the system, which is configurable to both greenfield and brownfield developments.With 40% reduced
February 2024
