SUBSEA 7 TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE | 20 VALIDATING NEW SUBSEA TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS FOR SUBSEA FIELD OF THE FUTURE FIELD DEVELOPMENT FLOWLINE PIPELINE DEEPWATER RISER LIFE OF FIELD GROUP SYSTEMS BUNDLES VERSATILITY ACCELERATION Demonstrating the value Setting new standards Innovative dynamic New free-hanging riser Enabling predictive of new technologies in thermal performance temperature control to configuration eliminates digital Asset Integrity through digital screening and corrosion resistance extend production life buoyancy modules Management 1 CONTENTS 06 CAPEX CAPEXCAPEX CAPEX CAPEX CAPEX FIELD DEVELOPMENT GROUP Using digital screening tools to deliver OPEX OPEXOPEX OPEX OPEX OPEX costed alternative field architecture designs based on new technologies. ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT 06 FLOWLINE SYSTEMS UPTIME ANDUPTIME RELIABILITYUPTIME ANDUPTIME AND RELIABILITY RELIABILITY UPTIMEAND RELIABILITY ANDUPTIME RELIABILITY AND RELIABILITY New pipeline technologies to meet the ADDITIONALADDITIONAL RECOVERYADDITIONALADDITIONAL RECOVERY RECOVERYADDITIONAL RECOVERYADDITIONAL RECOVERY RECOVERY challenges of cost constraints, thermal performance and corrosion resistance. ACCELERATEDACCELERATED ACCELERATEDRECOVERYACCELERATED RECOVERY RECOVERYACCELERATED RECOVERYACCELERATED RECOVERY RECOVERY 10 PIPELINE BUNDLES New dynamic arrival temperature system allows active control and adjustment of the production fluid 10 arrival temperature. 14 JOURNEY DEEPWATER RISERS Award-winning Gimbal Joint Riser allows cost-effective free-hanging THROUGH rigid riser configurations. 20 THE PAST DIGITALISATION “Data is our lifeblood”: major digitalisation programme by i-Tech 7. PRESENT 24 AIM 2010 AND FUTURE Leading the industry transformation towards data-driven digital Asset 14 2020 Integrity Management (AIM). 2000 26 SUBSEA AUTONOMY Relocalisation technologies enable 1990 close subsea structure inspection with no risk of collision. 28 TECHNOLOGY UPDATES 1980 32-39 26 Editorial Team: VICE PRESIDENT STRATEGY AND TECHNOLOGY Thomas Sunde HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY GROUP Olivier Lodeho STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY MANAGER STANDARDISATION & MODULARISATION FUTURE Neil Brown TECHNOLOGY COUNTRY MANAGER GULF OF MEXICO Paul Hughes TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER Hilary Collins June 2020 2 deep 7 TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE 3 ARTICULATING THE VALUE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES Our commitment to developing our new technology products and “ With our clients, effective new technologies in key demonstrate their quantifiable economic we derive great areas of subsea field development and environmental value when satisfaction from continues to gain momentum. compared with ‘traditional’ market-ready During the last year alone, we have solutions. seeing these brought to market ground-breaking Based on early client engagement, WELCOME TO technology innovations in high-performance heated FDG has developed robust and propositions flowlines, free-hanging deepwater risers, convincing business cases for a number dynamic thermal management systems of our pioneering energy lifecycle DEEP 7 realise value.” and digital Asset Integrity Management. solutions, most notably Electrically Heat The scope of the technological Traced Flowlines (EHTF). developments described in this EHTF is now in its project delivery Olivier Lodeho magazine – and the pace at which they phase in both the North Sea and the are being successfully commercialised Gulf of Mexico, and we can demonstrate HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY GROUP – is based on our willingness to high-value costed benefits in OPEX, collaborate with specialist partners both CAPEX, TOTEX and reliability through within our industry and through Open its adoption. Innovation (OI) networks. As well as enabling the screening Over the last five years, we have of comparative technologies, our major successfully established a wide-ranging investments in digitalisation are also and highly productive OI technology underpinning a comprehensive Asset ecosystem which we access through Integrity Management programme to our 7INNOVATE digital toolkit. enable the delivery of actionable full Life This gives us access to 45 million of Field insights of real value to clients. solution providers, many of them In terms of engineering technology from leading academic and research innovations, we are about to qualify institutions who relish the challenge GluBi® Corrosion-Resistant Alloy (CRA) of generating effective cross-industry lined pipe for Reel-lay applications and technology solutions. We are already during 2019 saw the project debut of benefiting from OI solutions to five Swagelining’s LinerBridge® connector, specific subsea pipeline technology the world’s first all-polymer connector. challenges which we set – and which, At OTC Brasil, we successfully in the process, also generated launched our Gimbal Joint Riser, an resolutions to other issues which we ingeniously simple mechanical concept were not expecting. which allows cost-effective free-hanging Subsea 7 can draw on decades rigid riser configurations with no of specialist in-house technological requirement for additional buoyancy. knowhow but our fruitful experiences With our clients, we derive great with OI are now enabling us to acquire satisfaction from seeing these specialist technological knowledge technology propositions realise value. from diverse external sources and pull We will continue to invest in bringing to it efficiently and rapidly back into our market innovative products and systems organisation. which uncover fresh opportunities for the industry. QUANTIFYING THE BENEFITS We look forward to working with One particularly significant development you on the journey. during the last year was the adoption by our Field Development Group (FDG) Olivier Lodeho of advanced digital toolsets to screen Head of Technology Group 4 deep 7 TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE 5 FIELD DEVELOPMENT GROUP CAPEX CAPEXCAPEX CAPEX CAPEX CAPEX COMPARATIVE OPEX OPEXOPEX OPEX OPEX OPEX ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT OF FIELD UPTIME ANDUPTIME RELIABILITYUPTIME ANDUPTIME AND RELIABILITY RELIABILITY ANDUPTIME RELIABILITY ANDUPTIME RELIABILITY AND RELIABILITY DEVELOPMENT ADDITIONALADDITIONAL RECOVERYADDITIONALADDITIONAL RECOVERY RECOVERYADDITIONAL RECOVERYADDITIONAL RECOVERY RECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES ACCELERATEDACCELERATED RECOVERYACCELERATEDACCELERATED RECOVERY RECOVERYACCELERATED RECOVERYACCELERATED RECOVERY RECOVERY These six elements comprise Subsea 7’s Technology Value Framework and are individually assessed to enable us to deliver optimal outcomes for our clients. 6 deep 7 TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE 7 FIELD DEVELOPMENT GROUP COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FIELD the value of their economic and We are extending the range of our DARREN CORMELL environmental benefits,” says unique Pipeline Bundle products into “ A framework Vice President Field Development DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES Darren Cormell. wider markets as a cost-effective to articulate “Based on this unique capability, flowline solution. the impact of Subsea 7’s Field Development The study tackled both technical we can not only assess a traditional Pipeline Bundles can provide Group (FDG) plays an increasingly and delivery challenges of the project market-ready solution but also model infrastructure to support subsea our technology important role in helping clients to which could have been a key blocker an alternative approach, compare the intervention and monitoring to drive solutions.” VALUE assess how both new and existing in considering the subsea approach and economics and deliver a quantifiable improved operability outcomes and technologies can unlock value for in the process gave the client confidence business case for using new technology.” fibre-optic sensors ensure operation their development plans. CAPEX to consider a supplier-led solution. to high environmental standards. Formed in 2016, FDG’s multi- FLOWLINE SYSTEMS Our market-ready reusable Pipeline FIELD ARCHITECTURE SCREENING TOOL OPEX discipline teams comprise engineering We recently delivered a far-reaching Bundles provide a new, highly inventive specialists who support client projects One of the notable FDG achievements value framework study on deploying our approach to field development, ENVIRONMENT throughout the energy lifecycle from during 2019 was the development of Electrically Heat Traced Flowline (EHTF) enabling incremental recovery concept development to project a robust Field Architecture Screening product in comparison with traditional by unlocking marginal fields and UPTIME AND RELIABILITY sanction and beyond. Tool (FAST) which allows valuable topside architecture for both oil and gas accelerated recovery through all-year The FDG teams draw upon cohesive early-stage access to Subsea 7’s installations. weather-independent installation and ADDITIONAL RECOVERY experience from across Subsea 7’s comprehensive digital product library The alternative approach for the gas accelerated project schedules. business units and collaboration for new technology screening. development would be to install a large, “All our FDG studies are value- “ Delivers a partners to combine advanced field FAST uses the same field development ACCELERATED RECOVERY power-hungry MonoEthylene Glycol driven,” emphasises Darren Cormell. quantifiable development planning capabilities planning user interface to screen (MEG) injection solution on the platform “We now possess a framework that with execution and delivery know-how. conventional field architectures against for continuous injection.