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A Smile for Progress:

FSubsea CEO Alexander Fuglesang.

The built-in VSD pump would make the

VFD super? uous.

At ? rst glance, FSubsea’s trademark

Omnirise seems destined to provide lift for smaller ? elds (although partner

NEBB is working on a large VSD). Ak- er’s compression and subsea electronic modules seem right for the big projects, and in Norway, oil company planning placed Aker Solution’s compression trains and control systems at the Ormen

Lange, Gullfaks and Aasgard ? elds.

It’s easy to envision alliances forming roughly around large ? eld compressor types versus the IOR (EOR in Houston) crowd. This battle of pump and control system makers pits the newly tested and promising against the heavyweights of subsea with their own “next generation” kit (see OneSubsea). The FSubsea spun out of 100-year-old Fuglesang AS al- ready employs at least 30 years’ worth of Aker compression expertise.

Variable-Speed “Magnetism”

In the middle of this subsea compres- sion world are the veteran father and son team behind NEBB Engineering, a veteran maker of control systems and (Photo: William Stoichevski)

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