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One of the advantages that importantly it was more accurate.

GE has is bringing together the Another example of leveraging core competence in sensing and data acquired by sensor and devices

Operations diagnostics from its measurement from a platform, had been to expand and control division with the it to all equipment on an operating subsea systems division’s subsea platform, then instead of having production expertise, interfacing the equipment expert sitting on the the measurement and control platform, bringing the data back to multiphase team with subsea an engineering environment. With control and trees team. One of the addition of different platforms the issues to be addressed is and multiple assets it was possible ongoing accuracy, with the surface to compare feets enabling real application being ahead of the monitoring diagnostics. The value subsea application in this respect. so far has been the ability to predict Brian Palmer, GE’s VP of potential failures, so that a crew can measurement and control, said be mobilized for a scheduled outage

GE Nailsea, UK.

that one of the company’s biggest rather than a forced one, with the investments going forward is very optimistic that we will get parts on hand.

being directed to solving multi- there.” Palmer said GE was very focused phase fow measurement. “It is a He added that GE was piloting on thinking about how to drive tough problem, and one that GE is some land-based multiphase fow instrumentation into subsea well suited to solve, because we that had proved successful so far in operations. Last summer, it acquired can draw from our research and accurately determining sand, water, Naxys, a provider of subsea leak development centre. We can draw oil and gas out of land-based wells, detection and condition monitoring from our health care business with instead of tank testing the wells. It sensors based on passive acoustic our ultra sound and MRI capability. saved a lot of time, a lot investment technology, headquartered in

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