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North Sea said. “Cost infation must be reversed the Norwegian Continental Shelf, and it full subsea developments. At its February and quality must be improved.” is working with organizations including capital markets day, Statoil discussed an

Statoil has been working to address Norske Oil and Gas and API to increase unmanned, low-cost wellhead platform costs, with a large focus on standardiza- standardization. The firm concept, described as tion—which has become a buzzword in is also looking at new stan- “subsea on slim legs.” the Norwegian sector, and has been high dard contracts for delivering It would be a low cost on the agenda at UTC for a number of subsea production systems, solution, with drill- years. One project, to create standard- from 2015, to bring down ing from a jack up, or, ized umbilicals, comprising electrical CAPEX and simplify tech- where water depth pro- and fber optic cables, and hydraulic and nology specifications, on hibited using a jackup, chemical lines, is already bearing fruit. new felds and aftermarket. a mobile drilling mod-

Nexans recently delivered the frst “We are working towards ule, which could be of four “Statoil Standard” umbilicals, more universal interfaces, lifted on to one of these ordered in 2012. The frst umbilical will like the universal work-over unmanned platforms, be used at the Oseberg Delta feld in the systems and standardized could be used for drill-

Norwegian part of the North Sea, and the umbilicals,” Opedal said. ing operations, before technical and administrative procedures Statoil has also been being moved to another developed on the Oseberg project will working on other areas, lost-cost wellhead plat- be used to save time, cost, and materi- including improving trans- form, Opedal said. als during its execution and on future parency around technology “We are assessing

Nexans umbilicals systems. projects, including the Snøhvit gas feld integration, having longer this and we have a real (Barents Sea), and Smørbukk South term lead times, and portfolio planning competition between subsea and this (Norwegian Sea). to help suppliers. In February this year, unmanned platform,” he told UTC. “As

Statoil has also been working with sup- Statoil launched a company-wide effi- these platforms are too small to be built pliers to develop a new workover tool, ciency project, called Strategic Technology, in Asia, (due to transport costs) they offer which can work on any Xmas tree, sav- Efficiency, Program, which is currently a great opportunity for European subcon- ing millions of NOK, Opedal said. The focusing on an earlier focus on selecting tractors. And they could be repeatable frm is also working on a standard subsea more cost effcient solutions and a larger designs. The main driver for savings is catalog for subsea systems, which will be degree of standardization. replacing wet Xmas trees with dry Xmas made available to all other operators on Statoil is also looking at alternatives to trees.”

Statoil. It is 50% of our equity produc- tion. We are the second largest subsea

Engineering Design and operator worldwide with more than 520 subsea wells and a signifcant yearly

Information Management subsea spend,” Anders Opedal, senior vice president project management and control,

Software from AVEVA

Statoil, told delegates in the opening ses- sion at Bergen’s Underwater Technology

Building Reputations

Conference. “But between 2003 and today, costs for subsea projects have in general doubled,”

Owner Operators, engineering contractors and shipbuilders the world over trust AVEVA he said. “Costs on subsea production sys- to create and operate the most complex tems have tripled over the last 10 years,” engineering assets.

he said, adding that market predictions suggest costs will continue increasing,

We empower our customers to make thousands at up to 5% a year. “We think this is not

INFORMATION of accurate design, engineering and business

ENGINEERING DESIGN sustainable. We need to turn it around.

MANAGEMENT decisions every day, across the entire project and

With increasing costs, you would expect asset lifecycle. You too can beneft from improved quality has increased. That is normal in productivity, minimised risk and reduced costs, other industries. I’m afraid to say, we resulting in maximised ROI.

have not seen this, at least not in full

The leader in design, engineering and information effect.” management software for the process plant,

Opedal gave an example. He said on power and marine industries, AVEVA invests in our one subsea project, 70% of all engineer- customers’ success through a global sales and ing documentation received for review support network in more than 40 countries. was sent back due to poor quality.

Nearly 20% was sent back at least

AVEVA – building solid reputations for over 45 years three times. “During the same project

NOK700 million was spent rectifying

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