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says engineering and program manag- Aker Solutions worked with another

SubseaEyebrow ers from outside the oil and gas industry non-oil and gas core ? rm Devotek to have been recruited into the program to develop a subsea electric actuator, as part use a systems engineering approach to of its work on the Åsgard and Ormen collaborate directly with other businesses Lange subsea compression projects. to solve the oil industry’s challenges. Devotek, which is traditionally more

Ferland herself comes from outside the involved in the automotive sector, has industry. A gas turbine engineer in the made a solution smaller and lighter than navy, she’s also been a saturation diver any other on the market, Valla says. It is and, most recently, worked at AUV ? rm now fully tested and quali? ed and being

Hydroid, developing the Remus AUV. offered in tenders. “We are bringing a perspective from The 83cm high (smaller than a Dyson aerospace and other industries to see vacuum cleaner), 85kg in the water, sub- and understand what other technologies sea electric actuator, quali? ed for 4000m can be brought in to the industry and water depth and -5 to 55°C operating tem- what minor changes need to be made to peratures, has been designed for a 25-year make it meet the needs in the industry,” running, with a dual motor and gear oil she says. Interestingly, the group’s ? rst system, for barrier protection and lubrica-

Jupiter’s subsea inline contamination monitor.

innovation was around how they found tion, has a metal pressure compensator Photo from Zetechnics. information from within Shell in order with condition monitoring. Maximum to carry out their ? rst step, which was to torque output is 2700nm with 50,000 delve into the business to create a sys- cycle lifetime at 1800nm nominal torque. min to 160l/min from one unit, making of laser pro? les, which are best seen in tems model and to de? ne what speci? c it a ? exible, multipurpose unit. Jupiter darkness, while you need intense bursts

Jupiter goals were in order to de? ne them to the systems have always exhibited very high of light for the HD stills. Cathx solved market. UK-based Zetechnics has also drawn on dependability with that very ? rst unit this with sequencing. For example,

For Hervé Valla, wider industry technology to help offer recently overhauled and redeployed; it in variable turbidity, 3D laser data is chief technical of? - a new solution. Tim Over? eld, the ? rm’s had no damage to the electronics, just sequenced with co-registered still images. cer, Aker Solutions, managing director, said a conversation needed hydraulic valves replacing and

Halfwave looking at the bigger with an ROV operator about monitoring the software upgrading.

picture – problems on hydraulic ? uid condition and another Over? eld says the industry would Norway-based Halfwave launched its a systems level – is with a hydraulic ? uid monitoring technol- bene? t from more standardization, which ARTEMIS subsea pipeline and riser a key to innovation, ogy ? rm, led to their Jupiter trademarked it has historically tried to achieve, but inspection tool, based on acoustic instead of operating in subsea in line contamination monitor not quite fully managed, as well as using resonance technology (ART) developed silos, which the indus- (ICM). Units sold fast after it was shown at technologies from other industries, but by Det Norske Veritas (DNV, now part of try has a tendency to Subsea Expo in Aberdeen earlier this year only where they are found to be high- DNV GL) over the last 20 years. do. and the sales continued at UTC. enough quality. ART is an ultra-wideband inspection

Aker Solutions is doing this with its The 4000m deepwater-rated ICM is a technology that exploits the phenom-

Cathx subsea alliance with Baker Hughes, he permanent hydraulic ? uid (mineral oil enon of half-wave resonance. A send- says, removing the “false barrier” separat- or synthetic oil-based with a water glycol Founded in 2009, and based in Kildare, ing transducer transmits a broad-band ing the well and subsea. One of their version available) monitoring tool, which Ireland, Cathx Ocean presented its subsea acoustic signal toward a metal structure ? rst innovations, PowerJump (OE: NCE enables operators to identify early when optical measurement capabilities in a of interest. The signal spreads in the

Subsea supplement 2015) is a system hydraulic ? uid has any contamination UTC technical session. CTO Michael structure, exciting half-wave resonances. innovation using existing components, in it so that maintenance can be carried Flynn outlined a case study from the The response of the structure transmits a he says. In less than a year, components out before it causes a problem and at a North Sea, which showed how the ? rm’s characteristic signal which is detected by have already been quali? ed and a proto- time that suits. The ICM unit measures tools and techniques were able to provide a receiving transmitter, with the results type is being built. hydraulic ? uid for particulate and water high resolution images of a pipeline then analyzed revealing resonance peak

But, he also suggests technology contamination. The 120mm-diameter, section. frequencies, from which the structure’s development around creating families of 200mm-long, titanium encased 2.3kg in Traditional techniques, such as HD thickness can estimated.

ARTEMIS was developed to inspect products, which can be adapted, rather water ICM, which can run periodically or video and multi-beam sonar, have limited subsea pipeline and riser integrity from than reinvented, for different situations, continually, needs just 24v and stores up resolution, he says. HD video stills, how- the outside and through coatings using but built from the same core components, to 4000 sample tests to its memory. ever provide better resolution. If laser

ART. It is deployed by ROV and performs such as the ? rm’s new subsea control Zetechtics also had its latest subsea pro? ling can be used in combination a 360 ° scan, using ART, through pipeline module, Vector 6, which has a standard control unit, Jupiter 2, on show at UTC. with HD stills, high resolution images and riser coatings. Halfwave, which is chassis, but its software means it can be Launched earlier this year, it is the latest can be created and a 3D point cloud. owned by private equity house Energy modi? ed to meet deployment require- version of the ? rm’s ? rst control unit, Each pixel on the image can be calibrated

Ventures, DNV GL, Chevron and certain ments. What is interesting about Vector deployed ? rst in 1998. Jupiter 2 has been as X, Y, Z points thanks to linking the staff, says it has quali? ed the technology 6, is that it was developed by a team that launched as a family of units, which can camera with the laser and using basic with one operator. had been brought into Aker Solutions be adapted according to client require- trigonometry, he says. At 5m distance, through the acquisition of the telecom- ments. Its innovation is bringing what you can get 2mm resolution on the point ARTEMIS follows hot on the heels of munications business in 2012. “They in the past has been two separate units cloud data set. Halfwave’s ART Scan, an in line internal came with a completely different mindset in to one, enabling control of small but With this technique, the dif? culty pipeline scanner, launched earlier this and challenged us a lot,” Valla says. also very powerful functions, from 12l/ comes when you want to shoot images year. oedigital.com August 2015 | OE 43 042_OE0815_Subsea1_UTC.indd 43 7/21/15 9:46 PM