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Collaboration, Bach and subsea processing

Elaine Maslin pro? les Statoil’s project manager technology development and UTC conference moderator Simon Davies.

Simon Davies. Photo from Statoil. ver the past three years, Simon Davies has been the tiebacks in half from about ? ve years to just 2.5, using simpli? ed

O genial and re? ective moderator of the annual Underwater standardized equipment. Some 11 ? elds were targeted, contain-

Technology Conference in Bergen leading us through from the ing around 700 MMboe, with 10 of those already in production, agonies of the end of a sustained period and the last ? eld expected to come on of growth and cost escalations through stream in Q3 2016. to today’s focus on lean. Davies wasn’t at Statoil long be- “Technology is about

He’s also part of a Norwegian choir, fore he was thrown in the deep end singing the music of J.S. Bach in with this project in late 2009. “I was collaboration. Much of our

Norway and overseas (earlier this year someone new in the organization and focus at the moment is to they performed in Vilnius, Lithuania). didn’t know how things were being

But, he’s also known for his time done and it meant I was able to bring use technologies that help us at Kvaerner and Statoil, where, at the in new thinking and challenge the save time and money...” latter, one of his achievements was team members selected to develop the to help initiate the process to unlock Fast-Track principles,” he says. The key a tranche of marginal ? elds through was a group of marginal discoveries the creation of Statoil’s successful Fast-Track subsea tieback that were not meeting investment hurdles on their own – as a program. portfolio, Davies says. “If you could treat them as a portfolio

Fast-Track cut the normal development time for small subsea of standardized subsea tieback solutions, you could reduce

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