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FEATURE EMISSION REDUCTION TECHNOLOGY

MAN Energy Solutions

MAN Energy

Solutions is providing centrifugal compressor trains for gas production and screw compressor trains for gas recovery to the FPSO

Maria Quitéria. energy, and processes at a collaborative, system level.” ager, Rockwell Automation.

He says measures like closed bus operation in the power Examples include the use of digital technologies to: oper- network can support higher levels of ef?ciency and availabil- ate more closely to control limits, employ a predictive asset ity, as can energy storage and autonomous control systems. management strategy to avoid process upsets, predict and an-

Dave Waddington of GE Power Conversion is seeing alyze ?ared emissions, and connect everything to everyone. increased adoption of electric motors in the compressor He says the industry should take a fresh look at its proj- train. The company was recently awarded a contract to ects. “We have seen examples in the past of great design supply their FPSO Electrical Module for energy distribu- features being cut from projects to meet budgetary approv- tion on a deepwater FPSO. al hurdles. This focus on the CAPEX portion of the project

Chris Ayres, Chief Customer Of?cer at OPEX, an ERM (typically 2-4 years and one-third of the total project cost),

Group company, says digital technologies can deliver reduc- while important, needs to be balanced with more attention tions of up to 7.5% in CO2 emissions. Bumi Armada re- on the operations of the vessel (up to 25 years and two- cently selected OPEX’s arti?cial intelligence (AI) technology thirds of the total project cost).” to reduce CO2 emissions from the Armada Kraken FPSO. BW Offshore says case studies have shown that it’s possi- “FPSOs have huge amounts of up-to-the-minute data ble to integrate power generation carbon capture into a new coming from equipment and processes, all of which can be FPSO-based ?eld at an overall capture cost that is lower used to generate an operational emissions model that allows than the CO2 emission tax rate, and DNV-quali?ed Aker teams to focus on the root causes of emissions day to day.” Carbon Capture’s modular CO2 capture system in 2022.

A typical con?guration which produces a fully customized, SBM Offshore aims to have a near-zero emissions FPSO asset speci?c emissions model and up-to-the-minute AI-pow- available by 2025, and the Mero ?eld consortium in Brazil ered dynamic emissions target can be installed in eight weeks. is developing subsea separation technology. With these de-

Digitalization addresses many aspects of an FPSO’s op- velopments, the industry pushes further forward on emis- eration, says Greg Trostel, Industry Development Man- sions reduction.

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