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SUBSEA DIGITALIZATION

Credit: Chevron

Chevron’s landmark 6,500 tons of subsea gas compression infrastructure for Jansz-Io demonstrates the scale of what is being put on the seabed.

ing and control. We are also working on edge analytics increase the amount and quality of data returned topside. and storage, building in abilities to perform analytics close The company has been awarded the FEED of a 12-well, to the source of the data and to store both raw data and all-electric subsea production system with an IoT for the results for an extended period of time.” subsea trees at Equinor’s Fram Sør ?eld, offshore Norway.

Brekke says industry-standard based integration with As part of the agreement, future engineering, procurement topside systems is very important. This enables interoper- and construction will be directly awarded to SLB OneSub- ability between systems from different vendors and enables sea conditional on a ?nal investment decision. The IoT use of automation standards on the seabed. “This saves includes three key digitalization efforts: intelligent sensors

CAPEX and OPEX,” he says. and actuators on the equipment (rather than spring-oper- “This approach also enhances liberation of data for opti- ated on/off systems), connectivity through a secure digital mization of production and maintenance. This is growing platform and the ability to turn data into decisions via ana- even more important, and our Subsea DigiGRID system is lytics and diagnostics. designed to do this very ef?ciently. The Subsea DigiGRID “With all these pieces now in place, we have enabled can interface a topside controller on a hard real-time stan- intelligent asset lifecycle performance management for our dard automation protocol and, at the same time, from the subsea production systems, including for the trees,” says same hardware, stream data to a topside cloud-based digi- John Macleod, vice president of technology and strategy, tal twin using a digital twin protocol like MQTT.” SLB OneSubsea. “Looking forward, the industry needs

OneSubsea™, an SLB joint venture, is pushing ahead more data to develop a deeper contextual understanding with subsea electri?cation, a move that has the potential to of equipment performance to safely extend the productive 32 OFFSHORE ENGINEER OEDIGITAL.COM