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and cost ef?ciencies.

Fram Sør Will be the Tipping Point for “Additionally, an all-electric approach can help to over-

Subsea Electrification

OneSubsea, an SLB joint venture, recently announced come some of the limitations associated with legacy off- shore power and control systems. Some of the cases we a contract award for its all-electric subsea production sys- tem, and John Macleod, vice president of technology and have looked at for tiebacks into mature infrastructure show strategy at SLB OneSubsea, sees it as the onset of a tipping an all-electric approach can help to enable the viability of these tiebacks. point.

“It will also enable the remote control of such assets “Large investments have been made across the industry to make this capability a reality, and we now see several projects during the operational phase. The resulting reduction in project cycle time and costs and the ability to produce pre- on the horizon that use all-electric as their base case.” viously inaccessible reserves can rede?ne an asset’s net pres-

The ?rst project is the recent contract award from Equi- ent value for the better.” nor for the front-end engineering design (FEED) of a 12-

All-electric systems are well suited to local energy gen- well, all-electric subsea production systems project in the

Fram Sør ?eld, offshore Norway. The solution will use SLB eration and storage which can be an additional enabler to

OneSubsea’s standard subsea tree design, upgraded with a project viability. Also, electri?cation leads to reduction of surface infrastructure at the host facility, coupled with the fully electri?ed power, control and actuation system. “You can only go so far by optimizing component-level reduction of hydraulics eliminating hydraulic power units performance,” says Macleod. “As we add to our electric and large topside reservoir.

In the future the integration with autonomous under- capabilities toward a complete pore-to-grid solution, this will trigger further step changes in performance, enabling water vehicles, subsea wireless and subsea power solutions greater and greater system-level optimization capabilities will support even more reduction of infrastructure topside. september/october 2024 OFFSHORE ENGINEER 35