itf the industry technology facilitator - subsea uk
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ITF
• Global “not for profit” organization (Est.1999)
• Facilitates technology development through to
implementation
• Owned by oil and gas companies
• Over 170 projects (JIPs)
• Currently: 44 ongoing projects - £20 million
ITF Regional Offices
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Aberdeen
Houston
Kuala Lumpur
Perth
Abu Dhabi
The ITF Process
Understandand IdentifyTechnology
Needs
Technology Challenge Workshop
Engage DevelopmentCommunity &
Invite Proposals
Screen & Evaluate
Proposals
TCMSecure Funding
Launch JIPs
ImplementTechnology
Running Project
SURFIM
MCS Kenny
Advancing and automating Integrity Management strategy for Subsea Umbilical, Riser and Flowline(SURF) Systems.
Sponsors: Chevron, Hess, BG Group, Woodside, BP, TOTAL,
Maersk Oil & Petrobras
Funding: £320k
Running Project
WAIFERSS – Wet Aerogel Insulation
VerdEng Ltd
Feasibility study for development of a non jacketed aerogel insulation system for subsea systems.
Sponsors: BG Group, Eni, Nexen & Petrobras
Funding: £200k
Technology ImplementationSUREFLEX
MCS Kenny / Oil and Gas UK
Guidance note on monitoring methods & integrityassurance for unbonded flexible pipe, and flexibleriser integrity.
Policy available from the Oil and Gas UK website
Sponsors: BP, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, HSE, Inpex, Maersk Oil, Nexen, Shell, Woodside, Statoil, Technip & Total
Funding: £180k
Technology Implementation
AMPL
Pipeline Engineering Ltd.
Automated Multiple Pig Launcher provides a
system that enables automatic launch of a
number of pigs from an existing pig launcher
where no modification is required to the launcher,
no external power supply or human intervention –
only the launcher itself.
AMPL unit used by Regency Gas in the USA
Sponsors: BP, TOTAL, Chevron, Shell & Petronas
Funding: £370k
Subsea Technologies Workshops - Perth and London (June 2011)
Perth Workshop Attendees:• Woodside
• Eni
• Chevron
• GE Oil and Gas
• Technip
• Weatherford
• Aker Solutions
• UWA
• CSIRO
• JP Kenny
• WAERA
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London Workshop Attendees:• Nexen
• Dong
• ConocoPhillips
• Chevron
• BP
• Msi Kenny / JP Kenny
• Premier Oil
Subsea Technologies – The Challenges
• Subsea Power
• Flow Assurance
• Subsea Separation
• Temperature Management
• Pipeline Integrity Management / Cost Reduction
• Low Cost Intervention
• Specific Australian Regional Challenges
• Other
Subsea Technologies – Subsea Power
• Re-use of thermal power generated subsea
• Electric power transmission (100MW) over long distances (>300km). Specifically
the focus is on subsea DC (direct current)
• Subsea generation and power transformation
• Methods for installation of cables in deep water (1500m+)
• Reliable high voltage wet connectors
• Long distance distribution. Currently >200km is uneconomical
• Wind, wave, current generation
• Compression powered by deepwater marine renewable energy sources
• Local geothermal sub-sea power generation (60°C)
Subsea Technologies – Flow Assurance
• Improved internal pipeline coatings for hydrate plug prevention
• Subsea well stream cooler and liquid separation as a non-glycol flow
assurance
• Direct electrical heating over long distance for hydrate and wax
management
• Alternative pipeline active heating systems - e.g. trace heating, pipe in
pipe
• Hydrate subsea management of cold flow
• Better corrosion modelling for pipelines
• Better understanding of microbial induced corrosion
Subsea Technologies – Subsea Separation
• Water and heavy oil separation, cleaning and discharge techniques
• Control of separation quality, e.g. providing accurate measurement of hydrocarbon 5ppm in disposed water
• Establish produced water subsea dischargeable standards for deepwater developments.
• Meeting and monitoring a produced water specification for reservoir injection
• Subsea solid separation and disposal, including clean sand disposal to sea
• H2S and CO
2separation and subsea sequestration
Subsea Technologies – Temperature Management
• Novel heating and cooling solutions
• Develop a smarter model for subsea cooling applications e.g. using finite element methods
• Effective lateral buckling control methods which are reliable and cost effective
• Corrosion prevention methods which enable the avoidance of CRA (corrosion resistant alloy) pipe (this point may also apply to Pipeline Integrity Management / Cost Reduction)
• Alternative composite materials to combat corrosion at high temperatures.
Subsea Technologies – Pipeline Integrity Management/Cost
Reduction
• Deepwater pipeline protection from trawling gear, heavy impact and drag
• Cathodic protection of rock dumped pipelines
• Low cost gas flowlines for deepwater e.g. using carbon steel or composite materials
• Low cost pipeline stabilisation and tie-backs
• Reliable pipeline subsea oil and gas leak detection
• Alternative and more cost effective pipelaying methods, such as automated pipeline barges, coiled tubing, reel-lay tow bundles and spiral pipe
• Repair systems for internally corroded hydrocarbon pipelines
Subsea Technologies – Low Cost Intervention
• Methods for standardisation of subsea equipment and interfaces to
reduce maintenance time
• Modularisation to allow flexible capacity and low cost intervention
• Diagnostics and intervention enhancement
• Expansion to services currently offered from vessels, for example
top hole/intermediate hole drilling and well cleanups, to speed up
response and mobilisation.
• Re-usable subsea facilities
• Low cost, wet tree and small accumulation production systems
Subsea Technologies – Australian Challenges
– Reduce Installed cost of Rigid Pipelines
• Improve viability of remote/deepwater marginal fields
– Reduce Drilling, Completion and Workover Costs
• Avoid need for surface piercing structures, e.g. Floaters
• Manage corrosion in Carbon Steel Pipelines (formation water)
– Avoid CRA materials
– Increase life of Carbon Steel Pipelines
Subsea Technologies – Other Challenges
• Subsea sour service - risk management
• Reduced cost retrofit of sensor equipment, trees, manifold,
longer life Emergency Shut Down Valve and more reliable
sand monitors
• Subsea wet-mateable fibre optic technology
• Clamp connector that can be closed and seal with angular
misalignment
• Mud mat foundation for a template production manifold that
can resist erosion from drilling and environmental loads
How to submit a proposal?
• Read the Call for Proposals document
• Identify key area(s) that your technology could address
• Download relevant forms and guidance from the ITF website:• Project Application Form – complete in full
• Project Presentation Template – provide 2 of...
• Project Application Guidance – review in accordance with the above..
• Review relevant documents from the ITF website:• Researcher Confidentiality Agreement
• Standard Research Agreement
• Submit the proposal to ITF
What makes a ‘good’ proposal?
• Clearly innovative technology
• Value clearly provided
• Meet the specific requirements of the Call for Proposals
• Own or have the right to exploit the intellectual property
• Identify realistic and effective routes to market
• Necessary project management and technical expertise
• Both the project and business are financially viable
...and things to avoid....
• Product range expansion
• ‘Me too’ products
• Marketing exercises
• Projects which clearly perpetuate an excessively powerful
monopoly position
• Projects which are ‘too expensive’
• Projects which are ‘too long’
Some key dates...
• Call for Proposals published - 11th August
• Deadline for submissions - 13th October
• Proposals sent to Members for review and scoring - End October
• Technical Clarification Meeting - End November
• Funding decisions and JIP launches - End November ->
To find out more about submitting proposals visit ITF online
www.oil-itf.com/index/submit-a-proposal