L1 - INTRODUCTION TO SUBSEA PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

• HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSEA SYSTEMS

• SUBSEA SYSTEMS FOR PLATFORMS & FLOATERS
• FIELD DEVELOPMENT CONCEPTS
• PRINCIPLES OF SUBSEA ENGINEERING
• SUBSEA ENGINEERING COMPONENTS
• EXAMPLES OF FIELD DEVELOPED WITH SUBSEA PRODUCTION
SYSTEMS
– FIELDS DEVELOPED WITH SATELLITE WELLS TIED BACK TO EXISTING HOST
PLATFORM
– FIELDS DEVELOPED WITH SATELLITE TEMPLATE/MANIFOLD/ CLUSTERS TIED
BACK TO EXISTING HOST PLATFORM
– FIELDS DEVELOPED WITH FLOATING PLATFORMS (Semi-Subs)
– FIELDS DEVELOPED WITH FPSO MONOHULLS AND SUBSEA FACILITIES
– SUBSEA GAS FIELDS WITH LONG TIE-BACK TO SHALLOW WATER HOSTOR
DIRECT TO BEACH
Dalia field - Block 17 Angola
FIXED PLATFORM WITH
SUBSEA TIE-BACK
 S U B S E A C O M P L E T IO N S O N A R E G IO N A L B A S IS
D A T A F O R E A C H T E N Y E A R P E R IO D S T A R T IN G 1 9 6 1
P e r io d N o rth S e a G o M W e s t U S S A m e r ic a M e d A r tic T o ta l
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'6 1 - '7 0 4 2 0 4 0 2 2 0 6 8
'7 1 - '8 0 3 7 4 5 4 0 2 3 1 0 1 1 5 6
'8 1 - '9 0 2 0 7 6 9 4 3 1 8 0 3 2 1 5 5 9
’9 1 – ’0 1 1 2 5 0
’0 1 – ’1 1 2 3 0 0
5000 +
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n u m b e r o f s u b s e a w e lls w a s o v e r 2 0 0 0 w o r ld w id e in 1 9 9 8 /9 a n d t h a t to d a t e
m o re th a n 2 7 0 0 s u b s e a w e lls h a v e b e e n d e p lo y e d . O f th e s e s o m e 2 0 0 0 a r e
c u rre n tly o p e r a tin g to d a y .
SATELLITE FIELD TO HOST
PLATFORM WITH CENTRAL
MANIFOLD AND CLUSTER
OF WELLS

PRODUCTION TREES
SMALL SATELLITE FIELD
TIED-IN TO HOST
PLATFORM WITH
INTEGRATED TEMPLATE
MANIFOLD SYSTEM
BALMORAL FIELD - FIRST USE OF
FLEXIBLE DYNAMIC RISERS IN THE
NORTH SEA
MARGINAL / SMALL FIELD
WITH FLOATER FPV
ABOVE INTEGRATED
TEMPLATE / MANIFOLD
SYSTEM
TWO MARGINAL FIELDS
WITH FLOATER FPV AWAY
FROM TWO MANIFOLDS /
W CLUSTER SYSTEM
GRYPHON FIELD -
FIRST FULL FIELD
DEVELOPED WITH AN
FPSO IN NORTH SEA
SMALL FIELD WITH FPSO
AND A NUMBER OF
INTEGRATED TEMPLATES /
MANIFOLD STRUCTURES
 FIELD DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS (production and export)
USING SUBSEA PRODUCTION SYSTEMS (oil only/gas not shown for clarity)
SHORE FACILITY SHORE

FLOATING HOSTS PLATFORM BOTTOM-FOUNDED HOST

Intermediate boosting
Product Test
Ship
For 100 to 1000m water depth

PTS/SWOPS Shuttle Tanker

SPAR/DDCV Oscillating Tower
with storage

Or oil direct offshore

FPSO TLP
Monohull Deepwater
DDSS TLP
with storage (300m)
BOX SEMI SUB Export JACKUP
with storage Pipeline
FSU/FSO
SEMI SUB Fixed Platform

oil
FPU / FPF
Production Sales Sea level Sales Production
Import Riser Riser
Riser Riser Riser

ESDV
ESDV ESDV ESDV
PLEM or

To Platform
To Floater

NEW TECHNOLOGIES Singe phase

Pump
Subsea Pumping Multiphase
Interfield Flowline
M/P Pump Flow Meter
Subsea separation

FLOWLINE MANIFOLD
TEMPLATE or
TEMPLATE
Subsea comingling Integral Modular

Seabed

Single Well Reservoir

Multiwells (cluster) Multiwells (template)
Satellite
Subsea wells (wet or dry) C AOL/JLC March’03
KEY AREAS IN
SUBSEA FIELD
ENGINEERING
SUBSEA WELLHEAD
SUBSEA X’MAS TREE
 POSSIBLE SUBSEA TIE-BACK OPTIONS
INDIVIDUAL WELLS
- NO MANIFOLDING
Control umbilical

10” Production Flowline

6” Test Flow
TEMPLATE
MANIFOLD

MANIFOLD WITH
CLUSTER WELLS
 Hydraulic/Chemical
OIL GAS Umbilical Electrical umbilical
EXPORT EXPORT 3”Service
14” Water Injection
Seabed

8” Gas Lift
12” 12” 6”
Production Test
PRODUCTION
PLATFORM

SUBSEA DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME
Electrohydraulic
10” Water
Seabed umbilical
Injection”

8” Production
8” Production

8” Water Injection
Electrohydraulic
umbilical
12 Well Template
Seabbed
FLEXIBLE DYNAMIC RISERS
SUBSEA CONTROL SYSTEMS
SCHEMATIC
 BP’s GREATER PLUTONIO
FIELD DEVELOPMENT

Galio
Cromio Paladio

Northern Production System

4 production manifolds
Southern Production System
4 production manifolds (S1, S2,
S3 & S4)
Water Injection Flowlines
Two 12” pipelines to South
Cobalto
One 14” pipeline to North
Plutoni
Control Umbilicals o
South – 4 umbilicals (1 to each manifold)
North – 2 umbilicals (daisy chained to pairs of manifolds
WI umbilicals from production manifolds
 Subsea Production System - SPS

• Drilling & Completion Equipment

• Workover Control System (WOCs)
• Permanent Guide Bases (PGBs)
• Trees
• Manifolds Supplied by FMC - Norway

• Controls
• Reliability
URF CONTRACT - Acergy / Technip - Paris
ESPADARTE FIELD
 LYELL FIELD (Conoco / Oryx)

LYELL FIELD WELLS & MANIFOLD

ARRANGEMENT
LYELL FIELD - WELLS CLUSTERED AROUND CENTRAL MANIFOLD
BALMORAL FIELD (Sun Oil) -
First Use of Flexible dynamic
Risers in the North Sea
IVANHOE & ROB ROY FIELDS
(Amarada Hess)
GRYPHON FIELD (Kerr McGee)
KIZOMBA A – BLOCK 15
FIELD DEVELOPMENT SCHEME
Snøhvit will be the first major development on the
Norwegian continental shelf with no surface
installations.

No fixed or floating units will be positioned in the

Barents Sea.

Instead, the subsea production facilities will stand on

the seabed, in water depths of 250-345 metres.

A total of 20 wells are due to be drilled to produce gas

from the Snøhvit, Askeladd and Albatross fields.

This output will be transported to land through a 145-

kilometre pipeline.