ITF

The Industry Technology Facilitator

Subsea UK Lunch and Learn – 15th Sept 2011

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

Our Members

Our Members

Additional Key Stakeholders

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The ITF Process

Understandand IdentifyTechnology

Needs

Technology Challenge Workshop

Engage DevelopmentCommunity &

Invite Proposals

Screen & Evaluate

Proposals

TCMSecure Funding

Launch JIPs

ImplementTechnology

Benefits of ITF

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

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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

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