Optime Subsea has been contracted by Equinor to ship two Remotely Operated Management Programs (ROCS) to be used on the operator’s Irpa subject improvement within the Norwegian Sea.
Optime Subsea will manufacture the 2 ROCS techniques on the firm’s headquarter in Notodden, Norway, and ship them to Equinor’s offshore base at Sandnessjøen in North Norway in 2025. Optime Subsea has not disclosed the worth of the contract.
Equinor will use one system for a nicely completion marketing campaign at Irpa that’s deliberate for 2026, whereas the opposite might be a back-up system.
Irpa, previously referred to as Asterix, is a gasoline subject situated at a depth of roughly 1,350 meters within the Norwegian Sea, and is claimed to be the deepest subject on the Norwegian continental shelf. It will likely be developed as a tie-in to the Aasta Hansteen FPSO.
The Irpa gasoline volumes may provide simply over 2.3 million UK households with gasoline for seven years, Equinor stated earlier.
The gasoline discovery is situated virtually 80 kilometers from the Aasta Hansteen subject, and the event will lengthen the sphere’s productive life by seven years, as much as 2039.
The newest award comes solely three months after Equinor ordered a ROCS to be used at its Rosebank subject, west of Shetland in UK.
Optime Subsea’s ROCS remove the necessity for each the umbilical, which historically connects the floor to the seabed for controlling the tubing hanger in subsea nicely completions, and the topside hydraulic management unit.
This innovation is claimed to not solely reduce prices but in addition reduces the quantity of deck house required for these operations.
Using ROCS additionally creates HSE advantages because the system reduces the necessity for personnel within the crimson zone on the rig. Additional, it offers operational and monetary advantages by sooner set up and subsea nicely completion operations. This modern method holds explicit worth for deepwater fields resembling Irpa.
“We stated in January, after we had been awarded the ROCS for the Rosebank subject, that we hoped that this marked the start of an thrilling collaboration between Optime Subsea and Equinor. We sit up for proving the various advantages ROCS convey on the Irpa subject improvement, and to cooperating with Equinor on one other venture,” stated Trond Løkka, chief innovation officer at Optime Subsea.
