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ACCESSING INSIGHT – UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITY
SSV 2015 The subsea world will gather on land
on 15-16th April 2015,
at Telenor Arena Oslo, Norway
CALL FOR ABSTRACTSWe would like to invite to call for abstracts
on the following themes:
• Subsea Operations• Subsea Technology
• Big Data• Standardisation
• Knowledge, Skill & Talent
Subsea Operations
The subsea world is changing. Driven by a desi-re for greater efficiency and enhanced recovery, global E&P leaders are looking to unlock more value from their fields with advanced subsea technology.
This creates opportunity, but also challenges.
The increasing number of subsea wells and trees (on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and internationally), some of which are now ageing assets, creates risk and a pressing requirement for survey, inspection, maintenance and repair programmes. The industry must maintain excep-tional standards of operational performance, safety and security, but, in an on-going environ-ment of economic uncertainty, costs must also be carefully balanced. How can this be achieved?
Effective integrity management of subsea sys-tems is key. Through understanding and innova-tion the industry can reduce risk and maximise production, building robust strategies that achie-ve optimal results from both old and new subsea assets alike.
Fresh technologies and techniques are currently under development, with the hope they can help operators achieve even greater standards, with added security and reduced risk.
Abstracts are now invited on the following sub-topics:
• Available codes and standards applied for subsea integrity management
• Future inspection and monitoring techniques
• How to analyse and prioritise subsea data to assess condition, predict failures and reduce operational costs
• How to deal with aging subsea install- ations – experience from life extension projects
• Learning from failures – case studies
• Pipeline Integrity Management Strategies Based on Multiphase Fluid Flow & Corrosion Modelling
Subsea Technology
Extreme environments demand advanced techn-ology. As the industry delves deeper under the oceans, in ever-harsher environments, innovative technological subsea solutions are required to minimise risk and maximise value.
Each new step allows operators to tap into new potential, creating efficiencies and accessing complex resources that, without state-of-the-art solutions, would have been either commercially or operationally unviable. But the cost of taking those steps has to be managed carefully.
How can we learn from the advances made in analogous industries – such as space and mari-time – to make our own advances? How can we adapt technology to meet this segment’s most stringent demands and regulations? What new industry-specific technologies must we discover ourselves?
Subsea is evolving – as shown by the increased use of unmanned facilities and our need for remote maintenance and monitoring systems – and we must evolve to create the most robust, productive and sustainable industry we can.
We have common challenges that require common solutions. Let’s address them here.
Abstracts are now invited on the following sub-topics:
• Future technology gaps
• Engineering challenges
• Remoteness, long distance communication
• Subsea power distribution
• Sensor technologies and instrumentation systems
• Materials and coatings for harsh environments
• Safety and dependability
• Vision, optics and optoelectronics
• Exchange of technical data between industry partners
• Technology transfer from other industries (space, aeronautics, maritime) • Open innovation in subsea
Big Data
Big Data - A big opportunity for subsea?
Big Data refers to collections of data sets that are large, complex and require innovative forms of information processing to extract value from them. But that value can be immense.
Effective Big Data analysis identifies insights, spots trends, helps optimise processes and faci-litates better and more highly informed decisi-on-making. The benefits that can be brought to an industry committed to the process of conti-nual improvement, such as subsea, have truly transformational potential.
Subsea thrives on data, with advanced systems, sensors and surveys producing and collecting vast quantities of data that could be harvested, on a grand scale, for fresh insights. However, that data can be of varying quality, from a wide array of sources, collected at differing time intervals, and in different formats, from different assets. This creates an obvious challenge for the indus-try to address.
Is this a problem we can solve? Is Big Data the future? How can our industry unleash the poten-tial of the existing and future data sets collected from these various sensors? How can we develop services and work flows that provide added value to our customers through Big Data analysis?
There are big questions, which demand big ans-wers.
Abstracts are now invited on the following sub-topics:
• Automated Production Optimisation
• Self-Diagnostic and Autonomous Systems
• Real-Time Visualisation to Improve Efficiency and Safety of an Operation
• Real-Time Functional Monitoring during Remote Operations
• New Business Models based on New Work Flows and Services
• How will Big Data change the way we think?
• How to instrument specific problems subsea
• Enhanced Logistics and Maintenance Support
• How can existing data be better utilised in order to create value for the whole industry?
• Sharing of data across the industry to gain access to existing surveys and data • Future of satellite streaming of data from vessels to shore – development of bandwidth vs. cost
Standardisation
How can operators reduce costs while maintai-ning that deliveries are on time, on budget and meet all required quality parameters? Standar-disation could be the key.
Standard products cost less, use stock materi-als, require no additional engineering and use repeatable manufacturing processes that impro-ve efficiency and quality. In addition, continual improvements in safety and integrity, along with installation and intervention procedures, should also be achieved if standardised tools and trai-ning programmes are implemented.
The benefits are clear, but the way forward less so.
Standardisation has, so far, been difficult to achi-eve in the subsea industry. This begs the questi-ons: Does the industry have the right approach to industrialisation within the subsea arena? Is the industry on the right maturity level to de-velop an industrial buying and delivery model? What do we have to learn from other sectors, such as shipbuilding, automotive, and aerospace, that have achieved more in this area?
SSV2015 would like to address standardisation on different levels to meet oil companies’ requ-irements of functionality, as well as maintaining and developing the broad spectrum of supplies in the value chain.
It’s an important and complex issue that, judging by the debate it inspires, has so far not succee-ded in finding a common industry response.
Abstracts are invited on the following sub-topics: • Standardisation in other industries
• Functional vs. specific/detail requirements
• At what level should the subsea industry standardise
• International standards vs. Company specific requirements vs. Project requirements
• Opposition to standardise
• Upsides to standardisation
• How should we divide the responsibility for standardisation between operators and service providers
• Ongoing initiatives leading to standardisation– case study
Knowledge, skill and talent – a new industry approach
People provide the power that drives subsea for-ward. Knowledge, skill and talent are the corner-stones of the industry, enabling new technologi-cal innovations and providing the service levels and performance that make this sector unique.
But no one works alone. Individuals aren’t seen in isolation in subsea, but work together, in teams, to share visions, goals and achievements. It’s a successful formula!
Should knowledge, talent and skill be shared more widely throughout the industry?
In an increasingly global industry, with cross border projects involving multiple suppliers, shouldn’t the transfer of understanding, techno-logy and safety approaches flow openly to obtain better results?
Cooperation has the potential to reduce costs while increasing return on investments, par-ticularly in a climate of low oil prices. Shared expertise and optimised processes are also essential to mitigate risk and maximise perfor-mance in unproven operational domains, such as the Arctic.
But what are the challenges? How can compani-es retain talent and business critical knowledge while still engaging in a spirit of collaboration? How can working together benefit the whole industry, rather than just a select few, well-positi-oned players?
The industry needs all stakeholders to contribute to our common success. This also includes involvement in network and clusters like Subsea Valley.Clusters and other horizontal and vertical plat-forms for cooperation are valuable for techno-logy development, subsea operations, standardi-sation and sharing of knowledge and skills.
Papers are invited on the following sub-topics:
• Global lessons, local levels – how knowledge from global projects can impact upon local operations in areas such as the North Sea
• Breaking the ice – is greater collabo- ration the key to success in fresh
operational areas, such as the Arctic
• The evolution of knowledge within a business
• First steps to success – sharing technical lessons from industry firsts
• Skills base – sharing competence while retaining talent
• Maintaining capability and retaining talent when businesses downsize
• Managing talent – attracting, nurturing and developing talented people within subsea
• The keys to successful collaboration (case studies, golden rules etc.)
• Subsea stand out – creating differentiati on in a collaborative marketplace
(e.g. employer branding etc.)
ACCESSING INSIGHT – UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITY
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2015
Tel: +47 941 41 051
Subsea ValleyTorvveien 4,
1383 Asker, Norway
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1383 Asker, Norway
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