The approach taken to the evaluation of many options present in the field development planning phase for subsea assets is critical. Inefficiencies can extend the time required to reach a solution, which may not be the optimal solution even given a lengthy time frame, in turn lowering confidence in the decision made. Whether the project stage is exploration or appraisal, pre-FEED, or FEED, the numerous compartmentalized teams comprising the operator’s and design engineering firm’s personnel can be impeded from reaching an optimal solution

• by working in a sequential manner

• typically optimizing design requirements for one engineering function instead of the project as a whole

• relying on generic equipment specifications that easily overlook new technologies and design options.

With a wide technical reach that integrates industry-leading engineering and OEM expertise across many domains, the integrated field development group within the OneSubsea® subsea field development service collaborates with operators to solve these challenges to achieve a subsea project’s timeline, cost, and functionality objectives. Subsea field development service is not a cookie-cutter approach to Living the Production Journey: Each asset and project are understood as unique, beginning with characterization of the reservoir. From this basis, the field development engineers work in parallel, using in-house-developed software to design and validate via simulation and ensure complete alignment of the subsurface, subsea, and topside infrastructure. The result is accelerated development of an optimized design that takes all variables into account.