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We deliver ingenuity subsea. It’s in our DNA. Ingenuity enables us to deliver products, systems and services throughout the major oil and gas producing regions across the world.
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Delivering quality results
Aker Solutions is one o the world’s leading companies within oilfeld products, systems and services. Our knowledge and technologies span rom reservoir to production, and through the lie o a feld.
We offer a comprehensive subsea product and operations portfolio with a key focus on providing top-tier global subsea production systems and products. Our goal is to increase production, enhance feasibility and extend the boundaries of economic hydrocarbon recovery. We are at the forefront of key technologies that drive future eld developments. Our new subsea processing and boosting solutions are paving the way for exploring deeper waters, complex reservoirs, harsher uids, and longer step-outs. Through our predictable performance we can improve development economics and increase production efciency. With the market strongly driving increased oil recovery from existing elds, we have developed solutions to meet these needs by creating standardised solutions resulting in reduced development costs.
Our values
Subsea technologies are the key to solving oil and gas challenges. We believe that by offering innovative services with reduced costs to drive marginal development, we are well on our way to success. A great deal of our energy is spent focusing on HSE, quality and our people – the three greatest assets of our organisation. Our core value and a top priority is health, safety and the environment (HSE). In our everyday activities, we endeavour to create a safe workplace for our employees, contractors and customers. We are a world leading provider of subsea technologies and services. The key to our success is through our employees, who drive our high performance culture focusing on delivering quality results.
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This is ingenuity delivered
We apply our knowledge to deliver better solutions. Our expertise is the result o our long track record in the subsea industry, our involvement with a wide range o ambitious and proessional customers, and the challenges that we have aced and solved together.
We have created new technologies ever since. Faced with challenges in the North Sea, the oil industry had to come up with safe and reliable solutions for the development and operation of deepwater elds and challenging reservoirs. Aker Solutions and other players in that region became pioneers in subsea eld development and increased oil recovery. In 1985 one Aker Solutions engineer came up with the idea of moving gas compression equipment from the platform topside and placing it at the bottom of the sea. The subsea gas compression solution generates pressure which allows the hydrocarbons to travel through the pipelines to a platform or receiving terminal onshore. Thirty years later, his visionary idea – rst captured with a pencil on a
paper serviette – is now becoming reality at a deepwater eld in the Norwegian Sea. Our innovative solutions are both big and small. The development of high integrity well intervention systems is a response to the aging installed base of subsea wells and the operators’ need for the increased recovery of hydrocarbons. Our well intervention system acts as the multi-tool within the operators’ tool-box enabling easy well access for maintenance and optimisation work to be performed down hole. A small device that can make a major difference.
We understand the challenge. We apply the knowledge. We create and use technologies to provide the products, systems and services that deliver solutions to customers. This is ingenuity. Delivered.
These are just a few examples of how we apply our knowledge and how new solutions become reality when we tackle challenges with competence.
Left: The original engineer’s rst sketch capturing the idea of subsea compression in 1985. Right: Today the ground breaking Ormen Lange subsea gas compression system pilot being tested in Nyhamna on the west coast of Norway.
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System engineering
Aker Solutions has an extensive portolio o subsea projects with a range o technical requirements to optimise the feld lie and production profle or our clients.
Aker Solutions has an extensive portfolio of subsea projects with a range of technical requirements to optimise the eld life and production prole for our clients. In a technology driven industry, Aker Solutions has met client demands for increasingly complex and integrated technical solutions, challenging existing ranges with regards to temperatures, pressures, water depths, step-outs, and monitoring production parameters. System engineering is the discipline within Aker Solutions that ensures the compatibility of different product solutions within the production system. The main responsibility of system engineering is to verify that all of the products function together as one unied system. A system engineer’s main role is to optimise the subsea production system for installation and production. It is paramount in this respect, to fully recognise the clients’ requirements and needs, but to also understand that product capabilities are equally important. The goal is to safely and efciently install the equipment while achieving high production availability and ensuring the safety integrity of the system. Our system engineers understand the workings and criticality of our complete product portfolio. They have a broad knowledge of trees, manifolds, wellheads, umbilicals, workover, and tie-in systems, as well as the tools and control systems that operate them. They also acknowledge the importance of preparing for a smooth execution for third party intervention and life of eld operations. Throughout the project execution stage, system engineering ensures seamless communication, which provides
the framework and principles that engineering, material philosophy, and documentation requirements rely upon. System engineering provides the holistic framework that is a key success criterion for our clients. Typically system engineering sets the foundation at the concept stage of a project and follows up on this framework throughout the design, manufacturing, testing and nal hand over to the client. System engineering maintains a global overview of the system delivery at all times. Close cooperation with the client is essential and a major success factor is building trust and open communication processes during the project. Aker Solutions’ system engineering deliverables include design basis, material selection, master document lists, master equipment lists, RAM analysis, life cycle information plans, schematics, test programmes and a range of other system analyses. During the project start-up requirements are set and based upon the contract and applicable standards provided by the system engineering team. As the subsea industry goes deeper, further, and to more extreme temperatures, Aker Solutions’ system engineering capabilities will remain at the forefront of technology development. Our clients’ ambition and pursuit for increasing oil and gas recovery, exploiting resources in previously unchartered waters, will cement an increased need for a system approach to deliveries. Aker Solutions believes that this approach will contribute to safer, more reliable, and better quality solutions for our clients in the future.
As the subsea industry goes deeper, urther, and to more extreme temperatures, Aker Solutions’ system engineering capabilities will remain at the oreront o technology development.
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Case studies
Technology innovation One thing is very clear in the oil and gas industry. Innovation is going to play a crucial role in maximising oil and gas recovery in challenging environments, in new eld developments and in driving the costs down. Aker Solutions has developed state-of-the-art innovative technologies, which we believe holds the key to our future success. Subsea gas compression
Compressing gas on subsea installations represents a considerable technological accomplishment for the industry as this has never been done before. Aker Solutions’ subsea gas compression technology represents a cost-effective quantum leap that contributes to signicant improvements in recovery rates and the lifetime of gas elds. A unique solution was needed to extract more gas from a eld as it declines over time. Research found that by placing the compressor closer to the well that more gas could be extracted, which in turn boosts the recovery rate of the reservoir. In order to meet our customers need, we developed a complete and patented compression system, which is a collaboration of our well proven and qualied technologies. This technology is now being utilised by Statoil on the Ormen Lange subsea gas compression pilot station and the inaugural Åsgard subsea gas compression system. These projects encompass the combined excellence of subsea processing technology in the world today. Modularised workover systems
Aker Solutions’ latest generation modularised workover system is a standardised state-of-the-art system dening the future for this range of subsea products. The system holds a number of unique qualities that represent a true step change for the oil and gas industry. For the very rst time a single system can perform light well intervention operations on any subsea tree from any subsea vendor. This is performed with the highest safety standards and no intellectual property infringements towards other parties. Operated by semi-submersible rigs, drill ships or light intervention vessels, our light well intervention workover system provides large bore access to any well, which facilitates coiled tubing and wireline operations. Statoil and Aker Oileld Services have taken advantage of our standardised light well intervention system on the Vigdis North East and Tulip projects, respectively. The Vigdis North East has used our workover system to perform normal start-up operations for eld development and lifecycle well maintenance for ve different elds in the North Sea. The rst workover system to be installed on Aker Oileld Service’s Skandi Aker for the Tulip project enables a vessel to
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perform riser based light well intervention activities. The emergency disconnect package and lower riser package act as the main barrier towards the well while performing intervention operations. In an emergency situation the robust valves will be able to seal the well, disconnect the riser system from the well and re-establish a safe state of operation. Our workover systems are a multi-use tool which supports the installation of equipment and prepares the well for production. During eld life, workover equipment is used during the maintenance of subsea wells to improve oil recovery. We believe these innovative solutions are just the beginning for Aker Solutions. With new projects coming online, new opportunities arising, the world is our oyster and it is our job to provide innovation solutions to the offshore industry in the future.
Fast track projects Over the past few years fast-track projects have taken off on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. As operators look for faster and more economical ways to extract oil from smaller or time critical elds, we have looked at how projects can be executed faster while maintaining the same high quality. With Statoil, we have developed a standard catalogue of subsea production systems (SPS) to meet this need. The beauty of this approach is that the conceptual and tendering stages are compressed. Since the development is based on standard equipment, critical supply items can be pre-ordered earlier, the work
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Case studies Fast track projects continued
processes simplied, and the drawings re-used. The result is faster project execution and lower costs, factors which are important when developing smaller elds or tying in time critical resources to existing installations. In June 2011, Skuld became the rst project following this approach awarded to Aker Solutions by Statoil. The initial contract was for three template-manifold structures, 11 subsea trees, a control system, a tie-in system and rental tooling. Since the initial award of the Skuld project Aker Solutions has also won fast-track projects for the Svalin and Vilje South elds with Statoil. Other operators are also following the same approach. The Dong Trym and Oselvar projects awarded to Aker Solutions in 2008 were based on standard designs executed by one project team. In 2011, Total awarded the Atla project to Aker Solutions. This is a highly exible satellite concept based on standard technology which enables both conventional eld developments and utilisation of the ‘keeper well’ concept where exploration or appraisal wells are converted to production wells. Internationally, fast track developments have been executed as part of our RapidSolution™ programme where customers have called off standard wellsets (wellheads, trees, controls and tie-in systems) from our inventory of standard components and manufacturing slots. As many of the larger oil and gas elds mature on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, fast-track projects for smaller elds or time critical resources are where the oil and gas industry is heading in the future. We are well equipped, with standardised solutions and experienced personnel, to help our customers succeed in this quest.
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Large conventional projects Aker Solutions is a leader in subsea engineering, manufacturing and installation activities. We have experience with developing large conventional projects in every corner of the globe, working with various clients to increase oil recovery. In the North Sea, a major milestone we delivered was well set number 100 to the giant Troll eld in 2011. This giant eld is set to produce for many decades to come and is a cornerstone of Aker Solutions’ subsea history and future. Aker Solutions started developing new technically qualied products for Eni Norge’s largest project development, Goliat. Located in the Barents Sea, in a very harsh environment the Goliat eld is subjected to sub-zero temperatures and high winds. The new products include innovative environmental monitoring systems to protect the areas abundant sea and bird life, which is a highly important focus within this area. In West Africa, Aker Solutions delivered its largest deepwater project so far to the giant eld, Dalia. Initially the project started out with 42 well sets in the rst phase of the project and was later expanded to 78 well sets. Providing the subsea production system for Asia’s rst subsea deepwater development and bringing a major deepwater discovery online in record time in a region where the knowledge base and infrastructure for such developments had just began to take off, was a major feat for Aker Solutions. The Kikeh project enabled our Malaysian operations the opportunity to deliver a large world class subsea deepwater SPS to the client Murphy Oil Sabah. The original scope of supply was enhanced with the award of the Kikeh extensions/ Siakap North-Petai due to our strong presence and development in Malaysia which ensured deliveries were well coordinated with local client schedules. Aker Solutions was the principle subsea contractor of India’s rst subsea gas eld, located in the KG-D6 block in the Bay of Bengal. At the time the KG-D6 was the largest subsea project worked on by Aker Solutions, with the deepest water depth and shortest delivery schedules. Our experience spans from shallow water to the ultra-deep and from tropical conditions to the harsh conditions of the Arctic. We have the experience and the know-how to get our customers to where they want to be.
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Oering a complete subsea technology portolio
Manifolds and structures
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Aker Solutions provides the most complete portolio o dierentiated subsea technologies, systems and services to increase production and extend the boundaries o economic hydrocarbon recovery.
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Our subsea products
Control systems
Intervention and workover systems
Aker Solutions’ fully integrated control systems are open, reliable, robust and built upon commercially available building blocks. We have installed over 1 500 production control systems since our rst installation in the mid-1970s.
Aker Solutions offers turnkey landing string solutions, open water systems, technology for jack-up applications, capping and containment solutions, riserless well intervention systems, and tubing rotary drilling.
Aker Solutions current generation of systems, iCon™, intelligent control, has been continuously enhanced to meet the increasing demands of today’s subsea projects while providing backward compatibility that allows legacy systems to benet from new features.
Monolock iCon™ subsea control modules Twinlock subsea control modules iCon™ subsea electronic modules Subsea iCon™ control unit Electrical/hydraulic power units Flow measurement systems Pressure protecting systems Topside equipment
Depth and pressure ratings for our designs reach from 10kpsi, class U up to 15kpsi, class X covering ranges from shallow water developments to deep water developments at depths of 3 000 metres. With the unique X-vendor architecture, Aker Solutions’ light well intervention systems can perform installations on subsea trees and eld life maintenance operations on any subsea tree from any subsea vendor, without breaching third party intellectual property infringements.
Landing string systems Open water light intervention systems Intervention workover control systems Riserless systems Through tubing rotary drilling
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Maniolds and structures
Power, processing and boosting
Aker Solutions offers a diverse manifold and structure portfolio suitable for both horizontal and vertical connection systems. We provide solutions for all water depths, installation methods and seabed conditions in any part of the world. Aker Solutions’ manifolds and structures are built on an extensive range of eld proven products and concepts, while still allowing for project specic needs to be accommodated when required. This is complemented by tailored support throughout the life of a project.
Aker Solutions is continually pushing the boundaries of subsea technology to address the challenges of depleting worldwide oil elds. We are an award-winning industry leader in processing and boosting solutions, and our products have been proven to increase oil recovery in the most demanding circumstances.
Overtrawlable templates and manifolds Deepwater cluster manifolds Satellite protection structures Moonpool installable structures Pipeline-end manifolds (PLEM) Pipeline-end terminations (PLET/FLET) Flowbases and guidebases Riser bases Process support structures
DeepBooster™ FlexSep™ SeaBooster™ systems MultiBooster™ LiquidBooster™ GasBooster™ Power distribution systems Condition monitoring
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Our subsea products
Subsea trees
Surace trees and wellheads
Aker Solutions has been providing subsea trees to offshore operators over the past 20 years. Our products are consistently developing and adapting to customers’ demands, with more than 700 deployed around the world.
Aker Solutions’ is a leading global supplier of surface wellheads and trees, providing engineering, manufacturing, installation and life-of-eld support services to the oil and gas industry. We have been a technology and solutions innovator within the eld of surface products since 1934.
SCT™ (Standard congurable tree) RapidSolution™ Horizontal and vertical tree systems Deepwater and shallow water trees Monobore/large bore trees High pressure/high temperature trees Production adaptor base Tubing head spool tree solutions
Surface wellheads Trees gate valves Actuators Casing heads Hangers and spools Tubing hangers Spools and adaptors Bushing and annulus seal Trees and crosses Tree caps and other miscellaneous equipment and tools required for surface well completions
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Tie-in connection systems
Umbilicals and power cables
Aker Solutions has approximately 30 years’ experience delivering reliable and cost-efcient tie-in connection systems and tools. Our installation friendly tie-in systems are based on standard components and interfaces which provide maximum exibility during installation.
Aker Solutions provides steel tube umbilicals, power
To reduce vessel mobilisation time, our tie-in systems are installed by lightweight ROV operated tools providing safer and faster operations for our customers.
umbilicals, power cables, risers and owline heating systems for subsea production applications globally.
Over the past 20 years we have delivered more than 4 000 kilometres of dynamic and static umbilicals to some of the world’s deepest and most challenging elds.
Electro hydraulic steel tube control umbilical Large centre tube integrated service umbilicals Diverless connection systems Connectors Tools Jumpers
Carbon bre rod stiffness enhanced deepwater umbilical
Integrated production umbilicals Steel tube ying leads Umbilical termination heads and assemblies (UTAs) Power umbilicals Flow line heating systems Special riser systems
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Lie-o-feld support
Aker Solutions is dedicated to supporting our customers in maintaining and optimising their assets and achieving enhanced production rates and increased oil recovery.
Through our regional service bases and central support we can deliver globally integrated subsea lifecycle services including: • • • • • • • • • • •
Installation and commissioning of systems Rental of installation and intervention tools Intervention support Maintenance, repair and spares supply Refurbishment and recertication Customer property management including storage and preservation Operational and technical support Re-supply of browneld equipment Manpower support Integrated operations Condition monitoring
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Angola: Luanda Australia: Perth Brazil: Rio das Ostras India: Kakinada Malaysia: Labuan Nigeria: Port Harcourt Norway: Aagotnes, Kristiansund, Hammerfest Thailand: Songkhla UK: Aberdeen USA: Houston, Mobile
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HSE and delivering quality results
We take personal responsibility or health, saety and environment (HSE) and delivering quality results very seriously.
Unsafe operations jeopardise the safety of our employees and undermine our efciency. Over the past years our subsea business has placed HSE at the top of the agenda to continuously improve our standards. We believe that all incidents can be prevented and strive continuously for zero accidents to personnel, material and non-material assets. To ensure our HSE message reaches employees at every corner of the globe we have a set of tailor-made HSE measures. These include the Just Care™ rules with the purpose of preventing injuries and saving lives, local HSE networks, annual self-assessments and a new HSE leadership programme to ensure the highest standards are always maintained. These initiatives have a mindset driven focus taking lessons learnt from serious misses across Aker Solutions and guring out how these incidents can be eliminated in the future. Since we began the journey improving HSE performance our serious near misses and lost time incidents have drastically reduced. We see that HSE and quality go hand in hand, without one you cannot succeed with the other. Our vision is to
now bring our quality principles up to the same levels as our HSE standards by using our HSE approach as a roadmap for quality improvement. Employees are the key to our success. We spent time travelling the globe addressing our HSE vision, from top level management through all of the levels of our organisation. For quality we now use the same approach as we have within HSE. To guide our quality improvement we measure all execution processes by using a huge number of KPIs presented in a global process KPI dashboard monthly, which are our quality leading indicators. The records of activities that contribute to improved performance, as well as consequences from quality deviations, are reported at all levels and presented as cost of quality gures. Top management are measured and have a particular responsibility for managing global processes which drive improvements. We take personal responsibility for HSE and delivering quality results because we care about our people, the environment, our company and our customers.
We believe that all incidents can be prevented and strive continuously or zero accidents to personnel, material and non-material assets.
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Ingenuity delivered globally
Aker Solutions’ subsea locations Angola
Luanda
Australia
Perth
Brazil
Curitiba Rio das Ostras Rio de Janeiro
Cyprus
Indonesia
Limassol
Batam
Egypt
Malaysia
Cairo India
Kakinada Mumbai Pune
Norway
Kuala Lumpur Labuan
Port Klang Nigeria
Lagos Port Harcourt
Russia
Egersund Fornebu Hammerfest Kristiansund Lier Moss Stokke Tranby Aagotnes
Moscow Singapore
Singapore Sweden
Gothenburg Thailand Bangkok
Songkhla
Contact Aker Solutions Headquarters
Snarøyveien 36 1364 Fornebu (visiting) P.O. Box 94 1325 Lysaker (postal) Norway Tel: +47 67 82 60 00 Fax: +47 67 82 64 00
North America
3600 Briarpark Drive Houston Texas 77042 USA Tel: +1 713 685 5700 Fax: +1 713 685 5707
Asia Pacifc
Level 20 Menara HLA No. 3 Jalan Kia Peng 50450 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: +6 (0) 3 2381 8388 Fax: +6 (0) 3 2381 3560
South America
United Kingdom
Howe Moss Ave. Kirkhill Industrial Estate Dyce, Aberdeen AB21 0NA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1224 255 000 Fax: +44 (0)1224 255 100
Rua da Ajuda, 35-21° andar Centro, Rio de Janeiro RJ CEP 20.040-915 Brazil Tel: + 55 (22) 2773 9000 Fax: + 55 (22) 2773 9020
Australia
4-6 Anderson Place Perth Airport Western Australia 6105 Tel: +61 (0)8 9262 9300
Africa
SONILS OSC Rua 6 - I.L., Boavista Luanda, Angola Tel: +47 51 88 87 00 Fax: +47 67 82 64 00
UK
Aberdeen Hastings London Maidenhead USA
Houston Mobile Vietnam Vung Tau
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For more information visit our website: www.akersolutions.com/subsea
We provide the most complete portfolio of differentiated subsea technologies, systems and services to increase production and extend the boundaries of economic hydrocarbon recovery. This is ingenuity delivered subsea.
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