Thursday 17 May 2018

Wood announced on the 15th May, 2018, the next phase of a collaborative industry effort to develop a better understanding of the reliability of subsea equipment for use offshore Australia.

The company is leading the Subsea Equipment Australian Reliability Joint Industry Project; an initiative supported by a group of operators including Chevron Australia, ConocoPhillips, Quadrant and Woodside.

The project is focused on collaboration and knowledge sharing in order to improve subsea equipment design and reduce the requirement for costly and time consuming interventions in Australia’s challenging offshore warm water environment.

This latest phase of the SEAR JIP will:

- Continue the collaboration effort across a large group of Australian subsea system operators

- Continue to collect reliability data for subsea equipment in Australian operations

- Expand a marine fouling subsea test programme, with a focus on deploying additional living laboratories in Northern Australia to assess innovative coatings, materials and technologies for their performance against calcareous deposition and plant/animal growth

- Establish marine fouling cleaning best practice and identify optimisation opportunities to improve the effectiveness of existing practices

- Evaluate the performance of umbilicals and identify best practice remediation strategies