Subsea Controls and Data Acquisition 2002:
Performance and Reliability – Lessons Learned

Proceedings of the international conference, held June 2002

ISBN 0 906940 41 9, Hardbound
Order Reference C25, Price: £65.00

Subsea Controls and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a unique, long established international conference which represents the oil industry control systems groups and deals with control, communication, remote data aquisition and the enabling technologies associated with hydrocarbon explotation from the subsea environment. The theme for the latest conference, held in Paris on 13-14 June 2002 and entitled Subsea Controls and Data Acquisition: Performance and Reliability – Lessons Learned, was structured to cover a wide range of subjects in those areas which emphasise the realibility of and lessons learned from operation of such systems.

Aimed at the professionals active in subsea production systems and in particular those engaged in the control and monitoring of such systems, the proceedings from the  Conference are now available in a 200-page hardback book with a subject matter ranging from fibre optics to smart wells, and wave generation systems to patentable technology.

Contents

• Subsea Electrical Failures: bp Experiences and Lessons Learned –
  K Williams and Z Bruce, BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd, UK

• Steel Tube Umbilicals – Past, Present and Future: Lessons Learnt and Future  Directions –
  D Stables and P Fellows, Duco Ltd, UK

• A Systematic Approach to Reduce Subsea Equipment Failures – T Mellem and B Hugaas, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), Norway

• Reliability of Subsea Control Systems: HIPPS a Case Study –
  G Gall, P Turner and R Seaton, Kvaerner Oilfield Products Ltd, UK

• Subsea Technology: Can it be Patented and How?  – W Buskop, Buskop Law Group, PC, USA

• Deepwater Control System Reliability Results from the Ceiba Development –
  J Cattanach and J Bodine, Cooper Cameron Ltd, UK

• Intelligent Well Interface Standardisation (IWIS) – R Baird, Shell Global Solutions International BV, The Netherlands

• Achieving Reliability Improvement for Subsea Challenges – C Roberts and T Laing, Boreas Consultants Ltd, UK

• KOS 200, The Subsea Control System for the Millenium – S Corneliussen, FMC Kongsberg Subsea

• The Application of Fibre Optics to Subsea Systems – D Pye, Ocean Design Europe Ltd

• Advanced Applications of Subsea Control Systems –
  B Clark, G Duncan, P Kitt, GA Leiper and T Whitaker, Kvaerver Oilfield Products Ltd, UK

• Remote Power Generation for Deepwater Offshore Facilities – R Thornton, Butterrow Engineering Ltd, UK

• Otter Development - Enhanced ESP Protection by use of Subsea Control System –
  F Coudeville and I Watt, TotalFinaElf, France

• A Systems Approach to the Reliability of Hydraulic Subsea Production Control Systems –
  R Rowntree, Castrol Subsea Technology