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ITF/Subsea UK - 2007 Theme Day Subsea 2020 Vision David Pridden Chief Executive Subsea UK. ITF/Subsea UK - 2007 Theme Day. Presentation Why Now Challenges Facing the Industry Results of the 2020 Workshops. Subsea 2020 A National Strategy for
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ITF/Subsea UK - 2007 Theme Day Subsea 2020 Vision David Pridden Chief Executive Subsea UK
ITF/Subsea UK - 2007 Theme Day Presentation Why Now Challenges Facing the Industry Results of the 2020 Workshops
Subsea 2020 A National Strategy for Skills, Technology and Competitive Business in the UK’s Subsea Sector
Been around along time Wisdom Big Big appetite Endangered Species? No predators?
UK’s Subsea Industry: Challenges • UKCS Mature Province: need more reliable, flexible, cost efficient subsea capex and opex • Market increasingly global • Globalisation: Far East, Americas’ • Shortage of skills and lack of interest by our school children
Growth of the global market Not in the UKCS The European Challenge Source: Douglas Westwood, Scottish Enterprise
2020 Workshops “What will the subsea industry be doing in 2020? What will be key?” • Market for Capital Expenditure • Market for Operational Expenditure • Decommissioning market • Other markets
Key Target Areas for 2020 Skills Technology Businesses
Technology: A Global Leader 2020 Aim UK leads the world in subsea technology through a leading edge research programme. UKCS has become a centre for onshore and offshore testing for novel subsea technologies Delivery • JIP – UK Deepstar? Focus • Enhanced recovery: more for less from subsea wells • Smart subsea: use of intelligent systems • Optimisation of established and new energy systems: integration of fossil with renewable Source: Arthur D Little, DTI, Subsea UK
Subsea/Deepwater R & D Programmes • Procap 3000: Brazil – ultra deepwater: • Further production from new discoveries > 3000 metres • Cut extraction and lifting costs of existing > 1000 metre fields • Demo 2000: Norway – innovative Norwegian industrial products • Seabed processing • Enhanced recovery • Deepwater and subsea: floaters, moorings and risers • Deepstar: US – global deepwater technology • Subsea boosting • Flow assurance • Reliable deepwater production systems
Concluding Comments • Co-ordinate skills and training across the industry • Deepstar type JIP to direct technology development: focus on key technologies • Collaborate/innovate in business Subsea Centre of Excellence within ETI