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Aker Solutions Subsea is the New Surface
Subsea compression also represents a significant
reduction in energy consumption and can help
reduce CO2 emission by 50 percent compared
to a regular topside platform, making the
environmental footprint smaller.
Aker Solutions is continuing to improve future
versions, to deliver slimmer and more cost-
efficient solutions. The company and MAN
Diesel & Turbo in October 2015 formed an
alliance to develop the next generation in subsea
compression systems.
Next Generation Subsea Compression
Technology
Aker Solutions and MAN Diesel & Turbo expect
to cut the size and weight of subsea compression
systems by at least 50 percent just a year after
the first such system successfully went on stream
at Statoil’s Åsgard field.
“Together with MAN we are now ready to take this
technology further to deliver slimmer and lower-
cost compression systems without compromising
on robustness and effectiveness,” said head of
Front End at Aker Solutions, Knut Nyborg.
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Aker Solutions teamed up with MAN Diesel &
Turbo in October 2015 to build on the companies’
joint experience from Åsgard and extensive oil
and gas industry expertise. The partnership
expects to implement learnings from the 5-year
Åsgard project and reduce the size and weight of
future systems by at least half, greatly lowering
investment and installation costs. The system is
based on proven technology and contributes to
major improvements in both the recovery rate and
lifetime for a number of gas fields.
“We will provide reliable compression systems
for use at small subsea fields as well as large gas
field such as Åsgard,” said Nyborg.
There are a lot of large to medium-size gas fields
and many of these need compression as the
pressure starts to deplete in the reservoir. The
closer you get to the well, the more effect you
get out of each megawatt of compression. The
technology may also be used to develop new
deepwater, long step-out gas fields in a more
effective way.