Equipment Application and Development focuses on the subsea equipment and subsystems needed to enable deep-offset Long Distance Delivery Systems. The number and type of powered subsea production/processing system components in use is expected to increase markedly in the future. INTEC’s combination of mechanical and electrical expertise and systems engineering focus allows INTEC to add value to projects wherein subsea powered (and/or unpowered) systems should be considered and/or applied.

The emergence of large, reliable subsea multiphase pumps creates opportunities for providing flow energy via pressure boost where the technical challenges of deepwater, remote locations or low reservoir pressure have previously prevented economic development. Opportunities for boosting existing production from subsea tie-backs and prolonging the life of depleted reservoirs also exist.

Electric flowline heating has emerged as a reliable flow assurance technique with a number of concepts for direct or indirect heating available. The application for electric flowline heating includes pre-start-up heating, wax and hydrate prevention and remediation, and temperature maintenance. INTEC has worked closely with Shell Oil Company in developing their electrically heated flowline applications. INTEC holds patent rights for Shell Electric Flowline heating technology, making this technology available to the industry.

Some of the subsea equipment required for new deep-offset production systems will be proven equipment normally in use, some will be emerging technology, and some will be developmental. On a particular project, INTEC will identify equipment requirements, will prepare specifications, will participate in equipment development and/or qualification on behalf of clients, and will provide management and engineering services required to assure that equipment is designed, procured, installed, commissioned, and operated in accordance with system requirements.

An integrated, optimized, high integrity subsea solution, where the benefits of subsea separation, subsea pumping, and flowline heating are objectively evaluated and implemented, requires a multidiscipline approach from concept through to operation. INTEC Engineering has the multidiscipline skills and experience necessary to undertake projects of this type.

Equipment Application and Development expertise will be applied in specification, selection, design, analysis, test, procurement, installation, and operation of several subsea powered systems including:

• Pipeline/riser/flowline electric heating systems
• Subsea and/or downhole processing equipment
• Subsea chemical distribution
• Subsea multiphase pumps and/or wet gas compressors
• Subsea single-phase pumps and compressors
• Control/Service/Service Buoys/Mini-spars
• Long distance power/communications umbilicals
• Long distance wireless communications
• Subsea power delivery/distribution
• Subsea power generation.