1. Subsea Industry Standardization Landscape
API SUBCOMMITTEE 17 WINTER MEETING
January 2015
Subsea Industry Standardization Landscape
Terry Cook – API SC17 Vice-Chair
1/20/2015

2. Industry Standardization Status
Information Courtesy of IOGP
(International Association of Oil & Gas Producers – formerly OGP)
Recognition to:
Dave Wilkinson – ExxonMobil
Roald Sirevaag - Statoil
1/20/2015

3. Industry Standardization Status
OGP Subsea Installations Taskforce commissioned consultant to assess standardization within the subsea industry.
The objective was to gain overall picture of ongoing/planned standardization efforts to provide starting point for discussions within the taskforce of initiatives to support and prioritize.
Did not include API/ISO activity, as IOGP agreed these activities are well-known to most of the task-force members.
1/20/2015

4. Project Lead Organization
Project Description
Project Lead Organization
Champion
Timeline
UMSIRE (Umbilical Termination Size
Reduction) JIP
OTM
N/A
Subsea Instrumentation Interface
Standardization (SIIS)
Present
Subsea Obsolescence
Present
Subsea Fiber Optic Monitoring (SEAFOM) Forum
Present
MCS-DCS Interface Standardization (MDIS)
Subsea Wireless Group (SWiG)
Present
Offshore Leak Detection JIP
DnV GL
Present
1/20/2015

5. Project Lead Organization
Project Description
Project Lead Organization
Champion
Timeline
Wet gas ultrasonic flowmeters JIP
DnV GL
N/A
Present
System integrity assurance for new technology
Deepstar
11904
Standardization of subsea modules and
interfaces
Statoil
Subsea Electrical Power Standardization
(SEPS)
OTM
Subsea processing specification and
qualification multi-operator survey
Petrobras
Shell
2015 +
SAFEBUCK (design guideline to mitigate lateral buckling and pipeline walking)
Atkins
Thermoplastic composite pipeline
Airborne
1/20/2015

6. Project Lead Organization
Project Description
Project Lead Organization
Champion
Timeline
Pipeline Repair JIP
DnV GL
N/A
Not Started
Design of Pipeline Components JIP
Guideline for installation of rigid and
flexible pipes, umbilicals and power cables
SafePark JIP (prevent pipeline corrosion during wet park lay-up stage)
Wood Group Kenny
Forging material JIP
Standard for certification of subsea
equipment and components
2014?
Advanced Well Equipment Standardization
(AWES)
OTM
Present
1/20/2015

7. Project Lead Organization
Project Description
Project Lead Organization
Champion
Timeline
Structural Well Integrity (fatigue loading on SS wellhead from riser/rig motions)
DnV GL
N/A
Industry standard for subsea
documentation
Statoil
2014 +
Certification of Deepwater Installation
Systems (fiber rope-based, DW Installation)
AUV Interface Standards & Regulatory Standards for AUV Inspection
DeepStar
11304
Lockheed Martin
Subsea Lifting Operations JIP
2014
SECOMP JIP (Subsea Engineering Competency Assessment Framework)
2014?
W2W (Walk 2 Work) JIP (alternative means of personnel transfer)
Not Started
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8. Summary of IOGP Consultant Observations/Conclusions (1)
Standardization - current buzzword across major operators & vendors. Considered a key to cost reduction - most operators have implemented some sort of internal standardization.
What seems to be missing is industry collaboration on what to actually standardize and how . . .
There are only a few ‘vehicles’ that specifically enable a unified platform for collaboration (DNV, API/ ISO, OTM, Wood Group Kenny).
It is difficult to look at the landscape of on-going activity and to conclude what additional activity is required:
This is partly because of not being fully aware of what API/ ISO are either working or what they have already delivered
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9. Summary of IOGP Consultant Observations/Conclusions (2)
For subsea equipment, we see 3 core areas for standardization:
Interface standardization (physical and communication based)
Specification, qualification and testing standardization
Recommended practices for operation, usage or some other activity
Interface standardization normally allows future ‘plug and play’ options.
This normally has the greatest amount of resistance from vendors
Specification, qualification and testing standards need to be driven by operators.
But few operators have either the will or the resources to participate
Recommended practices, being non-binding, are the simplest
However, these are seen as often having little impact in achieving true standardization or eventual cost reduction
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10. Industry Standardization Status
Questions?
The End . . .
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