Offshore staff
ASKER, Norway – Vår Energi has awarded 4Subsea a three-year service agreement to monitor and analyze wellhead integrity for the Balder Future drilling and completion operations in the Norwegian North Sea.
Seadrill’s semisubmersible West Phoenix will drill 13 production wells and one water injection well on the Balder field.
The SWIM service employs retrofittable subsea sensors to measure movement and strain on the wellhead. It applies advanced algorithms and machine learning combined with deep domain expertise to monitor fatigue damage accumulation, well support, and structural integrity.
The service creates a digital twin of the well and riser systems combined with boundary conditions and updated with sensor data. Sensor data is collected using ROVs and uploaded to 4Subsea’s digital service 4insight, which is said to perform advanced analysis on the data. The results are presented as easy-to-interpret insights and dashboards, simplifying the complex analysis and effectively support critical decisions.
In addition, the company’s domain experts provide a digital service for improved decision support to Vår Energi’s engineering team to ensure safe operations.
06/24/2021
