Under the terms of the initial four-year technical collaboration agreement, the firms will leverage their earlier cooperation to develop technologies capable of reducing costs and increasing value at subsea oil and gas fields.
In this year, the team plans to explore a wide range of issues, including further evolution of subsea processing and compression systems to boost cost-efficiency of deepwater gas production.
The scope of the collaboration also includes development of electric subsea controls and optimization of flow-measurement technologies.
Aker Solutions chief technology officer Hervé Valla said: "This joint effort reinforces our common interest in finding more effective solutions to maximize value from subsea field developments.
"It allows us to work more closely with Total to solve technical challenges faced by the industry today and to reduce the time needed to bring subsea technology to the market."
Earlier, Aker Solutions and Total worked on solving specific project challenges and designing solutions to enable developments in the future.
The projects included collaborating on subsea boosting solutions and subsea plant for deepwater application.
Earlier, Aker Solutions secured contracts with Total to provide a subsea production system for the Kaombo Block 32 development in Angola as well as for Moho Nord project in Congo.
Image: Aker Solutions and Total plans to reduce cost of subsea field development projects. Photo: courtesy of Aker Solutions.
