Aker Solutions and Equinor have signed a global collaboration agreement to ensure mutual and continuous improvement on current and future subsea projects within the areas of safety, quality, technology, execution and cost.
Image: Aker Solutions, Equinor enter into global collaboration to improve current and future subsea projects. Photo: courtesy of Aker Solutions.
Aker Solutions CEO Luis Araujo said: “Aker Solutions and Equinor’s ongoing collaboration has consistently generated mutually beneficial technology developments, working process simplifications and standardizations.
“This agreement formalizes the companies’ joint ambitions of achieving efficiency and improvement goals.”
Several innovative and cost-efficient solutions have materialized from Aker Solutions’ and Equinor’s history of collaboration. Aker Solutions’ newest subsea production system with vertical trees and associated tools were developed in close collaboration with Equinor, designed to be more efficient and reduce life-cycle costs.
The subsea equipment is smaller and lighter than previous versions and has now become Equinor’s standard solution.
As well as adopting this technology on the Johan Castberg field, Equinor will use trees of the same design on its Troll and Askeladd fields offshore Norway and they have also been commissioned by other operators on the Norwegian Shelf, including Aker BP for the Ærfugl development.
Luis Araujo said: “Equinor’s Johan Castberg development is an example of what can be achieved when we work in close collaboration with customers.”
Source: Company Press Release