TECHNIP FMC SUBSEA R&DR&D FOCUS
Deliver Subsea Infrastructures at Lower Cost (CAPEX) Providing Clients with Lower Operating Cost (OPEX)
Leverage on TECHNOLOGY to reduce cost : on product fabrication (rigid, flexible, umbilicals…) on offshore operation (installation, logistics, teleoperations…) On architectures and design (simplification, functions, interfaces…)
Operational Excellence Optimization of assets and processes
UltraDeep Water Pushing the limits of physics
Long Distance and difficult transportation Innovative networks
Efficiency and reliability through data Assets integrity management & Life of field
R&D THEMATICS
SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Efficiency in executing projects
Optimise, Improve and/or revise our Manufacturing & Installation approaches Innovative Factories and production lines
equipments (ex. Cobotics…) Vessels installation equipment for loading, lifting,
deploying, lowering (ex: handling platform…) Methods and operation control/command
(ex: simulation, monitoring…)
Expected technology domain Automatics, mechatronics Control/Command, system engineering,
master/slave HMI, computer vision, Realtime 3D Robotics, cobotics, tele-robotics
SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS
ULTRADEEP WATER: Pushing the limits of physics
Explore and Push Materials capacities Improved Strength / weight (in water) ratio Survivability in corrosive, highly constraints
environments Improved insulation and temperature resilience
capacities
Expected technology domain Advanced material science Advanced non destructive inspection and control
techniques Assembly technologies (from glueing, brazing to
welding and additive manufacturing) Material forming, processing, micro machining
Nanospheres 5-13nm
SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS
DIFFICULT TRANSPORTATION: Innovative networks
Networks are productions aid system not only conveyors of fluid/electricity Fluid behaviours (long distance,
unstable, multiphase, temperature…) Modelling approach on separation, boosting,
pumping technologies Microsampling, non intrusive monitoring technologies Live & realtime measurement, prediction vs simulation
Expected technology domain Advanced non intrusive measurements/inspection technologies
(spectro, ultrasonic, magnetic, Fiber Optic, Ray, mems…) Imaging, visualisation, advanced modelling Data fusion, predictive algorythms Advanced fluid mechanics
ice plug detected at 20 m
SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS
EFFICENCY & RELIABILITY THROUGH DATA
Smart pipelines & subsea equipment Deploy sensing technologies on
all our subsea systems Enable data acquisition and
conditioning Facilitate data treatment and interfacing Deploy monitoring applicative for assets integrity
and client operational support
Expected technology domain Statistical analysis, system engineering, reliability engineering IT infrastructures and management system (Data storage,
transfer, databases, meta-databases…) Miniaturised sensors, microsystems Data transfer technologies & digital communication hardware Energy harvesting