Dec. 12 (offshore-energy.biz) TechnipFMC has delivered its 100th Subsea 2.0 tree to UK-headquartered energy giant Shell, the company that placed the first order for the subsea product platform.
The subsea tree was manufactured, assembled, and tested at TechnipFMC’s dedicated facility for Subsea 2.0 in Nusajaya, Malaysia, and will be used on Shell’s project in the Gulf of America.
The first Subsea 2.0 tree was installed during the development of Shell’s BC-10 field, offshore Brazil, in 2021.
“This is a proud moment for the worldwide team who have worked to make Subsea 2.0 the game-changing success it has become,” said Jonathan Landes, President of Subsea at TechnipFMC. “This year, we celebrated 30 years of partnership with Shell. They understood the benefits of Subsea 2.0 from the very beginning and we are delighted that they are marking this milestone—the 100th Subsea 2.0 tree—with us.”
According to Paulo Couto, now TechnipFMC’s Senior Vice President for Industrialization and Quality, who led the dedicated team for the development of Subsea 2.0, the technology was born from dissatisfaction with the status quo, as the industry has peaks and troughs, and TechnipFMC wanted to flatten those. The development began in 2015, with a vision to streamline subsea engineering through standardization and modularity.
The prototype of the vertical Subsea 2.0 tree was developed and built at TechnipFMC’s facility in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, then a horizontal prototype was manufactured at the company’s campus in Dunfermline, UK, followed by the in-the-well version, which does not sit on a tubing head, manufactured in Brazil.
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