Emerson Subsea Instruments for Brynhild Field
Emerson Process Management has won a multi-million dollar contact to deliver its Roxar subsea instrumentation to Lundin Petroleum’s Brynhild field in the North Sea. Aker Solutions will use the instrumentation as part of the rolling out of a complete subsea production system on Brynhild, with Emerson also delivering a number of downhole pressure and temperature gauges directly to Lundin Petroleum.
The contract covers Roxar subsea multiphase meters, subsea Sencorr pressure and temperature sensors, subsea chemical injection valves, and sand monitors.
“This is a landmark agreement for a number of reasons,” said Svenn Haugen, World Area Director Europe & North Africa, Roxar Flow Measurement. “Firstly, our instrumentation is to be deployed on a tie-back where key input measurements for fiscal allocation and production measurement will be carried out subsea, requiring the very best in accurate and robust subsea solutions. Secondly, it is a solution package covering both multiphase flow measurement and downhole monitoring, chemical injection and sand detection. We are delighted that Lundin and Aker Solutions put their trust in Emerson for such an important project.”
The tieback from Brynhild to the Pierce field’s FPSO (Floating, Production Storage & Offloading) platform in the UK sector is a cross-border subsea tie-back where key data for fiscal allocation and production measurement are gathered subsea. Combining the Brynhild and Pierce’s tie-back flow will avoid the need for a dedicated riser for Brynhild. The Roxar subsea instrumentation will be crucial to generating accurate measurement and input to fiscal allocation from the different flow streams.
Emerson’s solution for the Brynhild field will provide Lundin with high flow measurement accuracy, control and insight into their subsea operations.
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