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Optime Subsea Secures Its First ABB Award

Optime Subsea has been selected to deliver a new subsea power control module to ABB. “This is a great recognition of our technological ability to meet industry demands,” says Jan-Fredrik Carlsen, CEO of Optime Subsea.

featured optimeStarted in 2013, ABB formed up a Joint Industry Project (JIP) with three oil companies. The JIP aims to develop transmission, distribution and power conversion systems for subsea pumps and gas compressors, operating at depths of 3,000 meters and over vast distances. The development is part of the industry wide objective to develop all-electric subsea processing facilities. For the JIP, Optime Subsea has been selected to design, fabricate and qualify a subsea control module (SCM) hosting ABBs subsea control hardware.

The first full scale prototype of a subsea variable speed drive was successfully tested in a sheltered harbor in Vaasa, Finland, in 2017. The JIP is now preparing for a 3,000-hour shallow water test of a subsea power system with two variable speed drives in a parallel, combined with subsea switchgear and controls, targeted to start in spring 2019. The first installation of the new subsea power systems in offshore production sites are expected to begin in 2020.

Optime ABB Equinor Press Release ILLUSTRATIONThe Notodden, Norway, based Optime Subsea, with offices in Houston, TX, USA, are with this and other recent orders, positioning themselves as a new preferred subsea controls and interventions provider within the subsea industry.

“This opportunity, once qualified, offers Optime the potential of being an even greater part in the future of all electric subsea processing. Each of these system deliveries will require a large volume of various control modules. With our unique subsea pump already being a central part of other subsea all electric initiatives, such as for permanent installed subsea chemical injection and subsea pump systems, we feel privileged that we are continuing to be a preferred technology provider of initiatives from technology providers, subsea service providers and operators”, says Jan-Fredrik Carlsen, CEO of Optime Subsea.

“Given the ongoing successful JIP development, combined with ABB’s electrification, power and control expertise, the project needs a supplier with a unique subsea module solution and experience, while at the same time being flexible and efficient to meet the project’s quality and schedule. Optime has clearly demonstrated their capability and competence. We look forward to working together with them in turning electrical subsea visions into reality”, says Svein Vatland, Vice President and Project Director of ABB’s Subsea Power JIP.

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