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SPECIAL REPORT: Upgrade expands Visund subsea well communications

03/17/2008
Upgrading of communications from subsea wells producing to the Visund platform required a threefold solution that involved retrofitting new communication cards in canisters that attach to existing subsea trees, using existing power lines for communication, and integrating the data topside.The upgrade improves monitoring of subsea wells so that production from the field’s complex reservoirs can be optimized.VisundStatoilHydro operates Visund oil and gas field in Blocks 34/8 and 34/7, 22 km northeast of Gullfaks field in the Tampen area of the Norwegian North Sea.The field came on stream in 1999 and production is through a semisubmersible processing, drilling, and quarters platform (F...
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