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Today's oil and gas operators involved in offshore oil and gas production and processing face a host of challenges including remote locations, harsh environments, extreme climates, weight and size constraints. The challenges of offshore production and processing require solutions that are not only robust enough to ensure the dayto-day reliability and availability of equipment in hostile environments, but are also safe, effective, cost-efficient and have minimal environmental impact over the entire life cycle. In particular, there is a strong demand for power generation and distribution solutions, auxiliary and emergency power units, automation, safety and monitoring systems, switchgear and instrumentation, as well as for broadband telecommunications capabilities, navigation systems and water treatment technologies.
FPSO (Floating effectiveness inProduction, remote or deepwater Storage and locations Offloading vessels):
The oil and gas industry exercises strict requirements for safety and reliability nowhere more than in the offshore business. With the move to deeper waters in search for oil and gas, floating production facilities such as semisubmersibles and floating production, storage and offloading vessels (FPSOs) have become a cost-effective alternative to sea bed pipelines. FPSOs eliminate the need to lay expensive long-distance pipelines from the oil well to an onshore terminal. They can also be used economically in smaller oil fields which can be exhausted in a few years and do not justify the expense of installing a pipeline. Once the field is depleted, the FPSO can be moved to a new location.
automation and control: a unique array of integrated automation and electric-drive related products, systems and solutions for field, operation and management. Designed to maximize productivity, while substantially reducing costs. Integrated automation and electric-drive related products, systems and solutions Industrial IT: enterprise intelligence solutions for safe and reliable operation, planning and scheduling including asset management. Real-time operational intelligence, electronic procurement and trading. Process modeling, simulation and optimization. Enterprise intelligence solutions for safe and reliable operation, planning and scheduling life-cycle services, from front-end engineering design and network studies through to preventive and corrective maintenance, service agreements and training
Oil platform
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An oil platform, (offshore platform or colloquially oil rig) is a large structure with facilities to drill wells, to extract and process oil andnatural gas, and to temporarily store product until it can be brought to shore for refining and marketing. In many cases, the platform contains facilities to house the workforce as well. Depending on the circumstances, the platform may be fixed to the ocean floor, may consist of an artificial island, or may float. Remotesubsea wells may also be connected to a platform by flow lines and by umbilical connections. These subsea solutions may consist of one or more subsea wells, or of one or more manifold centres for multiple wells.