Oil and gas company Serica Energy has stopped producing from the Rhum field in the UK North Sea following issues with a subsea control module. Serica said in an update that a fault had been identified ...

How Do Subsea Trees Work? A subsea Christmas tree is the pressure-containing valve assembly mounted on a subsea wellhead that controls, monitors, and safeguards flow from (or injection into) a subsea ...

Risk-based, campaign-driven, and data-informed maintenance minimizes vessel days while safeguarding integrity and uptime. Focus on condition monitoring, robust spares/contingency, and standardized ...

Several North Sea examples illustrate the advantages of installing high-integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) on subsea wells. Many published papers discuss the benefits of subsea HIPPS and ...