Priority emerging technologies
- Low-cost ocean bottom nodes (OBNs), permanent and sea bottom sources
- Artificial intelligence (AI)for (real-time) processing
- Advanced interpretation integrating rock-physics and multiple surveys
- Drilling automation
- Multilateral well design
- Smart completions
- Alternative reservoir stimulation technologies
- All-electric subsea controls
- Local chemical injection
- Local power generation/storage
- Umbilical-less systems
- Subsea processing and storage
- Un-manned loading buoys
- Reusable, standardised tie-back bundle
- Versatile floating units
- Unmanned loading buoys
- Advanced (self-calibrating, non-intrusive) multiphase meters
- Heavy oil equipment
- Nano filtration, membrane technologies
- Permanent wireless sensors
- Sand controls (e.g. ceramic screens)
- Flow assurance solutions (e.g. localised heat)
- Alternative enhanced oil recover (EOR) (e.g. microbial, foam)
- Autonomous robotic inspections
- Hard-to-reach area inspections (under insulations and trunnions)
- Corrosion detection and prevention (e.g. self-healing coatings)
- HUMS
- Bond-logging through multiple casing strings
- Alternative casing removal techniques (e.g. laser, plasma)
- Alternative barriers (e.g. thermite, bismuth, and natural barriers)
- Alternative cutting technologies (e.g. laser, corrosive fluids)
- Subsea removals
- Efficient site monitoring (e.g. autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), passive sensors)