TECHNIP FMC SUBSEA R&DR&D FOCUS

Deliver Subsea Infrastructures at Lower Cost (CAPEX) Providing Clients with Lower Operating Cost (OPEX)

Leverage on TECHNOLOGY to reduce cost : on product fabrication (rigid, flexible, umbilicals…) on offshore operation (installation, logistics, teleoperations…) On architectures and design (simplification, functions, interfaces…)

Operational Excellence Optimization of assets and processes

UltraDeep Water Pushing the limits of physics

Long Distance and difficult transportation Innovative networks

Efficiency and reliability through data Assets integrity management & Life of field

R&D THEMATICS

SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Efficiency in executing projects

Optimise, Improve and/or revise our Manufacturing & Installation approaches Innovative Factories and production lines

equipments (ex. Cobotics…) Vessels installation equipment for loading, lifting,

deploying, lowering (ex: handling platform…) Methods and operation control/command

(ex: simulation, monitoring…)

Expected technology domain Automatics, mechatronics Control/Command, system engineering,

master/slave HMI, computer vision, Realtime 3D Robotics, cobotics, tele-robotics

SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS

ULTRADEEP WATER: Pushing the limits of physics

Explore and Push Materials capacities Improved Strength / weight (in water) ratio Survivability in corrosive, highly constraints

environments Improved insulation and temperature resilience

capacities

Expected technology domain Advanced material science Advanced non destructive inspection and control

techniques Assembly technologies (from glueing, brazing to

welding and additive manufacturing) Material forming, processing, micro machining

Nanospheres 5-13nm

SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS

DIFFICULT TRANSPORTATION: Innovative networks

Networks are productions aid system not only conveyors of fluid/electricity Fluid behaviours (long distance,

unstable, multiphase, temperature…) Modelling approach on separation, boosting,

pumping technologies Microsampling, non intrusive monitoring technologies Live & realtime measurement, prediction vs simulation

Expected technology domain Advanced non intrusive measurements/inspection technologies

(spectro, ultrasonic, magnetic, Fiber Optic, Ray, mems…) Imaging, visualisation, advanced modelling Data fusion, predictive algorythms Advanced fluid mechanics

ice plug detected at 20 m

SUBSEA R&D BUSINESS DRIVERS

EFFICENCY & RELIABILITY THROUGH DATA

Smart pipelines & subsea equipment Deploy sensing technologies on

all our subsea systems Enable data acquisition and

conditioning Facilitate data treatment and interfacing Deploy monitoring applicative for assets integrity

and client operational support

Expected technology domain Statistical analysis, system engineering, reliability engineering IT infrastructures and management system (Data storage,

transfer, databases, meta-databases…) Miniaturised sensors, microsystems Data transfer technologies & digital communication hardware Energy harvesting