UV-SEA - UV water treatment system for sub-SEA factories

UV-SEA - 子 SEA 工厂的紫外线水处理系统

• 批准号: 104715
• 金额: $ 28.85万
• 依托单位: ATG UV TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104715
• 关键词: UV; SEA; water; treatment; system

The subsea factory concept, being developed by the oil and gas sector's need to develop new cost effective ways of extracting oil and gas reserves. Hence their decision to invest heavily in the development of subsea equipment for enhanced oil recovery.However as many of the subsea factories will be located in deeper waters (up to 3km) and harsher environments it is imperative that equipment can function remotely with little or no maintenance requirements so as to minimise operation and maintenance costs. For example, water-injection systems require filtration using expensive membranes with limited lifetimes (require changing after 6-12 mths at a significant cost per site) and disinfection using biocides which require storage, pumping and injection into the system. Therefore there is a real demand for technological solutions which can help to minimise lifecycle cost (capex and opex) and maintain production up-time. UV-SEA focusses on developing a solution to increase the lifetime of filtration membranes to meet the well site operators requirements and in so doing will significantly reduce capex/opex and maintenance. This will be achieved through the development of a highly disruptive water treatment technology for subsea injection. This has the potential to fundamentally change the industry, massively reducing cost and increasing safety and allowing access to current resources that are currently unviable due to technical reasons such as reservoir depth.

海底工厂的概念是由石油和天然气行业需要开发新的经济有效的开采石油和天然气储量的方法而产生的。因此，他们决定大力投资开发海底设备，以提高石油采收率。然而，由于许多海底工厂将位于更深的水域（高达3公里）和更恶劣的环境中，因此设备必须能够在很少或没有维护需求的情况下远程运行，从而最大限度地降低运营和维护成本。例如，注水系统需要使用寿命有限的昂贵膜进行过滤（需要在6-12个月后更换，每个站点的成本很高），使用杀菌剂进行消毒，这需要储存，泵送和注射到系统中。因此，对于能够帮助最小化生命周期成本（资本支出和运营成本）并维持生产正常运行时间的技术解决方案，存在着真正的需求。UV-SEA专注于开发一种解决方案，以延长过滤膜的使用寿命，以满足井场运营商的要求，从而显著降低资本支出/运营成本和维护费用。这将通过开发一种高度颠覆性的海底注入水处理技术来实现。这有可能从根本上改变行业，大幅降低成本，提高安全性，并使目前由于油藏深度等技术原因而无法开采的资源成为可能。