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

海底工厂的概念，正在开发的石油和天然气部门的需要，以开发新的成本效益的方式提取石油和天然气储量。因此，他们决定大力投资开发用于提高石油采收率的水下设备。然而，由于许多水下工厂将位于更深的沃茨（高达3 km）和更恶劣的环境中，因此设备必须能够远程运行，只需很少或无需维护，以最大限度地降低运营和维护成本。例如，注水系统需要使用具有有限寿命的昂贵膜进行过滤（需要在6-12个月后以每个地点的显著成本进行更换），并且需要使用需要储存、泵送和注入系统中的杀生物剂进行消毒。因此，对技术解决方案有真实的需求，这些解决方案可以帮助最大限度地减少生命周期成本（资本支出和运营支出）并保持生产正常运行时间。UV-SEA专注于开发一种解决方案，以增加过滤膜的使用寿命，以满足井场运营商的要求，这样做将大大减少资本支出/运营支出和维护。这将通过开发用于海底注入的高度破坏性水处理技术来实现。这有可能从根本上改变该行业，大大降低成本，提高安全性，并允许访问目前由于技术原因（如油藏深度）而不可行的现有资源。

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.