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

海底工厂的概念是由石油和天然气部门开发新的具有成本效益的石油和天然气储量开采方法的需要而形成的。因此，他们决定大力投资于海底设备的开发，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(长达3公里)和更恶劣的环境中，迫切需要设备能够远程运行，几乎不需要维护，以将运营和维护成本降至最低。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)，并使用需要储存、泵送和注入系统的杀生剂进行消毒。因此，对能够帮助最小化生命周期成本(资本支出和运营支出)并维持生产正常运行时间的技术解决方案的需求是真实存在的。UV-SEA专注于开发一种解决方案，以延长滤膜的寿命，以满足井场运营商的要求，这样做将显著减少资本支出/运营支出和维护。这将通过开发一种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，大幅降低成本，提高安全性，并允许访问目前因油藏深度等技术原因而无法使用的资源。

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.