DNV GL calls for a standardized system qualification approach and joint industry effort in order to enable faster technology innovation and value creation in subsea.
New subsea technologies and systems must be qualified before use to build confidence that they will function as intended. However, according to DNV GL, current subsea technology qualification (TQ) processes can be inefficient, time consuming and variations in methodology impede industry players from leveraging on each other’s results.
A new position paper “Subsea system qualification: Towards a standardized approach’” by DNV GL’s Strategic Research & Innovation unit, thus proposes a joint industry effort in three steps to enable more effective technology development and implementation in the field:
1) Establish common industry principles, and consolidate a common framework for system qualification founded on existing industry procedures
2) Develop a methodology to standardize system qualification for common use across the upstream oil and gas industry
3) Pilot and demonstrate the developed methodology and roll-out a Recommended Practice.
– Developing a standardized approach to subsea technology qualification will enable companies to leverage on each other’s qualification efforts and results, reduce the overall development time and ultimately enable faster innovation in the subsea sector,” says Tore Myhrvold, researcher and lead author of the paper, DNV GL.
