Emerson to Help Enable Carbon-Efficient Production from Equinor’s Martin Linge North Sea Development
November 15 2022 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Operational support services to optimize oil
and gas production efficiency, reduce energy consumption and
emissions
Emerson (NYSE: EMR), a global software and engineering leader,
has signed a five-year framework agreement with Equinor to provide
operational support services to ensure continued safe and optimized
oil and gas production from its pioneering Martin Linge platform in
the Norwegian North Sea. The service agreement, which includes
options for three additional five-year periods, covers maintenance
and upgrades of the control technology, software and
instrumentation. These technologies are helping to accelerate
carbon-efficient production and empower remote operation from
onshore for increased worker safety and reduced operating
costs.
Martin Linge is a significant development for Norwegian oil and
gas production, with expected recoverable resources of around 260
million barrels of oil equivalent. Emerson’s technology, project
expertise and global resources were crucial in helping achieve
first oil safely, and with the award of this service contract,
Equinor gains continued support to optimize production, reduce
energy consumption and emissions, and maximize the potential of the
Martin Linge development.
Martin Linge, situated 42 kilometres west of Oseberg, was the
first platform on the Norwegian continental shelf to be started up
from shore. The 63 billion Norwegian krone (USD 7.3 billion)
mega-project includes a production platform and a permanently
anchored floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel. These
facilities are powered from onshore via the world’s longest
alternating-current sea cable, helping to reduce CO2 emissions by
200,000 tonnes per year. Oil is processed on the FSO vessel before
being transported in shuttle tankers to the global market, while
gas is transported via pipeline to St. Fergus, Scotland.
“With proven automation technologies, collaborative work
practices and extensive experience, Emerson is the ideal choice for
a trusted partner on energy industry projects of this scale and
magnitude,” said Mark Bulanda, executive president of Emerson’s
Automation Solutions business. “With this service agreement, we
look forward to helping Equinor achieve continued safe and carbon
efficient production.”
The award of the service agreement follows Emerson’s
implementation of a complete automation solution for the project,
which incorporates the company’s DeltaV™ distributed control
system; advanced wired and wireless measurement instrumentation;
critical control, emergency shutdown and isolation valves; metering
technology and asset management software. This technology enables
both the platform and the FSO vessel to be mainly operated from an
onshore control room in Stavanger, with offshore operators able to
access the control system interface via mobile handheld devices,
resulting in increased worker flexibility and efficiency.
Controlling the production facilities in this manner enables three
shifts of operators to work from onshore rather than offshore,
reducing risk to personnel and minimizing costs.
Emerson’s cloud engineering services and digital twin
technology, played a crucial role in the successful delivery of the
project and first oil being safely achieved. The company’s Remote
Virtual Office (RVO) platform enabled project personnel around the
world to collaborate securely in a virtual engineering,
commissioning and testing environment, regardless of their
location. This not only reduced travel requirements – which was
vital due to COVID-19 restrictions – but also had a significant
impact on project schedule, risk and costs. Emerson’s digital twin
technology also enabled significant project and operational
benefits such as streamlining commissioning of the control system,
helping Equinor train its operators to experience real-life
scenarios before the control system went live, and make continued
improvements that help to optimize production, and reduce energy
consumption and emissions.
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About Emerson
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) is a global technology and software company
providing innovative solutions for the world’s most essential
industries. Emerson is an automation leader that helps process,
hybrid and discrete manufacturers optimize operations, protect
personnel, reduce emissions and achieve their sustainability goals
through its unmatched automation portfolio, including its majority
stake in AspenTech. For more information, visit Emerson.com.
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