We were tasked with supplying our proven ‘Riser Monitoring System’ (RMS) - an industry-leading subsea integrity monitoring solution that tracks displacement around the riser’s “touchdown location” on the seafloor in three dimensions.
12 December 2019
Owned and operated by Norwegian multinational energy company Equinor ASA, the Aasta Hansteen is the world’s largest floating cylindrical spar platform and is taller than the Eiffel Tower. Moored to the seabed 300 kilometres west of Sandnessjøen, Norway, it is a deep field development (up to 1300m) in a harsh environment on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and the first to deploy highly robust Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs) that transport gas from the wellhead to the surface.
BMT’s industry-leading solution includes an innovative suite of strain, motion and position sensors deployed by remotely operated underwater vehicles to monitor the SCRs’ integrity, responses in the touchdown zone, and interaction with the Spar’s FPSO pull tube.
The data collated by our unique monitoring system requires a great deal of intensive computation and is critical in validating the Spar and SCR designs and making them more efficient.
Our efforts helped Aasta Hansteen plan specific maintenance activities and helped to significantly improve the potential to extend the useful life of this world-class spar platform safely.
Photo credit: Roar Lindefjeld/Bo B
28 February 2023
• BMT’s Andrew Aldrich has been promoted to the role of Global Business Development Director – Infrastructure and Environment • The move highlights our concerted effort to align strong regional capabilities to global strategy in the energy and environment markets.
16 November 2022
Seasoned leadership to provide focus on business growth through capability development and local delivery of global BMT expertise.
7 November 2022
The microgrid collaboration demonstrating floating tidal technology between community and utility offers long-term advantages that can help to overcome the traditional locked-in position of energy-starved or energy-deficient communities.
6 October 2022
We have won a competitive bid to replace the Integrated Marine Monitoring System on the floating production unit (FPU), Salamanca, which is set for refurbishment and redeployment in the US Gulf of Mexico after being decommissioned by a former operator in 2019.