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Subsea production improves recovery rates, reduces costs and enables remote and deep-water operations. The challenge is that these underwater facilities may have a power consumption equivalent to that of a small city.
The aim of ABB’s USD 100 million Joint Industry Program with Statoil is to develop the transmission, distribution and conversion systems needed to power and control subsea pumps and compressors.
Ultimately this technology will be able to provide reliable power of up to 100 megawatts to depths of down to 3 000 meters over distances of up to 600 kilometers.