This project explores new facilities and system configurations to achieve efficient and optimal
management of the integrated system over the entire life of the field. A central element of the project is the concept development of a modular and multi-functional assembly to allow easy re-routing of well streams and a quick and easy deployment of separation and boosting capability to a single well, to a group of wells or to the entire cluster.

This subsea assembly named Subsea Gate Box is configured as a template that accommodates
individual well modules and compartments, containing proper process equipment. The process equipment may include separators, pumps, compressors, control valves and/or flowmeters, according to the characteristics of the well stream.

A task in the early phase of the project, will be to identify the leading technologyin the market that suits best to a compact andmodular solution. The project deliverables will include a description of the state-of-the-art subsea process technology, feasibility analysis of the Subsea Gate Box and performance analysis of business cases designed for both conventional and low-energy oil fields.

Different wells in a subsea field have different production capacities, production constraints and production targets dictated by the reservoir depletion strategy. Therefore, they are subject to individual management and control. However, commingling the production streams of the individual wells, creates a strong interdependence
of the flow rates and production pressures of the individual wells. The results of this interdependency is that the yield of the integrated system is, most often, considerably sub-optimal.