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(1) Mr. T.N.R. Rao, Chief Patron, Second SUBSEA INIDA 2012 Conference and former Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum andNatural Gas and Mr. Evind S. Homme at the conference venue; (2) Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC and Chairman,ONGC Group of Companies is being introduced to Mr. Evind S. Homme by Mr. Arun Kr. Singhal, Chairman Organizing Committee, Second SUBSEAINDIA 2012 and Chairman Editorial Board & Chief Editor, DEW Journal; (3) & (4) A view of the august gathering at the Conference

The oil and gas sector has beenplaying a very important role in the

economic and political scenario of theglobe. The limited oil and gas reservealong with increasing energyrequirement across the globe has ledto spirall ing of price resulting insupply related concerns for most of thecountries.

Taking a look at India’s energyscenario, the high economic growth inthe past few years and increasing industrialisationcoupled with a burgeoning population have created alot of concern. India has 0.5% of the oil and gasresources of the world and 15% of the world’spopulation. This makes India heavily dependent onthe import of the crude oil and natural gas. Oil

With challenges aplenty, Indiaon the cusp of renewed intense

deepwater activities: Expertsconsumption is growing atapproximately 4.1% per year andnatural gas consumption at 68% peryear.

India meets nearly 30 percent ofits total energy requirements throughimports. With the increase in share ofhydrocarbons in the energy supply/use, this share of imported energy isexpected to increase. The challenge,therefore, is to secure adequate energy

supplies at the least possible cost. Although growthof the energy sector is moderate and has, to someextent, served the country’s social needs, it has puttremendous pressure on the Government’s budget.

The prospects of Indian oil industry are howeverfor more exciting than any other, with India being

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Mr. Arun Kr. Singhal, Chairman Organizing Committee, Second SUBSEAINDIA 2012 and Chairman Editorial Board & Chief Editor, DEW Journalwelcoming the Guest of Honour, Mr. Evind S. Homme, Ambassador,Royal Norwegian Embassy, India with a shawl.

Mr. Arun Kr. Singhal, Chairman Organizing Committee, Second SUBSEAINDIA 2012 and Chairman Editorial Board & Chief Editor, DEW Journalwelcoming Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGCand Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies with a shawl.

Mr. D.K.Pande, Conference Chairman, Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 and Chairman, EESH Energy, Independent Director, Tata Petrodyne Boardand former Director-Exploration, ONGC delivering the welcome address at the inaugural function. Sitting on the dais (L to R) Mr. Evind S.Homme, Ambassador, Royal Norwegian Embassy, India, Mr. T.N.R. Rao, Chief Patron, Second SUBSEA INIDA 2012 Conference and formerSecretary, Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC andChairman, ONGC Group of Companies and Dr. Avinash Chandra, first Director General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbon, Government ofIndia, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.

among the least explored countries in the world at awell density of 20 per 10000 km2. India is the thirdlargest oil consumer in Asia, even though on per capitabasis the consumption is mere 0.1 tonne per year, thelowest in the region. Of the 26 sedimentary basins onlyeight have been explored so far. All this makes Indiathe desired destination in terms of opportunities.

India has an estimated sedimentary area of 3.14million square kilometres, comprising 26 sedimentarybasins, out of which approx. over 1.35 million squarekilometres area is in deep water.

The eastern deepwater areas of India sit on adivergent continental margin encompassingcontinental slope and abyssal plain settings. It spreadfrom Bengal basin in the north through Mahanadi,Krishna- Godavari to Cauvery basin in the south. The

sedimentary processes and depositional elementscharacteristics of deep water environments areconspicuous in subsurface seismic images. Explorationresults to date indicate two viable broad petroleumsystems i.e. Biogenic and Thermogenic, are present inthe deep water area. So far exploration efforts aremainly directed to Biogenic Petroleum System as aresult several small to large size gas discoveries havecome up in KG basin, Mahanadi basin, whileThermogenic Petroleum System is probed in KG andCauvery deep water areas. The geologic success ratesare very high.

India’s deepwater sub-basalt formations on westcoast are also considered as one of the largest un-explored basaltic provinces in the world. Worldwideexploratory programs in sub-basalt Mesozoic and

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Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC andChairman, ONGC Group of Companies lighting the lamp to inauguratethe Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012.

The Guest of Honour, Mr. Evind S. Homme, Ambassador, RoyalNorwegian Embassy, India lighting the lamp at the inaugural ceremonyof the Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012.

Mr. T.N.R. Rao, Chief Patron, Second SUBSEA INIDA 2012 Conferenceand former Secretary, Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum andNatural Gas lighting the lamp at the inaugural ceremony of the SecondSUBSEA INDIA 2012.

Paleozoic (in some cases even younger) sedimentarybasins and their success in finding a number ofrecoverable gas reserves have drawn increasingattention to the prospectivity of country’s deep watersub-basalt formations (Kerala-Konkan basin) astargets.

With India aggressively exploring deep and ultradeepwater frontiers, with some successes, it is openingup big business opportunities for companies withsubsea and deepwater technology and expertise.

In deepwater, India has however made significantstrides in the past few years and with the recentintentions of sizeable investments from BP, it could beon the cusp of a renewed phase of intensive activity.

As the upstream business moves ever farther fromshore, the need for high performance wet trees,controls, manifolds, and related equipment andtechnology grows. In recent years, the subseaproduction equipment sector has developed in tandemwith the offshore oil and gas business, and in particularwith deepwater production.

Hence, despite the current slow going in the Gulfof Mexico, worldwide deepwater oil production issurging, driven by high prices, new technology, anddwindling prospects on land.

As the development of subsea oil and gas fieldsrequires specialized equipment, the equipment mustbe reliable enough to safe guard the environment, andmake the exploitation of the subsea hydrocarbonseconomically feasible. The deployment of suchequipment requires specialized and expensive vessels,which need to be equipped with diving equipment forrelatively shallow equipment work (i.e. a few hundredfeet water depth maximum), and robotic equipment fordeeper water depths. Any requirement to repair orintervene with installed subsea equipment is thusnormally very expensive. This type of expense canresult in economic failure of the subsea development.

Subsea technology in offshore oil and gasproduction is a highly specialized field of applicationwith particular demands on engineering and simulation.Most of the new oil fields are located in deepwaterand are generally referred to as deepwater systems.Development of these fields sets strict requirementsfor verification of the various systems’ functions andtheir compliance with current requirements andspecifications. This is because of the high costs andtime involved in changing a pre-existing system dueto the specialized vessels with advanced onboardequipment. A full scale test (System Integration Test –SIT) does not provide satisfactory verification of

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The Guest of Honour Mr. Evind S. Homme, Ambassador, Royal Norwegian Embassy, India speaking at the inaugural function of the SecondSUBSEA INDIA 2012 Conference

Mr. T.N.R. Rao, Chief Patron, Second SUBSEAINIDA 2012 Conference speaking at the inauguralfunction

deepwater systems because the test, for practicalreasons, cannot be performed under conditionsidentical to those under which the system will lateroperate. The oil industry has therefore adoptedmodern data technology as a tool for virtual testing ofdeepwater systems that enables detection of costlyfaults at an early phase of the project. By using modernsimulation tools models of deepwater systems can beset up and used to verify the system’s functions, anddynamic properties, against various requirementsspecifications. This includes the model-baseddevelopment of innovative high-tech plants andsystem solutions for the exploitation and productionof energy resources in an environmentally friendly wayas well as the analysis and evaluation of the dynamicbehaviour of components and systems used for theproduction and distribution of oil and gas. Another

part is the real-time virtualtest of systems for subseaproduction, subsea drilling,supply above sea level,seismography, subseaconstruction equipment andsubsea process measurementand control equipment.

Against this backdrop,DEW Journal organised theSecond SUBSEA INDIA 2012Conference focusing onsubsea, deepwater andoffshore technology andservices to explore the high

tech available around the world in this segment of theoil industry. To give a fillip to the theme of theconference held on December 4-5,2012 in New Delhi,India, Norway the leaders in subsea, deepwater andoffshore technology and services joined hands aspartner country to the conference.

With Norway as the partner country theconference saw some of the renowned Norwegian oiland gas companies and experts attend and throw lighton the latest in technology and services which Indiacan acquire from Norway for its up-coming andongoing deep, ultra deep and subsea projects.

The objective of the conference was to showcasethe deep and ultra deep water potentials in India, tofocus on the Indian oil and gas business in the contextof global trends, to exchange knowledge on emergingtechnologies in the area of offshore, deepwater and

Dr. Avinash Chandra, first DG, DGH, Governmentof India, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gasspeaking at the inaugural function

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Mr. Evind S. Homme, Ambassador, RoyalNorwegian Embassy, India speaking at the inauguralfunciton

Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC and Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies speaking at the inaugural function of theSecond SUBSEA INDIA 2012 Conference

subsea oil and gasexploration and productionand to promote synergy inbusiness and technology.

Attended by theofficials from the Ministry ofPetroleum and Natural Gas,Government of India,Directorate General ofHydrocarbons, Governmentof India Royal NorwegianEmbassy, India officialsalong with senior executives,decision makers and expertsof national and internationaloil companies and service providers the conferencealso witnessed Chiefs of many oil and gas companiesfrom India and abroad deliberate at the Conference.

The conference witnessed a congregation ofoffshore experts from USA, Norway, UK, Australia,Malaysia, Singapore, UAE and India brain storm onsome of the key issues and challenges lingering thissector as also network to explore newer technologiesand business potentials between companies andcountries. Experts from companies like RelianceIndustries Limited, Fugro, Oilex Australia, GE,ExxonMobil, Nautronix, SMD, MSI Kenny, SAS USA,Cameron, Framo Engineering, Schlumberger, ONGC,ONGC Videsh Limited, KFV UK, IntelliDynamics, USAalso attended and deliberated on various aspects ofthe subsea, deepwater and offshore technologiesduring the two day conference. The Chiefs of ONGC,

Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC and Chairman,ONGC Group of Companies speaking at theinaugural funciton

GE Oil & Gas, Schlumberger, Nautronix Ltd., UK, SMDUK, Group Analyst, Acteon Group, UK besides expertsof Norwegian oil companies like AkerSolutions, EMGS,SPT Group, DNV and Kongsberg attended the event.

The active participation of the Ambassador ofNorway to India Mr. Evind S. Homme and other RoyalNorwegian Embassy and Innovation Norway officialsenriched the conference and provided theparticipants an exposure to the Norwegian oil andgas technology.

Delivering the inaugural address Mr. SudhirVasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC andChairman, ONGC Group of Companies outlined theissues, challenges which loom large over the deepwateroil and gas industry.

Mr.Vasudeva said he was glad to be addressingthe Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 conference on most

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talked about topic in E&P industry i.e subsea anddeepwaters. He said he was happy to share histhoughts on a subject which besides being very vitalfor the nation were also very close to his heart.

He said over the years, the complexity and scienceof exploration, drilling and production have undergonemassive changes with equally massive induction ofnewer technologies – in fact, the technologies usedby oil and gas business is second to space exploration,as is largely believed, he stressed. This paradigm shifthas been necessitated as the world has moved fromknown reservoirs to frontier areas, difficult terraineand unheard-of water depths. Given the fact that indeep waters alone about 70 billion bbl of discoveredoil and gas are yet to be put on production, and about182 billion bbl of oil and gas are yet-to be found out,the demand of hi-tech deepwater exploration, drillingcoupled with related technology in the coming dayscould just be imagined he pointed out.

As more than 50% of new discoveries are indeepwaters, the focus is also shifted to the hi-techand cost intensive deepwater technology,Mr.Vasudeva said. In some areas, particularly like ultra-deepwaters, the complexities are so grave he stressed,that it is often felt that the present technology is notmature enough to tackle the problems. Like drillingmoratorium, operators often think of applying for‘technology moratorium’ in such cases.

He added, in recent years, discovery and subseadevelopments in deepwaters especially in Gulf ofMaxico & East Africa have advanced remarkably andthis trend make it clear that further discoveries andmore complex subsea developments will continue inshallow waters but would increase substantially in

deepwaters. With advances in exploration andproduction technologies combined with a growinggeological understanding of deepwater plays,International Oil Companies (IOCs), Independents andNational Oil Companies (NOCs) are all looking aheadto an increasing number of prospects within thedeepwater market, in both established areas ofdeepwater development, and in areas previouslydeemed to be of marginal value.

Operators, service companies and contractorshave to therefore work together towards overcomingnew challenges in developing deepwater fields. Thechallenges that must be addressed to ensure thesuccess of subsea and deepwater developmentsinclude vital areas such as interpretation, drilling,safety, environment, concept design, cost , f lowassurance and equipment reliability.

With such huge amount of work, focus on relatedtechnology is immense he disclosed. It is in this contextthe Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 Conference with thetheme subsea/deepwater and offshore technologiesand services hold importance and relevant for Indianoil and gas sector. The topics of the conference arevery pertinent to the industry. Mr.Vasudevacomplimented DEW Journal for organising a verytimely conference on a very relevant subject andinviting some of the world renowned experts from thesubsea and offshore industry to address the issuesand showcase hi-tech.

Mr. Vasudeva outlined few challenges and key riskfactors which industry is struggling to overcome atvarious phases’ right from exploration/appraisal to fielddevelopment planning and execution in deepwater’s.

The technical challenges of deepwater exploration& development are cross alldisciplines and all phases of adeepwater field’s life he said. Someof these challenges relate toexploration, interpretation ofsubsalt images to locate potentialfields, drilling deeper to reachdepths beyond current limits of ourrigs and collecting critical data foranalysis.

In deeper-water operations,drilling deeper horizons with verynarrow pore-pressure/fracture-gradient margins is among thepending challenges before theindustry. Most of the deepwaterwells present this challenge, whichA view of the august gathering at the Conference


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often forces operators to setadditional casing strings to isolatethe trouble zone or, in worst casescenarios, renders the prospectessentially un-drillable. ONGC isalso facing this problem in lot ofwells especially in east coastdeepwater’s.

He said, today’s deepwatercompletions must maximize ultimate recovery forprojects to be economically viable. There arechallenges in providing a stable wellbore to enablecompletion of the well with little-to-no formationdamage. The cost and inaccessibility of deepwaterwells also requires the industry to rely heavily on newtechnology to optimize the capital expenses onprojects. This needs to be addressed he stressed.

Install ing permanent downhole pressure,temperature and flow-monitoring equipment in subseacompletions can provide economic benefits along withthe ability to remotely control different producinghorizons, but at present offers an unknown risk inequipment reliabili ty. Reliabili ty of permanentmonitoring equipment has improved steadily duringthe past decade, making the technology moreattractive for deepwater and subsea applications,where reliability is paramount, he said.

Another challenge, Mr.Vasudeva said is as regardsto accurate reservoir modeling and reservescalculations. As deepwater developments aretremendously expensive, cost of a single well canexceed $100 million and facilities costs may run intobillions of dollars. High deepwater development costs,coupled with a trend toward smaller reservoir sizes,are driving operators to takedevelopment decisions with fewerwells, he pointed out.

Hence, state of the art andreliable measurement techniqueswould be required to populate andsharpen the models to furthermitigate risk, quantify the size ofthe field more accurately, and refinereserves calculations he said. Toachieve all this, service companieswould be challenged further todeliver strong data and equallystrong interpretation to populateand develop a meaningful reservoirmodel. As prospects are pursuedin deeper water depths and more-

challenging reservoirs, the need for technologydevelopment and equipment qualification to meet thecorresponding technical challenges for projectdevelopment is becoming much greater, Mr.Vasudevastressed.

He said, long-term production from deepwaterfields would always be a challenge and will becomeeven more demanding with respect to being able toproduce wells at high rates initially and recover themaximum reserves during the producing life. Producingbeyond primary depletion will require the use ofartificial lift and reservoir-pressure maintenance and,possibly, enhanced oil recovery at a later date.

Environmental conditions in deepwater operationsraise myriad serious challenges for structures. Waterdepth requirements combined with the marineenvironment, metocean uncertainties, loop currents,vortex-induced vibrations and fatigue considerationshave created an increased range of load requirementsthat effect casing designs and drill string designs, hepointed out.

Among other challenges, Mr.Vasudeva added,hydrocarbon solids precipitation and depositionadversely affect deepwater production systems arekey risk factors in assessing performance of deepwater

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The challenges that must be addressed to ensurethe success of subsea and deepwater developmentsinclude vital areas such as interpretation, drilling,

safety, environment, concept design, cost, flowassurance and equipment reliability



A memento being presented to Mr. Evind S. Homme, Ambassador,Royal Norwegian Embassy, India by Mr. S.K. Mathur, Director, DEWJournal during the inaugural session of the Conference

A memento being presented to Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, CMD, ONGC andChairman, ONGC Group of Companies by Mr. S.K. Mathur, Director,DEW Journal during the inaugural session of the Conference

developments. The flow assurance risk factor cancreate game-changing impact on field developmentplanning, characterization and understanding. Tomanage flow-assurance issues in subsea development,the pipeline and flowline systems have to be designedin an integrated manner. The cold seabed conditionscombined with problematic wellbore fluids requiredetailed flow-assurance modeling and testing toprevent issues that might affect the flow capacity ofthe field negatively. The challenge is to develop anddeploy systems that can assist in transportation ofwellbore fluids to the surface economically, he said.

Large hydrostatic head also requires extremeengineering to design the equipment installed on theseabed. Deeper-water-depth developments, combinedwith the loads associated with HP/HT-reservoirconditions, caused certain pressure-containingequipment to be “apparently” stretched to the limitsof the design, he said.

The abandonment of a deepwater field is anotherchallenges he pointed out, that the industry may faceafter few decades. This has to be thought of now hesaid. Tubing retrieval and abandonment of subseacompletions require the same specialized equipmentused for initial installation at much higher cost.Advances in new technology and techniques wouldhave to provide the industry with cost and risk-reduction opportunities for deepwater fieldabandonment’s, he said.

It is worth mentioning here that ONGC has set thePerspective Plan 2030 (PP2030) which aims to doubleONGC’s production over the plan period with 4-5 percent growth against the present growth rate of 2percent. ONGC intends to maintain its position as thedominant energy player in India as well as abroad. Inthis regard the company has entered cooperation withinternationally renowned oil majors in exploration and

development of deepwater and shale gas.ONGC and Japan’s largest oil company - INPEX

CORPORATION have very recently entered a strategicpartnership for exploration of hydrocarbons in one ofthe acreages in KG basin offshore east coast of India.This year has also seen global majors like US basedConocoPhill ips, China’s CNPC and Colombia’sECOPETROL SA, joining hands with ONGC in itsattempt to collaborate and expand strategic interests.

Earlier the Ambassador of Norway to India, Mr.Evind S.Homme called for an increase in the mutualcooperation between India and Norway. He pointedout that with India aiming at exploring and developingits deep water hydrocarbons the bilateral JointWorking Group on Hydrocarbons between the twocountries may serve as an attractive and effectivemeeting place for the two Governments, as well as infacilitating concrete business opportunities.

Mr. Homme announced, to further strengthen ourstrong bilateral partnership; he would have a specialfocus on economic relations between the twocountries. He added, he sees the biggest potentialswithin the Energy sector.

He stressed that as part of the ambitiousNorwegian Government’s India Strategy launched in2009, the Norwegian government has made theEmbassy in Delhi almost doubled in staff since as partof i ts implementation, as well as the on-goingnegotiations for a bilateral trade agreement throughEFTA, makes it clear that there is a strong commitment,as well as expectations at home, towards Norway beinga close partner with India in her quest for fast economicand social development.

Mr. Homme complimented the excellent initiativeof DEW Journal is organising a conference on Subseaand Deepwater as very apt and timely. He added theseforums help us get to know each other even better and


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surely talk about how we can make more, much morebusiness within the oil and gas sector between Norwayand India.

Another element he pointed out was in explainingthe success of the Norwegian petroleum industrywhich he said is clearly the joint engagement and activeinteraction between oil companies, industry andresearch institutions; which has been fundamental incontinuously finding solutions to technologicalchallenges. He appreciated the way these players havecollaborated; resulting in world class technology andsolutions to the market. This is also reflected in theinternational success of Norwegian companies, headded.

In his initiatives to further boost cooperation theAmbassador announced he will make sure the Norwegianoil & gas cluster which has so far not giving the desiredattention which India deserves from the Norwegian oiland gas sector companies’ change for better.

The Ambassador also hosted a gala dinner inhonour of the attending VIPs, visiting Norwegianexperts, delegates from India and abroad of the SecondSUBSEA INDIA 2012 (Dinner pics : Page 79).

Sharing his views Mr. T.N.R. Rao, the Chief Patronof the Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 and formerSecretary, Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum& Natural Gas stated that the conference was a verytimely event as it has brought together experts fromaround the world on a common platform to deliberateon the important subject of subsea, deepwater andoffshore technology and services.

Mr. Rao said deep waters which are now referredto as the frontier areas for oil exploration andproduction was a couple of decades back unthinkable

off. When there was a mention about frontier areasthat time, one only thought of in-hospitable placeslike Siberia or Antarctica. Today the frontier areasactually mean the deep sea bed as it is here that thefuture’s rich oil and gas resources lie. The deepwaterpotentials are therefore making the industry curiousto explore it to the fullest.

Mr. Rao pointed out that the US estimates showthat the Gulf of Mexico alone has around 60 billionbarrels of oil which is enough to rev up the US economyfor about a decade. The other areas in the continentare off the coast of Madagascar, the horn of Africa,Greenland, south of Arabian Peninsula and thecontinental shelf around the Atlantic which are ripetargets for the drilling bit.

While there are vast reserves lying to beharnessed in deepwaters the recent Gulf of Mexicoexperiences should also be kept in mind which tells usthat deepwater exploration and production is also ahighly dangerous where utmost care has to bemaintained in all operations Mr. Rao stressed.

Mr. Rao said to explore the vast deepwaterpotentials there is an urgent need for appropriatetechnology, huge money and the ability to take risks

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“The high risk, high rewarddeepwater areas are not for the

faint hearted, they are not for theunder-financed and certainly not

for the technically illiterate”- T.N.R. Rao



by the operators. Quoting anindustry analyst, he added, this iswhere the frontiers of geography,geology and technology meet.Therefore this high risk, high rewardareas are not for the faint hearted,they are not for the under-financedand certainly not for the technicallyilliterate, hence it is in this context,Mr. Rao termed the technicalinteractions amongst expertsarranged by DEW Journal in theform of the Second SUBSEA INDIA2012 Conference very significantwhere besides many experts fromdifferent countries Norway was the Partner country.

To bridge the yawning demand-supply gap, Indiahas to explore these frontier areas, he stressed.

Speaking about the Norwegian technology andexpertise in the field of oil and gas, Mr. Rao recollectedthe active involvement of Norway since the verybeginning in India’s oil industry efforts. He mentioned,during his days as the Secretary, Government of India,Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas while the task ofsetting up of the upstream oil regulator the DirectorateGeneral of Hydrocarbons was planned by India, theone model we looked up to was that of Norway. Headded, Norway provided a lot of professional, technicalassistance and also provided grants. That cooperationhas continued since than, he said.

He also recollected his interaction of yesteryears

Panelist of the CEOs PANEL at the Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 Conference : (L to R) Mr. Andrew Hodgson, Chief Executive, SMD, UK, Mr.Mark Patterson, CEO, Nautronix, UK, Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director, ONGC and Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies,Mr. Mrinal Vohra, Chief Executive Officer, GE Oil and Gas India and Mr. S. Ramamurthy, Managing Director and Head South Asia, Schlumberger

Mr. Mrinal Vohra speaking at the CEO PanelMr. Mark Patterson speaking at the CEO Panel

with the Norwegian Safety Directorate when he washeading an inquiry committee set up by theGovernment of India after the Mumbai High fireincidence. He appreciated the very professionalapproach of Norwegian experts, who are today veryactively involved in the frontier areas. He hoped thatthe Indo-Norwegian cooperation in the oil and gassector will continue to grow for the benefit of both thecountries.

Dr. Avinash Chandra, the first Director General,Directorate General of Hydrocarbons while speakingon the occasion gave a very tempting and realisticoverview of the oil and gas potentials in the Indiansedimentary basins. He stressed, India was blessedwith more than half of her offshore sedimentary basinsbeing in deepwaters. India, he added was very


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Mr. Andrew Hodgson speaking at the CEO Panel Mr. S. Ramamurthy speaking at the CEO Panel Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva speaking at the CEO Panel

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fortunate to have two major geological fan systemson both the east and west coasts of the country.

The Bay of Bengal fan on the east coast of Indiais the largest sedimentary deposit to be foundanywhere in the world as the depths of the sedimentsis almost 18 to 19 kms near Kolkata and it goes waybeyond Sri Lanka and Andamans where it is about 2.5kms thick. Correlating the thickness of the sedimentsto availability of hydrocarbons, he pointed out that itwas a matter of time before some large discoveriescome up.

He also supplemented the highly prospective eastand west coast of India with the two river systems i.e.Brahmaputra and the Ganges on the east while theArabian Sea and the Indus river fan on the west.

Dr. Chandra said as a result of the satellite gravityimaging of most of the deep sea portions during histenure as the Director General, Directorate General ofHydrocarbons, that in the blocks awarded thereafterencountered two major successes by Cairn India andReliance Industries Limited in early 2000.

The high point of the conference was the CEOPanel discussion comprising Chiefs of five nationaland international oil and gas companies and anexclusive Norwegian Technical Session comprising offour technical presentations by world renowned expertsfrom Norwegian oil companies working in India andthe region.

The CEO Panel discussion panelists were Mr.Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman & Managing Director,ONGC and Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies, Mr.S.Ramamurthy, Managing Director and Head SouthAsia, Schlumberger, Mr.Andrew Hodgson, ChiefExecutive, SMD, UK, Mr.Mark Patterson, ChiefExecutive Officer, Nautronix, UK and Mr.Mrinal Vohra,Chief Executive Officer, GE Oil and Gas India.

The high powered CEO Panel discussed issuesof importance to the industry and provided an aptforum for the four service providers from around theworld to throw light on the technology and technicalcapabi l i t ies of their companies in the f ie ld ofdeepwater and subsea oil and gas by being acrossthe table with Mr. Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman &Managing Director, ONGC and Chairman, ONGCGroup of Companies. India’s biggest oil and gasoperator with international standing. ONGC, India’smost valuable company is the only Indian energy majorin Fortune’s Most Admired List 2012. Infact ONGC hassingle-handedly scripted India’s hydrocarbon saga andhas discovered all six producing basins in India withover 495 discoveries. Addressing the CEO Panel, Mr.Vasudeva said with the state-run oil and gas behemothis aiming at converting some of the deep waterdiscoveries to production by 2016-17 it thus leave hugeroom for the best in services and technology to betaken by India.

Mr. Vasudeva said, ONGC since its inceptionbesides having 495 oil and gas discoveries to its credit,has found 110 fields six of the seven producing basinsin the country. He added, out of 11 billion tonnes ofreserves which have been accreted so far by the Indianoil industry, 8.5 billion tonnes have been accreted byONGC. He said ONGC’s 70 percent production isexactly coming from offshore.

Mr. Vasudeva also mentioned about SagarSammriddhi, ONGCs deepwater drilling campaignlaunched in the year 2003 which was the largest everby any single operator anywhere in the world. Hesaid in deepwater ONGC has drilled 100 wells with 25oil and gas discoveries. Of these the largest has been98/2 in the east coast.

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expressed his concern on the issue of attrition in somesections of the work force.

Mr. Vasudeva pointed out that due to the largepotential hydrocarbon reserves and growing demand,exploration & development in deepwater and morechallenging areas around the world have become akey target for the majority of oil and gas companies.As a result E&P operations in the offshore andespecially in deepwater’s are increasingly becomingpivotal to the energy supply and are expected tocontribute significantly to the oil & gas supplies acrossthe globe during next few decades, he said.

Speaking about the dramatically changedtechnology, concept design and the complexity ofdeepwater operations in the last f ive years,Mr.Vasudeva said, to sustain the growth of deepwateroperations, the industry will be continually challengedto make new advances. It would therefore be in theinterests of both operator and service industry toprovide solutions to the technical challenges of thefuture, he reiterated.

As quest for oil & gas is moving farther and deeper,Mr.Vasudeva stressed, it is continually pushing thelimits of technology and economics. Approach todeepwater developments, in many respects, has to bedifferent than that for any other shallow waterdevelopment hence, there is a need for collaborativeapproach between operator and Service Company toassess conditions and determine expected outcomeswith better accuracy. Although industry has a proudheritage of deepwater operations, still lot of challengeswait to be overcome, he cautioned.

He hoped that this conference will help in locatingtechnology enablers since there is technologyavailable, but technology enablers are still missing.

Addressing the CEO Panel, Mr. S. Ramamurthy,Managing Director and Head South Asia, Schlumbergerrecollected the company’s long and successfulassociation of around 80 years with the Indian oil andgas sector. He threw light on the growing capabilitiesof Schlumberger in the field of subsea, deepwatertechnology around the world. A special mention wasalso made by Mr. Ramamurthy about theSchlumberger ’s Kakinada Deepwater Centre ofExcellence and the recent Schlumberger-Cameron jointventure to further its expertise in the field of deepwater.

Mr. Mark Patterson, CEO Nautronix Limited, UKtalked about the hi-tech marine technology solutionsof his company especially post Macando incidence.He said, Nautronix is a global leaders in through watercommunication and positioning technology for the

offshore industryMr. Patterson spoke about NASNet® an advanced

subsea posit ioning system by Nautronix whichcombines the Long Baseline and GPS concepts withthe latest generation signalling technology to giveaccurate and reliable positioning in all water depths.An array of seabed NASNet® Stations employs abroadcast technique to provide true multiuserpositioning at fast update rates and with no acousticinterference, he said.

Its positioning capabilities, Mr. Patterson saidoffers real measured cost benefits associated with Lifeof Field projects.

He also threw light on NASeBOP the latestNautronix acoustic control system designed to meetthe requirements of mission critical BOP control. Anevolution of the well renowned NASBOP and EBOPproducts, NASeBOP is at the forefront of acousticblowout preventers (BOP) technology.

The NASeBOP portable system, he explained isan advanced acoustic control system, consisting ofdual subsea control units (used for activation ofsolenoids and reading sensor values), dual subseatransducers and topside portable control unit withdunking transducer.

NASeBOP Portable System can be used for avariety of subsea control applications, includingperforming Emergency Disconnect Sequences (EDS)on BOP, he added.

He also touched upon Nautronix advancedsystems NASBOP for acoustic control and monitoringof crit ical surface BOP functions and aboutNASMUX™ acoustic subsea mux control system

Mr. Andrew Hodgson, Chief Executive, SoilMachine Dynamics Ltd. (SMD), UK said his companyis one of the world’s leading manufacturers of remoteintervention equipment, operating in hazardousenvironments worldwide.

SMD Mr. Hodgson added supply an innovativerange of remotely operated remote interventionequipment, a range of associated deck and handlingequipment, control systems, and the Curvetech™ rangeof ROV components. End solutions vary from one-offbespoke engineering systems to a standard range ofworkclass ROVs. SMD’s customers operate ourequipment in hazardous environments from the deepsea to radioactive buildings, and therefore value thefact that it is robust, reliable and easily maintained, hesaid.

In 2010 Mr. Hodgson said SMD delivered theworld’s largest free stream tidal turbine (to Atlantis

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Second Plenary Session: Speaking from the podium is Dr. Rabi Bastia, Director, Hibiscus Petroleum, Malaysia, Global Head, Exploration, LimeOil and Gas, Sweden and Director, Oilfield Instrumentation Pvt. Ltd. Former Head Exploration Group, RIL (Sitting L to R): Mr. Dev Dutt Sharma,Principal Geologist, Oilex Limited, Australia, Mr. Will Rowley, Group Analyst. Acteon Group, Mr. D.K.Pande, Conference Chairman, SecondSUBSEA INDIA 2012 and Mr. T. P. Rao, Head - NELP & NDR (NELP & NDR), DGH, Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas

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Resources Corporation), and is designing andmanufacturing the world’s first deep seabed miningvehicles (for Nautilus Minerals, Inc.).

SMD prides i tself on providing integratedsolutions and working in long term cooperation withour customers to help them meet their own marketrequirements. We aim to offer the best customersupport in each of our markets, he stressed.

Mr. Mrinal Vohra, Chief Executive of GE Oil & Gaswhile pointing out on the ongoing expansion plans ofthe company in India and the region said GE Oil & Gasis a world leader in advanced technology equipmentand services for all segments of the oil and gasindustry, from exploration & production todownstream.

Subsea Systems he said has been one of GE Oiland Gas’s core expertise. With over 7000 subseasystems installed worldwide, our design continue tomeet the most extreme challenges of this increasinglyimportant sector, he added.

Mr. Vohra also focused on how GE’s subseasystems reduce lead time and costs by using “buildingblock” designs that can be customized to meet allspecific project requirements, its proven metal sealingtechnology and extensive experience ensure highreliability and performance in high-pressure, high-temperature applications.

He also added that GE manifolds and connectionsystems accommodate a wide range of configurationsand service requirements, and maximize flexibility forfield expansion. Global, GE provides single-source

solutions for anysize subsead e v e l o p m e n t ,whether t iedback to anoffshore facilityor as a long step-out from shore,he stressed.

Mr. Vohraalso talkedabout thecomprehensiveexpertise fromFEED studies tosystem designand long-term in-field service and support.

The Plenary Session I & II had five distinguishedspeakers namely Mr. A.K. Hazarika, former intrimChairman & Managing Director, ONGC, Mr. WillRowley, Group Analyst, Acteon Group, UK one of theoffshore industry’s largest privately-held subseaservices companies with 17 companies worldwide. Theother speakers were Mr.T.P.Rao, Head, New ExplorationLicencing Policy & National Data Repositary (NELP &NDR), Directorate General of Hydrocarbons,Government of India, Dr.Rabi Bastia, former Head,Exploration Group, Reliance Industries Limited andMr.Dev Dutt Sharma, Principal Geologist, Oilex,Australia.

Mr. A.K. Hazarika, former intrim Chairman &

The first Plenary Speaker Mr. A.K. Hazarikaspeaking at the Conference



Managing Director, ONGC spoke about deepwaterdevelopment, lessons learnt. His talk covered growthin energy demand and projections, deepwaterscenario, the lessons from past experience and safetyculture.

Mr. Will Rowley focused his talk on contextualexamination of key market drivers, influences and trendsin relation to offshore and deepwater India. The offshoreoil & gas industry according to Mr.Rowley is expectedto spend over US$95bn on development infrastructure(platforms, pipelines, development drilling & subsea)during 2012, followed by notable increases in 2013 and2014. Alongside this development expenditure, offshoreexploration and appraisal drilling is also expected toaccount for another US$30-40bn. In conjunction withthe US$125-135bn and growing global capex, the currentestimates of US$98bn of global opex are also expectedto increase. Behind both of these growth trends are anumber of structural changes, influences and trendsthat are having a significant impact on market dynamicsin every offshore region. The continued expansion ofdeepwater activity in the established golden triangle ofBrazil, West Africa and US GoM is now beingaccompanied and further segmented by new deepwaterregions such as East Africa, Black Sea, Mediterranean,China and East coast India and pre-salt developmentsin Brazil, US GoM and West African Atlantic Margins.The equipment and expertise required to exploit thesenew areas is pushing technological limits and polarisingthe number of companies, operators and contractors,who are able to actively participate, Mr.Rowley stated.

Mr. Rowley further added that the deepwater Indiahas made significant strides in the past few years andwith the recent intentions of sizeable investments fromBP could be on the cusp of a renewed phase of

intensive activity. Deepwater activity still heavilyweighted the major IOCs (integrated oil companies)and just having high prospectivity is not enough toguarantee investment and development. In evaluatinginvestments, IOCs try to balance a wide range of oftenconflicting inputs including levels of local industrialsupport, speed of developments, regulatory oversightas well as local market political support.

The talk also highlighted a number of key globaltrends and influences that impact on every mature andemerging deepwater region; add some context inrelation to the prospects and development of offshoreand deepwater India as well as outline points of notefrom experience that could potential slow progress.

Mr. T.P. Rao, Head, New Exploration LicencingPolicy & National Data Repositary (NELP & NDR),Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, Ministry ofPetroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India coveredthe evolution of policy framework in India for award ofoil and gas blocks in his talk. While covering on NELPand Open Acreage Licencing Policy, he touched uponthe incentives extended by India in deepwaterexploration. He even highlighted the National DataRepository of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons.

Dr. Bastia stressed that the deep and ultra deepwater are the path breaking frontier. His talk also coveredthe history of E&P, energy scenario, deepwater trends,technology - the differentiator and the future outlook.

Mr. Dev Dutt Sharma, Principal Geologist, Oilex,Australia talked about the untapped vast hydrocarbonresource potential of deep water basins in India.Mr.Sharma stated that the Indian deep water basins holdabout 11 billion tons of hydrocarbon resources of which7 billion tons oil and 4 billion tons oil equivalent gas. Ofthese, recoverable resources are conservatively

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Mr. Derick Roger Postlethwaite speaking at theTechnical Session I

Mr. Deepak Miglani speaking at the TechnicalSession I

Technical Session I : (L to R) Mr. Deepak Miglani, Regional Manager - Industrial, ExxonMobil, Mr. Girish Hanchate, Commerical Manaager, GE Oiland Gas, Mr. Derick Roger Postlethwaite, EPC Tender Manager, GE Oil and Gas and Mr. S.Roychaudhury Advisor to Executive Committee,ONGC Videsh Limited, the foreign arm of ONGC and former Director, ONGC Videsh Limited & Session Chairman.

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estimated at about 1 billion tons ofoil and 3 billion tons oil equivalentof gas, which comes to 3 trillion m3of gas or 106 tcf of recoverable gas.If developed, this has gas productionpotential of about 410 MMm3/d for20 years, against the projected gasdemand of about 550MMm3/d as perHydrocarbon Vision 2025 by Govt.of India. This according toMr.Sharma shows that deep waterbasins of India have enormouspotential which can contribute toabout 75% of growing demand aloneby 2025.

Mr. Sharma, a geologist hasover 32 years of integrated experience in upstream oil& gas from exploratory discovery of a new prospectto field appraisal and development resulting in reservesaccretion and production enhancement while workingwith national and international oil companies of reputelike ONGC, Reliance Industries and Qatar Petroleumfrom Geologist to Senior Management level. Presently,he is associated with Oilex Ltd for development ofTight Hydrocarbon reservoirs in Cambay Field, the firstdiscovery field of Cambay Basin by applying newtechnologies of formation evaluation, horizontaldrilling, multistage fracturing and microseismicmonitoring for production enhancement, which havewider application in other basins of India also likeKrishna-Godavari, Cauvery, Assam-Arakan, Rajasthan,

Gondwana and Vindhyan having tight hydrocarbonreservoirs.

The technical presentations during the firsttechnical session were delivered by GE Oil and Gasexperts Mr. Derick Roger Postlethwaite, EPC TenderManager. Mr. Postlethwaite in his presentationcovered proven global technical best practices onsubsea tree solutions for challenging Indian shallowand deepwaters. The other presentation touched uponkey commercial strategies for successful developmentin Indian shallow and deep waters.

Mr. Deepak Miglani, Regional Manager-Industrial,ExxonMobil spoke about the balancing productivityand sustainabili ty in oil and gas during hispresentation.


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Norwegian Technical Session : (L to R) Mr. Harald Naevdal, Commercial Counsellor and Director, Innovation Norway, Royal Norwegian Embassy,India, Mr. Deepankar Borgohain, Sales Manager, Asia Pacific, EMGS Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, Mr. Magnus Hebnes, Senior Vice President - MENA,SPT Group, Mr. Derek Hoare, Business Development Director (India & Middle East), Det Norske Veritas, Dubai and Mr. Manoj Bhargava, RegionalSales Manager - Asia, Software & Services Division, Kongsberg Oil and Gas Technology Private Limited

Mr. Magnus Hebnes speaking at the NorwegianTechnical Session

Software & Services Division, Kongsberg Oil and GasTechnology (KOGT) touched upon the high leveltechnology systems and solutions for the oil and gasindustry by KOGT.

Magnus Hebnes, Senior Vice President – Mena,SPT Group spoke about SPT Group’s accurate andproven simulation software for multiphase flowsystems and powerful tools for improved production,recovery and reservoir management.

On behalf of Octio, Norway, Mr. Harald Naevdal,Commercial Counsellor and Director, InnovationNorway, Royal Norwegian Embassy threw light on thetechnical capabilities of Octio.

The Norwegian Technical Session was followed bya Indo-Norwegian Panel Discussion on the

The Norwegian TechnicalSession was opened by Mr. HaraldNaevdal, Commercial Counsellor and Director,Innovation Norway, Royal Norwegian Embassy andfocused on the Norwegian competences in subsea andother offshore hydrocarbon exploration capabilities.The session highlights were the presentation byDeepankar Borgohain, Sales Manager, EMGS AsiaPacific Business Unit which touched upon controlledsource electro magnetic and EMGS data acquisitionand processing capabilities. EMGS future plans forIndia were also discussed.

The presentation by Derek Hoare, BusinessDevelopment Director (India & Middle East), DNVcovered DNVs global and India subsea experiencealongwith DNVs offshore specifications.

Manoj Bhargava, Regional Sales Manager - Asia,

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Mr. Harald Naevdal speaking at the opening ofthe Indo-Norwegian Technical Session

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Mr. Manoj Bhargava speaking at the NorwegianTechnical Session

Mr. Derek Hoare speaking at the NorwegianTechnical Session

Indo-Norwegian Panel Discussion : Speaking from the podium Dr. Rabi Bastia, Director, Hibiscus Petroleum, Malaysia, Global Head, Exploration,Lime Oil and Gas, Sweden and Director, Oilfield Instrumentation Pvt. Ltd. Former Head Exploration Group, RIL, (L to R) Mr. Harald Naevdal,Commercial Counsellor and Director, Innovation Norway, Royal Norwegian Embassy, India, Mrs. Nilakanthi Ford, Director, KFV Consulting, UK,Mr. B.S. Negi, former Member, Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board, Government of India, Mr. A. K. Sachan, Group General Manager -Head Drilling Services, ONGC Videsh Limited and Mr. Narender Taneja, Energy Commentator

opportunities in offshore sector in India with focus onsubsea viz-a-viz Norwegian Companies. Thedistinguished panelists of panel were Mr. HaraldNaevdal, Commercial Counsellor and Director,Innovation Norway, Royal Norwegian Embassy, India,Mrs. Nilakanthi Ford, Director, KFV Consulting, UK,Mr. A. K. Sachan, Group General Manager - HeadDrilling Services, ONGC Videsh Limited and Mr.Narender Taneja, Energy Commentator. The PanelDiscussion was moderated by Mr. Rabi Bastia, Director,Hibiscus Petroleum, Malaysia, Global Head, Exploration,Lime Oil and Gas, Sweden and Director, OilfieldInstrumentation, Former Head Exploration Group, RIL.

Speaking as the first panelist during the PanelDiscussion Mr. Harald Naevdal, Commercial Counsellor

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Mr. Deepankar Borgohain speaking at theNorwegian Technical Session

and Director, Innovation Norway, Royal NorwegianEmbassy pointed out the challenging Indian oil sectorfor both smaller and large international companies whoplan to explore business opportunities here. He saidacquiring contract here is a big task as it takes a verylong period and a very tedious process which is notseen in any oil producing country in the world. Evenafter years of slogging the contracts are sometimesterminated even before being allotted to companies.This he said is very discouraging for the investors.

Mr. Harald cited examples of many Norwegiancompanies that were approached by his office to investin India preferred going to Brazil and other countrieswhere it takes just two or three months to get a contractcleared rather than coming here simply because of the



The other hard core technical presentations wereby Mr. Tony Evans, Vice President Sales, NASNet,Nautronix, UK. His technical presentation was ondeepwater positioning challenges (Details Page 43).

The MSI Kenny presentation by Dr. P.Parthasarathy, Vice President-Eastern Hemisphere andTechnical Advisor covered virtual metering system andreal field applications.

The Aker Solution expert Mr. Srikant M Kanitkar,Subsea Piping Engineer talked about the horizontalconnection system. He showcased Aker Solutions nextgeneration connection system named as “HorizontalConnection System” keeping in mind the aspects fromthe design till actual commissioning of the systems.

Ongoing Installations of these connections, he said

very lengthy process involved incontract allocation. In thiscompetitive field of subseadevelopment when the order booksof major companies involved withsubsea field development are full theywould go to countries which are moreinvestor friendly rather than thosewhere things are slow and/or takeextremely long time period, he said.

He also stressed what appearscheap may turn out to be veryexpensive specially in the highlytechnical subsea segment of the oiland gas industry where there arehand full of companies offeringcomplete subsea solutions. These companies he saidcomplain about getting in roads in India because of theirrelatively expensive solutions. In the absence of thesecompanies there are possibilities that optimum subseafield development solutions may not be provided tooperators and thus the cheap may prove to be expensive.

He also drew the attention of the delegates to theremarks made by the Ambassador, Royal NorwegianEmbassy during the inaugural session of theConference where he stressed upon the need for goodplanning specially when one is developing complexprogrammes like those related to subsea development.There should therefore be closer interaction betweenthe companies, industry, R&D and also the governmentauthorities involved, which again is lacking.

Technical Session II : Speaking from the podium Dr. P. Parthasarathy, Vice President-Eastern Hemisphere and Technical Advisor, Msi Kenny,(L to R) Mr. Tony Evans, Vice President Sales, NASNet® Nautronix, UK, Mr. A.K. Hazarika, former Director, ONGC and Session Chairman, Mr.Shrikant M Kanitkar, Subsea Piping Engineer, AkerSolutions and Mr. Vivek Mull, Representative of IntelliDynamics/Bio Group Systems Ltd., USA

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in North Sea environment also marks the major milestoneand gives confidence to serve installations globally.

Keeping in mind the Indian sunrise oil and gasbusiness and use of l ight weight & versati leconnection system will help in keeping minimumintervention tools which can be used over wide sizerange thus helping the oil companies to increaseinterchangeability & keep minimum tool pool, he added

Mr. Christopher Mosley, Subsea BusinessDevelopment Manager, Cameron Australasia,Australia in his technical presentation on Power andCommunications Technology for Long Subsea Step-outs spoke about the extended step-out possibilitiesthrough introduction of optical fibres, AC for shortstep outs and DC for long step outs, majority ofinstalled base has power andcommunications distributed in adaisy chain manner (multidrop)and introduction of FO systemsrequiring a ‘point to point’approach.

Mr. Mosley said theapplication of Cameron DCtechnology can provide furtherbenefits to enable extreme longstep-outs. He even said using acommon platform for powerdistribution in combination withoptical f ibres provides theflexibil i ty to adapt to longtiebacks.

Mr. Vivek Mull, IndiaRepresentative of IntelliDynamics/Bio Group Systems Limited, USAin his technical presentation on

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A view of the august gathering

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Intelligent Gas Lift with VirtualMetering discussed the virtualmetering and insights intoproduction enhancement. Thepresentation focused on estimatingproduction in real-time in oil water,gas oil, water, gas based. It alsotouched upon the other “VirtualSensor” applications such asproduct properties, corrosion,equipment failure probabilities.

Rudisham Marjohan, Area SalesManager, Framo Engineering AsiaPacific Sdn Bhd, Malaysia technicalpresentation touched uponincreased oil and gas recovery by

subsea processing.According to Mr. Marjohan, subsea processing

offers significant cost saving possibilities, as well asthe potential for added value of increased recovery. Italso translates into space savings on the offshoretopside production facil i t ies when processingequipments are moved to the seabed. Several projectshave been carried out over the last 15 years with thefirst commercial installation of a subsea processingplant on the Troll field in the North Sea in 1998, followedby both the Tordis and Pazflor developments in morerecent years.

The technical presentation focused on theprospect of increased recovery of oil and gas byimplementation of subsea processing techniques and

Mr. Vivek Mull speaking at the TechnicalSession III

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Dr. Mahesh Menon speaking at the TechnicalSession III

Technical Session III : (L to R) Dr. Mahesh Menon, R&D Manager, SMD Limited, UK, Mr. Christopher Mosley, Subsea BDM, Cameron Australasia,Australia, Mr. N.K. Verma, Director (Exploration), ONGC Videsh Limited and Session Chairman, Mr. Rudisham Marjohan, Area Sales Manager,Framo Engineering Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, Malaysia and Mr. Ajay Kumar, Project Manager Subsea Project - Deepwater, ONGC

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in particular, subsea boosting. A detailed overview ofa subsea boosting system, which is a typical keybuilding block in subsea processing, will be given.This will include subsea multiphase boosting, single-phase hydro carbon boosting, subsea raw seawaterinjection, and finally subsea compression.

A number of case studies were presented by Mr.Marjohan where a significant increase in productionhas been seen as a result of implementing subseaboosting at seabed. The cases will demonstrate theadded value in these key production enablingtechniques that allow enhanced recovery from deeperwaters, mitigating hydrates in deepwater production,as well as production of heavier and more viscousfluids including high water cut.

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The presentation of Dr. Mahesh Menon, R&DManager, SMD Limited, UK highlighted the embeddingsemi-autonomus functions with sensor integration onsubsea vehicle Control systems. The presentationoutlined the developments within SMD in the areas ofsemiautonomous functionalities, sensor integrationand development and simulation capabilities to satisfythe survey and inspection needs on their world-classrange of ROVs.

Dr. Mahesh as the R&D Manager at SMD isleading the technological innovation and developmentin subsea vehicle and systems engineering, within theROVs, Trenching, Mining, Renewables and Nuclearbusiness streams in the company. Although being froman electronics background, Dr. Mahesh has a passion

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Technical Session IV : (L to R) Mr. Anay Ghosh, Commercial & Business Development Manager, Fugro Subsea, India, Dr. C.R. Prasad, formerChairman and Managing Director, GAIL India Limited and Session Chairman, Mr. Frank Rooney, Product Specialist, Subsea Trees, GE Oil & Gasand Ms. Neha Sahdev, FSM Completions, WCP - Completions, Schlumberger, India

Mr. Frank Rooney speaking at the TechnicalSession IV

Ms. Neha Sahdev speaking at the TechnicalSession IV

Mr. Anay Ghosh speaking at the TechnicalSession IV

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in mechanical engineering and enjoys the challengespresented in designing components and systems forthe subsea industry.

Mr. Ajay Kumar, Project Manager Subsea Project- Deepwater, ONGC in his technical presentation talkedabout the prospects of subsea completions in ONGC.His presentation broadly covered the major fields forsubsea development, issues and strategies, prioritizingand cluster/phase grouping, development of shallowwater d discoveries through subsea mud line tree,development of deep water wells by subsea productionsystem.

Reducing risk improving performance indeepwater completions was the focus of Ms. NehaSahdev, FSM Completions, WCP - Completions,

Schlumberger’s presentation. She elaborated in her talkon what deep water mean in completions, evolution ofcompletions, reducing risk with project management,quality and realibility of components and systems,designing for efficiency and increasing recoverythrough more intelligence.

Mr. Anay Ghosh, Commercial & BusinessDevelopment Manager, Fugro Subsea, India spoke onROV applications in subsea environment, in particularreference to inspection, repair and maintenance ofplatforms and subsea structures in his presentation. Hestressed that Fugro with extensive proven experienceand capabilities of subsea deployments and subseaequipment handling and development allows the ROVandtools to be applied to specific areas reliably and


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Mr. D.K. Pande, Conference Chairman, Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 (extreme right) summing up the technical proceedings of the Conference atthe Valedictory Session.

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Technical Session V : (L to R) Mrs. Nilakanthi Ford, Director, KFV Consulting, UK, Mr. Dev DuttSharma, Principal Geologist, Oilex Limited, Australia & Session Chairman and Mr. Vivek Mull,Representative of Surface Active Solutions (SAS), USA.

cost effectively. Fugro’s capability of deploymenttooling development support, ROV deployment andcoordination in combination with survey sensors,advanced inspection technology delivers turnkey assetassessment support to the client.

Mrs. Nilakanthi Ford, Director, KFV Consulting of

UK talked about the changing the industry culture inher presentation. Her presentation dealt with the issuessuch as need for establishing a sense of urgency,creating the guiding coalition, developing a vision andstrategy, communicating the vision, empowering broadbased action, generating short term wins consolidating

gains and producing more changeand above all anchoring newapproaches in the culture to excel.

The presentation on preventingdrilling waste generation throughoptimizes WBCU design by Mr.Vivek Mull, India Representative ofSurface Active Solutions (SAS),USA. The SAS wellbore cleanupproducts are highly effective. Thetrack record shows that simplifyingthe wellbore cleanup train andprocess saves significant t ime.Typically a time saving of 60% canbe achieved and drilling waste fromwell completions is reduced by 60 -

DEW Journal felicitates new DirectorDuring the Inaugural Session of SecondSUBSEA INDIA 2012 Conference Mr. ArunKr. Singhal, Chairman Organizing Committee,Second SUBSEA INDIA 2012 and ChairmanEditorial Board & Chief Editor, DEW Journalfelicitated the newly appointed Director(Technology & Field Services), Oil & NaturalGas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Mr. ShashiShankar.


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92% according to the presentation.The SAS micro emulsion products are the result of

a drive to develop a new technology capable of greatlysimplifying the wellbore cleanup process and optimizing

oil production. The use of SAS products allows for theminimal use if not elimination of viscous pills and thecreation of short, effective wellbore cleanup trains thepresentation highlighted.

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