Oil Patch Bits: Schlumberger and Technip announce joint agreement

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Schlumberger said Nov. 19 that it has signed a global cooperation agreement with Technip to jointly develop subsea integrity and surveillance solutions for flexible pipes used in deep offshore oil and gas production. The new agreement extends the collaboration between the companies that began in 1998, and is initially focused on surveillance systems activities for new and challenging flexible pipe applications such as those required in the deepwater pre-salt environment in Brazil. Several key Schlumberger technologies used in the subsurface applications have been indentified for integration into Technip’s new Ultra Deepwater flexible pipe designs. One of the initial integrity solutions that the partners expect to develop and qualify is focused on the use of optical fibers to monitor a variety of parameters characterizing pipe behavior. For more information visit www.slb.com.