GE Life of Field Management Brochure

GE Oil & Gas
Subsea Systems

Subsea Systems
in Norway

Fueling the future with comprehensive
technologies and support services for the most
extreme conditions

Snøhvit

Fueling the future

with subsea systems

Technology

GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technologies and services with
45,000 employees in more than 100 countries supporting customers across
the industry—from extraction to transportation to end use. Our unrelenting
commitment to the environment, health and safety, quality and integrity
defines us: it’s The Way We Work. We develop smart solutions for our customers
across the oil and gas value chain delivering the innovation, customized service
solutions, training programs and technology that help them to maximize their
efficiency, productivity and equipment reliability. We partner with our customers
to develop their next generation workforce; help them to fully benefit from the
megatrends of natural gas, the growth of subsea and hard-to-reach reserves and
the revolution in asset health management. We collaborate with our customers
to address today’s toughest challenges, push the boundaries of technology and
fuel the future.

Each of our GE Oil & Gas Centers of Excellence (COE) around the world is
dedicated to delivering the highest quality for its particular technology area.
Our COE in Norway, for instance, ensures that subsea manifolds and connection
systems provide decades of safe and reliable operation with our subsea tree and
wellhead systems, as well as the flexibility for future expansion and integration of
emerging technologies.

Tordis

Vigdis

Balder & Ringhorne

Glitne

Snorre

Troll

NORWEGIAN SEA

Idun

Skarv

Draugen

Trondheim

Engineering

Bergen

Service Center

Stavanger

Service Center

Sandvika

Center of Excellence for
Manifolds & Connection systems

Hammerfest

Service Office

These widespread petroleum-specific resources have the unique advantage
of drawing on GE’s strengths in other key transferrable-technology areas
like aviation, energy and healthcare. We cast a much wider net than most
for identifying and applying solutions to improve performance in subsea
applications.

Talent

We cast a similarly wide net for innovative thinkers. In addition to recruiting top
graduates in every region where we do business, we also have programs focused
on closing the demographic ‘talent gap’ that the oil and gas industry is currently
facing. By attracting trained and experienced engineers and managers from
other high-tech industries, and tailoring training to their already advanced levels,
their new perspectives and approaches to problem-solving bring tremendous
value to all aspects of our business.

Because of these unparalleled training and career development programs, as well
as the high integrity through all other aspects of the way we work, GE Oil & Gas
is recognized as an employer of choice around the world and, in particular, in the
exciting and challenging subsea sector.

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NORTH SEA

At the heart of subsea

Norway has long been a proving ground for offshore drilling and
production products and processes, so it’s no surprise that many
of GE’s most advanced subsea technologies have more than 50
years of heritage here too. We pioneered subsea pumping in 1992
at Prezioso, subsea separation and boosting in 1999 at Troll C, and
subsea compression in 2006 at Ormen Lange.

Our Subsea Systems business employs around 1,000 employees
in Norway. Our teams design, build and maintain industry-leading
products, and provide the highest levels of support to offshore
oil and gas operations in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea and
around the world.

Our Sandvika head office just outside Oslo combines with the
resources at Trondheim to make up GE’s global Center of Excellence
for Manifolds & Connection Systems. Our state-of-the-art facilities
in Dusavik (Stavanger) and Fyllingsdalen (Bergen) focus on
comprehensive life-of-field support service.

Evolution & integration

Whether tied back to an offshore facility or as a long step-out from
shore, every design is tailored to meet the specific requirements of the
reservoir, installation procedures, storage and processing systems.

By continually investing in product research and rigorous testing,
and by working closely with our global customers, we deliver
practical solutions to the industry’s immediate needs, while staying
focused on the long-term potential that our evolving technologies
will help unlock.

Fundamental to the success of any subsea development is the
ability to ensure that mission-critical components will work together
when installed and be reliable for the duration of their service life.
To do this, we fully evaluate all the diverse components and put
effective mitigation programs in place to keep each project on track.

Sandvika

The advanced resources at our Sandvika and Trondheim sites combine to form GE’s Global
Center of Excellence for the following areas:

• Subsea Systems engineering & project management

• Flow assurance

• Subsea manifolds and connection systems

• Subsea power and processing

The combined size of the sites is 15,485 m
people, including subsea engineering and project control experts, and is our headquarters
for state-of-the-art finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) design capabilities. The 1,300 m
development and manufacture of subsea manifolds. Our team is comprised of experts in
design, analysis and material properties for subsea construction. They work closely with
the Sandvika team to engineer industry-leading equipment for use in some of the most
demanding installations around the world.

Sandvika, Billingstad and Drammen Footprint

Total Site 15,485 m

Lab/Workshop 1,300 m

Crane 6.3 tons

Caterpillars 30 tons

Hook height 5.2 m

Warehouse 1,200 m

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and hosts a world class team of around 450

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Trondheim engineering office specializes in the

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Significant assets at Drammen

• Hydrostatic pressure test lab

• High voltage test lab

• General assemblies

• Clean room assemblies

• Shallow water testing of assemblies

• Medium scale multi-phase flow loop for separation and flow assurance tests

These locations provide a seamless range of services that enable the most challenging
subsea projects around the world. From ground-breaking research and technology
development for individual products and integrated systems, to project management,
multi-disciplinary engineering and project execution.

Subsea Systems
engineering

This team supports subsea delivery
projects and performs front-end and
concept studies for subsea developments,
incorporating new technologies for
improved recovery, reliability and
performance.

Manifolds & connection
systems

We support an extensive portfolio of
equipment and technology for subsea
infrastructure development – including
manifolds, jumpers, connection systems,
tooling, pipeline end terminations (PLETs)
and specialized pipeline structures. The
product portfolio is continually growing,
with new and enhanced solutions being
developed and qualified.

Subsea power & processing

We are spearheading development of
the next generation of subsea processing
solutions, building on GE’s extensive range
of technologies within subsea systems,
gas compression and power distribution,
and leveraging GE’s global research and
development capabilities.