SCALE: A rendering depicts one of the two trains that make up Aasgard’s subsea compression system (far left) alongside an illustration of the technology’s second generation. The next system will maintain the same functionality but will be less than half the size and weight, and will fit inside a standard four-slot production template.

Seabed compression in a smaller package

Less than 18 months after pioneering subsea gas compression technology debuted at Statoil’s Aasgard field, the system’s engineers are ready to roll out a second-generation version that provides the same capacity and functionality in a much smaller package.

9 January 2017 8:52 GMT Updated 9 January 2017 8:52 GMT

By Russell McCulley

Officials are fond of comparing the performance of the subsea compression system at the Aasgard field in the Norwegian Sea to that of an especially reliable timepiece.

“We are very proud to say that Aasgard subsea compression has been running like a Swiss watch, as we’ve put it,” says Knut Nyborg, head of Front End Norway at Aker Solutions, echoing public comments made by colleagues at both Aker and Statoil.

“We

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Seabed compression in a smaller package