Tritech has been awarded a contract for its real-time riser and mooring line monitoring system RAMS.
Following a competitive and detailed bidding process, the firm's system was selected by Single Buoy Moorings (SBM), designer and supplier of turret mooring systems (TMS), to supply the primary safety tool for real-time mooring line failure detection and riser monitoring for the new build floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for the BP Quad 204 development.
The RAMS technology will provide 24/7 real-time simultaneous monitoring of the presence and precise position of all subsea targets beneath the FPSO.
Tritech is to supply a full hardware and software solution to comply with detailed project specification, including DNV high availability and redundancy requirements.
In addition to the software’s ability to assign user-defined alarms for early warning failure detections, data gathered from the RAMS system’s continuous real-time monitoring will be analysed for asset fatigue studies.
The RAMS system will be deployed through dedicated deployment chutes in the FPSO turret, following its anchoring approximately 161km off the West Coast of Shetland, in 350-450m deep water.
Tritech has contracted Subsea 7 IAS team to design, develop and supply the deployment system.
Angus Lugsdin, Tritech’s business development manager for RAMS says: “The level of interest and research into FPSO monitoring systems and asset integrity management has heightened amongst operators as the number of FPSOs in operation has grown. This has shown an increased requirement for a real-time monitoring solution which can actively monitor the asset."