Assessment of a condition-based maintenance policy for subsea systems: A preliminary study
Résumé
Availability of subsea production and processing system is a key requirement for deep water and remote developments. Given harsh environment and intervention costs, subsea systems are ideally designed not to fail, and even without maintenance. However, subsea systems are prone to degradations and failures. To improve system performance, an increasing number of oil companies and equipment manufacturers are implementing good maintenance policies, for instance condition based maintenance (CBM). It is of primary importance to consider how subsea environment impacts condition of subsea systems, and to optimize the design together with maintenance and reconfiguration policies of subsea oil and gas system