Subsea Controls 2023

Dag Løtveit is responsible for investments at Industry Capital Partners (ICP).

Prior to joining ICP, Dag held various roles including Chief Strategist at Gabler Investments, CIO and Partner at Trient Asset Management, and conducted consultancy work for both public and private asset managers.

Previously, Dag served for 12 years at Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the asset manager of the Government Pension Fund Global of Norway, where he was Head of Fixed income and Head of Asset Allocation.

Prior to joining NBIM, Dag held various positions within the financial industry in both asset management and investment banking. Dag holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH).

Bjørn Haavengen is R&D manager in TechnipFMC Controls & Automation department.

He is also responsible for the Obsolescence Management in C&A. Bjørn has worked in TechnipFMC for 25 years and been involved in three generations of control systems development and maintenance. He is a member of the API 17F committee.

Leading the Controls Automation Group for Subsea Production Controls in Celle/Germany.

Ulrich first trained as an electrical technician and then went on to study Automation Engineering at the University in Paderborn/FH Soest, Germany.

After he completed his diploma, he worked for several years as a development and support engineer for control and DCS systems.

During those years he designed automation systems for the pulp and paper industry, automotive industry as well as for the foundry and wood industry.

He started working for Cameron, now OneSubsea, in 2003 and over time has formed the Controls Automation group.

Ulrich worked on introducing functional safety management to Celle and in addition he pushed the MDIS interface as a standard in the Oil and Gas industry.

During my 9 years in OneSubsea, I have worked in the remote condition monitoring domain. Using remote access to data, I have helped clients with their assets in the field through direct support and through development of algorithms and applications in our condition monitoring solution Subsea Live. The last few years I have had a key role in the user experience of Subsea Live, functioning as the UX design lead for new developments.

Nathan joined Baker Hughes in December 2022 as a Product Manager following 20-years in the Defence and Telecoms industries. He is now the Data Systems Product Management Leader responsible for the Baker Hughes portfolio of offshore controls solutions. His focus is on harnessing technology to realise user goals through customer-centred design.

Meine van der Meulen is functional safety expert and AI researcher in DNV’s Group Research and Development.

He is a member of the ISO/IEC committee on artificial intelligence and contributes to the development of DNV’s recommended practices covering the various aspects of artificial intelligence. His research interest is the use of artificial intelligence in safety and security applications.

Erlend Bjørndal works as an instrument and reliability engineer involved in product development and sustaining of flowmeters and sensing systems. He has been with the company for 16 years, and is responsible for electronics and for robustness testing. Previously he was a researcher at Christian Michelsen Research (CMR), and development engineer at several other companies within the field of electronics and sensors.

The presentation will focus on the design of a subsea ultrasonic flowmeter in collaboration with Equinor and Gassco and with support from the Norwegian Research Council under the DEMO2000 program.

The design and qualification program will be presented together with results from static testing and from flow testing.

Eric Root works as a Subsea Engineer at Equinor and is based in Oslo, Norway.
Currently he sits in the Breidablikk project as well as Equinor’s Underwater Intervention Drone (UID) team.
He is responsible for implementing subsea infrastructure that will enable the use of Underwater Intervention Drones.
His aim is to find and implement standardized solutions that can be used across Equinor’s subsea assets as well as the subsea assets of other operators.

Eric’s presentation will focus on the implementation of underwater intervention drone infrastructure on the Breidablikk field, with focus on the technical successes and challenges, both subsea and topside.
The intention of his presentation is to spark discussion amongst subsea controls engineers and industry experts, and to identify future focus areas for subsea engineers and project teams looking to implement underwater intervention drone technology.

Brendan Hyland is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 year’s experience in subsea wireless communications and computing.

He previously founded WFS Technologies, an innovator in subsea wireless communications,  Kymata Ltd, an innovator in planar optical communciations and SWIG, an industry collaboration established to define standards for subsea wireless communications.

Brendan has previously held positions with Autronica, Trondheim, PA Consulting, Cambridge,  and in the chemicals and defence industries. He has filed over 400 patent applications, holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and an MBA.

The last 10 years Edgar Vorland has been overlooking Siemens Energy development of electronics and software for the range of Subsea Sensors.

Currently working on development of Siemens Energy new generation of Subsea Sensors, including implementation of smart features like integrated vibration measurements.

The lecture will focus on how to use new technology, like integrated accelerometers in subsea sensors, as an extra set of eyes and ears on what’s going on at the seabed without adding extra equipment. The lecture will also discuss how these data can be used and how to get information from several sensors to topside for trend analysis, changes, and early warnings.