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wellhead platform, you can choose to do what you have always done, but if, out of economic necessity, you decide on a simple model with only the most necessary functions, is this really the most expedient choice, also in the long term? a dhrtc team om researchers from dtu mechanical engineering have sketched their design for the cost-effective platform of the future. we are talking billions of danish kroners when establishing a single, unmanned wellhead platform and connecting it to the overall production system. ?e platform alone costs about dkk 400 million. consequently, a lot of money could be saved by taking a different approach if you have to build a new one. ?is was the background for the lean wellhead platforms research project, where researchers from dhrtc and dtu mechanical en- gineering tested the hypothesis that it makes financial sense to combine modular architecture and lean thinking when building new plat- forms. ?ere were a lot of synergies between the project and an ongoing maersk oil project. in other words: is it possible to de- velop a prototype of a so-called well- head platform ? an unmanned plat- form ? which, in addition to being the most financially favourable over a 10-year period, is also modular, so that it can easily be expanded to meet future needs and coupled to existing production platforms which are oper- ated by maersk oil in the danish sec- tion of the north sea? ?our research shows that, com- pared to ?business as usual?, it is pos- sible to realize potential savings of 20?30 per cent on the upper part of a platform which is only equipped with the bare minimum. however, if you do not choose the cheapest individu- al solutions throughout, but take into 26 dhrtc 2016
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