SBM Offshore’s emissions monitoring

SMB Offshore leverages Seeq’s Workbench hosted emissions monitoring technology to drive-down emissions from its fleet of FPSOs, anticipating future regulatory requirements.

In a recent webinar, Morgan Bowling (Seeq) and Anthony Teodorczuk (SMB Offshore) presented the latter’s approach emissions monitoring. Netherlands-headquartered based SBM builds FPSOs, essentially offshore refineries combined with an oil tanker. The company is on a journey to sustainable operations as ‘regulations are evolving, sometimes faster than can be implemented’. ‘Companies need to imagine what compliance will look like in the future, and build a flexible emissions measurement framework and develop and understanding of their data’.

Following a three month trial deployment of Seeq’s hosted emissions monitoring technology, SBM signed a strategic agreement with the aim of ‘driving down’ the CO2 emissions from its fleet of leased FPSOs with a target of a 50% reduction by 2030. Case in point for the webinar is an FPSO operating offshore Brazil in 2000m of water.

Seeq’s Workbench provides ‘consistent’ Carbon KPI reporting of emissions tuned to daily operations as well as specific activities such as flaring events and cargo venting. The Workbench feeds into Power BI and PI Vision for analysis. Time series analytics leveraged technology from Norwegian Amitec. In the Q&A it emerged that this reporting is separate from reporting to the operator which is still done the ‘old fashioned way’ on paper. More from Seeq.

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