A Literature Review of Subsea Asset Integrity Framework for Project Execution Phase

Abstract

Asset integrity is a continuous process of knowledge and experience applied throughout the asset lifecycle to manage risk from design, construction, installation, operation, maintenance and finally abandonment phases of facility to maximize the benefit to the owner whilst safeguarding people, asset, and environment. Traditional petroleum topside facilities have common access from topside. Unlike topside facilities, subsea assets have no direct access and have very little human interaction and intervention. Many studies were carried out on asset integrity during the operation phase or life extension project after the project team handed over the asset to operations team. Very little emphasis and studies carried out about asset integrity during the project stage in particular to subsea developments which require higher due diligence because of its complexity and expensive intervention cost. The proposed study will be conducted to determine how project organizations assure subsea asset integrity, to identify obstacles of implementing subsea asset integrity and finally to develop asset integrity framework for subsea asset during project execution phase.