Challenges to Recover Subsea Umbilicals in Decommissioning Projects

Abstract

The collection of flexible pipelines and umbilicals in Petrobras covers a considerably high volume of operations. In particular, the growing demand for decommissioning, combined with the Diverless Synergy initiative, has boosted mobilization for the advancement and optimization of collection operations. Result of the integration between the different company sectors and assets involved, through the availability of resources, the process of development and evolution of tools that provide cost reduction and operational safety is presented in this article as we can see in the Motivation Plan (Fig.1)