DeepStar Phase VIII occurred from January 2006 through December 2007, focusing on the following key challenges in deepwater:
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Enhanced well productivity and recovery
- Subsea boosting & •Artificial lift
- Multiphase Subsea metering
Flow assurance
- Asphaltene disposition prediction and management
- Hydrate kinetics & plugging
- Cold flow technologies
HPHT systems
- Enhance 15k capabilities and develop 20k capabilities
Reliable deepwater production systems
- Enhanced global performance
- Loop & Eddy current management
- Riser systems management
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Early production system
- Specifications, gas management and regulatory
Well cost reduction
- Well construction - Well bore stability (casing point elimination), casing integrity
- Quicker completion system deployment
- HPHT capabilities (>15k)
General
- Improve the economic threshold for small fields
- Emerging technology evaluation
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