A presentation by WFS Technologies at the NOIA Conference in Canada 2018 - Extending internet of things to subsea operations

1. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Extending Internet of Things to Subsea Operat
ExtremeEdge: Subsea IoT and Cloud Computing Solutions
June 2018
WFS Technologies
Brendan Hyland, Founder & Chairman
Brendan@wfs-tech.com
+44 78 010 63450

2. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
• Technical challenge:
– Extending Big Data through water
• Key Advances
• ExtremeEdge IoT and Cloud
Computing
• Products and solutions
• Applications
• Summary and conclusions
Agenda
Seatooth Video – Total, Laggan Tormore, 800m

3. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Technical Challenge
Big Data is Key to Reducing Costs
• Why are offshore O&G costs so high?
– High cost of intervention ?
or
– Low levels of automation ?
 Visual Inspection paradigm
 Over-design
 Excess conservatism
 Low extraction efficiency
• How Big Data drives down Costs
– Increase production efficiency
– Reduce inspection costs
– Extend asset life
– Lower field extension costs
– Lower green field CAPEX/OPEX
– Reduce risk
Collapse cost and latency of information
Source: WSJ, Apr 16 http://graphics.wsj.com/oil-barrel-breakdown/
Capital Costs
Production Costs
High Offshore Oil & Gas Costs

4. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Technical Challenge
- Extending Big Data to the ExtremeEdge
• Big Data is disrupting society  improved productivity, safety & flexibility, reduced costs
– Underpinned by collapse in unit cost of data
– Low cost wireless technology is the enabler of IoT and Cloud Computing: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 3/4/5G,
NFC….
• Conventional wireless stops at the water/air and ground/air boundaries
• Challenge: Extend Big Data to underwater and underground environments
Extending Big Data to the ExtremeEdge Wireless: the Enabling Technology
BigData
CloudComputing
IoT
Wireless
Value

5. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
• Technology
– High cost of subsea cabling
– Hitherto limited battery life of subsea wireless
• Infrastructure
– Assets designed for divers and ROVs
– Supply chain investment
• Culture
– ‘Visual automation’ paradigm
– Change equated with risk
Technical Challenge
Offshore Industries lag Big Data roll-out
Local PIDControl Plant–wide
SCADA/ DCS
Mobile Cloud
Computiing
Manual Inspection Industrial IoT
GEPredix
Process InspectionAutomation
Manual Inspection AUVInspectionROVInspectionDiver Inspection
Subsea InspectionAutomation
1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
High Cost of Offshore Cabling
Visual Automation Paradigm

6. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Key Advances
• 250 man-year R&D program into low frequency radio & associated technologies
– Seatooth/Terratooth: Efficient, wireless comms through water, ground, solids,
metal
– Seatooth Hybrid: Integrated Seatooth radios, acoustic, FSO (optical)
– Seatooth Endure: Ultra-low power, Seatooth radio technology – 30 year battery life
– Seatooth Navigation: Ultra low power, low cost, GPS independent location
– Seatooth Connect: Wireless data+power for AUV docking
– Subsea/Underground IoT: Bandwidth & power constrained wireless networks,
Edge analytics
– Subsea/Underground Cloud Computing: Data permanently at the edge
Distributed and hybrid Cloud computing
Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) at the edge
Database synchronisation using AUVs
Hot-swap, connector-less devices
Digital Ledger (Blockchain) to manage asset data
• >300 patents filed

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Subsea Wireless Comes of Age
- The Future is Hybrid
Seatooth Hybrid
• No single technology is the ‘silver bullet’
• Seatooth Hybrid Technology Radio, Acoustic, Optical, hardwired
• Battery life up to 30 years

8. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
• Multi-parameter smart sensors
– Process: Temp, Flow, Vibration, Acoustic,
Leak
– Asset Integrity: Temp, Vibration, Corrosion
– Environmental: Temp, Conductivity, turbidity
• Intelligent Bandwidth/Battery management
– Edge data processing: Data  Information
– Edge process model correction; Edge Mission Analytics/AI
• ‘Seatooth Hot-Swap’: High integrity/reliability
– Separate enclosures for devices with external ports
– Wireless IoT network between modules (no jumpers)
– RAID architecture for redundancy
– Up to 30 year battery life per device
• Future-poof
– Replace modules when battery low or new sensor available
– Expand sensor/control capability
ExtremeEdge IoT and Cloud Computing
- Subsea Internet of Things Device
Subsea Internet of Things Device

9. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Subsea Cloud Computing
Network (SCCN)
• Secure architecture based on
SIoT.
• Provides shared computer
resources and data to subsea
devices on demand.
SCCN Subsystems
• SIoT Smart Devices
• Hybrid communications
• Wide area database
synchronisation
• Digital Ledger
• AUV navigation
ExtremeEdge IoT and Cloud Computing
- Subsea Cloud Computing Network
Subsea Cloud Computing Network

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• Ocean Industries
– Oil & Gas
– Subsea mining
– Offshore Renewables: wind/wave/tidal
– Submarine cables (telecom/electrical)
– Aquaculture
– Fishing
– Environmental
• Applications
– Production optimisation
– Asset integrity automation
– Environmental footprint management
– Construction, maintenance, repairs
– Security
• Smart Cities
– Smart foundations: buildings, bridges
– Utility monitoring and control
– Flood management
• Defense
– AUV comms, navigation, docking
– Persistent, covert, wide area sensor networks
– Critical infrastructure protection
– Extend C4ISR through water/ground
– Covert wireless PAN for divers
– Diver health monitoring
– Infrastructure asset integrity management
ExtremeEdge Applications
- SIoT and SCCN Platform Technology

12. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
ExtremeEdge Applications
- Oil & Gas
• Production Optimization
– Process characterization
– Real time point & distributed temperature
– EOR Water/Gas injection optimization
– Slug management
– Hydrate/Wax management
– Chemical injection optimization
Increase production by up to 15%
Decrease chemical costs by up to
50%
• Asset Integrity Automation
- Offshore structure FMD & fatigue
monitoring
- Riser/completion fatigue monitoring
- Mooring fatigue monitoring
- Field-wide corrosion optimization (CP)
- Point corrosion/Erosion automation (UT)
- Crack inspection automation (ACFM)
- Impressed Current optimization (ICCP)
- Vibration Management (FLIP, VIV, Span)
- Leak detection
 Reduce costs by up to 90%
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• Modelling tools often uncalibrated
against field data
– Flow assurance, asset integrity
• Lack of calibration leads to conservatism
– Increased CAPEX through over-design
– Sub-optimal production e.g. blockages,
slugs
– Excessive chemical usage
• SCCNs provide efficient process
characterisation leading to improved
control
 Dynamic models linked to real time
data
 Closed loop Chemical/EOR injection
control
ExtremeEdge Applications
- Production Optimisation: Increase production, Reduce Chemical
Costs
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Temperature(°C)
Liquid Rate (STB/D)
WHFT
Temp leaving Cooler
Temp at Riser Base
Top-of-riser Temp
Wax Appearance
Hydrate Dissociation
Max Allowable Operating
Source: Xodus
Excess conservatism leads to reduced
production and increased costs

14. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
ExtremeEdge Applications
- Asset Integrity: Platform Online Monitoring (OLM)
• Using Big Data to Reduce costs and Risk
• Subsea Cloud Computing Network (SCCN)
– Seatooth Smart Clamps, integrated sensors, ExtremeEdge
analytics
– Dual redundant wireless sensor network
– Seatooth Control Station integrated with SCADA/DCS
• Sensor set
– Fatigue: Strain & Accelerometer/ Vibration
– Flooded Member Detection (FMD): UT
– Corrosion: CP, UT, Voltage (ICCP)
– Crack: ACFM, Acoustic emission (AE)
– Environmental: Temp, Water Current (Ultrasonic Flow), pH,
• Seatooth Smart clamps
– Deployable by light class ROV
– Self-monitoring
SCCN with 12 x Seatooth Smart Sensor Nodes
60 x Seatooth FMD Nodes
AUV Database
Synchronisation

15. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
• Real time information leading to improved level of
confidence in integrity of structures
• Step reduction in inspection costs through substitution of
vessel deployed ROVs by platform deployed eyeball
ROVs
• Extended inspection intervals and targeted campaigns
• Reduced information latency leading to lower cost to
repair and fewer unplanned interventions
• Improved safety through reduced use of rope access
• Improved ease of gathering and reporting asset integrity
information
• Improved fatigue models and cumulative fatigue life
information leading to extended asset life and reduced
CAPEX on new structures
ExtremeEdge Applications
- Business Case: Using Big Data to Reduce Cost and
Risk
Real Time Integrity Monitoring Network

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Asset Integrity: Platform Online Monitoring
- Seatooth Smart Clamp with Integrated Sensors
• Seatooth Smart Clamps
– Retrofit Strain Sensor Modules
– Seatooth wireless controller
– Seatooth Antenna
– Edge analytics
– ROV deployable
– Self-monitoring
– Up to 30 years battery life
• Tubular structures
– Strain sensors mounted with ceramic pins
– Optional sensors: UT (FMD & corrosion)
• Concrete structures
– Strain sensors mounted to face of concrete
Strain Sensor Module
Seatooth Smart Clamp For Tubular Structures
Location pin
Load-spreading bar
Monitored structure
Seatooth Antenna
Seatooth Wireless Controller
Seatooth Smart Clamp For Flat Concrete Structures

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ExtremeEdge Products and solutions

18. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Summary and Conclusions
• Low levels of subsea automation have led to inefficiency
– High cost ROV/Diver inspection
– Overdesign through use of uncalibrated predictive models
• Automation key to driving down subsea costs
• Advances in sensor, wireless, battery and analytics
technologies collapsing the unit cost of data
• Subsea Internet of Things moves analytics to the edge
• Subsea Cloud Computing leaves data at the seabed
• ‘Hot-Swap’ architecture delivers reliability & futureproof
• The prize:
– Improved safety
– Reduced operating costs
– Reduced subsea inspection costs,
– Step reduction in CAPEX
Wireless On-Line Monitoring

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ExtremeEdge Products and solutions
Seatooth Video
Subsea wireless camera
Battery: up to 8 hrs use
Seawater Range: 3-5m
Seatooth PipeLogger Mk2
Non-penetrating temp
controller
Process and seawater temp
Temp: 0-100DegC +/- 2DegC
Battery: up to 30 years
Seatooth PipeLogger-UT
Retrofit FMD/
corrosion monitor
Wall Thickness: <250mm
UT Accuracy: 0.1mm
Up to 8 UT sensors
Battery: up to 30 years
Seatooth PipeLogger-TI
Non-penetrating temp controller
Pipe-in-pipe or up to 4” foam
Temp: 0-100DegC +/- 5C
Repeatability: 1DegC
Battery: up to 30 years
Seatooth PipeLogger-UF
EOR automation
Accuracy:+/- 2-5%
Repeatability: +/- 2%
Battery: up to 10 years
Seatooth CP
Corrosion automation
solution
Stork Voltage/Current
sensor
Battery: up to 30 years
Seatooth CTFM
Fatigue management
Real time & cumulative
Seatooth Smart Clamp
‘Wine-rack’ wireless
architecture
For platforms, risers flowlines
Suitable for splash zone
Deployable by light class
ROV
Self-monitoring
Seatooth SWiCOM
Subsea wireless diver automation
Seatooth wireless Android tablet
Battery: up to 8 hrs continuous
Seawater Range: 5-10m
Seatooth LightRope
Subsea wireless RFID
For diver and ROV
automation
Battery: 16 hrs; 2 yr
standby
Seawater Range: 5m
Seatooth WiPS
Wireless Pressure/Temp
Integrated display
Seatooth Vibration
Fatigue, VIV, FIV
monitoring
Up to 1kHz
Battery: up to 5 years

20. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Thank You
Brendan Hyland, Founder & Chairman
Brendan@wfs-tech.com
+44 78 010 63450

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Asset Integrity: Platform Online Monitoring
- Seatooth FMD Smart Sensor
• Seatooth FMD Smart Sensor
– Seatooth FMD wireless range of 30m
– Up to 3 x Integrated UT sensor
– Magnetic clamp, optional retaining strap
– FMD readings monthly & on-demand
– Battery life up to 30 years
Seatooth FMD with 3 x UT Sensors

23. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
• Brendan Hyland, Founder, Chairman
– Sectors: O&G, Defence, Consumer,
Environmental
– Location: Edinburgh
• Paul Tooms, Advisory Board, London
– Former Chief Engineer, BP
– Location: London
• Jarett Carson, Advisory Board, Boston
– Venture Capital/Private Equity
– Chemical Engineer
– Location: Boston
• Dr Terry Mah, Advisory Board, Boston
– Former CEO Veolia N Ameria
– Environmental Engineer
– Location: Chicago
• Dr Grant Maclean, CTO
– Former HP, Raytheon, Netthings,
– Location: Edinburgh
• Chris Curran, Project Director Americas
– Former BP Subsea Controls,
– Chair API 17F (Subsea Controls)
– Location: Houston
• Peter Sharpe, Defence Consultant, London
– Former AWE, General Dynamics, MoD Chief of
Staff
– Location: London
• Rob Soni, Advisory Board, Boston
– Former Partner, Matrix Partners, Bessemer
Partners
– Location: Boston
Leadership Team
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Selected WFS Customers and Deployments

25. Smart Waters – Smart Cities
Selected References
- Oil & Gas/Asset Integrity
Date
Installed Operator/Field Country Solution Sensor Make Measured Parameter Operational History
2013 Woodside, N Shelf Australia Packing valve video monitoring Bowtech Video Used during IRM campaign
2014 EnQuest, Don Southwest UK Export line temperatue monitoring RTD Temperature Deployed under concrete blanket
2014 Talisman/Repsol UK
Flowline upheaval buckling
monitoring RTD Temperature
20 systems supplied for deployment across UK
assets
2015 Apache, John Brooks Australia Export line temperatue monitoring RTD Temperature System installed Oct 15
2015 Petrobras, Santos Basin Brazil Coiled Tubing fatigue monitoring
Strainstall,
Invensense Strain, acceleration 10 x system deployments Aug - Dec 15
2015 Total, Laggan Tormore UK Video monitoring of construction Bowtech Video Deployed 3 times furing 2015
2015 Taqa, N Cormorant UK Corrosion monitoring network Voltage Network of 14 nodes; commissioned 2H15
2015 JAMSTEC Japan Flow monitoring Flow Qualification trials completed 4Q16
2015 Shell, Malampaya
Philippine
s Rock dumping monitoring GE Pressure Deployed 2Q15
2016 DRDC Canada Submarine corrosion monitoring Stork Voltage, Current Deployed Oct 16
2017
Quadrant Energy, John
Brooks Australia Export line temperatue monitoring RTD Temperature Deployed 1Q17
2017 BP/SD2, Azerbijan
Pipeline Pre-commissioning
automation Yokogawa
Pressure,
Temperature Deployed 2H17
2017 YFP Nigeria Export line temperatue monitoring RTD Temperature Deployed 1H17