Proserv won a multimillion dollar contract to design and manufacture a subsea sampling system for BP’s PSVM field development offshore Angola. The system – designed, manufactured and tested by Proserv’s teams in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire – can go to a maximum water depth of 2,500 m (8,202 ft) as well as interface with two- and four-slot subsea manifolds.

It is also fully compliant with corrosion society, NACE International, and meets the high engineering standards set by the American Petroleum Institute, Proserv said. The sampling system will interface with the subsea production system to support the monitoring of PVT properties in the production fluid as various levels of these elements can cause flow assurance issues such as scale build up. This is the second contract Proserv has undertaken for BP on the PSVM development, the company having previously provided two similar subsea sampling systems for Block 18 through FMC Technologies.