The Qualification of New Technology

HIGHLIGHTS

As the subsea energy industry moves into deeper waters and more difficult operating environments, outside existing industry experience, additional technical risk and uncertain reliability performance is introduced. A similar challenge is faced with the deployment of new and evolving marine renewable technologies. A defined qualification process is required to manage the risk associated with the first/early/deployment of the technology. This applies as equally to the introduction of genuinely new technology, as it does to ‘stretching the envelope’ of existing hardware in a new environment.

As the subsea energy industry moves into deeper waters and more difficult operating environments, outside existing industry experience, additional technical risk and uncertain reliability performance is introduced. A similar challenge is faced with the deployment of new and evolving marine renewable technologies. A defined qualification process is required to manage the risk associated with the first/early/deployment of the technology. This applies as equally to the introduction of genuinely new technology, as it does to ‘stretching the envelope’ of existing hardware in a new environment.