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Subsea Pumping Systems
Active Frank
Not just smarter than your average Joe – it’s smarter than your average FRANK too!
In a league of its own, Active FRANK is a major step change in offshore pre-commissioning. With a single lift, you have a unit capable of performing conventional flooding and pigging activities with minimal vessel requirement.
Kraken’s engineering team has designed and built Active FRANK to improve efficiency and reduce the cost of flooding subsea systems while ensuring our clients’ piece of mind. Active FRANK was designed to be modular, compact, require limited support crew, and be ROV friendly. Our modular design means Kraken Subsea can adapt Active FRANK to meet our customers specific needs.
Features
Datalogging
Like all our chemical injection / flooding units, we have integrated a data logging system into Active FRANK.
Typically these systems monitor and record chemical flowrate, total chemicals injected, bulk water flowrate and total volume injected during the free-flooding operation. If other parameters are required, these may be requested.
Subsea Pumping
One of the major upgrades for the Active FRANK system is the incorporation of several subsea pumps within the unit, which allow the unit to perform pipeline flushing and pigging directly from subsea.
The unit size and relative autonomy mean that only a small vessel equipped with an ROV is required to lift, install and operate the unit with no additional crew.
Blended Operations
With one lift, Active FRANK can be installed subsea and utilise subsea hydrostatic head to push pre-installed pigs through the system. This means the majority of the pipeline FCG operation can be completed without any additional support from the vessel.
The vessel can then return, activate subsea pumps within the unit and pig the remainder of the system to ensure pig receipt.