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The Factory on the Seabed: Subsea Production Systems
At six forty in the morning, the control module on a subsea well forty five kilometres away goes silent, and subsea controls engineer Pilar Ezeh must decide what to do about equipment no human hand has touched since it was installed. Episode one hundred and six builds a subsea production system from the reservoir up: the tree and its spring-closed valves, the manifold and jumpers, the risers that flex with every wave, and the umbilical that carries power, data, hydraulics and chemicals in a tube the width of a thigh. We see how a handful of wires can command dozens of valves, how HIPPS lets a…
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