How easy is it for companies to integrate SPT’s software within their normal operations?
Deepwater and subsea developments are not like the ones in shallow water where one can manually calculate or use different league software. In deepwater or subsea development, the multiphase behavior of the fluid is becoming critical and the main concern is to transport that in an optimum manner as far as cost and safety are concerned. Without OLGA it would be extremely difficult to estimate how this would be transferred. Most of the deepwater and subsea development in Malaysia have been designed using OLGA. SPT has developed its solutions at a moment when many markets become mature. Do you see your tools as a last resource for your clients, or something that should be used from day one? It is something that they all the way from the planning stage, to the design stage and all the way through the operational stage. In the planning stage, companies do a lot of conceptual design to know what would be the optimal manner to transport the fluids from the reservoir to the surface. Once they
