Subsea Connectivity and DistributionWill Mudge - Teledyne ODI

October 2009

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Agenda

• Wet Mate Connectors• Reliability• Distribution Systems• Constant Improvement for knowledge gained

and customer relations

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Wet Mate Connector Technology• Electrical Connections

o 4, 7, and 12 connectionso High Power Connectors

• Optical Connectionso Up to 8 single mode circuits

• Hybrid Connectorso 2 electrical and up to 4 optical circuits

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Application of Wet Mate Connectors

• Interconnect 2 or more pieces of equipment that cannot be deployed together.

• Allows equipment to be deployed and maintained.

• Reliability must be considered.

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Oil Field Application

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Ditribution Systems• Distribute

signal and power to multiple points with proven reliability.

• Ideal for large data gathering applications

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Neutrino Telescopes and Connections

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Telescope Tower

Cable Termination

Power ConverterPower

Optical Signal

PowerDistribution Box

Telescope Tower

Telescope Tower

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Electrical Connector Reliability

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• Nautilus was designed to be an extremely reliable product using dual barrier technology.

• Nautilus Connectors have been in service since 1991, with over 73,000 connectors delivered accumulating over 3 billion operating hours.

• Nautilus continues to show reliability of better than 99.89% based on all of the existing field data.

• The Nautilus is constantly reviewed and analyzed for improvements in both manufacture and design. Reliability is an on-going commitment to this product.

• ODI report D/N 187801 provides a detailed review of the reliability analysis of the Wet-Mate Hybrid Connectors

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Optical Connector Reliability

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• ODI’s Wet-Mate Rolling Seal Hybrid Connector has been in service since 1995, accumulating over 114 Million in service hours.

• The Rolling-Seal Connector was the first reliable wet-mate connector capable of reliably mating multiple optical fiber in the subsea environment

• Since it’s first installation, the Rolling-Seal Connector has proven to be reliable in service with a failure rate of 57.0 FIT and a projected availability of 99.97%

• The connector has evolved through one major design upgrade and additional design improvements targeted at improving operations and reliability.

• ODI report D/N 139355 provides a detailed review of the reliability analysis of the Wet-Mate Hybrid Connectors

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Continuous Improvement and Analysis• ROV make-up improvements

• Hermetic Penetrator Improvement

• Customer and ROV training

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Summary

• Interconnectivity is required on larger projects.o Allows deployment and maintainability

• Distribution systems requiredo Allows many towers with a single cable

• Reliabilityo Proven track recordo Commitment to improvement

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Back-up Slides

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