Offshore staff NOTODDEN, Norway — Aker BP has contracted Optime Subsea to supply two further remotely operated controls systems (ROCS) for subsea service offshore Norway. In February 2021, Aker BP completed its first subsea well completion operation using ROCS on the Ærfugl Field development, a subsea tieback to the Skarv infrastructure in the Norwegian Sea. It has since successfully run the ROCS on six more wells without any downtime. "Our own analyses show significant benefits of applying the ROCS instead of a traditional system when completing subsea wells," said Mads Rødsjø, Aker BP's vice president of D&W Operations. "We have reduced our operating time, hence reducing the weather window requirement; we see less HSE exposure on the drill floor; have lowered our CO 2 footprint; and through digitalization, we have removed 45 tons of surface equipment." Optime will supply the two new, second-generation ROCS over a period of three years.