Patent ID: 9376893
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: E21B,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A subsea oil and/or gas production system comprising: a host production facility; a plurality of subsea wells connected in series by a plurality of hydrocarbon pipelines to the host production facility; a plurality of subsea umbilicals for conveying electric power, data transfer, hydraulic fluid and wellstream service fluids to the plurality of subsea wells; a subsea fluid conduit network connected to each of the plurality of subsea wells; an electrical power and data network for conveying direct current electrical power and data, operatively connected to at least one of the plurality of subsea wells for providing said at least one of the plurality of subsea wells with data transfer and electrical power services, the direct current electric power and data network being separate from the subsea fluid conduit network, and the direct current electric power and data network conveying no fluid.