Patent ID: 8550170

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path extending between the inlet and the outlet; a flow meter configured to determine a flow rate of a fluid through the flow path; a choke configured to vary the flow rate of the fluid through the flow path; a frame having an alignment system configured to facilitate alignment of the apparatus with a separate subsea device to enable the apparatus to mate with the separate subsea device during a mating process; one or more sensing elements; a subsea monitoring module comprising a controller configured to receive and process data from the one or more sensing elements; and wherein the flow path, the flow meter, the choke, the one or more sensing elements, and the subsea monitoring module are coupled with the frame to enable the apparatus to be deployed to or retrieved from a subsea location in a single operation, and wherein the subsea monitoring module is disposed within a removable housing to enable separate retrieval of the subsea monitoring module from the apparatus while the apparatus is mated with the separate subsea device.