Sea Commander is a low-cost, buoy-based high-integrity system providing local control, monitoring, chemical injection and pigging to a remote subsea development or step-out. The system is designed to replace the conventional umbilical control link between an offshore production platform or on-shore terminal and outlying subsea production or injection facilities. Sea Commander can be removed from a field and decommissioned or re-deployed at minimum cost.

Sea Commander is proven, with one system deployed at East Spar, 60 kms off the NW Coast of Australia, and a second system controlling 10 subsea wells in the EM Field offshore South Africa.

Sea Commander offers great economy over existing subsea control systems. It uses conventional technology to reduce and simplify the equipment on the seabed, relocating systems at the surface in a relatively accessible environment where they can be maintained or inspected without the use of costly diving support vessels. The system thus offers both Capex and Opex cost reductions.