API TR 17TR13

Subsea production systems are complex. These systems can range in complexity from a single satellite well with a flowline linked to a fixed platform, to several wells on a template producing and transferring via subsea processing facilities to a fixed or floating facility, or directly to an onshore installation. The subsea production system components are required to physically and functionally interface to each other. The elements of the subsea production or injection system may be configured in numerous ways.

The objectives of this document are:

• to describe typical examples of the various subsystems and components that can be combined, in a variety of ways, to form complete subsea production systems;
• to describe the interfaces with typical downhole and topsides equipment that are relevant to subsea production systems;
• to provide some basic design guidance on various aspects of subsea production systems.