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FEATURE Offshore Substructure Monitoring tonomous independent operations, com- reach international emissions reductions Template Structures (ITS) in total, located municating data to one of the installation’s targets for CO and, although more imagi- in Equinor’s Askeladd and Johan Cast- 2

ROVs. Advanced positioning tools and native alternatives have come forward berg felds.

measuring sensors enhanced the accuracy over the last few years, CCS appears to be Combining powerful software with mod- of the data collected, ensuring the reliabil- one of few effective, large-scale options at ular technology, the DMS was deployed ity of the data. the time of writing. alongside supporting technicians over

The Northern Lights project is a result the two phases. The frst project for nine of the Norwegian government’s ambition ITS was completed within just 25 days, dMS For oFFShore operAtionS And to develop a full-scale CCS value chain in resulting in signifcant cost effciencies coMMunicAtionS the country by 2024. As part of this am- for Ocean Installer – so much so that the bition, the Norwegian government issued In September last year, Ashtead Technol- contract was extended into this year for the feasibility studies on capture, transport ogy completed a two-part subsea installa- remaining six.

and storage solutions in 2016, helping to tion monitoring project for client Ocean The suite of products which together justify the eventual realisation of a full- Installer AS in the Northern Norwegian make up the company’s DMS are used to scale CCS project. Sea. The company supplied its DMS to monitor structural defection in assets such

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