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Amman Mineral Orders

Forum ROV for Subsea

Mining Support

Indonesian mining frm Amman

Mineral has ordered an ROV from

Forum Energy Technologies to support its mining operations at Indonesia’s second-largest copper and gold mine.

Forum Energy Technologies said that, under the order, it would supply one of its observation-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), to be deployed at Batu

Hijau on the island of Sumbawa, Indo- nesia, for subsea mining operations.

The Sub-Atlantic brand Super Mo- hawk II ROV system will be equipped with two fve-function manipulator arms for complex underwater proce- dures. The new asset will replace the company’s current Super Mohawk

ROV and incorporates much of the

Saab Seaeye’s Falcon Flies High existing surface equipment.

Per the ROV company, the Super Mo-

Saab Seaeye sees its Falcon fying high ability while working in strong cross- hawk II is well-suited for all inspection as its top-selling electric underwater currents and among complex structures.

and light work tasks including non- robotic vehicle in its 34-year history. A key breakthrough concept for the ve- destructive testing, seabed analysis, scien-

Launched nearly 20 years ago, its design hicle was its distributed intelligent control tifc survey, and data sample collection.

has kept the pioneering concept in step which uniquely gave each device on the

According to Forum Energy Technolo- with two decades of technological ad- Falcon its own individually controlled gies, this is the second time Forum has vances. microprocessor. This eliminated inter- delivered one of its observation-class

The Falcon has helped to open up new face cards, jettisoning the conventional

ROVs for work relating to the mine, sectors to the potential of robotics, from electronics pod and making the vehicle having supplied the quarry’s previous marine science to aquaculture and from smaller and lighter.

owners, PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, wind energy to hydroelectric dams. Intelligent distributed control meant that with a Super Mohawk previously.

Just a meter-long and rated 300 to 1000 tools and sensors could be easily added or

Amman Mineral successfully com- meters depth, the Falcon’s fve thrust- changed, and custom options readily inte- pleted the purchase of Newmont Min- ers and distributed control system – now grated. More interchangeable equipment ing Corporation’s ownership stake of enhanced with iCON control architecture could also be ftted on a small vehicle

PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara in 2016.

- is designed to deliver precise maneuver- than ever before possible.

The ROV system will be manufac- tured at Forum’s UK facility at Kirkby- moorside in Yorkshire and delivered in the frst quarter of 2021. This will be the company’s 37th Super Mohawk system deployed for global operation and the fourth to be built at its Kirkbymoorside manufacturing facility since the frst one was produced in 2002.

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