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Tech in the Spotlight

Equinor’s vision of a future carbon dioxide transport for storage UUV.

Blue Ocean

Seismic Services’ (BOSS) autonomous seismic nodes.

BOSS

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Valley and the Ocean Hyway Cluster in Norway, it’s devel- > Swarm robotics

Blue Ocean Seismic Services is developing autonomous un- oped Deep Purple, a wind-powered subsea hydrogen pro- derwater vehicles that will operate as a self-repositioning au- duction and storage technology, complete with fuel cells to tonomous underwater node to carry out seismic surveys. It’s provide power when required. This could be used at offshore effectively a ? eet of AUVs that will be able to take themselves, platforms, but also remote islands, for ship refuelling offshore en-mass to pre-programmed sites on the seabed, stay there and simply for hydrogen export. while a source vessel sails over, then move to the next site > Underwater CO2 trucks – saving the time it currently takes to manually place nodes using ROVs or via the node on a rope method. They could also More of a mid-long-term vision is Equinor’s vision to use a identify and monitor carbon storage sites, says BOSS. “large subsea drone” to transport CO2 to subsea injection sites, where it could also recharge, while of? oading its cargo. The 135m-long “Subsea Shuttle” could also be used to transport > Subsea hydrogen

Hydrogen has shot up the energy agenda in the past 12 months gas and water, for reservoir injection, and of? oad oil, presum- and it’s likely to be there for some time. TechnipFMC hasn’t ably meaning storage subsea can be skipped, instead pumping missed this and, as part of a consortium with Sintef, Energy it direct into these huge vehicles, serviced by resident vehicles.

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