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completely submerged, the ? rm says. Southeast Asian market in Q3 2021, the
XOCEAN
Deep water testing on the composite company says.
Founded in 2017, XOCEAN has done repair has been completed in the Trond- Development of the 3D printing capa- more than 100 projects, largely covering bathymetric surveys for hydrographic heim Fjord in Norway and the technol- bility will run concurrently with an ex- of? ces and site-investigation surveys, ogy is ready to be deployed on commer- pectation a ? rst application will be pos- cial applications and operations in the sible in 2022. many for offshore wind companies, with its XO-450, a 4.5m-long diesel-electric
USV with 18-day/1,512m-range, at 4 knots. It recently delivered a site investi- gation survey on Ørsted’s Hornsea One
Offshore Wind Farm, the world’s big- gest offshore wind farm. One of its XO- 450s was launched and recovered from shore, transiting over 120km to the sur- vey location to complete the survey in up to 1.9m max wave heights, providing high-resolution seabed data in 30m wa- ter depth, says XOCEAN. The ? rm has its sights on growth. Having doubled its staff to 82 over the last 12 months, it’s on target to quadruple revenue in 2021 and is looking to grow its ? eet from 14
USVs to 40 by the end of 2022.
Kongsberg Ferrotech
Kongsberg Ferrotech has joined forces with Equinor, SINTEF and Gassco to develop 3D printing technologies for subsea equipment repair and mainte- nance. The company has already devel- oped a subsea robotic system, Nautilus, that can be used to carry out remotely operated composite repairs on subsea pipelines. Now the Kongsberg Ferro- tech wants to add additive printing ca- pability to these systems, using metal- lic media to repair defects, with support from the Research Council of Norway through the PETROMAKS 2 program.
The company will use 3D printing to re- build damaged metal structures – layer by layer – allowing permanent repairs and implementing new functionality as needed. Kongsberg Ferrotech’s technol- ogy is based on versatile underwater robots that offers a complete toolbox for inspection and repair of equipment and their components in subsea environ- ments. The inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) robots are exceptional in the way they perform repairs and modi- ? cations in a dry environment while www.marinetechnologynews.com 13
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