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TechnipFMC is working with a consortium on subsea hydrogen production and storage technology Deep Purple.

Source: TechnipFMC repair and maintenance and even geotechnical work, says Karl

Subsea residency

Daly, director, IRM services Europe, at Fugro, speaking at the

Deploying an ROV with batteries and communications recent joint IMCA, SUT, Hydrographic Society in Scotland buoy (i.e. Oceaneering’s E-ROV system) will continue, en- seminar. Instead of contracting a DP vessel, operators will be abling un-vessel supervised campaigns, while moves towards contracting for delivery of data, he says. subsea residency continue to creep forward.

While initially there will have to be a human in the loop

Saipem’s Hydrone-R is set to be deployed at Equinor’s for all operations, from the growing number of remote opera-

Njord ?eld offshore Norway some time in 2021. tions centers popping up, the future will move to one person

Saipem says Hydrone-R can spend up to 12 months under- overseeing two or even three vessels, says Mike King, business water, without being brought back to surface. development manager at Ocean In?nity, also speaking at the

Hydrone-W, it’s work class cousin, is due to go through online event. testing in 2021. Eelume, the snake robot, is also due to be

The vessels and what they do will also become more and trialed at Åsgard, also in the Norwegian sector, while Ocean- more autonomous, says Daly, although this will have to be eering’s Freedom vehicle is also set to be let loose in the wild, done in tandem with the development of regulatory policy likely on pipeline inspection operations. around uncrewed marine operations. “Whether the systems are hosted subsea or on the surface,

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