Unmanned Vehicles May Soon Take Up Residency Subsea
vehicles.Why?One of the main drivers is cost reduction. ROV support vessels cost a lot. Remove the need for the vessel and a significant percentage of the cost of the operations is removed, Statoil’s Tom Glancy, Advisor Pipeline Mapping & Geographical Information, told an International Association of Oil and Gas Producers event in Stavanger last year.Having a vehicle living subsea, in “garages” or docking stations, could also reduce wait-on-weather time, operations costs in harsh conditions, and health, safety and environmental issues. It could also mean the ability to collect more
Hyperbaric Evacuation Systems: IMCA Consultation
of the document by emailing www.imca-int.com .” IMCA gave a presentation on the draft document at its recent annual seminar held in November in Amsterdam. IMCA has kept the industry involved in the development of this document and has made a number of presentations to the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) Diving Industry Workgroup , most recently at its last meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska in July 2012. The new document will be supported by two additional IMCA guidance documents. IMCA is an international association with well over 850 members in 60 countries, as at