IMAGINATIVE DIVE WORKS WINS BIG SAVINGS WITH LEOPARD TECH SPOTLIGHT
Unprecedented savings have been won by Australia’s innovative subsea services company, Dive Works, for their oil and gas clients through the imaginative deployment of their Saab Seaeye Leopard electric robotic vehicle.
The Saab Seaeye Leopard performed seemingly impossible IRM work scope in Bass Strait, says Dive Works, which previously could only be achieved by large and expensive hydraulic systems and divers.
In what is considered to be a world first, Dive Works manoeuvred the Saab Seaeye Leopard and a 1.25 tonne diamond wire cutter, supported by a lift bag, deep inside a platform structure to slice through the metre-diameter steel pipe and remove it from the site.
Millions of dollars were saved for their client, says Dive Works, by utilising the Leopard’s size, power, agility and manoeuvrability to its best advantage.
It was their innovative adaptation of the Leopard to perform the complex task that made a quick and cost effective solution possible, suggests the company.
Saab Seaeye says Dive Works is showing the world how big savings can be made in the oil and gas industry from technological advances
in electric underwater robotics, as smaller, smarter and more powerful vehicles are adapted to undertake much larger tasks.
dive Works’ Managing director Andrew Ford applauds the Saab Seaeye Leopard’s overall design: “Our Leopard has completed over 750 dives, it is the most powerful ROV of its size in the world and we continue to maximise its capacity in extreme conditions and on extreme tasks with on-going success.”
He goes on to list the tasks successfully completed by the Leopard:
• Penetrated deep inside a complex platform structure to perform heavy- duty repair work and deploy underwater rigging to locations larger vehicles could not access.
• Performed a 490 km long PNG pipeline survey fitted with camera booms and wheeled skid.
• Operated a crawler to inspect welds on a number of platforms in extremely shallow water.
• Worked a 36,000psi water blaster for cleaning platform legs to bright metal.
• Inspected platform risers whilst handling 200 kilos of sensor equipment.
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