The new super-hot Surveyor craft is best suited for the offshore industry. For searching the wreck too expensive, says Ola Oskarsson, one of the people behind the ROV.
Yesterday, we told the nyteknik.se to MMT, MMT, along with Norwegian Reach Subsea and Kystdesign developed a submersible, called ROVs, advancing technology positions significantly.
The article got a lot of attention and many wanted to know more. We therefore put three new questions to Ola Oskarsson, founder of MMT.
Which industry do you think has the most benefit from your new ROV
– The new ROV is designed for extreme high resolution and high speed. The combination of multibeam and laser plummet (called LIDAR) can generate up to 500 000 measured points per second with millimeter resolution. At full speed, this means that 25,000 points per m2 will be measured. The high resolution is necessary for offshore installations, pipelines and critical areas of environmental monitoring. It is also important to work with reasonable speed to keep costs down for inspections of installations, says Ola Oskarsson.
– The cost accounts for a high proportion of the running costs of oil and gas pipelines. Our customers today are Statoil, Shell, Exxon, BP and other energy companies.
Experts we talked to find vrakletning is an area where your ROV would do some good. You told me after reading the text of the paper that you are hesitant to use the area. Why?
– The vehicle costs about 450,000 to 700,000 per day to use, with surface vessels and full 24 hour staffing. The range depends on the requirement of surface vessels. There are no vrakletare who need this resolution to find wrecks or can find treasures on the seabed that could finance such an operation.
– normally used equipment with greater surface coverage, lower resolution and significantly lower cost to find wreck. DC3 such as found with traditional side scan technology from 26 meters vessels. Our Surveyor will need a much larger surface vessels to operate. However, a vessel of this capacity very quickly make a highly accurate 3-D model of a wreck once it is found. One should compare weeks of risky underwater work by divers with an effective date of high-resolution measurement.
What’s next for you in the ROV development
– We will continue to develop methods to automatically measure the status of subsea installations and reducing the risks of contamination. I hope to perform environmental investigations where seabed geology and ecological composition (called Geohabitat), can be described in detail so that the sea can be managed optimally. 90 percent of the ocean is unknown. We are working to map the Earth’s white surfaces. There are many discoveries there that can change the future of mankind. We can not ignore that more than 50 percent of our planet’s surface is still unknown.
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