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    the publication of the marine equipment industry

    TRAIN, BUILD, DIVE:

    The safety and training of

    divers and engineers is

    coming under close scrutiny

    UNDERWATER IN HD:

    High-definition video sweeps

    aside the competition

    MICRO ROVS ON THE

    RISE: Buccaneer Ltd MD

    Ian MacDonald heralds thisversatile offshore innovation

    ONLINE E-EDITION &

    IN PRINT Autumn 2008

    EXCLUSIVE: IMCAS ROV

    & AUV ROLE: Chief ExecutiveHugh Williams details the

    organisations vital industry work

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    ROV & SUBSEA SUPPLEMENT

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    I am delighted to see so many members

    of the International Marine Contractors

    Association (IMCA) represented within

    the pages of this timely and interesting

    supplement with news and features on

    recent developments in remotely

    operated vehicle (ROV) and autonomous underwater vehicle

    (AUV) technology.

    IMCA, with its 500+ member companies in over 50

    countries, represents marine, offshore and underwater

    companies, and is a respected voice around the world

    promoting good practice, particularly in the areas of health,

    safety and environmental standards, quality and efficiency and

    technical standards. Two core activities relate to all members

    Safety, Environment & Legislation (SEL) and Training,

    Certification & Personnel Competence (TCPC). Each membercompany also joins one or more of IMCAs four technical

    divisions, each covering a specific area Marine, Diving,

    Offshore Survey, and Remote Systems and ROVs.

    ROVs are increasingly in demand around the globe as more

    and more of the worlds mineral resources are extracted in

    harsh environments, in water depths beyond the reach of

    divers (sometimes as far as 3,000 metres below sea level) or

    with equipment already designed to interface with ROVs. As

    the workload undertaken by ROVs has increased, so has that

    of the relevant IMCA division which focuses on all aspects of

    equipment, operations and personnel related to remotely

    operated systems used offshore.

    Members of IMCAs Remote Systems and ROV Division

    www.imca-int.com/divisions/rov/ use ROVs and related

    systems to perform tasks such as drill support; inspection of

    pipelines, subsea structures and cables; operating and

    maintaining valves and other moving parts on subsea

    manifolds; and enabling video observation of both divers and

    underwater equipment or operations. ROVs are also used to

    survey the seabed before and during the installation of

    production facilities, to monitor pipeline touchdown and to

    perform many other subsea installation tasks. During the

    production phase ROVs have further applications in both

    inspection and maintenance tasks.

    As well as the contractors who own and operate ROVs,

    IMCA members include system manufacturers, those involved

    in production and maintenance of launch systems and support

    vessels, those providing consultancy, training and freelance

    personnel services and also oil company clients

    The World ROV Report 2008-12 recently published byDouglas-Westwood puts oil and gas industry expenditure on

    work-class ROV operations at US$1.6bn in 2008 and the

    publishers believe the market is set to reach $2.4bn by 2012,

    with lead analyst Lucy Miller explaining: Both offshore

    utilisation and ROV day rates have increased dramatically over

    the past five years and stand at an all-time high. In the past

    year, ROV day rates for Africa, Middle East and the Caspian

    have increased by 42%, overtaking Norway which was until

    recently the most expensive region. Also shortages of skilled

    operators have caused personnel day rates to grow by 47-

    50% in those regions. This growth pattern is certainly

    reflected in membership numbers and the workload of IMCAs

    Remote Systems and ROV Division, both of which have grown

    phenomenally in recent years.

    Written by HUGH WILLIAMS, chief executive, International Marine

    Contractors Association

    IMCAs ROV &AUV role

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    32008 issue one

    ENERGY PROFILE

    The IMCA role

    Through the development of codes of practice and guidance,

    provision of briefing, and organisation of seminars (particularly

    its peripatetic Annual Seminar and Safety Seminar) and other

    events, IMCA helps members of its Remote Systems and ROV

    Division stay up-to-date with developments, share safety-

    related information (via safety flashes, safety statistics and

    safety promotion material) and represents the sector to a

    variety of third parties.

    IMCAs Code of Practice for the safe and efficient operation

    of remotely operated vehicles plays a vital role in providing the

    international community with a common set of guidelines and

    recommendations, helping ROV operators achieve high levels

    of safety and efficiency. Safety is of paramount importance,

    with the zero incidents goal a constant target. A wealth of

    technical guidance covering topics such as equipment

    specification, maintenance and testing; ROV system audits;

    personnel training and competence and a variety of

    operational/good practice issues support the ROV Code of

    Practice these are available as individual publications, aprinted collection or on CD.

    IMCAs Remote Systems & ROV Division has published a set

    of contracting principles and generic contract templates that

    contractors and their clients can use as a template. The

    intention is to raise awareness of, and promote dialogue on,

    contracting issues between all parties.

    Of course the ROVs do not work in isolation. They are often

    part of the spread on multi-purpose support vessels, mostly

    DP (dynamically positioned). IMCA provides guidance for all

    kinds of marine operations, especially DP, and across all the

    activities of these vessels to offer an integrated support

    package to the industry.

    For example, ROV

    operations require teams of

    highly skilled and competent

    personnel working in a variety

    of roles. This is a highly topical

    issue for the marine

    contracting industry, which is

    seeing dramatic growth, with

    over $17bn-worth of new

    vessels in yards or in planning

    and engineering phases and,

    in addition to these vessels,

    some hundred new workclass

    ROVs wil l be coming into

    service in a relatively shorttime. IMCA assists it members

    at every stage from raising

    the profile of the industry and

    awareness of the career

    opportunities available (and

    here I would like to commend Andrew Beveridges Passionate

    about.ROVs in the career section of the IMCA website at

    www.imca-int.com/careers/ head to the In depth section)

    through provision of guidance on entry-level requirements to

    ongoing training and competence assessment.

    The new kid on the subsea block

    IMCA is currently preparing Considerations for the safe

    operations of AUVs to brief readers on some of the basic

    aspects of AUV operations in the oil and gas industry; and, like

    all IMCA documents, to ensure that operations are safely and

    efficiently completed. The document includes information on

    launch and recovery; environmental considerations; power;

    intervention and electrical work; emergencies; competence of

    personnel; communications; and lifting and will be published

    later this year.

    Further information on all aspects of IMCAs work on behalf

    of members is at www.imca-int.com ep

    About the author Hugh Williams is chief executive of the International

    Marine Contractors Association, which represents offshore marine and

    underwater engineering companies worldwide. The association has

    over 500 company members in more than 50 countries around the

    globe. He is a chartered civil engineer with 34 years broad experience

    including: commercial management and business development

    for marine contractors Heerema; commercial and engineering

    management with design work and marine warranty survey for

    consultants Noble Denton and Global Maritime; ports and harbours

    design office and site work with engineering consultants Rendel Palmer

    and Tritton. During this time, his career gradually focussed on marine

    operations, particularly heavy lifting and marine construction in the

    offshore oil and gas industry

    SAFETY IS OF

    PARAMOUNT

    IMPORTANCE,WITH THE ZERO

    INCIDENTS GOAL

    A CONSTANT

    TARGET

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    Gathering high-quality data from subsea

    engineering operations was for years

    dominated by adapted traditional wet-film

    technology. Either diver-deployed or

    mounted on an ROV and triggered remotely,

    digital cameras swept aside the practical

    drawbacks with startling clarity.

    However, the latest advances in high

    definition TV (HDTV) have considerably

    advanced inspection and observation

    ca pa bi li ties a nd made signi fica nt

    improvements on the quality and flexibility

    of imagery available.The obvious advantage of HDTV over

    standard definition composite PAL or

    NTSC video is that it offers significantly

    better resolution or image definition than

    conventional standard definition video

    signals. HDTV can offer twice the horizontal

    and twice the vertical resolution of

    conventional SDTV (four times the picture

    detail). This much increased resolution

    means that high-quality video inspection

    and survey tasks can be performed faster

    and better. Full 1080i HDTV video offers the

    equivalent of a 2MPixel stills image on

    every single video frame. This allows video

    inspections to be more detailed, and

    potentially reduces the need for stills

    photographic inspection. For remote

    manipulator operations, the additional

    image definition potentially allows complex

    manipulative tasks to be completed faster

    and more easily, with less operator fatigue.

    The other significant advantage is the

    improvement in colour fidelity, and the lack

    of interference that is such a problem with

    composite NTSC and PAL video images.

    Because of the way that the colour

    information is encoded into the signal, itsuffers from colour fringing and cross-

    colour interference. HDTV avoids this by

    separating the colour data from the

    brightness data. This considerable increase

    in colour definition is a major advantage in

    underwater inspection tasks, improving the

    ability to monitor damage, corrosion and

    marine fouling.

    Products such as Kongsberg Maritimes

    OE14-502A underwater HDTV colour

    inspection camera with 10:1 optical zoom

    is designed for all general ROV inspection

    tasks. Component video output keeps the

    camera small and allows simple conversion

    to other alternative digital formats in an

    ROV pod or the main electronics module of

    the vehicle. This provides for a range of

    transmission preferences to suit particular

    designs or existing multiplexers, umbilicals

    and slip-rings. Formats for transmission

    can include analogue, straightforward

    digital encoding, compressed digital or full

    bandwidth HD-SDI.

    The OE14-502A is a multi-standard

    camera with the ability to change video

    formats by IR Remote Control (RC) or by

    Graphical User Interface (GUI).

    Long line drive can be set by RC or GUI

    and allows the component signal to drive

    three matched coax cables with no

    degradation over 200m. Colour balancecan also be set to indoor, outdoor or Auto

    Tracking White (ATW).

    A domed water compensated port and

    optica l zoom provide s a c lose -up

    inspection capability combined with the

    flexibility of a 10x magnification for powerful

    sta nd off inspe ctions. The unique

    Kongsberg Maritime IR Remote Control

    also allows camera control set-up. Camera

    control can be single wire (tri-state), two

    wire (bi-polar), USB and RS485. RS232 is

    available as a factory-set option. The

    inclusive Kongsberg Maritime GUI provides

    control functionality via the digital link. ep

    ENERGY PROFILE

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    ivers and engineers working

    under the cold, dangerous

    waters of the North Sea face

    danger every day and night that

    they turn up for work. They have done so

    since oil and gas exploration started in the

    mid-1960s, clocking on for a well-paid but

    hazardous job. But today training and

    health and safety improvements have

    transformed the industrys approach to

    working underwater. Their future depends

    on playing a key part of a dynamic industry

    thats future is woven into the construction

    of new-build offshore support vessels.

    Over the past year orders for diving

    support vessels built for offshore subsea

    c ontr actor s have boome d a s the

    e xplora tion a nd production ( E& P)

    operations move into ever-deeper waters

    and harsher environments. Major European

    subsea contractors such as Acergy,

    Technip and Subsea 7 are either ordering

    new diving support vessels (DSV) or

    have promised very long-term charters to

    Norwegian companies that want more of

    the vessels built.

    Shipowners such as Norways DOF,

    Havila a nd Olympic Off shore a nd

    companies like Toisa have been actively

    ordering new DSVs as they expand into the

    thriving subsea construction markets. As

    more oil and gas field developments in the

    wor lds sea s now involve subse a

    production systems and in water depths

    from shallows to up to 300 metres, divers

    need to work on seabed systems.

    The latest DSVs are more advanced and

    can cope with greater water depths than

    ever. Diving systems can be lowered to

    water depths of around 300 metres and

    divers will be able to work in the cold

    waters of the further reaches of the North

    Sea and into the Barents Sea, for example.

    The new generation of diving chambers will

    need to accommodate 24 divers to

    increase the amount of work that can be

    completed by a diving team.

    UK-based subsea construction and

    engineering company Subsea 7 has also

    ordered what it claims will be the largest

    and most capable diving support vessel in

    the market when delivered in 2009. The

    The safety and training of divers and engineers is coming under close scrutiny

    by th e in du stry. Re po rt by BR UC E MC MICH AE L

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    Seven Atlantic (pictured above) is being

    built at the Netherlands-based Merwede

    shipyard and will be able to deploy four

    remotely operated vessels (ROVs) and two

    24-man saturation diving systems,

    specifically designed to operate in 350

    metres of water in the North Sea.

    Meanwhile, Frances Acergy DSV

    Acergy Havila (see overleaf) will be one of

    the most capable vessels of its kind when

    it is del ivered in 2010 its 24-man

    saturation diving system will be rated to

    operate in 400 metres of seawater.

    Also, competitor company Technip is

    hoping to get a new DSV into its fleet

    before the end of 2008. The vessels will be

    working offshore Norway on a frame

    agreement with StatoilHydro and will also

    have a 24-man saturation diving system.However, the industrys troubled past still

    serves to remind us all of the hazards

    involved in the industry. Earlier this year, 19

    North Sea divers lost a court case lodged

    against the Norwegian state, after the

    judge ruled the government wasnt liable

    for the ill-effects of hurried diving in support

    of Norways offshore build-up of the 1970s

    and 1980s.

    The group of divers had brought the suit

    hoping a compensation claim for lost

    earnings and medical bills worth some

    Kroner280m (US$49m) might be extended

    to the government. Many have already

    received some compensation from

    the parastata l oil company

    StatoilHydro.

    I t is now commo nly

    believed that North Sea

    saturation divers operating

    out of bells and often forced into

    decompression were carrying

    an abnormally high workload in the

    heyday of the business, particularly

    through the 1960s and into the early

    1980s.

    Many of the d ivers making thecompensation claim are afflicted with long-

    term decompression sickness or the

    bends, where ordinary bodily functions

    shut-off after being damaged by what are

    believed to be slowly releasing gas bubbles

    coming out of solution in the blood.

    For these and many other reasons the

    international community has taken steps to

    improve the training and working lives of

    divers. Taking a leading role to improve

    safety performance is the UK-based

    maritime contractors group, International

    Maritime Contractors Association (IMCA).

    IMCA takes the training and welfare of

    divers very seriously, and takes a broad

    view of its vital place in the industry.

    IMCA maintains some 200 guideline

    documents relating to international good

    practice, mostly about diving and dynamic

    positioning. A short while ago, for example,

    the IMCA Remote Systems and ROV

    Division Management Committee and the

    Contracts Workgroup of the association, in

    consultation with Stronachs Solicitors of

    Aberdeen, published the Contract for the

    Provision of ROV, Support Vessel and

    Associated Work.

    The association also issues safet y

    flashes to the industry. A recent case, for

    example, occurred when a screw failed in a

    divers helmet, immediately filling it with

    water. The diver was unharmed, but an

    IMCA safety flash, helped with a recall of

    masks, and the manufacturer was able to

    check and fix them all.

    Hugh Williams, chief executive of IMCA,

    says, The annual $20bn offshore marine

    contracting industry is responsible for

    construction work on major oil and gas field

    developments globally as wel l as

    undertaking specific contract work for field

    improvements and extensions.

    Sophisticated vessels are vital for the

    safe and efficient support of underwater

    and surface construction, so many would

    expect the industry to be overjoyed by the

    knowledge that over $17bn-worth of new

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    Merwede

    Seven Atlantic

    Diving Support/ROV Support Vessel

    Yard number 713

    Delivery year 2009Purchaser Subsea 7

    Built by Merwede Shipyard

    LOA 144.85 metres

    Lpp 128.96 metres

    Breadth 26.00 metres

    Depth 12.00 metres

    Design draught 7.00 metres

    Scantling draught 8.00 metres

    Speed 13.60 knots

    Deadweight 11,885 tonnes

    DP Class 3

    Main crane 150 tonnes

    capacity

    Operating depth 2,500 metres

    Pipe Capacity 3,000 tonnes

    Max diameter 16inch

    No divers 24

    No dive bells 2

    Operating depth 350 metres

    Workclass ROVs 2

    Observation ROVs 1

    Total inst power 21,700kW

    DIVE

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    92008 issue one

    ENERGY PROFILE

    C-CESS Co UK Ltd, Britains

    leading micro ROV manufacturer

    has del ivere d a n AC-ROV

    Underwater Inspection System

    to FMC Technologies Ltd.

    FMC Te chnologies, the leading

    manufacturer and supplier of subsea

    production systems, had a requirement to

    update and improve the visual inspection of

    subsea equipment within its test tank.

    Historically, a network of dropper cameras

    has been used to monitor the testing of

    equipment.

    The biggest problem that FMC testers

    had was differentiating between leaks and

    air pockets, because dropper camerascould not get in close enough and were

    extremely difficult to manipulate. This and

    the fact that many areas could not be

    accessed with a dropper camera caused

    major testing delays. A solution was

    required to overcome these difficulties.

    FMC decided to go ahead with the

    purchase of the AC-ROV after a very

    successful trial at its Dunfermline site.

    It took approximately half an hour from

    vehicle deployment for the FMC charge-

    hands to give a resounding thumbs-up to

    the AC-ROV. After witnessing the vehicles

    amazing mobility, picture quality and easy

    control, they realised how much test time

    would be saved as a result of the AC-ROVs ability to ingress all but the smallest

    spaces in the fabric of the subsea tree used

    for the purposes of the trial.

    Two hours after deployment, three

    charge-hands had enough piloting skill to

    fly the AC-ROV under the tree and up the

    bore (9.5-inch diameter) an area

    previously out of reach for dropper

    cameras and other underwater visual

    inspection tools. The connectors housed

    inside the bore were viewed with ease and

    the vehicle was piloted back out each time

    without incident. Managers at FMC were

    impressed by the robustness of the vehicle,

    the small area the system required for

    deployment and the price of the systemagainst potential and significant time and

    cost savings.

    Callum Magee of AC-CESS points to this

    sale as helping reinforce the AC-ROV as

    the only serious micro ROV for confined

    ingress inspection work. ep

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    112008 issue one

    ENERGY PROFILE

    it was ready to go. The VideoRay was

    simply hand-lowered down the centre of

    the turret and into the moonpool area, from

    where it was flown down to the bottom of

    the turret and then up into the space

    between turret and hull to inspect the

    turret fender.

    There had been considerable scepticism

    onboard the FPSO about the abilities of the

    VideoRay when people saw its size only

    4kg and picked up with one hand. But this

    soon changed when it was seen launched

    in conditions normally out of the range of

    standard ROVs. This was due to the ability

    to launch through the turret moonpool

    area, and the system was found to be quite

    able to go through the splash zone surge

    area without any problem, dive to the

    bottom of the turret and start inspection.

    Almost simultaneously with these

    operations in the UK, we find VideoRay

    systems being deployed for similar tasks

    on FPSOs around the world; in the South

    China Sea and also offshore Sakhalin

    Island, proving that the systems are gaining

    international recognition and offshore

    credibility wherever they are put to work.

    On fixed platforms there can also be

    inspection challenges which cannot easily

    be met. Such a case was within the cells of

    a concrete gravity base platform which

    required inspection within each of the cells.

    The access to the cells was through a very

    small opening and each cell had very

    limited interconnections. After some

    discussion between the owners, the team

    contracted to carry out the inspection and

    ourselves, a plan was formulated to use a

    VideoRay PRO 3, equipped with scanning

    sonar and manipulator, to allow the

    position within each cell to be established

    and also any test instrument required to be

    carried down to the operational area. Two

    systems were purchased for the operation

    as there was considered to be a significant

    risk of loss in the confined space operation

    within the deeper cells.

    Due to the depth of operation and the

    positioning of the entry point, it was

    decided to use the small ROV as a fly out

    from a workclass system which would

    operate as a mother ship for the VideoRay

    and post it into the structure where it

    would operate independently, with the

    workclass system then providing the

    support functions such as umbilical

    management.

    The system was successfully deployed

    and carried out the inspection and a further

    number of tasks over the following years.

    All of these missions were successful in

    providing information not readily available

    by other means. The systems are still in

    regular use to this day, having regular trips

    offshore after which they receive a full

    service and return to the shelf until the

    next requirement.

    In the recent growing interest in

    renewable power, the offshore arena has

    lagged somewhat behind its onshore

    cousin, however, a number of forward-

    thinking innovators are making significant

    steps forward in order to redress the

    balance and we are finding great interest in

    the physically smaller class of ROV from

    these firms.

    Recent successful installation and

    testing work by two of the UKs leadingfirms in the renewable technology sector

    have seen extensive benefits being gained

    by the use of their ROV systems. A leading

    wave power generation firm, and subsea

    turbine installation, have both gained

    much-needed information about the

    behaviour characteristics, their systems

    moorings and operational parameters by

    use of their micro ROVs.

    We fully expect the range of operations

    carried out by these small ROV systems to

    increase as operators and contractors

    come to realise the abilities of the system.

    With cont inuing innovat ion in the

    technology behind the micro ROV we see

    new possibilities opening up for the

    systems to carry out work previously

    considered to be either too expensive, too

    dangerous or just in too restricted a space.

    The array of instruments carried by these

    ROVs now range from sonar, both

    scanning and multibeam, through a myriad

    of customer-designed special tools to the

    exciting developments in high-definition

    cameras, significant power increases

    with intelligent attitude control and tethers

    that can provide the operator with a

    defined ROV position.

    All in all the user of the micro ROV within

    the energy sector finds he has a highly

    flexible tool, which in may cases is making

    life easier for the owner of the offshore

    asset, the operator and also the contractor

    tasked with the various inspections; all at

    significantly less cost than they had

    previously considered possible. ep

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    With more than 1000 micro-ROVs in action around the globe, the

    8-pound VideoRay is the choice of professionals performing

    mission-critical underwater operations. VideoRay performs in

    extreme conditions and is the underwater robot more professionals

    choose for Homeland Security, Port & Ship Inspections, Offshore &

    Inland Surveys, Search and Recovery, and Research Operations.

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