Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)

Whether you work in the oil and gas industry, the utilities sector or government agencies, you can use our AUVs and specialist team to obtain engineering grade high resolution data for deep sea field development and seabed mapping.

Deepwater rated AUVs support surveys are used for deepwater field developments, site clearances, pipeline and cable routes, regional mapping and archaeological surveys.

Shallow water AUVs are used for ports and harbour surveys and useful in the offshore wind sector to hunt for unexploded mines – a major problem for wind farms, which have a far wider seabed footprint than oil and gas platforms.

Our fleet includes Echo Surveyor® and Echo Mapper class vehicles (both rated to 3,000 metres water depth) and shallow water REMUS 100 vehicles, suitable for port and harbour developments.

Our deep water Echo class AUV’s are mobilised either from one of our dedicated fleets of international survey vessels or from third party charter ships.

We combine AUV and conventional survey techniques and link them to efficient onboard processing and reporting systems operated by our skilled and experienced geoscientists.

The development of deep-water hydrocarbon discoveries presents fresh engineering design challenges. AUVs enable survey sensors to be deployed close to the seafloor and produce hydrographic and geophysical survey data of the highest quality and optimum resolution.

For deepwater or remote the planned field development, you can count on our fleet of AUVs to deliver great efficiencies in survey methodology and produce engineering survey data of the highest quality.

Our use of inbuilt Inertial Navigation System (INS) technology adds rigour to the positioning of geo-hazards and seabed features. Surveys can be completed sooner and with greater accuracy, while engineering design is optimised and development project risks are reduced.

The combined length of all line kilometres surveyed by our AUV fleet in the past few years comfortably exceeds the Earth's circumference at the equator five times.

The reach of our fleet is truly global, placing cost-effective leading edge survey data acquisition and processing capability at the disposal of all deepwater operators, no matter how remote the discovery.