Underwater work by remotely operated vehicles (ROV's)
- Woodside Offshore Petroleum Fty. Ltd. (AU)
This paper describes experience with respect to underwater work carried out by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV's) on the North West Shelf Development Project, North Rankin A field located off the North West coast of Australia. Typical work includes detailed pipeline and platform inspections, underwater support for the installation of gravity anchors and associated guy wires, general construction support, underwater cutting, marine fouling removal, scour protection installation and pipeline stabilization. The paper describes special tooling procedures and systems developed to perform the work. Also presented are new information and statistics associated with bulk marine fouling removal by purpose designed/built remotely operated equipment. Specific data related to time/costs associated with performance of significant aspects of the work are presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 5283837
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8802143--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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