Oceaneering Conducts Freedom™ AUV Pipeline Inspection Pilot for TotalEnergies

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Utilizing the onboard adaptive behaviors, developed to provide additional insights into subsea features, Freedom™ demonstrated that it is capable of performing high quality operations, with the required data gathered in a single pass of the pipelines. The onboard autonomous capabilities, together with high specification instruments – including a laser scanning system and multibeam sonar technology – result in a detailed external inspection of subsea pipeline features. Freedom™ provides high quality data sets at a significantly increased speed compared with legacy ROV pipeline inspection methods. Freedom’s ability to conduct rapid pipeline inspection reduces the time required to conduct these operations, providing a cost-effective solution for our customers that also contributes towards reducing CO emissions.” Martin McDonald, Senior Vice President of Subsea Robotics, Oceaneering, said: “We are proud to work with our long-standing client, TotalEnergies, to prove that the mission readiness of the Freedom™ AUV and demonstrate key functions of this hybrid and resident-capable system. The capabilities of the Freedom™ AUV offer the opportunity to conduct wider ranging missions in both our current and future projects, including Offshore Wind, with the potential for integration with lighter uncrewed surface vessel support to reduce the environmental impact even further.” Freedom™, a hybrid AUV/ROV system, is the result of a long-term collaborative relationship between Oceaneering, TotalEnergies, and Chevron dating back to 2014, with Equinor joining the collaboration in 2019.

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