inspections

Inspection and certification services provider will continue select asset work for Ithaca Energy through January 2025.

Advanced nondestructive-testing technology such as drones and robotics were tried in Abu Dhabi National Oil Company gas-processing field sites successfully and demonstrated the benefits of using such technology for inspections to ensure asset integrity without any compromise on safety while saving time and operational expenses.

The risk-management firm is teaming up with academia and a robotics specialist for a research project focused on automatic processing of data gathered by autonomous and remote-controlled vehicles.

Saudi Aramco is accelerating the adoption and scaleup of disruptive and multipurpose robotic technologies to deliver safer, cost-effective, and efficient inspection capabilities, emergency response, aerial mapping, project monitoring, security surveillance, and environmental monitoring.

An autonomous robot will be deployed on an offshore platform for the first time by Equinor. The operator plans to use it as its eyes and sensors on future platforms where humans will visit only intermittently.

The paper describes the steps that have already been taken to create an industry-wide group that includes operators, class regulators, and service providers to agree on the primary challenges and to encourage development of practical solutions in a cost-efficient way.

On the normally unmanned Valhall Flank West platform, the survey of a 1-year-old box boom pedestal crane featured auto-testing of the automatic overload protection system. A similar inspection program was performed on two knuckle boom cranes on a FPSO vessel in Skarv.

Akers BP said it will use lessons learned from the pilot and scale the remote-assist concept across its assets.

The fully remote inspection was conducted with an ROV to increase worker safety and security and reduce environmental exposure on an offshore platform.

The inspection projects to assess water ingress will be done via remotely operated vehicle.