... Abstract Jacket structures all over the world are now reaching the limit of their estimated service life, but new discoveries and improved production methods require lifetime extension of the assets. In this paper, an automated underwater robot and a Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) eddy current...

... Abstract Robotics is often referred to as an enabler towards safer and more cost-effective operations within the energy industry. However, for robots to achieve their full potential they too require their own enablers. This paper intends to present a collection of lessons learnt in robotic...

... Abstract Robotics has the potential to transform the way operations in the Oil & Gas (O&G) industry are performed in the future. The launch of an international robotics competition called the ARGOS (Autonomous Robot for Gas and Oil Sites) challenge, based on a selective contest between...

... from subsea production facilities by an underwater buoy robot(SOATB-I), (2)autonomous tracking of spilled oil on the sea surface and transmission of useful data to a land station through satellites in real time by multiple floating buoy robots(SOTAB-II), (3)improvement of the accuracy of simulations...