Saipem Timeline

Events

• 2026-03-19 - Capability - Saipem's FlatFish underwater drone completes Petrobras test campaign and advances to the final project stage - Saipem announced that FlatFish successfully completed its offshore test campaign with Petrobras. The milestone moved the project into its final stage and validated autonomous underwater inspection performance in the target operating environment. The result… - source: saipem.com
• 2025-01-24 - Deployment - Unplugged supports 240-day Hydrone-R residency at Njord - Hydrone-R was recovered on 24 January 2025 after remaining deployed from 20 May 2024 at about 330 metres depth. The vehicle completed untethered autonomous inspection and leak-detection work while continuing its normal drill-support duties. A Blue Logic… - source: offshore-mag.com
• 2024-06-05 - Deployment - Unplugged enables 167-day subsea drone residency at Njord - Hydrone-R completed more than 280 docking and undocking actions during the continuous subsea period. The residency included more than 10 autonomous missions and 35 manipulations, including valve opening and closing. Unplugged designed the inductive couplers… - source: saipem.com
• 2023-01-19 - Contract Award - Saipem wins Petrobras contract to develop and test FlatFish-based autonomous underwater inspection solution offshore Brazil - Saipem reported a Petrobras contract for the development and testing of an autonomous underwater inspection robotic solution based on its fleet of underwater drones, starting from FlatFish. The scope also included qualification of autonomous drone-based… - source: saipem.com
• 2022-08-10 - Partnership - Saipem and OSRL expand services agreement to include deployment of FlatFish for offshore monitoring and inspection - Saipem and Oil Spill Response Limited extended their existing services agreement to include deployment of FlatFish, Saipem's underwater drone. The expanded scope covered environmental monitoring and asset-integrity inspection tasks including survey, leakage… - source: saipem.com
• 2019-04-04 - Deployment - JettyRobot completes Saipem South Stream pipeline project - Saipem contracted JettyRobot to clean four pipelines at the South Stream WP5.1 landfall facility. The JettyRobot team developed project-specific technology for the pre-commissioning work and completed the cleaning and inspection assignment. The deployment… - source: jettyrobot.com