Saipem and OSRL expand services agreement to include deployment of FlatFish for offshore monitoring and inspection

Aug 10, 2022 · Partnership · Saipem · Maritime

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  • 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 detection, plume monitoring, dispersant concentration monitoring, environmental assessment, and patrolling.
  • The agreement positioned FlatFish as a fielded subsea robotics asset inside a live offshore response and monitoring partnership.

Saipem is an Italian offshore engineering company with an in-house underwater robotics program around the Hydrone platform. Its FlatFish system supports resident subsea inspection and autonomous monitoring.