Wednesday 18th September 2024 | 1800hrs Presentations – 1930hrs Networking and Buffet
Aberdeenshire Cricket Club, Morningside Road, Aberdeen, AB10 7FB
Ticket Price (excluding VAT): £15 members, £25 non-members, including buffet.
The SUT is pleased to return with the very popular Gadgets and Widgets evening meeting. This meeting features short-fire presentations on latest technology developments. The presentation session will be followed by a buffet and networking session where the audience and presenters can interact, and potentially see some demonstrations of working equipment or software.
Programme
XAMIN Asset Data Management
Euan Fowler, Consultant Subsea Engineer, Xodus
XAMIN is Xodus’ digital platform and is the home of all our asset data management products. Each XAMIN app is specifically designed to modernise and optimise a different task, from managing integrity records to submitting chemical returns to the regulator. XAMIN Integrity Management has been developed since 2015 in collaboration with a number of key operators and is built on the foundations of an asset hierarchy and follows the widely accepted “Plan, Do, Check, Act” cycle, ensuring it is in line with IM codes of practice. To this we have added reporting, data visualisation, and configurable dashboarding to maximise the value. Xodus will share how our operators have benefitted by reducing the risk of the unknown and creating real cost savings year on year.
Advanced Underwater Vehicles for the lifting, positioning, and recovery of large subsea infrastructure
Fraser Pritchard, Chief Operating Officer, Smarter Subsea
The offshore energies sectors are seeing the need for greater innovation in lifting and handling subsea infrastructure. Cheaper, repeatable, autonomous, smaller vessels, diverse payloads, and low emissions are just some of the growing needs for subsea infrastructure deployment, positioning and recovery. Smarter Subsea Handling has designed several products using its ROVAR variable buoyancy system, which has unique cryogenic gasification control, able to handle loads from 10s to over 1000Te. This presentation will outline ROVAR variable buoyancy products for subsea infrastructure handling, provide an overview of the technology, and outline the multitude of applications across the marine sectors.
Fibre Optic Monitoring System
Alasdair Murray, System Sales Manager, MacArtney
The OMS is easily installed and configured in-line with existing cables for real-time monitoring of both live optical telemetry links and backup fibres. A built-in industrial computer and control software provide an intuitive, HMI-like graphical user interface (GUI), via an attached monitor, as well as front panel LEDs indicating status, active fibre, warnings, and triggered alarms. Readings and controls are accessible locally via the GUI or remotely via Ethernet, and powering down the OMS does not affect live data links.
Robotics Tools for the Splash Zone
Tim Eley, Business Developer, OceanTech Innovation
The tool was developed by OceanTech for a leading North Sea operator to operate in the difficult splash zone, where wind, waves and strong tides make it hazardous to operate with Divers and ROV equipment. The Splash Zone may be close to the surface, but it is still underwater! It is often more difficult to work here than at much deeper depths. The presentation will cover the development of the Robotic Inspection Tool (RIT) and sensors and show brief video footage of previous projects.
ROV Obstacle Alert System
Alex Lovie, Subsea System Sales, Imenco
ROV collisions with assets costing too much money in repairs and downtime? What if there was a simple to retrofit sensor, giving quick and easy to understand indication of nearby obstacles?
The Imenco Obstacle Alert System gives the pilot a view of multiple nearby objects, with simultaneous coverage around the vehicle even through turbid water. This small form factor, low-cost package avoids introducing significant overhead to ROV power and data systems. In an age of ever-increasing ROV activity, why not give your ROV the best visibility for manoeuvring?
A Hybrid Cloud-Edge Architecture to Supercharge Remote Subsea Operations
Dave Taddei, Head of Cloud Engineering, Honu Worx
HonuWorx’s technology leverages a novel mix of both cloud and edge computing to enable intelligent and efficient remote operations. This best of both worlds approach transforms the way data is ingested, processed and used. During our presentation we will outline the HonuWorx approach to remote operations, over the air communications platforms and lessons learned from three years of offshore deployment.
Dorsal Elastic Polyurethane Conductor and Caisson Restraint Mike Killeen, Managing Director, Mako Offshore
Lack of sufficient centralization leads to steel-on-steel contact between Guide ID and tubular OD due the environmental loading. This causes external damage to the tubular and could eventually lead to fatigue failures or fracturing of the guide. Subsea Dorsal centralizers prevent further damage to the conductor and guide in addition to reducing vibration migration to the structure. The combination of these benefits ensures tubulars, guides and ancillaries can safely extend through their original design life.
Where is your anchor and how will it behave?
Yaseen Sharif, Research Associate, University of Dundee
The kinematic behaviour of drag embedment anchors has become a recent research focus due to the increase in offshore renewable energy devices. This is due to their potential use as an anchoring system for future floating wind applications, in addition to the need to understand their penetration behaviour as a part of the Cable Burial Risk Assessment. Measuring the load-penetration behaviour of an anchor has proven to be a significant challenge, as any contact-based methods are likely to influence the penetration behaviour of the anchor. This presentation will outline the recent developments in centrifuge modelling equipment and techniques at the University of Dundee, to characterise the behaviour of drag embedment anchors during straight line, inclined and offline pulls. Utilising the latest metal 3D printing technology and in-house wireless sensors we are able to continuously measure the 3D position and orientation of the anchor during a drag event and the corresponding force.
