Offshore staff
FARNBOROUGH, UK – Blue Ocean Seismic Services has secured £10 million ($13 million) in investment from BP Ventures, Woodside Energy, and Blue Ocean Monitoring.
The company will use the money for further development of an autonomous underwater vehicle.
This employs long-endurance, self-repositioning autonomous underwater nodes to conduct offshore seismic surveys for exploration and reservoir optimization, or to identify and monitor carbon storage potential beneath the seabed.
Blue Ocean has designed the technology to be containerized, scalable and modular for global deployment, and claims it can lead to reduced survey times, allowing results to be delivered faster and at a lower cost than current technologies.
The combination of faster surveys and autonomous vessels should also cut carbon emissions during operations, the company claims.
10/13/2020
