GLASGOW, UK — Sulmara has supported Bayou Bend CCS LLC with offshore investigations along the proposed route of the Bayou Bend pipeline off southeast Texas.
The company deployed an electric WAM-V 16 uncrewed surface vessel (USV) for a high-resolution geophysical survey for archaeological and geohazard assessment purposes.
Bayou Bend is designed to reduce emissions from local regional industrial facilities through subsurface storage of the CO2.
The seabed program used the SpaceX-backed Starlink satellite system to safeguard communications between the shore and the USV.
“With the survey area around 15 km from shore, we integrated the WAM-V with Starlink to achieve higher speed communications with the mobile remote command center," project manager Darius Rivera Darius said. “This is the first time we have been able to go beyond the 3-km mark with this size USV, ensuring improved quality of data and reducing the time needed to collect the information when compared to a conventional survey vessel.”
