Offshore staff
ABERDEEN, UK – Cortez Subsea has been deploying the MCS Photo Realistic 3D Cloud (PRC) subsea camera and software system for a program offshore Malaysia.
This scans structures and pipeline sections, forming a 3D cloud of millions of points presenting an as- built depiction of any scanned object, the company claims.
Murray Ross, general manager in Malaysia, said: “The PRC provides a quicker, safer and extremely accurate ROV deployed subsea measurement solution. In fact, it measures with plus or minus one millimeter accuracy…
“The data…can be transmitted in real time. Using an ROV and the PRC for inspection activities significantly reduces the time required in comparison to traditional techniques including divers.
“For example, in spool metrology, in one case, we noted it took 15 minutes for an ROV with PRC to fly and video the route of a spool from the pipeline to the riser in comparison to two hours required for a diver to perform the same activity using the traditional taut wire process.”
03/04/2020
