Aberdeen center achieves remote inspection of North Sea platform
Aug. 4, 2020
Fugro has completed a full inspection of an oil and gas platform in the UK North Sea managed from its remote operations center in Aberdeen.
(Courtesy Fugro)
The remote operations center in Aberdeen.
Offshore staff
LEIDSCHENDAM, the Netherlands – Fugro has completed a full inspection of an oil and gas platform in the UK North Sea managed from its remote operations center (ROC) in Aberdeen.
Originally the company had intended simply to trial the remote inspection capability during the campaign.
But due to COVID-19 restrictions, only one offshore inspection engineer was able to travel to the platform, 250 km (155 mi) offshore Scotland. Inspection engineers based at the ROC in Aberdeen then undertook to deliver the entire project remotely in order to keep to the schedule.
An ROV was mobilized with dedicated remote systems for visual inspection, cathodic protection and flooded member detection, with all systems base-checked to confirm communications links with the ROC.
In addition, Fugro implemented a COABIS database across the onshore and offshore locations, allowing the client and ROC personnel to access data acquired by the ROV in near real time.
