Geoconsult will combine remotely operated vehicle and autonomous underwater vehicle technology for seabed mapping, ROV services, and subsea construction support services.
Geoconsult will combine remotely operated vehicle and autonomous underwater vehicle technology for seabed mapping, ROV services, and subsea construction support services. It plans to combine an AUV with an ROV or EM300/EM1002 hull-mounted multibeam echo sounder. HUGIN 3000-GC is the second commercial AUV delivered by Kongsberg Simrad. Geoconsult believes this will increase its ability to survey the North Sea and deepwater areas in West Africa, Brazil, Mexico, and the Far East. For every dollar spent on seabed mapping, $7 are saved for the company's main customers, cable and oil and gas industries, according to Survey Manager Arvid Pettersen. The more detailed the data obtained, the more cost effective a project design can be. He said cost effectiveness increases with the water depth.
