QuickChat | Choosing the Right ROV Tooling Model
In this video, Bruce Beaubouef of Offshore Magazine, sits down with Blanca Montoya, Subsea Robotics Product Manager at Oceaneering, to discuss the evolving role of ROV tooling in offshore operations. Montoya explores how rental, managed, customer-owned, and custom-engineered tooling solutions can help offshore teams address varying project requirements, timelines, budgets, and technical challenges. The conversation also examines how engineering expertise, tooling availability, and digital access to tooling inventories are shaping customer expectations and helping organizations improve readiness, simplify mobilization, and make more informed decisions about the right tooling strategy for each project.
Timestamps:
- 0:00 | Intro
- 1:28 | What factors determine whether an operator should rent tooling, own tooling, or invest in a custom-engineered solution?
- 3:17 | How do you see offshore tooling strategies evolving over the next five years?
- 5:02 | How is the industry responding to the move to longer duration dives and even the electrification of ROV systems?
- 7:00 | What impact is digital access to tooling inventories and catalogs having on customer expectations
- 8:01 | If there is one misconception about ROV tooling that you would like to challenge, what would it be?
- 8:01 | What drives tooling development or expansion of the tooling portfolio?
- 11:23 | Where do you go to learn more?
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About the Author
Bruce Beaubouef
Senior Lead Reporter / Managing Editor
Bruce Beaubouef is Managing Editor for Offshore magazine. In that capacity, he plans and oversees content for the magazine; writes features on technologies and trends for the magazine; writes news updates for the website; creates and moderates topical webinars; and creates videos that focus on offshore oil and gas and renewable energies. Beaubouef has been in the oil and gas trade media for 25 years, starting out as Editor of Hart’s Pipeline Digest in 1998. From there, he went on to serve as Associate Editor for Pipe Line and Gas Industry for Gulf Publishing for four years before rejoining Hart Publications as Editor of PipeLine and Gas Technology in 2003. He joined Offshore magazine as Managing Editor in 2010, at that time owned by PennWell Corp. Beaubouef earned his Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1997, and his dissertation was published in book form by Texas A&M University Press in September 2007 as The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005.