WFS Technologies and Fugro Subsea Technologies announced an agreement to offer subsea wireless capability on all FCV Work Class ROVs beginning in 2015.
The partnership will deliver enhanced ROV solutions for subsea projects.
With this agreement, Fugro ROVs can communicate with all Seatooth enabled subsea devices, such as wireless pressure sensors, wireless pipeline integrity monitoring platform and wireless video cameras, no matter where in the world they are deployed.
The systems support three functions: high speed data for video streaming and downloading data from wireless dataloggers; medium speed data for command and control of remote wireless devices and wireless wake up remote devices from a very low power state.
Wireless subsea technology is becoming a fundamental part of the oil and gas industry worldwide.
Subsea radio technology has a distinct advantage when operating in adverse water conditions, such as in the presence of gas bubbles or high turbidity. Radio signals are unaffected by acoustic noise or bio-fouling, and are free from multi-path problems. As a result Seatoothis often the only technology that can offer reliable data transmission in the real operating environment.
“This partnership is an industry-first, integrating wireless technology with ROVs in the factory rather than in the field,” says Ian Crowther, WFS executive VP for Technologies. “It will accelerate the successful completion of subsea projects.”