SUBTECH '95:
Addressing the Subsea Challenge
Proceedings of the international conference, held 1995 and co-sponsored
by IMCA
ISBN 0 906940 27 3, Softbound, 1995
285 pp., 89 figures and tables
Order Reference C10, Price £40
These proceedings address the needs of the subsea and intervention
industry during a time of financial and physical challenges,
with low oil prices and a need to develop small and deepwater
fields economically. The resulting technologies include improved
designs and the use of new and alternative materials to help
reduce the burden of routine inspection and maintenance costs,
and improve operating procedures.
In addition to subsea engineering design, submersibles have
evolved dramatically from sophisticated unmanned, but tethered,
vehicles in the eighties, to the development of autonomous vehicles.
At the same time, the industry has developed an impressive array
of tools to meet the complexities of subsea tasks, and further
innovations that will be needed for operations in deeper and
more difficult water.
Aimed at engineers, designers and operators, these proceedings
describe how the industry is rising to meet these challenges,
in a programme of varied sessions.
Sections are:
Keynote Address; Subsea Robotics; Deepwater Developments;
Technical Developments; Diving and Physiology; and Operational
Experience.
Contents
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The Subsea
Business Revolution—Sink or Swim for Offshore Contracting –
R Shepherd
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RD&D in the
Market of the Millennium – K Bassiti
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Dangerous
Encounters: Safety to Installations and Fishing Gear –
K Knox and AG Hopper
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Inspection
of Subsea Nodal Welds by the ARM Robot Manipulator –
DR Broome, TJ Larkum and MS Hall
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The TUUV
Program, I Edwards; An AUV for Pipeline Survey—The Next Step
in Low Cost Remote Operations Technology –
J Gooder and A Tonge
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Unmanned
Mini-Submarine for Offshore Inspections –
A Bjerrum, B Krogh and L Henriksen
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Deepwater
Welding and Intervention Technology –
JH Nixon and IM Richardson
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SnapLay—A
Modular Pipelay Technique – M Craig
and M Dick
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Remote Low
Cost Subsea Control System – P Hands
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Back to
Basics—The Economically Alternative Tree Design –
AC Dyson and JC Cullion
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The Next 5
Years, M Witton; Integrated Subsea Production Surveillance:
Sensors for Subsea Production Systems –
ELE Kluth
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Detecting
Freespans in Sidescan Sonar Records—Automatically –
C Reid and AD Tress
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Horizon
2000: A Novel System Approach to Inspection and Integrity
Monitoring of Flexible Flowlines and Risers –
B G Redden
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Testing
Communications Systems on Diving Installations –
V Flook
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The
IMCA-HSE-UKOOA Dive Data Management System (DDMS) –
JC Gardiner and ST Brooke
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Noise
Hazard in the Diving Environment – J
Nedwell and K Needham
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Development
of Cyclops—A Diver’s Helmet Display System for Offshore
Inspection and Maintenance Operations –
AG Robinson and N Wright
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Operational
Experience of Multipass and Backfill Ploughs –
JB Machin
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Work Class
ROVs: What are the Performance Limits and How Can They Be
Extended? – HW Williams
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Towards ROV-less
Installation: Experience Gained on BP Cyrus –
I Edwards
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Fulmar SALM
Buoy Removal—An Application of Cold Cutting –
A West and AG Counsell
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Cold
Cutting for Decommissioning – T Copros
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