AUVs experience LOFI boom

摘要

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are nothing new but are being used for more Life of Field Inspection (LOFI) contracts than predicted, says consultants Westwood Global Energy Group. 'They have been with us, in one guise or another, since the 1950s. Differing from their more complex family members, the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), they glide quicker through the water without the need to be tethered to a host vessel by an umbilical,' Ian McDonald, manager of EMEA Consulting, Westwood Global Energy Group.