Environmental Effects Monitoring (EEM) is an importantudtool in assisting Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA). EEM inudthe offshore petroleum industry has been conducted world wide,udbut traditional approaches have struggled to keep apace asudexploration and production activities move to frontier regions,udsuch as increasingly deeper waters and Arctic regions. Thisudpaper proposes the use of autonomous underwater vehiclesud(AUVs) for environmental monitoring of offshore facilities as audmeans of improving and expanding the overall monitoringudprogram. The paper provides a review of technical andudprocedural issues involved in this application of AUVudtechnology, including the current status of offshore oil and gasudEEM, a review of available AUVs, and a survey ofuddevelopments in in-situ sensors
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