Dive Works, as Project Manager, successfully completed an Offshore Pipeline and Marine Structures Survey located off the coast of Port Moresby, in PNG during September and October 2016.
This was the first inspection of the approximately 400km long pipeline and marine structures, since the as-built survey conducted four years earlier.
The campaign was conducted from a single main vessel, Outer Limit, and included specialist services of Bintang Subsea for survey, inspection, reporting and CP measurements.
Divided into three phases, the project included a terminal inspection and CP survey of navaids, fenders, and substructures, and offshore and shallow water pipeline inspection and survey.
Dive Works Observation Class ROVs were fitted with a CP (Cathodic Protection) Probe, sonar, and manipulator.
Dive Works Work Class ROV was fitted with a tooling skid, which consisted of boom arm cameras and lighting. A CP (cathodic protection) probe, we also had a pipe tracker. In the event the pipeline was in 100% burial, the pipe could still be followed until it came out of burial
In conjunction with the ROVs, Dive Works used a high-resolution multibeam echosounder and sub-bottom profiler (pinger) as additional tools to complete the scope of work. Both systems were mounted on the vessel. Equipment included Dive Works Work Class and Observation Class ROVs, General inspection video and SONAR recording, bathymetric survey, Multi-beam Ecco sounder (MBES), and CP Inspection.
The jet boat ‘Gannet’ was used to conduct the shallow water survey
- Project duration: 12hr operations, over 14 days
Crew on board: 18
