Houston-based Oceaneering International Inc., a provider of offshore oilfield engineered services and products, has reported to seeing a big push from its oil and gas customers for communications and data management technology that allows them to bring workers in from their offshore facilities, said Mark Stevens, Director of Global Data Solutions at Oceaneering, in an interview with Rigzone at a recent conference in Houston.
To reduce the number of workers offshore, companies are looking for ways to stream data from remote operations offshore to onshore monitoring centers. This includes data gathered from data platforms such as remotely operated vehicles (ROV), unmanned aerial systems (UAV), or drones, autonomous underwater vehicles, autonomous surface vehicles and automated guided vehicles. To meet these needs, video and data integration for asset management through a common operating picture (COP) is needed.