Reach Subsea announces the official confirmation of the delivery of the Reach Remote 1 USV. The official delivery confirmation marks the successful completion of Reach Remote 1 including technical installations, testing and documentation, all of which have been finalized and signed off.
The second vessel, Reach Remote 2 is set to begin sea trials soon, with delivery to follow shortly after.
Reach Remote is an uncrewed 24-meter surface vessel equipped with hull-mounted survey sensors and a Work Class Electric ROV.
Scheduled for deployment under the Norwegian Flag, these vessels are poised to revolutionize offshore subsea operations, aligning with sustainability initiatives.
Reach Remote offers secure, eco-friendly, and cost-effective solutions for global subsea inspection, survey, and intervention services.
This ground breaking project integrates Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), paving the way for advancements in remote maritime technologies and marking a significant milestone in global maritime operations.
The USV will be equipped with state-of-the-art systems to enable remote operations, covering requirements from all stakeholders such as regulators, clients, and class. Multiple communication systems are incorporated in the design, such as VSAT, 5G, Iridium, Ceragon Pointlink and Starlink.
The USV is equipped with the newest technology from Kongsberg including hull mounted dual EM2040 multibeam echosounder and a Topas PS120 sub-bottom profiler system.
The ZEEROV system has the capacity to carry all standard survey systems, including dual multibeam, side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiler systems. The navigation is improved by the built-in acoustically aided inertial navigation system.
The vessel have the capacity to perform bathymetric survey and sub-bottom surveys to a water depth of 500m using the hull mounted equipment. Utilizing EM2040 in a dual configurations enables superior swath and data resolution ratio.
ZEEROV work class payload capacity further enable the USV as data collection platform. The ZEEROV will have acoustically aided inertial navigation system to improve the HiPAP 502 positioning.
The ZEEROV will be able to provide high resolution geophysical survey including gradiometer, visual and acoustic pipeline surveys, general visual and photogrammetry inspection surveys.
The survey operations will be monitored from the survey operational center and near real-time data acquisition results will be provided continuously for quality control and made available for employers in a visualized solution.
Unlike traditional crewed subsea vessels, Reach Remote represents a groundbreaking approach to conducting subsea work scopes, with positive impacts on efficiency, safety and environmental sustainability with an objective to reduce emissions by 90%.
The Reach Remote 1 USV will now be prepared and outfitted with subsea equipment for the earlier announced pilot project with Equinor, TotalEnergies and other major energy companies and includes a variety of relevant survey, ROV intervention, IMR and monitoring related work scope which will demonstrate the full capacity of the Reach Remote spread.
The scope of work is part of a full-scale operation and will be executed offshore in the North Sea and Norwegian Sea on production fields such as Troll, Gullfaks, Snorre and Åsgard. ■