UUVs are used extensively for commercial applications such as oil and gas exploration, underwater infrastructure inspection (cables, pipelines, etc.) scientific research and even underwater salvage.
EU grants the Ship-aH2oy project EUR 15 million to equip an offshore wind vessel with a sustainable and scalable solution for power and heat generation.
The CO2Flow project aims to analyse opportunities for safe transport and injection of CO2, both with and without impurities, to accelerate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology development.
The complex project, in Europe’s busiest part of the North Sea, involved the inspection of two platforms and over 40 kilometres of pipeline off the coast of the Netherlands.