Project Description
Oil and gas subsea equipment is often impacted by marine growth and leads to failure that is costly to the industry. To investigate how different types of equipment react to exposure to seawater in deep waters, Woodside deployed an “Anti-Marine Growth Structure” (AMGS) in one of their fields. During deployment, this structure provided important insight (through ROV inspections) on the biofouling properties of a number of materials and a larger program of work has subsequently been initiated to inform whether the impacts are due to marine animals or abiotic processes.
This prototype focused on creating a recovery plan for the AMGS as well as the scientific approach to analyse the results.