ATTACH Acoustic Tagging Technologies Applied to Cables and subsea Hardware

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Refining, transport and storage of oil and gas)

Applied Research and Development

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Physics)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Not Cross-cutting

Project Contact
SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Feasibility Studies

Innovate UK

01 October 2016

30 September 2017

12 months

£198,922

South West

Competition Call: 1504_FS_EGS_ENCATES3 - Energy Catalyst - Early Stage Feasibility - Round 3. Activity Energy Catalyst R3 FS

Project Contact, SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Project Contact, University of Birmingham
Project Contact, PRECISION ACOUSTICS LIMITED

The ATTACH (Acoustic Tagging Technologies Applied to Cables and subsea Hardware) project is a three-way collaboration between Subsea Asset Location Technologies (SALT) Ltd., Precision Acoustics Ltd. and the University of Birmingham to carry out a feasibility study to identify remote-sensing, acoustical methods of labelling high-value subsea energy assets, such as cables and pipelines. It is not generally appreciated that finding an asset might take a significant amount of time and money as the cable, or pipeline, might have been buried or moved as a result of ocean currents, the asset may then become invisible to a sonar system. Thus any method of tracking the asset without having to excavate it would dramatically reduce costs. The aim of this project is to design synthetic sonar targets that float above the asset and are significantly easier to detect using a sonar system then the asset itself. One can imagine that being able to see a string of such targets over a range of a few hundreds of metres (likened to cat’s-eyes whilst driving at night) would dramatically increase the detectability of such assets.

19/05/20