Shell announces project to monitor its subsea assets with technology from the company Nauticus Robotics

The robotic platforms of the company Nauticus Robotics will monitor the submarine assets of the oil company Shell in a new project to collect data on the company's businesses with the support of international technology.

The oil company Shell has a contract signed with the company Nauticus Robotics for the use of the company's monitoring technology to collect diagnostic data about the assets submarines. In this way, Nauticus' Aquanaut and Hydronaut robotic platforms will be used in the project to guarantee the integrity of the oil company's underwater assets, which now aims to introduce even more modernization and technology in its international operations.

Robotic platforms from Nauticus Robotics will be used to monitor the integrity of Shell's subsea assets in the company's new project 

Houston-area marine technology company Nauticus Robotics announced a significant new partnership for the oil, natural gas and other fuels industry in the world market. This time with the multinational company Shell, which is now investing in its project to monitor its underwater assets.

In this way, the technology company will use its state-of-the-art equipment to guarantee Shell the necessary information to control the integrity of the oil company's subsea projects. Thus, Shell intends to advance in the qualification phase of a more efficient means of acquiring underwater integrity data using the robotic platforms Aquanaut and Hydronaut from Nauticus Robotics, which use state-of-the-art technology for collecting data at sea.

Shell will then be able to make the monitoring of the integrity of its subsea assets even more efficient and the project will allow both companies to share their experiences and knowledge for the development of an integration of services and solutions together with Nauticus Robotics technology. 

In addition, the oil company has already carried out an initial feasibility study of the technology project together with Nauticus Robotics recently and the team is now moving on to the operational qualification phase, which focuses on the remote operations of the robotic duo using supervised autonomy and control of tools using Nauticus technology.

The collaboration will then move on to enable the creation of an offshore pilot project, before necessarily moving to monitoring Shell's subsea assets in the future. 

Nauticus Robotics celebrates the contract and says that the project for monitoring subsea assets will be carried out with the company's best technology 

Todd Newell, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Nauticus Robotics, welcomed the agreement with Shell and said, “Working with a leading company like Shell is an exciting milestone for Nauticus, and this collaboration further validates the superior capabilities and the extensive use cases for our robots in the energy sector. Implementing our supervised autonomous method — which has proven to be more robust and dynamic than most of its kind — is expected to provide our partners and future customers with more than 50% cost savings compared to current operating methods.”

In addition, the company said it will use the cutting-edge technology of its robotic platforms to ensure more efficiency in the project. Thus, the company's main submarine robot, Aquanaut, which is deployed from the company's small surface vessel, and Hydronaut, a robot dedicated to Aquanaut's transport, recharge and communication operations, will be integrated, thus ensuring more quality in monitoring. of the oil company's subsea assets. 

Finally, Ross Doak, Deep Water Robotics Engineer on Shell's robotics team, reinforced that this is the time to bring together the best in technology and experience from both parties to the agreement to make the oil company's onshore sector even more efficient and safe.