Energy
Platforms, pipelines, wind sites, licence blocks. Weeks of met-ocean and seabed data at a fraction of a vessel day.
The point
Most offshore questions are slow ones: how the current runs across a site, how a pipeline route sits on the seabed after a winter. They need weeks of data, and weeks of vessel are what nobody budgets.
A sail drone changes the unit. It runs the survey lines at walking pace, holds a met-ocean station for a season, and passes along a pipeline route every few days, with no crew to rotate and no fuel to bring out.
It works inside the safety zone of a platform because it is small, slow and quiet, and it works at a licence block nobody has visited because it does not need a port nearby.
We deliver
Wind, wave, current and water column at the site, hourly, for as many weeks as the design study needs.
Camera and echosounder passes along the pipeline route and around the platform legs, with time, position and the images.
Bathymetry along the survey lines and current profiles through the water column, delivered as grids and time series.
Every vessel seen along the route or inside the safety zone, from AIS and camera, for the operator and for the authority.
Data in the formats your engineers use, on your infrastructure if you want it there, with the metadata a design study requires.
Example
Example mission
A hundred days of wind, wave and current data at a floating wind site off the west coast of Sardinia, before anyone builds anything. The drone holds station at the centre of the block, profiles the water column every hour and runs a line across the site once a week. The developer receives the met-ocean dataset a design study needs, without a buoy to install or a vessel to charter.
Example mission, not yet flown
How it runs
Site, parameters, survey lines and duration, with your engineers. The output is a mission plan and a number of sea days.
Hulls arrive by road and go in from the nearest quay. Inside a safety zone the operator's procedures apply and we follow them.
The control room runs the lines and the station. Your engineers follow the data live and can move a line or add a pass.
The dataset lands in your format at the end, with the metadata and the quality flags a design study requires.
Questions
Yes, with the operator's permission and procedures. It is small, slow and quiet, and it keeps a distance from the structure that the operator sets.
Positioning to half a metre with corrections, depth to the accuracy of a single-beam echosounder. It is a reconnaissance and monitoring survey, not a multibeam charting campaign.
For weeks of presence, yes. For a multibeam campaign or a diver, no. The two are used together: the drone tells the vessel where to go.
Live on a dashboard during the mission, and as a dataset at the end in the formats your engineers use, on your infrastructure if you prefer.
Next step
A block, a route or a platform, and the parameters your study needs. We come back with a mission plan and the sea days it takes.