BP´s AUV Development program, Long Term Goals - Short Term Wins

This paper will present a commercialisation case study based on see byte´s, see track offshore product. It will show how work on BP´s long term A UV development program has been captured providing quick wins to solve ROV handling problems faced by BP in GoM and other parts of the world The paper starts by outlining BP´s AUV program goals before describing the development and testing of see byte´s see track offshore product. The paper will conclude by looking at how ROV development work is now being ´spun´ back into BP´s wider long term AUV program focused on future sub ice operational needs.