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

This paper will present a commercialisation case study based on SeeByte's, SeeTrack Offshore product. It will show how work on BP's long term AUV 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 SeeByte's SeeTrack 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.