Paper presented at UUVS 2007 Rovdrill：在2007 rovdrill系统的发展和应用.pdfVIP

Paper presented at UUVS 2007 Rovdrill® - The Development and Application of a New ROV Operated Seabed Drilling and Coring System. Allan Spencer – Business Line Manager, Geotechnical Systems. Perry Slingsby Systems Inc., 821 Jupiter Park Drive Jupiter, Florida 33458, USA Donald Faulds – Business Line Manager, Tooling and Robotics Perry Slingsby Systems Ltd., Kirkbymoorside N Yorks, YO62 6EZ, UK Abstract In March 2007, Nautilus Minerals Inc., announced that they have commenced their 2007 exploration and development programme with the mobilization of the Research Vessel “Wave Mercury” and the Survey Vessel “Aquila” onsite Papua New Guinea. The vessels are returning to the territorial waters of PNG, to continue a seabed sulphide deposit exploration programme on the Solwara 1 Project. This includes a 120 day drilling and sampling campaign. These drilling activities - ongoing at time of paper - are using 2 off specialist ROV mounted drilling / coring rigs at water depths in the +2000m range. The Rovdrill® units are provided by Perry Slingsby Systems Inc., of Jupiter, Florida, USA and operated by Canyon Offshore Inc., a Helix Energy Solutions Company, based in Houston. This paper describes the conception of Rovdrill® and its design, development and field operations. Conception of Rovdrill® and Pre-Existing Equipment Two of the drivers for the development of Rovdrill® were the use of proven drilling technology and readily available equipment, but at the same time not need to rely on expensive and limited supporting resources - such as drill ships, for its deployment and operation. A system that could be readily mounted and interfaced to, a work class ROV system ‘of opportunity’, with the minimum amount of reconfiguration, clearly presented a practical and economical proposition to those enterprises engaged in the business of deep water seabed surveying and sampling. While the Rovdrill® is the world’s first true ROV mounted and