Sustained autonomous environmental monitoring of offshore oil fields

海上油田持续自主环境监测

• 批准号: NE/S009426/1
• 负责人: Andrew Gates
• 金额: $ 4.56万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS009426%2F1
• 关键词: Sustained; autonomous; environmental; monitoring; offshore

NERC and NOC are at the forefront of the development of innovative methods to improve observations in the oceans using robotic systems such as Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. These robots have allowed scientists to gain important insights to the distribution of life in different marine habitats in unprecedented detail and understand more about the processes that explain where the animals are found. Marine habitats are under increasing pressure from many different human impacts; e.g. fishing, pollution and mineral resource extraction but NERC's research developing innovative monitoring methods has the potential to help industry to improve environmental data collection and monitoring to mitigate environmental impacts. In this Innovation Partnership project we propose to work with the hydrocarbon company Hurricane Energy Plc. We will spend four months working in the company to explore the use of the latest marine robots and other autonomous systems developed by NERC and NOC as well as commercially available systems to improve the quality of information acquired from environmental surveys. The objective is to exchange knowledge with Hurricane to help increase the quality and efficiency of these surveys. There will be a phase of the project in which we work directly with Hurricane Energy's environmental manager to determine their requirements. This will be followed by a phase in which we propose a series of options based on different types of technology to address their environmental data collection challenges. These will be compared with conventional methods of environmental data collection to enable Hurricane to make informed choices and will include liaison with the industry regulators. The project draws on experience working with industry to incorporate MAS into routine operations and emergency response to oil spills (NE/P013228/1) and environmental monitoring of decommissioned oil and gas infrastructure (NE/P016561/1). It will also make use of real-world experience from scientific AUV and fixed-point observatory use; in particular on the NOC's development of pioneering methods to assess spatial ecology of benthic habitats e.g. NERC AESA project NE/H021787/1 and time-series monitoring of the Haig Fras Marine Protected Area, surveys of Rockall Bank and long-term monitoring at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain through the NERC Sustained Observing Programme. It also gains from NOC's existing collaborative project with Hurricane Energy through their participation in the NOC led SERPENT Project (use of industry remotely operated vehicles during stand-by time for scientific study).This work is particularly relevant and timely as Hurricane Energy develop the Greater Lancaster Area and will begin explooration of the Greater Warwick Area, West of Shetland, UK.

NERC和NOC处于开发创新方法的最前沿，使用自主水下航行器等机器人系统改善海洋观测。这些机器人使科学家们能够以前所未有的详细程度对不同海洋栖息地的生命分布情况获得重要的见解，并更多地了解解释动物在哪里被发现的过程。例如钓鱼，污染和矿产资源开采，但NERC的研究开发创新的监测方法有可能帮助工业改善环境数据收集和监测以减轻环境影响。在这个创新合作项目中，我们建议与碳氢化合物公司Hurricane Energy Plc合作。我们将在该公司工作四个月，探索使用NERC和NOC开发的最新海洋机器人和其他自主系统以及商业可用系统，以提高从环境调查中获得的信息质量。目的是与Hurricane交流知识，以帮助提高这些调查的质量和效率。在项目的一个阶段，我们将直接与飓风能源的环境经理合作，以确定他们的要求。在此之后的一个阶段，我们将根据不同类型的技术提出一系列选项，以解决他们的环境数据收集挑战。这些将与传统的环境数据收集方法进行比较，以使飓风能够做出明智的选择，并将包括与行业监管机构的联络。该项目借鉴了与工业界合作的经验，将MAS纳入日常作业和对石油泄漏的应急反应（NE/P013228/1）以及退役石油和天然气基础设施的环境监测（NE/P016561/1）。它还将利用科学自主式潜水器和定点观测站使用的实际经验;特别是国家海洋和沿海区委员会开发了评估底栖生境空间生态的开创性方法，例如NERC AESA项目NE/H 021787/1和黑格弗拉斯海洋保护区的时间序列监测，通过NERC持续观测方案，对Rockall Bank进行了调查，并对Porcupine深海平原进行了长期监测。它还得益于NOC与Hurricane Energy现有的合作项目，即参与NOC主导的SERPENT项目（在科学研究待命期间使用工业遥控飞行器）。这项工作在Hurricane Energy开发大兰开斯特地区并将开始勘探英国设得兰群岛以西的大沃里克地区之际尤为相关和及时。

项目成果

Ecological Role of an Offshore Industry Artificial Structure

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00675
• 发表时间: 2019-11
• 期刊: Frontiers in Marine Science
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: A. Gates;T. Horton;Amanda Serpell-Stevens;C. Chandler;L. Grange;K. Robert;A. Bevan;Daniel O. B. Jones

Enhancing the Scientific Value of Industry Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in Our Oceans

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00220
• 发表时间: 2020-04-15
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: McLean, Dianne L.;Parsons, Miles J. G.;Jones, Daniel O. B.
• 通讯作者: Jones, Daniel O. B.

Short-Term Response of Deep-Water Benthic Megafauna to Installation of a Pipeline Over a Depth Gradient on the Angolan Slope

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.880453
• 发表时间: 2022-06
• 作者: Virginia Biede;A. Gates;Simone Pfeifer;J. Collins;C. Santos;Daniel O. B. Jones

Recommendations for the Standardisation of Open Taxonomic Nomenclature for Image-Based Identifications

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.620702
• 发表时间: 2021-02-08
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Horton, Tammy;Marsh, Leigh;Appeltans, Ward
• 通讯作者: Appeltans, Ward