ROV’s - The Management Contractors Requirements

ROV’s in past years have been very much a tail-end requirement within offshore Construction Contracts, for jackets/platforms and pipeline installations. Scant regard has been given to their use and specification for application within such Contracts. Their importance to a project has been considered minimal by both the Management Contractor, Detail Design Engineer (who prepares the overall construction Invitation to Tender Scope of Work), and the Client Organisation. This situation is now changing due mainly to the ROV’s increasing offshore experience and developing sophistication. For example the use in 1984 of multiple ROV’s for positioning and installation of the CONOCO Hutton TLP in the North Sea.