AI has the potential to transform how subsea operations are run but only if it’s solving the right problems. Every challenge theme we focus on comes straight from Operators on the front line. These are the pain points that drain time, capital and confidence and where AI can make the biggest impact. If you’re a tech start-up with the knowhow to overcome these using AI, we’d like to hear from you.
1. Intelligent risk, quantifying uncertainty.
Integrity management has always involved a degree of uncertainty. Tide Breaker has the potential to change that. Through AI-powered profiling, scoring and optimisation, Intelligent Risk could transform subjective judgement into quantified insight.
With clearer visibility of portfolio risk, Operators will be able to prioritise with precision, optimise spend and strengthen decision confidence.
2. Predictive Integrity, seeing degradation before it becomes downtime.
The future of integrity management won’t follow a calendar. Predictive Integrity could use AI forecasting to pinpoint when and why assets will degrade, enabling condition-based maintenance that prevents unplanned failures and extends asset life. By shifting from reactive to predictive planning, Operators could save millions in vessel days, avoid costly disruption and extend the life of subsea assets.
3. Autonomous Eyes, learning from every frame beneath the waves.
The subsea sector holds decades of inspection footage, much of it underused. Autonomous Eyes has the potential to unlock that data, turning archived video into actionable intelligence.
By training AI to detect, classify and respond to anomalies in real time, Operators could accelerate inspection workflows, enhance accuracy and enable a new era of unmanned operations.
This is the vision engine for the autonomous future, where subsea inspection becomes faster, safer and smarter.
4. Digital Engineer, your AI partner in delivery.
The Digital Engineer could reshape how engineering work is delivered. AI has the potential to automate planning, reporting and documentation tasks that drain time and resource. From campaign planning to scope generation, an AI assistant could take on the heavy lifting, freeing Engineers to focus on innovation, analysis and critical decisions.
5. Learning System, intelligence that never forgets.
Every inspection, every anomaly and every fix holds lessons for the next operation. The Learning System could ensure those lessons are never lost. By connecting and analysing data across portfolios, AI can identify trends, detect emerging risks and drive continuous improvement year after year.
The Wild Card, because innovation doesn’t fit into boxes.
These five challenges set our course, but they don’t set our limits. You clever techies have maybe thought of something we haven’t, so don’t hold back. If your AI breakthrough doesn’t fit neatly into one of these themes but could redefine subsea performance, we want to hear about it.
Bring us the wild ideas, often the unexpected applications are the game-changers.