Friday 22 May 2020

Rovco has announced it has recently purchased the Saab Seaeye Leopard. As one of the offshore energy's leading providers of ROV and hydrographic services, coupled with artificial intelligence-based technol, this investment adds to the growing fleet of ROVs, expanding our subsea capability and capacity much further.

The purchase of Seaeye Leopard is the latest investment in our asset pool, which strategically increases our capability to serve a growing number of customers. This high-performance electric "Fast ROV" work-class platform, known to function well in difficult conditions, increases our service offering to support wind farm installations and maintenance projects throughout the life cycle of subsea related tasks. The aim is to serve customers' need in areas such as construction support, seabed, cable and pipeline investigation and installation, and this vehicle backs up the Teams' capability to deliver on its 15m+ pipeline of upcoming work and will bolster the range of our already growing portfolio of subsea projects.

The Seaeye Leopard is designed to offer customers an exceptionally powerful electric work-class ROV. The Leopard's technical features and impressive performance, enables greater workablity and station keeping, opening up wider operational weather windows, and thereby increasing project efficiency through reduced downtime. The vehicles' design along with a compact Launch and Recovery spread, allows for fast mobilization and demobilization to and from a wider range of vessels without the needs for extensive modifications to the deck of support the setup. The all-electric design combined with these typically smaller host vessels helps reduce project CO2 emissions and lowers the overall cost of projects to Rovco's customers.

Simon Miller, our General Manager said: "We are extremely proud to have purchased this great asset. The Seaeye Leopard provides us with an extremely capable, multi-purpose work-class ROV, which is the perfect platform to support our immediate customer needs and future campaigns. The system will be put to work straight away on offshore wind projects throughout the summer, and will bring great operational benefit and efficiency to our planned campaigns."