Saipem

Saipem is an energy services and offshore engineering company developing underwater robotics for subsea inspection and intervention. Its Hydrone program includes autonomous and hybrid underwater vehicles for pipeline, structure and deepwater asset inspection.

Facts

Segment: Inspection
Country: Italy
Founded: 1957
Website: https://www.saipem.com

Market context

Saipem matters because it has industrialized serious subsea resident robotics inside a real offshore operator, not just trialled robotics as a side project.

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1 commercial event; 1 contract award; 1 named customer; latest event 2023-01-19

2023-01-19 - Contract award - Saipem wins Petrobras contract to develop and test FlatFish-based autonomous underwater inspection solution offshore Brazil - Petrobras - FlatFish-based autonomous underwater inspection …

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Supply

JettyRobot - Inbound - Inspection Services - source: jettyrobot.com

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Timeline

2026-03-19 - Capability - Saipem's FlatFish underwater drone completes Petrobras test campaign and advances to the final project stage - Saipem announced that FlatFish successfully completed its offshore test campaign with Petrobras. The milestone moved the project into its final stage and validated autonomous underwater inspection performance in the target operating environment. The result… - source: saipem.com
2023-01-19 - Contract Award - Saipem wins Petrobras contract to develop and test FlatFish-based autonomous underwater inspection solution offshore Brazil - Saipem reported a Petrobras contract for the development and testing of an autonomous underwater inspection robotic solution based on its fleet of underwater drones, starting from FlatFish. The scope also included qualification of autonomous drone-based… - source: saipem.com
2022-08-10 - Partnership - Saipem and OSRL expand services agreement to include deployment of FlatFish for offshore monitoring and inspection - Saipem and Oil Spill Response Limited extended their existing services agreement to include deployment of FlatFish, Saipem's underwater drone. The expanded scope covered environmental monitoring and asset-integrity inspection tasks including survey, leakage… - source: saipem.com

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Relations

Oil Spill Response Limited - Offshore Response And Monitoring Partner - Saipem and Oil Spill Response Limited extended services covering FlatFish offshore monitoring, inspection and environmental tasks.

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