£1m UXO survey contract for M² Subsea
Worldwide ROV services supplier M² Subsea, which maintains bases in Aberdeen and Houston, has been sub-contracted by Next Geosolutions of Italy under a contract worth over £1m to carry out detailed UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) removal surveys for the Nord Stream 2 twin pipeline system supplying natural gas from Russia to the EU via the Baltic.
An extension of the world’s longest subsea pipeline facility due for completion by the end of 2019, sections of its route are known to contain an ex-War II legacy of munitions in need of precise location and removal.
Operating from Aberdeen with the support of 15 specialist personnel, M² will carry out the 90-day project using a chartered multi-purpose support vessel for subsea activities, Go Electra, which will be deployed from Hanko in Finland. All operations involve use of Triton XLX 2 work class and Mohican 5 observation and inspection class ROVs from the company’s own fleet of 28 systems.
By David Goodfellow
