Ecosse Subsea Tries Out Its Ambient Lifting Technology

Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has completed client-witnessed trials of its Ambient Lifting technology at a research and development facility in Aberdeenshire.

Banchory-based ESS is a subsea technology company which designs and manufactures a number of pioneering technologies which are deployed in the traditional oil and gas sector and renewables industries.

Ambient Lifting works by decoupling the subsea load from the surface vessel by utilising the Archimedes principle, the fundamental law that provides floatation for all ships.

The Ambient Lifting system can be used to lift, lower or hover any subsea object in the water-column and act as either a temporary installation aid or form part of the final subsea asset as either buoyancy or ballast.

The system does not require the use of heavy lift vessels, utilises off-the-shelf components and is fully scalable. Applications in the oil and gas, renewables, decommissioning, salvage and seabed mining markets, are cited as key development areas for uses of this technology.

In a similar manner to their successful SCAR seabed trenching system, ESS incorporates a safe, simple and robust design philosophy into all their technologies.

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