OTL Plowing Ahead Deep Sea Mining Field

OTL Plowing Ahead Deep Sea Mining Field

While completed a global configuration design effort for a very deep sea mining system a few month ago, OTL is now contracted with the confidential client to perform a conceptual design of the deep sea mining system.

OTL is responsible for the global system design, coordinating the different subsystem design contractors such as the subsea nodule miner, subsea slurry lifting pump, ROV, dewatering plant, positioning and navigation, metocean, etc., in addition to its own design scopes covering the riser system and the production support vessel.

While technical challenges exist in multiple areas, at completion of the conceptual design, it is expected that the feasibility and the economic evaluation of the deep sea mining project will be resolved, and a FID will be made for the project to enter into next stage.