OVERVIEW

The mission of SSI is to improve safety and efficiency of offshore energy development by facilitating engineering, science and policy research and through third party unbiased validation of technology and practices. As such, SSI Research Grants are designed to seed innovative research that can positively impact safe and reliable exploration and energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. The support of industry partners is strongly encouraged.

OPEN PROJECTS

• Offshore Asset Integrity Monitoring: Environmental Monitoring
• Design and Development of Offshore Power Systems
• Offshore Robotics and Automation for Safer Offshore Energy Systems
• Offshore Energy Transition: Repurposing Gulf of Mexico Assets

CLOSED PROJECTS

• Multi-Port Energy Router Using Intelligent Transformers (MERIT) to Interconnect Renewable Resources and Subsea Oil & Gas Factories via HVDC Link
• Asset Integrity of Values and Bolted Connections
• High Accuracy Localization and Underwater Communication
• Developing Bio-Inspired Buoyancy Control for Subsea Service AUVs
• Sensors Based on Organic Electrochemical Transistors (OECTS) for Deep Sea Leakage and Chemical Detection
• High-Energy and High-Power Quasi-Solid State Lithium Batteries for Subsea Applications
• Hydrocarbon Influx Behavior within a Deepwater Marine Riser (AKA Gas-in-Riser Detection)
• SmartTouch: Towards Autonomous Subsea Robotics for Underwater Pipeline Inspection
• Remote Robotics for Unmanned Human Environments: Interfacing Robots and Oil Rig Platform Doors
• Remote Robotics for Unmanned Human Environments: Collision Avoidance in Subsea
• Remote Robotics for Unmanned Human Environments: SmartTouch Valkyrie Integration
• Flexible Low-Temperature Lithium Ion Batteries for Subsea Applications
• Stress Wave Assisted Communications in Subsea Environments
• Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Subsea Energy Applications
• Hazard Mitigation and Facility Monitoring Programs: Fiber-Optic Seismic Systems
• Remote High Power for Subsea Emergencies
• A Model-Based Real-Time Annular BOP Monitoring System
• Marine Drilling Hazard Mitigation and Production Facility Monitoring Using Seismic and Sonar Imaging