Company Report: DOF subsea
DOF subsea Set up in the 1980s, DOF Subsea has gained a reputation for its expertise and high quality services. Exec Digital looks at the company's service offering and its development

Since the 1980s, DOF Subsea AS has been offering a wide range of services to all major offshore regions, including seabed mapping and subsea construction. It has been listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange since November 2005 and has facilities all over the world.

The company has offices in ten countries, including those located in Norway, Aberdeen, Australia, Singapore and Brazil, who all offer a personal service to customers. There are also subsidiary companies based in Norway, Aberdeen, Angola, Canada and the USA.

These units ensure that DOF Subsea offers a complete service to all its clients.
Where possible, DOF Subsea aims to offer its services using its own staff, so that its own expertise is always utilised. 1200 highly skilled people are employed by DOF Subsea and include surveyors, ROV specialists, geologists, geophysicists, technicians, cartographers, data processors, draftspersons, engineers, project managers, divers, machinery operators and support staff.

It is currently looking to take on new employees too, and offers employees a competitive salary and a pension scheme, alongside a supportive and open working environment. Employees are also offered the opportunity to move within the company, through a rotation process, which improves job variety and experience.

Technical expertise
In order to assist these employees in their roles, the company possesses advanced technology and equipment. Among its assets are 23 offshore vessels, 25 ROVs, one AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, which are also known as Unmanned Underwater Vehicles) and eleven diving spreads.

Its AUV has been bought from Kongsberg and is the Hugin 3000 model, which allows the vehicle to operate at depths of 3000 metres. This equipment does not need an umbilical wire for power either, as it has cells which can operate for up to 60 hours to provide accurate readings of the seafloor in real time.

The 25 ROVs owned by DOF are also highly advanced and accurate. The company has been working with ROV technology for ten years and its systems have been supplied by Perry Slingsby Inc and Schilling Robotics. This technology is operated from on board vessels and can work at depths of 4000m.

This information can be used to develop models and simulations of the seabed. It uses Century C3D

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