Offshore subsea inspections continue to face significant operational challenges, with delays in data processing posing risks to infrastructure integrity. While inspection technologies have advanced, the process remains constrained by unreliable offshore connectivity, which often operating at just 50% uptime. This instability prevents real-time transmission of inspection data to onshore teams, resulting in significant delays (sometimes months-long) before findings can be reviewed and actioned.
As a result, inspection data is typically stored locally and only analysed once vessels return to port, creating dangerous blind spots where critical integrity issues may go undetected, increasing the risk of infrastructure failure and driving up operational costs.
Recognising the need for a more agile and connected approach, Wood’s digital team has introduced a game-changing solution: NEXUS IC-SyncStream.
NEXUS, Wood’s flagship integrity management software, has been enhanced with IC-SyncStream to enable near real-time data synchronisation during offshore inspection campaigns. This innovation bridges the gap between offshore operations and onshore analysis, empowering faster, smarter decisions. >
The technology works by continuously synchronising inspection data to the onshore NEXUS platform - even over unstable connections. IC-SyncStream uses a robust packet-switching architecture that breaks data into smaller, manageable units. These packets travel independently across the network and are reassembled at their destination, ensuring reliable transmission despite fluctuating connectivity. The system has been built with data security in mind, ensuring end-to-end encryption and safeguarding the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive inspection data.
This has revolutionised offshore inspection campaigns, empowering users to make faster and smarter decisions. We can now take immediate action on anomalies, reducing engineering time and intervention costs, via live condition assessment.
In what is considered an industry first, NEXUS IC-SyncStream is transforming offshore inspection practices; ushering in a safer, more responsive approach that sharply reduces operational risk. By empowering engineers to interpret inspection data in real time, respond immediately to anomalies, and oversee progress remotely from shore, the technology accelerates inspection workflows. With early access to results and enhanced integrity through live insights, this innovation establishes a new industry benchmark.