Economic Efficiency Assessment of Project to Analyze Underwater Pipelines in Caspian Sea

Customers: Astrakhan State University, Avrora LLC (Russia)

Tasks:

1. Assessment of economic efficiency of execution of this project, considering with specific features of vessel and equipment exploitation (calculation of costs of implementing the service of underwater pipeline diagnostics performed by a robot).

2. Market research, identification of potential customers to analyze the current state of pipelines in the Caspian Sea.

3. Assessment of the ecological constituent of this project (precise financial figures related to damage that may be inflicted due to an accident in this or that area of the Caspian Sea, as well as to what extent probability of an accident may be reduced, provided an underwater examination is executed in good time).

Team Members:

WPI

Walter Gallati

Patrick Trant

Joseph Lombardi

Tucker Haydon

ASU

Alina Shembetova

Dmitriy Reztsov

Ivan Nikolaev

Nikita Efremov

Nikolay Svishev

Ratmir Bigeev

Elya Shembetova

Supervisor Representing ASU:

Alexey Rybakov, Director of the Institute of Researches & Solutions to Technological Tasks