The new 4th edition of Douglas-Westwood’s World AUV Market Forecast expects major market growth over the next five years. When Douglas-Westwood’s first AUV market report was launched in 2004, 92 AUVs had been built, this 4th edition identifies some 560 and forecasts an additional 370 units will be in use by 2016.

The new 12th edition forecasts a strong growth in capital expenditure of 90%, compared to the previous five-year period, with $232 billion to be spent over the next five years. Latin America is likely to experience substantial growth, exceeding Africa’s deepwater expenditure towards the middle of the forecast period.

The North Sea Offshore Decommissioning Report provides an overview of future prospects. It reviews current North Sea offshore structures as well as the existing regulatory regime – including a focus on decommissioning obligations, procedures and trends. In addition, the report focuses on current and proposed key technologies, and is reinforced by case studies.

This latest edition of The World FLNG Market Forecast highlights FLNG facilities’ capital expenditure over the 2012-2018 period. It examines new prospects for FLNG liquefaction & regasification terminals, looks at the technology underlying the FLNG business and presents market forecasts for activity in the sector.

In this report DW forecast the market for the operation of work-class ROVs. Our research shows that all of the fundamental market drivers of the ROV business are in a period of growth, which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. This new report forecasts that total annual expenditure on ROV support of underwater operations is expected to grow from $891 million in 2010 to $1,692 million in 2015.

The new edition of Douglas-Westwood’s World Floating Production Report forecasts capital expenditure over the next five years will total $68 billion. Douglas-Westwood estimates that Latin America will account for half of all FPS expenditure over the period. Much of this activity will take place off Brazil where Petrobras and OGX plan to install a large number of locally sourced units. Many of Petrobras’ units will be installed in the deepwater Santos basin where the company is using multi-FPS developments as a way of exploiting its pre-salt reserves.