British subsea services specialist Flexlife has signned a cooperation agreement with Brazilian artificial intelligence technology developer Rio Analytics.

The deal was signed at the UK Consulate in Rio de Janeiro on Monday 24, 2017.

As Brazil represents over 40 percent of the installed flexible risers in the world, this new cooperation should see the companies offer a combined suite of Flexlife engineering, inspection, monitoring and repair technologies with RIO analytic’s artificial intelligence technology, developed 100 percent in Brazil.