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  • Swiber and Hilong Marine Set Up Joint Venture Company

    25 July 2019
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Swiber’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Swiber Offshore Construction (SOC) has entered into a shareholder’s agreement with Hilong Marine Engineering (HME) to incorporate and operate a joint venture company in Singapore The shareholders (51% Hilong and 49% Swiber )have named the new company – Ocentra Offshore. The principal business of the JV company shall be the marketing and […]

  • James Fisher Marine Services Set for Triton Knoll Work

    21 March 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    UK firm James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has been awarded a contract by innogy to begin offshore site preparations for Triton Knoll offshore wind farm. The contract coincides with JFMS’s expansion into new facilities at Grimsby. Julian Garnsey, project director for Triton Knoll and innogy, said: “I’m delighted that Triton Knoll has been able to […]

  • Veripos New GNSS Receiver for Marine Certified Reliable Positioning

    6 September 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Veripos, part of Hexagon’s Positioning Intelligence division, unveiled its LD8 GNSS receiver to support precise positioning and heading in offshore marine applications. The LD8 supports all GNSS constellations to deliver increased, uninterrupted satellite availability, and continuous correction data reception. Marine certification allows the LD8 to be interfaced into Dynamic Positioning systems, assuring accurate and reliable […]

  • Orbital Marine to Demonstrate Its Tidal Technology Off Anglesey

    4 December 2018
    Equipment, Research & Development

    Orbital Marine Power has signed an agreement to demonstrate its floating tidal technology at the Morlais Tidal Energy Project, located off Anglesey in Wales. The agreement with Menter Môn, the not for profit developers of the project, would see a commercial scale tidal array of Orbital’s ‘O2’ 2MW tidal turbine. Each 2MW unit is capable […]

  • Hallin Marine Replaces Mooring Lines on Live FPSO in China

    25 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Hallin Marine, a Superior Energy Services company, announces the highly successful outcome of a unique project for COOEC Subsea Technology, a wholly-own subsidiary of COOEC (China Offshore Oil Engineering Company). This assignment involved the replacement of nine mooring lines beneath the floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel HYSY111, while maintaining live operations. The oil […]

  • New Tool Developed to Assess Noise Impact on Marine Mammals

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    A new desktop tool which will allow offshore renewable energy developers to assess the likely impacts of their projects on marine mammal populations has been developed by scientists at the University of St Andrews and SMRU Marine, a university spin-out company. The tool – known as the Interim PCOD (Population Consequences of Disturbance) Model – […]

  • Renewable Energy Projects Improve Marine Organisms Living Conditions

    5 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    A recent marine study has shown how renewable energy projects, such as wind farms, improve the living conditions of certain sea organisms. The study, focused mainly on smaller organisms of Scottish and Irish marine life, tried to show what kind of impact the development of wave and tidal industry can have. The research has shown […]

  • Forum Bags Order for Four ROVs from Marine Platforms

    8 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that it has received an order from Marine Platforms Limited (MPL) to supply four work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) systems each complete with a Dynacon Launch and Recovery Systems (LARS). The order includes three Perry™ heavy work class XLX Evo 200HP ROVs, the latest generation of the Perry XLX series. […]

  • UQ Researchers Study Climate Change Impacts on Marine Environments

    24 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Researchers are struggling to solve the challenge of predicting climate change impacts on marine environments. Research led by University of Queensland scientists has found that predicting such impacts could be more difficult than first thought, due to interactions between ocean ecosystems. UQ Global Change Institute researcher Dr Megan Saunders said the study, published in Nature […]

  • Westermo’s ODW-710 Products Get DNV Marine Approval

    11 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Westermo announces that its ODW-710 products, that allows a profibus DP network to be converted to a fibre optic solution, now has the DNV Marine approval. This means that networks running at the highest data rates can be stretched beyond the 200m maximum range of a copper network. The units support the standard Profibus DP […]

  • NOAA: New Commanding Officer of Marine Operations Center-Atlantic

    3 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    NOAA Capt. Anne K. Lynch has assumed command of the agency’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA’s Atlantic fleet. Each year these ships conduct dozens of missions to assess fish and marine mammal stocks, conduct coral reef research, collect seafloor data […]

  • Boa Marine Services Extends Charter Contract for Polar Queen

    23 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    GC Rieber Shipping announces today that Boa Marine Services Inc. has exercised its second option to extend the charter party for the subsea vessel “Polar Queen” with one year, until April 2015. The vessel has been on charter with Boa Marine Services since October 2012. The Polar Queen is a purpose-built ROV Survey / Construction […]

  • EU Marine Directors Approve Underwater Noise Monitoring Document

    20 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    In their meeting on 4-5 December 2013 the EU Marine Directors have approved the Marine Strategy Framework Directive document “Monitoring Guidance for Underwater Noise in European Seas” (Part I, II and III). The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires European Member States (MS) to develop strategies for their marine waters that should lead to programmes […]

  • Plymouth University Researchers Conduct Marine Survey Off Greece

    16 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Researchers from Plymouth University (UK) conducted a marine geoarchaeological survey off Methoni, Greece. The Kongsberg GeoAcoustics Dual Frequency Side Scan Sonar and the GeoPulse Pinger Sub-Bottom Profiler were used for visualisation of underwater antiquities over the local underwater archaeological site, within the GE.N.ESIS project. There is archaeological evidence supporting that the human presence in the […]

  • Mariners Should Use Caution near Buoy Site (USA)

    17 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies deployed a data buoy off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, three years ago to gather information on wave action for a Corps study and the scientific instrument has been providing useful information to scientists, mariners and the general public since that time. One of […]

  • France: Oceanic Champion Equipped with Sercel’s Marine Seismic Systems

    6 September 2012

    Sercel’s complete portfolio of latest-generation marine seismic systems has been deployed on yet another high-end seismic vessel. Specifically designed to perform the full range of seismic functionalities from data acquisition through positioning to control, the systems portfolio is now being successfully deployed on the Oceanic Champion, a recently upgraded vessel in the CGGVeritas fleet. The […]

  • Langlee Participates in 3rd International Marine Event FIMAR in Spain

    15 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    In the event that took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the 8-10th of March 2013, Simone Meme and Jose Luis Roger, as representatives of Langlee, gave a quick overview of Langlee to the attendees and media in the event. Mr. Roger stated: “The marine energy in the Canaries is a high energy […]

  • DHN Hosted Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Workshop in Brazil

    17 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Attendees from the South West Atlantic Hydrographic Commission (Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay) and representatives from Guatemala, Chile and Colombia successfully completed an International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) capacity building workshop on Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI), hosted by the Brazilian hydrographic office Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegaçao (DHN). Thirteen students spent five days in the city […]

  • Ocean Acidification Affects Live Marine Creatures in Southern Ocean

    26 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The shells of marine snails – known as pteropods – living in the seas around Antarctica are being dissolved by ocean acidification according to a new study published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. These tiny animals are a valuable food source for fish and birds and play an important role in the oceanic […]

  • NAFC Marine Centre Releases Tidal Energy Guidelines (UK)

    21 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    NAFC Marine Centre Marine Spatial Planning team has published a new report ‘Regional Locational Guidance for wave and tidal energy in the Shetland Islands’. It provides guidance to the marine renewables industry on the siting of wave and tidal devices. The report details the methodology used to integrate environmental, social and economic considerations into the […]

  • BMAPA, The Crown Estate Launch Marine Aggregate Dredging Review

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA) and The Crown Estate, have published a new ‘Fifteen-Year Review’ which provides a unique overview of the changes in the area of seabed licensed and dredged between 1998 and 2012, enabling greater understanding of the nation’s marine mineral dredging activity and more sustainable management over the long term. […]

  • Global Marine Wraps Up ASE Cable Extension Work

    16 February 2016
    Operations & Maintenance

    Global Marine Systems has completed installation of approximately 380 km of OCC SC500 fibre optic cable between the Japanese island of Okinawa and an existing branching unit (BU) in the Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) system. This extension of the 7,200 km intra-Asia cable system, which was completed in 2012, connects Japan to the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore […]

  • Chatham Submits New Zealand’s First Marine Consent Application

    11 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Chatham Rock Phosphate submitted New Zealand’s first Marine Consent application under the new EEZ regime to the Environmental Protection Authority. It is the culmination of three years work and more than $20 million in investment. Submitting the application comes in the final week of Chatham’s current capital raising for $4-10 million in its first public […]

  • Subsea 7 Wins Mariner Field Contract Offshore UK

    31 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately US$170 million from Statoil for the Mariner field, located in the UK sector of the North Sea. The contract is for the engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) of 39km of rigid flowlines and flexible riser systems, together with associated subsea structures, protection […]

  • Green Cornwall Focuses on Marine Renewable Energy Sector (UK)

    5 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The economic potential of the emerging marine renewable energy sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and neighbouring Brittany was debated at an industry workshop at the Green Cornwall Show. Guest speakers painted an optimistic picture of the evolving opportunities for businesses in the two coastal regions, where the development of marine energy has […]