Ten subsea companies have pledged £65,000 towards a medical research project which aims to determine the best procedure for resuscitation of divers in a diving bell. Led by Philip Bryson, medical director of diving services of Iqarus, the joint industry project (JIP) will find out how resuscitation
Robert Gordon University Aberdeen has appointed Chris Pearson as director for the National Subsea Centre (NSC), who will lead the centre’s drive to tackle current and future challenges in subsea engineering with world-class research and development. Chris will take up the new post immediately and wi
Arctic Rays has released the Dragonfish II, a dual-channel, high quality LED torch light for professional HOW/ROV/AUV imaging applications. The high-output, 30,000 delivered lumens, continuous output Dragonfish II features dual-channel, independently dimmable LED arrays allowing for white or color b
Teledyne CARIS has released HIPS and SIPS 11.3 new software upgrade that will introduce the first-ever COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) release of an AI solution for classifying and cleaning sonar noise. Teledyne CARIS seeks to reduce the need for manual cleaning and to move data swiftly from acquisi
Norwegian oil and gas operator Aker BP and software company Cognite have entered into a strategic initiative to explore how robotic systems can be used to make offshore operations safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
Spanish grid operator Red Electrica has launched a tender call for the provision geophysical, UXO and geotechnical services to be performed along a corridor of approximately 345 kilometers between Spanish mainland and Mallorca Island, in the Mediterranean Sea. The purposes of the geophysical and geo
The first items of the trailing pipe system for the Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 are being shipped from their yard in Nijkerk, the Netherlands, to Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. This dredger will be used by Hanson Aggregates Marine to extract aggregates in the British Channel and North Se
BW LPG, the world’s largest liquid petroleum gas shipping company, has exercised an option for the delivery of four additional LPG dual-fuel engines.
Subsea robotics specialist ROVOP has added full in-house inspection to portfolio of its underwater technologies services. With a fleet of 51 ROVs including work class, light work class and observation class, ROVOP now has the ability to provide preparation of inspection procedures, project execution
Mocean Energy has teamed up with energy major Chrysaor, subsea energy storage experts EC-OG and AUV specialist Modus in a project to look at using renewables for subsea power. The project, funded by the partners together with the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), will look to use Mocean Energy’s
Forum Energy Technologies has secured an order from Amundsen Science (Université Laval, Canada) to supply a light work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to support its Arctic scientific research activities. The vehicle will be installed on board the Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen and
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (February 03 – February 09). https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/saipem-nets-over-500-million-in-contracts/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2020/02/07/red-ink-for-aker-solutions/ https://subseaworldnews
Denmark-based subsea technology company MacArtney has announced it plans to focus on improving and strengthening the Group’s overall scalability to support future development, after reporting positively on the 2018/19 financial year. MacArtney said that its 2018/19 financials demonstrate a growing t
Stress Engineering Services (SES) has entered into an agreement with Optimum Program to form the RiGUARD joint venture. RiGUARD combines SES’ offshore drilling analytics expertise with the Optimum Program data-driven drilling riser maintenance program that delivers drilling riser condition-based mai
