Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled its new HUGIN SUPERIOR Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The HUGIN SUPERIOR is equipped with the new HISAS 1032 Dual Receiver Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) which generates approximately 1000 meters swath at 2.5 knots for SAS imagery, real aperture and SAS bathymet
Norway’s Equinor is stepping up its use of wired drill pipe to acquire subsurface real-time data during drilling operations, in line with the corporate digitalization strategy and to prepare for automated drilling.
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 ti
Siemens and Aker Solutions have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to further develop digital offerings in engineering, operations and services. The collaboration focuses on the creation of software applications and joint service offerings including the development of industrial digital twin
Siemens and Aker Solutions have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to further develop digital offerings in engineering, operations, and services.
Royal IHC has just released this beautiful photo of their IHC Beaver 1200C, recently commissioned at a customer site in Congo. “We provided the assistance needed to get the cutter suction dredger (CSD) operational, including providing training for the new dredging crew,” the Dutch supplier of equipm
The Van Oord Innovation Challenge has come to a close, and out of more than one hundred submissions, Portuguese start-up Abyssal has claimed the prize. Abyssal specializes in the visualization and remote control of subsea operations using sensor data to deliver real-time 3D virtual overviews of the
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 26 – December 02). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/29/bhge-reveals-new-approach-to-subsea-development/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/29/anadarko-selects-technipfmc-van-oord-consorti
Portuguese start-up Abyssal has claimed the first prize of the Van Oord Innovation Challenge as part of the quest for new partnerships. Out of more than one hundred submissions, the Dutch offshore contractor nominated 8 participants to the final round. Abyssal specialises in the visualisation and re
Equinix, interconnection and data center company, has said it will build a new International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Helsinki, Finland. The data center – called HE7 – will provide interconnection and collocation to businesses to support their IT transformation initiatives. The first p
Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) has signed a contract with Italy’s Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucelare (INFN) for the construction of a subsea cable infrastructure for the IDMAR project. The IDMAR project involves the construction of a multidisciplinary underwater laboratory distributed for scien
For a dredging job in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, a Bell 250 dredging pump was used recently to create a gully in one place, and new land at another. Attached to a CAT 329 and a PVE600 hydraulic power pack, the pump worked off of a pontoon in an area with shallow water. The Bell […]
Subsea Innovation, part of Tekmar, has been awarded two contracts with Royal IHC, as part of a collaborative framework agreement. Subsea Innovation will be supporting Royal IHC on the design, development, manufacture and supply of back deck equipment on two projects to be completed throughout 2018 a
An innovative marine robot, called ecoSUB, has been trialed off the Orkney Isles in northern Scotland during a marine robot demonstrator mission coordinated by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). The ecoSUBs are a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by Planet Ocean in partn
