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Highlights of the Week
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (June 20 – June 26). Subsea 7 plans to resize its global workforce to approximately 8,000 by early 2017, down from the current level of 9,200. Consultation with employees and employee representatives w
SeaBird in NW Europe Survey Deal
Oslo-listed seismic contractor SeaBird has inked an agreement to supply one 2D vessel for an upcoming survey in North West Europe during this coming summer season. The agreement follows a 2D multi-client survey in North West Europe during Q2 2016 scheduled for approximately two to three weeks, which
Hydrographic Survey Equipment Market at $3.6 Bln by 2021
The hydrographic survey equipment market is projected to grow from USD 2.77 billion in 2016 to USD 3.62 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 5.43% during the forecast period, according to the latest report by the market research specialist MarketsandMarkets. The MarketsandMarkets survey covers five segment
GM and U.S. Navy Test Hydrogen Fuel Cells in Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Hydrogen fuel cells convert high-energy hydrogen efficiently into electricity
OneSubsea, Statoil Staff Recognized with UTF Subsea Award
The winner of the Underwater Technology Foundation (UTF) Subsea Award 2016 is OneSubsea Multiphase Compressor. Specifically, Bernt Helge Torkildsen and Simon Kalgraff, from OneSubsea, and Jarle Ottar Hella and Caroline Bøe, from Statoil are the winners of the 2016 UTF Subsea award for their efforts
EnBW Invites Tendes for Albatros Inner-Park Subsea Cabling Project
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG has launched a tendering procedure for inner-park subsea cabling project for its Albatros offshore wind farm (OWP). The 400-MW project Albatros was acquired by EnBW from Strabag. Albatros has approval for 79 wind turbines in the 5 to 7 MW power range and is located
BAS Deploys Impact Subsea ISA500 in Antarctic
Impact Subsea has delivered its ISA500 units to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The ISA500 units have been selected to monitor the position of an ice boring tool in the Antarctic hundreds of meters below the surface. During deployment of the ice boring tool, the ISA500 units measure the distance
ORPC Ireland Bags Horizon 2020 Funding
Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) Ireland has been selected for European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme funding to advance its hydrokinetic technology. Through the MaREI Centre in the environmental Research Institute, University College Cork (UCC), lab testing will be conducted at the Lir Na
EdgeTech Adds URI PIES to 8011M Deck Box
EdgeTech, a manufacturer of underwater technology solutions, now offers a communication interface to the University of Rhode Island Inverted Echo Sounder or “URI PIES” system through the 8011M deck box. The URI PIES system is often moored in deep locations for extended periods of time. Acoustic comm
JDR COO Becomes Part of NOF Energy Board
NOF Energy, the energy industry business development organisation, has appointed Richard Turner, chief operating officer of JDR Cables, to its board. He joined JDR Cables in 2014 following almost five years as vice president global manufacturing with Technip Umbilical Systems. NOF Energy’s board, wh
MATE International ROV Competition Kicks Off Today
The 15th annual MATE international ROV competition starts today June 23, 2016 at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) in Houston, Texas. With NASA and Oceaneering Space Systems (OSS) looking to make use of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), the 2016 MATE competition highlights
Quintillion to Begin Subsea Cable Laying in July
Quintillion will start laying subsea cable offshore Alaska’s Nome coast in the first week of July, Alaskan media informed. Quintillion’s vice president of external affairs, Kristina Woolston, said: “We actually are going to start a little bit early here in Nome than what we had thought because we ha
Shell to Restart Ops Off Nova Scotia After Drilling Incident
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) has permitted Shell Canada to resume drilling with restrictions at its Cheshire L-97 exploration well. Drilling was halted on March 5, 2016 after an operations incident on the Stena IceMAX drillship. After securing the exploration well with tw
Subsea 7 and Petrobras Agree to Swap PLSV Contract
Subsea 7 has entered into an agreement to substitute a pipelay support vessel (PLSV) working on a day-rate contract for Petrobras, offshore Brazil. Namely, the companies agreed to substitute the owned PLSV Seven Mar for the chartered PLSV Normand Seven in the existing Normand Seven contract. To remi