Subsea
PHOTO: Keel Laid for Maersk Subsea Support Vessels
The keel laying ceremony for all four subsea support vessels under construction for Maersk Supply Service (MSS) at COSCO Dalian Shipyard took place on December 9, 2015, the company informed through its social media. COSCO secured this USD 470-million construction contract back in August last year. T
UTEC Bags Total UKCS Positioning Deal
UTEC NCS Survey, has been awarded a multi-year rig move and positioning framework contract with Total E&P UK Limited. Total E&P UK Limited recently awarded the three-year contract with the opportunity to provide positioning services on any of their fleet of rigs and support vessels in the UKCS regio
Wood Group Wins Another Browse FEED
Wood Group has secured a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the Woodside-operated proposed Browse floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) Development. Under a new 12-month contract awarded by Shell, Wood Group Kenny (WGK) will carry out flow assurance and process integration studies
VIDEO: Seaeye Sabertooth Showcased at NASA
Between November 12-17, Underwater Systems was on location at NASA for a technology symposium in Houston, Texas. The symposium comprised both seminars and product demonstrations of the underwater vehicle – Seaeye Sabertooth. The product demos took place in NASA´s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), i
Eidesvik Sets Up Ghana Base
EGL (Eidesvik Ghana Ltd) has been established with office in Takoradi, which is the operational centre for the oil industry in Ghana. The establishment of EGL was done in collaboration with Ghanaian partners as a platform to serve the oil industry in Ghana and West Africa. The first task of EGL is t
EMGS Names New CFO
Norway’s Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has appointed Hege A. Veiseth as acting chief financial officer (CFO) of the company effective from January 1, 2016. She will replace Svein Knudsen who held the position as CFO of EMGS since January 2005 only to tender his resignation in October this year.
Sonardyne Ranger 2 Pro for C&C Technologies
Sonardyne has received an order to supply five Ranger 2 Pro USBL tracking systems to survey and mapping specialists C&C Technologies, a subsidiary of Oceaneering. Ranger 2 Pro is designed for deep water tracking of underwater targets and position referencing for dynamically positioned (DP) vessels.
Hydroid Builds Autonomous LARS for AUVs
Hydroid, a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has released Line Capture Line Recovery (LCLR), a self-contained module that is initially offered on Hydroid’s REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle for the purpose of autonomous launch and recovery. “We designed the LCLR to be a first-of-its-kind syste
BPS Deploys bioWAVE Demo Unit Off OZ
Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), has set up its 250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit off the coast near Port Fairy, Victoria. The $21-million project has been in development by BPS for three years, with $11 million funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and $5 mil
Kongsberg Launches EM 712 Multibeam Echo Sounder
Kongsberg Maritime has introduced a new multibeam echo sounder designed for survey and inspection operations in shallow and medium water depths. The new KONGSBERG EM 712 multibeam echo sounder is the second generation of wideband multibeam for these water depths. The EM 712 supersedes the EM 710 whi
Old Freighter Becomes Part of Delaware’s Artificial Reef System
Delaware and DNREC’s Division of Fish & Wildlife have sunk the former Army and Navy ship ‘Shearwater’ onto the Del-Jersey-Land Reef as the latest fish-attracting habitat and underwater enhancement to Delaware’s acclaimed artificial reef system. Shearwater, commissioned in 1944 as a coastal freighter
Prysmian Ups Oman Cables Industry Stake
Italian cable specialist, Prysmian, has signed an agreement to increase its stake in Oman Cables Industry to approximately 51%, thus gaining majority stake. According to the terms of the agreement, Prysmian, which already own a 34.78% stake in the company, will purchase an additional approximately 1
EIVA Adds Representative in Nigeria
OceanCosmos Nigeria has become the first EIVA representative in Nigeria. As of December 2015, OceanCosmos Nigeria Limited will offer its customers both EIVA hardware and software solutions as a local point of contact that knows the drill of the Nigerian offshore construction and survey industry. “It
PGS Claims Widest Streamer Spread
The Ramform Titan working offshore Myanmar, in the Bay of Bengal, is towing ‘the industry’s first ever’ single vessel 18-streamer seismic operation. According to Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), over a mile across, this is the first time the company has deployed 18 streamers, and also achieved the wide