During Hydro12 in Rotterdam, Nautikaris will offer free demonstrations of the Echoscope 3D Real Time Imaging sonar system. This will be provided on board the survey vessel ‘MV Freedom’ of Braveheart shipping. The vessel will be moored near the conference venue ‘SS Rotterdam. Demos will be presented
Oceana has documented the presence of litter and fishing gear in one of Europe’s major seamounts, the Gorringe bank. The images were taken during an expedition with researchers from the University of Algarve, in which stunning algae forests and a wide range of habitats with hundreds of species were
The power & control area in China is experiencing more activities, and a need for more space for offices and production arised. Therefore, Ulstein Marine Equipment in Ningbo recently moved into new and spacious premises in Nordic Industrial Park. Ulstein Marine Equipment was established in Ningbo in
A specialist North-east oil and gas industry support and training facility is on track to double its turnover this year. The Aberdeen-based National Hyperbaric Centre (NHC), which has been operating in the North-east for more than 25 years is set to see an increase of more than £3m in the annual fig
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District announced the contract solicitation process for the Miami Harbor Deepening project is now underway. The bid solicitation includes deepening existing Federal navigation channels (primarily from 42 feet to 50 feet deep) and widening the channels
Bodkin Design & Engineering (BD&E) has been awarded a Phase I SBIR contract from the Navy to develop a prototype wave harvesting system capable of generating power from ocean energy found in coastal waters. The fully submerged, robust, self-contained design is anti-fouling and ideally suited for sur
Fergus Ewing MSP, Scottish Minister for Energy, Enterprise & Tourism, recently met with GE Oil & Gas at Subsea Systems facility in Aberdeen. Mr. Ewing met Rod Christie, Vice President of Subsea Systems at GE Oil & Gas, to discuss the ambitious expansion plans set in motion at its subsea manufacturin
Conductor Installation Services Ltd (CIS), an Acteon company, announced that it has been awarded a USD multi-million contract by Weatherford Kazakhstan to provide conductor-driving services in Kazakhstan. The contract requires CIS to carry out up to eight conductor-driving operations annually on wel
Field testing of both Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) devices deployed by Neptune Wave Power LLC at the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Ocean Renewable Energy (CORE) has shown a great viability of the devices in generating wave power. The company has tested two buoy models, 3.0 and 3.1. The 3.
The ice patrol ship HMS Protector has returned, after seventy-one years, to the spot where Darkdale went down in James Bay to survey the wreck using her suite of the latest sonar technology. In 1941, St Helena served as an important staging post in the war against the U-boat in the South Atlantic. D
The MacArtney Underwater Technology Group introduced the OptoLink Single Fibre Connector – a small sized, however, highly significant addition to MacArtney’s successful OptoLink fibre optic connector range. Designed for subsea equipment manufacturers, the low insertion loss and back reflection make
Searcher Seismic announces that the ST9802 Ultracube 3D survey located on the Finnmark Platform in the Barents Sea is currently being fully reprocessed from field tapes. The original processed 3D volume (1999 vintage) is missing many of today’s modern processing algorithms such as swell noise remova
Chariot Oil & Gas Limited, the independent Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, announces that it has signed a contract for acquisition of a 3,500km2 3D seismic survey in Block C19 offshore Mauritania. The Company has contracted Fugro-Geoteam AS to carry out the programme in water depths
BP announced it has once again confirmed the integrity of the Macondo well and its associated relief wells following an extensive subsea survey this week to identify potential sources of a surface sheen near Mississippi Canyon block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico. The latest survey marks the third time s
