Market leading asset rental business Ashtead Technology, a supplier of specialist equipment to the offshore subsea oil and gas sector and the environmental consulting, non-destructive testing and remote-visual inspection industries, announce the appointment of several new key members of staff to the
International oilfield services company Expro has won the Offshore Achievement Innovator Award in recognition of its ground breaking AX-S subsea well intervention technology. The Innovator Award, which was presented at a ceremony in Aberdeen on Thursday (15 March), recognises excellence in innovativ
Leading subsea equipment rental company Ashtead Technology has announced the purchase of $1.4m of Sonardyne 6G subsea acoustic positioning equipment. The announcement was made on the opening day of the Oceanology International 2012 exhibition and conference in London. The new equipment will be added
Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its founding with a milestone: The company recently delivered its 200th REMUS 100 AUV. In December 2011, Hydroid delivered its 200th REMUS 1
Naval personnel attached to SLNS Dakshina of the Southern Naval Command on information received arrested 05 persons stealing iron from an historic ship wreck in the Southern seas off Boossa on 18th March 2012. A piece of iron weighing 20 kilograms sawn off from the sunk ship and diving equipment wer
Following the declaration of an option granted to Subsea 7, Eidesvik has sold 50% of the subsea vessel that is under construction at Ulstein Verft (Hull 295). The vessel will be 106.5 m long and 24.5 m wide with a top speed of over 17 knots. This subsea vessel will be equipped with three ROVs: [&hel
The River Waal is the main commercial shipping route in the Netherlands. In order to allow vessels to load to maximum capacity, it is of utmost importance that the water depths are guaranteed at all times. In order to monitor this, RWS Oost-Nederland surveys the riverbed with Multibeam Echosoundings
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has developed a new meteorological mast (‘met mast’) concept which can reduce costs for offshore wind developers and have a lesser impact on the environment. The new met mast design by OMM removes the need for specific front end engineering as a number of different v
MMT Group announces its second ownership of a Kongsberg EM2040D. The EM2040 dual head 0.4 degrees system will be delivered to NetSurvey part of MMT Group in the beginning of April. This is the first highly developed multibeam echo sounder to combine all of the advanced features of deepwater echo sou
DEXAWAVE, the Danish wave energy generator developer, has received a DKK 10 million grant. The funding secured from the Danish state investment fund Vækstfonden will be used to build a full-scale prototype of its pontoon-based wave energy converter. The DEXAWAVE wave energy converter has a simple co
Range Resources Limited to announce that it has entered into an Agreement with the Puntland Government with respect to obtaining a 100% working interest in the highly prospective Nugaal Basin Offshore Block. The Block is an extension of the onshore Nugaal Region which has the potential for deltaic d
RESON A/S announce that Forum Subsea Technologies’ equipment rental business line, DPS Offshore – has increased their investment in RESON SeaBat technology. By adding to the number of SeaBat systems available and upgrading their existing SeaBat systems, Forum Subsea Technologies is proud to provide
Sonardyne International has retrieved its first Pressure Inverted Echo Sounder (PIES) off the coast of Hawaii. This new long life sensor logging node is designed to accurately measure the average sound velocity through a column of water from the seabed to the sea surface. The information gathered wi
Unique Maritime Group, one of the world’s leading integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solution providers, announced the supply of a full package of survey equipment for a new hydrographic survey vessel, with purpose of conducting a detailed mapping of Qatar’s coastal waters. The package included
