LS Cable & System has secured a contract for American Transmission’s Straits Cable Replacement Project. LS Cable & System will manufacture, transport and oversee the installation of two new cables for the project, establishing two new 138,000-volt circuits in the Straits of Mackinac. These two new 3
Amsterdam-based Deep BV will upgrade one of its survey vessels with US-based Sea Machines Robotics SM300 autonomous control system. The Sea Machines system enables remote command of the vessel, including navigation and positioning, the control of on-board auxiliaries and sensors, as well as ship-to-
US underwater archaeology firm SEARCH and marine robotics company Ocean Infinity have made the discovery of USS Nevada. The USS Nevada is one of the U.S. Navy’s longest serving battleships, and viewed as the epitome of American resilience and perseverance. The ship was located 65 nautical miles sout
Unique Group has merged its expertise in survey and buoyancy technology with Dutch UXO experts Bodac to develop an unexploded ordnance lifting & safe disposal system (UXO-LSDS). The system paves the way for contactless mine recovery. The UXO-LSDS consists of a housing for two 9l, 300 bar composite c
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy, has enhanced its American backbone with a new fiber pair on Curie submarine cable connecting Chile to US. The Google-owned subsea cable Curie is the first direct US-Chile cable connecting Los Angeles to Valparaiso. Sparkle’s new fiber pair
NUI new hyperbaric test chambers have recently arrived at the manufacturing facility for assembly. The manufacturer Optime Subsea is preparing the two test chambers for a factory acceptance test (FAT) early June. After that, the two systems will go to Bergen for installation and site acceptance test
Macquarie, through its Green Investment Group (GIG), and Renewable Infrastructure Development Group (RIDG) have joined forces to bid for the development of an offshore wind project at the upcoming ScotWind leasing round. “By partnering right at the genesis of development, we’re making our earliest c
Solstad Offshore has signed a pair of construction support vessels (CSV) to new contracts, reporting deals for CSVs Far Saga and Normand Energy. The Brazilian flagged CSV Far Saga secured a three-year contract from Petrobras. Far Saga will carry two Work Class ROVs from C-Innovation suitable for ope
Aquatec Group has provided two rapidly deployable pressure loggers to a North Sea operator to meet an imminent offshore mobilisation. The company engineered a pair of ROV-deployable magnetic mounts for its AQUAlogger 310 oceanographic pressure and temperature data loggers. The loggers were then moun
Australia is providing $561k for a marine survey that will support preparations for a second internet submarine cable into Palau. Australia’s funding builds on the AU$ 2million provided in 2016 to land the first submarine cable and support regulatory and policy reforms in Palau’s information and com
Engineering firm Wood and NERA have teamed up to develop an AI Inspection tool for subsea oil and gas infrastructure. The solution has the potential to revolutionise asset inspections in challenging and high-risk environments. It also aims to increase the speed and accuracy of issue detection, respo
Forum Energy Technologies has recorded loss in the first quarter 2020 of $37 million, or 33 cents per diluted share, compared to loss of $8 million, or $7 cents per diluted share, for the prior-year comparable period. Sequentially, Forum widened its loss from $11 cents per diluted share, with revenu
Aberdeen-based 3D scanning specialists Viewport3 said it has seen record uptake of its new service offering. After the recent launch of its new remote data capture service, the company secured four contracts valued at £100,000. Split between existing and new clients, these contracts have an internat
AMSA completes subsea operations, successful recovering 63 shipping containers of YM Efficiency containership.
