Norwegian ocean bottom node seismic company Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has received notice of resignation from board member Tore Tonseth. Tore A. Tonseth was appointed director of AGS effective December 1, 2019. Tonseth is a Norwegian citizen with knowledge and experience from the financial industry.
Subsea manufacturing specialist Express Engineering is investing in a new £3.5-million assembly and test facility near its Gateshead headquarters in the UK, expecting to create another 30 jobs. Since embarking on a refocused business strategy at the end of 2018, Express Engineering has seen revenues
Lateral has launched a new marine growth removal tool, the FlexiClean Micro, for use by smaller remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to reduce costs and save time. The FlexiClean Micro is a smaller system that the previously released FlexiClean, which was launched in 2014. Lateral said it was respondin
Ballast water treatment specialist Optimarin has signed an agreement with DOF for the installation of 16 Optimarin Ballast Systems (OBS). The deal comes with an option to extend the contract to 50 vessels in total. This is Optimarin’s biggest single agreement in the offshore segment and will see the
TGS has started the Eastern Delta Refocus 3D Ocean Bottom Seismic (OBS) imaging program in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. This reprocessing project marks the next phase of imaging over the mature, hydrocarbon producing areas of Main Pass and Viosca Knoll. TGS plans to reprocess an area of approximately 2,
Statkraft Ireland subsidiary, North Irish Sea Array (NISA), is seeking permission to carry out marine site investigation surveys for the proposed offshore wind farm project in the Irish Sea. The marine surveys will include geophysical, geotechnical, metocean marine, ecological and archaeological sur
Royal IHC and the trade unions FNV, CNV vakmensen.nl, RMU and De Unie have today signed a covenant within the framework of the programme for the replacement of the Dutch Walrus class submarines. In this covenant, the parties have agreed to intensively work together when Royal IHC and its French part
Oceanographic research vessel Belgica has been officially launched at Freire shipyard in Vigo. Belgica is the result of collaboration between the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), the Ministry of Defence and the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO). Freire shipyard was awarded t
DEME Offshore and Herrenknecht have signed a deal for the fabrication of a subsea drill to be deployed at the Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. This is the first wind farm in the world to use drilled XL-monopile foundations. In 2019, a consortium including DEME Offshore and Eiffage Métal w
Ten subsea companies have pledged £65,000 towards a medical research project which aims to determine the best procedure for resuscitation of divers in a diving bell. Led by Philip Bryson, medical director of diving services of Iqarus, the joint industry project (JIP) will find out how resuscitation
Robert Gordon University Aberdeen has appointed Chris Pearson as director for the National Subsea Centre (NSC), who will lead the centre’s drive to tackle current and future challenges in subsea engineering with world-class research and development. Chris will take up the new post immediately and wi
NOAA and the exploration initiative OceanX have forged a formal agreement to advance ocean exploration and scientific research that increases public understanding of the importance and value of the ocean. Through a new memorandum of understanding, NOAA scientists will advise and join OceanX on missi
Arctic Rays has released the Dragonfish II, a dual-channel, high quality LED torch light for professional HOW/ROV/AUV imaging applications. The high-output, 30,000 delivered lumens, continuous output Dragonfish II features dual-channel, independently dimmable LED arrays allowing for white or color b
Teledyne CARIS has released HIPS and SIPS 11.3 new software upgrade that will introduce the first-ever COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) release of an AI solution for classifying and cleaning sonar noise. Teledyne CARIS seeks to reduce the need for manual cleaning and to move data swiftly from acquisi
