Subsea
C-Innovation Welcomes Lazenby as Commercial Manager
C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has appointed Shaun Lazenby as commercial manager. Based in Houston, his responsibilities will include preparing proposals and tenders, monitoring bid performances, identifying future opportunities, managing proje
SeaRobotics Delivers Two USVs to Canadian Hydrographic Service
SeaRobotics has delivered two additional 2.5 meter autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), a part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, bringing the fleet to four systems. The USVs, built by SeaRobotics, are complete hydrographic systems including multibeam
Minesto Adds Two New Board Members
Swedish Minesto has added two new members, Javier Sanz and Jonas Millqvist, to its board of directors. Javier Sanz holds CTO Renewable Energies position at InnoEnergy, and Jonas Millqvist brings extensive project finance experience from global wind developer Vestas. “We are delighted to welcome Javi
DOF Subsea Nets FPSO Hook-Up Deal Off Nigeria
DOF Subsea has been awarded a contract in the Atlantic region to undertake a Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel hook-up offshore Nigeria. DOF Subsea will deploy the Skandi Skansen to undertake the works. The work will take place in Q3 2018. “This contract reaffirms DOF Subsea’s
MMT Finalizes AQUIND Interconnector Geophysical Survey
MMT has completed a geophysical seabed survey for the AQUIND interconnector, a proposed subsea and underground High Voltage Direct Current link between the South Coast of England and Normandy in France. MMT surveyed a corridor between Portsmouth in the UK and the coastal region of Dieppe in France.
Reach Subsea Secures Work for Two of Its Vessels
Reach Subsea has signed contracts for two of its vessels with undisclosed clients. The first contract Reach Subsea has signed with an international energy company for the subsea vessel Olympic Challenger. The agreement will secure the work for Olympic Challenger for a period of three months with ext
OceanWise Bags Scottish Government Marine Data Deal
OceanWise has secured a framework agreement to provide GIS marine data to the Scottish Government. OceanWise will be delivering marine mapping data products and services including marine themes vector, marine themes digital elevation model (DEM), raster charts and raster charts eXcluding land (XL) t
Royal IHC Supplies Offloading System to CNOOC
Royal IHC has signed a contract with CNOOC to provide the engineering, procurement and construction of a comprehensive offloading system. This will consist of crude oil and LPG offloading reels, in addition to a tandem mooring system, a hydraulic power unit and equipment controls. The offloading sys
Microsoft, Naval Group Deploy Underwater Datacenter Off Orkney
Microsoft chose Naval Group to implement Phase 2 of its underwater datacenter project, also called Project Natick. The Datacenter was deployed in early June 2018 off the Orkney Archipelago, and will be operated for a period of one year. Eric Papin, Naval Group’s director of Innovation and Technologi
Tocardo Adds New Members to Its Managing Board
Tocardo Tidal Power has strengthened its managing board with two new appointments. Henk Kasteleijn has joined Tocardo as chief financial and operating officer. Henk brings over 20 years of general and financial management experience. Ruud Nijs has joined Tocardo as project finance director. Ruud is
Kongsberg Supplies Sonars to Finnish Defence Forces
Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract by Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) to deliver ST2400 variable depth sonar (VDS) upgrades to the SQ2000MLU program for the Hamina-Class Corvettes fleet. The ST2400 VDS is designed to provide accurate and highly reliable performance for detecting submarines, mine
Nautilus Puts Its Seafloor Diamond Drill Rig Trough Wet Test Program
Nautilus Minerals has started wet testing of its new seafloor diamond drill rig, which the company has developed to relieve the drilling requirements of its future exploration programs. The scope of the testing is to check the operational functionality of the drill rig’s control systems, landing cap
Scripps, APL-UW Select Wave Gliders for New Ocean Study
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) and the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington (APL-UW) have selected Wave Gliders to conduct advanced scientific research in the remote regions of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Using Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders scientists will ob
Horizon and Seaforth Team Up on US Offshore Wind
Horizon Geosciences and Seaforth Geosurveys have formed a partnership to provide integrated offshore site investigation services for the US offshore wind market. Seaforth will provide geophysical services within the partnership, while Horizon will provide geotechnical services. The partnership is cu