Marine surveying specialist MMT has promoted Phil Wilson to the role of business development director. Wilson is based at MMT’s UK office and has previously held the position of senior sales manager. In that role, Phil has also been involved in MMT’s business development in other geographical areas.
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Saab for the delivery of Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and diver detection sonars for the Pohjanmaa-class corvettes, being developed by the Finnish Navy under Squadron 2020 project. Under the terms of the contract, worth approximately NOK 100 million, Kon
ScottishPower Renewables has awarded CWind with a contract for subsea work on the East Anglia ONE offshore wind project. CWind will provide subsea maintenance of the foundations and offshore substation, subsea surveys, corrective maintenance, as well as pre-engineering studies. The three-year contra
Emergency quick disconnect supplier Flint Subsea has obtained DNV GL approval of its latest system, which has been supplied to a well intervention specialist in the North Sea. Flint Subsea were approached in 2019 to provide an emergency disconnect solution for a supplier of well intervention service
Scottish subsea wireless and digitalisation expert WFS Technologies (WFS) has signed a partnership agreement with AeonX (Nigeria) to promote and deliver the full range of Seatooth products for asset integrity and flow assurance monitoring. AeonX, which is also a technical advisory to the West Africa
NOAA has said it intends to collaborate with a private company led by Victor Vescovo, the first person to reach the deepest point in all five of the world’s named oceans, in an effort to explore, characterize, and map unknown areas of the deep ocean. Vescovo’s company Caladan Oceanic brings to this
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has published guidance for the geophysical surveying for unexploded ordnance (UXO) and boulders.
Fugro has signed a 5-year indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with NOAA to provide shoreline mapping services in support of the agency’s ‘Coastal Mapping Program’. Issued through NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS), this multi-year contract is NGS’s second consecutive award to
Canadian firm GeoSpectrum has launched a new and compact version of its towed reelable active passive sonar (TRAPS), suitable for unmanned surface vessels (USV). Named TRAPS-USV, this lighter-weight variant, is designed to fit on almost any size vessel including patrol boats and USVs while retaining
Kraken Robotics has achieved a practical resolution of two cm with a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), the AquaPix MINSAS. Kraken’s Ultra HD software improves the AquaPix SAS image resolution from 3.0 x 3.3 cm (across along track) to 1.9 x 2.1 cm and maintains constant
Canadian naval architect Robert Allan Ltd has designed two dive support vessels (DSVs) to be operated by Brazilian contractor Belov Engenharia. Belov has performed work for the Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras for several years. Both vessels (Belov Amaralina and Belov Humaitá) have complete
