Hydrographic Survey – Page 37
-
News$50m Brazilian contract for Subsea 7 division
Subsea 7’s Aberdeen based i-Tech division has been awarded a contract worth around $50m by Petrobras, the Brazilian state energy concern, for provision of ROV support and underwater positioning survey services in domestic offshore waters. The five year agreement includes an option to extend for a similar period.
-
News
UKHO award for French hydrographer
Gilles Bessero, the outgoing French Hydrographer, is the recipient of the UK Hydrographic Office’s fifth Alexander Dalrymple Award, presented at a recent ceremony at the British High Commissioner’s residence in Singapore attended by the UK National Hydrographer, Rear-Admiral Ian Moncrieff.
-
News
Wideband sonar UK debut
Claimed to be the world’s first true wideband high resolution shallow water multibeam sounder, US company R2Sonic’s Sonic 2024 is set for demonstrations to UK hire customers for the first time by Swathe Services of Saltash.
-
News
Marine Measurement Forum
Environmental system specialists Planet Ocean in Surrey are to host the 47th Marine Measurement Forum at the Village Hotel, Farnborough on Thursday 18 November.
-
News
Fathoms finds siltation rates
Fathoms, the Somerset and Caithness UK based survey company has successfully completed four interesting and challenging bathymetric surveys in Kenya for the implementation of the Natural Resource Management (NRM) Project.
-
News
World Hydrography Day
The Hydrographic Offices and agencies of France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK are among leading European organisations expected to mark the UN sponsored World Hydrography Day on 21 June with a series of commemorative functions.
-
NewsNew Gardline vessel mobilised
Geophysical and hydrographic survey specialists Gardline Geosurvey of Great Yarmouth UK have added to their vessel fleet with mobilisation of MV Ivero.
-
NewsNew S-Boom delivers triple the power
Great Yarmouth UK based underwater technology company Applied Acoustics launched an entirely new sub-bottom profiling boomer plate at the recent Ocean Business exhibition in Southampton.
-
News
Swathe Services offers LiDAR capability
Equipment rental specialist Swathe Services of Saltash in Cornwall UK, which recently acquired a third Sonic 2024 broadband multibeam system from R2Sonic in California, is to provide an airborne LiDAR (light detection and ranging) service for coastal and shallow water mapping under a newly formed subsidiary, SAS Ltd.
-
News
Anglo-Swedish alliance
Marin Mätteknik AB (MMT) of Gothenburg, Sweden and NetSurvey of Banbury in the UK have merged their operations, having closely collaborated on various hydrographic survey assignments during the last six years.
-
NewsNorwegian pipeline inspection record
What is claimed to be the world’s longest multi-sensor AUV pipeline survey has recently been completed in the Hjelte fjord near Bergen, Norway.
-
News
Irish exploration opportunities
The Irish government, which recently announced €150,000 funding of a wave energy research project, is now inviting applications from exploration companies of all sizes to identify and promote investigative projects in its under-explored sectors of the Atlantic.
-
News
Anglo-Dutch merger
3D and 4D visualisation specialists IVS 3D of Banbury, UK are to merge with QPS of Zeist, the Netherlands, makers of QINSy data acquisition software in worldwide use for hydrographic applications.
-
News
Pilot units and electronic charts seminar
Problems associated with port usage of Portable Pilot Units (PPUs) together with electronic charts and precise positioning is to be the subject of an afternoon seminar at Southampton Solent University’s Conference Centre on 12 May.
-
News
Marine Measurement Forum
Chelsea Technologies Group of West Molesey, Surrey, which recently delivered a novel 6m long acoustic array to the Norwegian University of Science & Technology for communication studies in Trondheim Fjord, is hosting the 48th UK Marine Measurement Forum on Wednesday 18 May.
-
NewsOhmex brings variety to Ocean Business
The Hampshire UK based manufacturer and distributor of hydrographic survey and other marine electronic equipment, Ohmex, will not have far to travel to exhibit at Ocean Business.
-
NewsCatch onboard demos at Ocean Business
Industry professionals have been receiving details of the live demonstrations to be held aboard Sonardyne’s research vessel Sound Surveyor during Ocean Business.
-
NewsCutting costs for marine energy survey
An inshore cable survey system that cleverly senses the presence of cables, and uses a smaller ROV than usual, is set to significantly cut the cost of survey work in the burgeoning marine energy industry.
-
NewsBudget water radar cuts flood risk
West Sussex based VEGA Controls Ltd has launched a new, low cost radar technology for level measurement in open water.
-
NewsOcean Business booming in Southampton
The third Ocean Business event is being held at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton UK from 5 to 7 April 2011.
