Subsea Services News – Page 32
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World ECDIS Day
Hamburg’s Empire Riverside Hotel is the venue for this second international one-day event on Wednesday 20 September at which over 250 industry leaders are expected to be present.
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UKHO seeks two new frameworks
The UK Hydrographic Office, tasked with conducting surveys in various locations around the world, is looking to establish two new frameworks for provision of lidar and swathe sounding services which will enable it to fulfill in a timely manner obligations mainly in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) that are either ...
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News£1m UXO survey contract for M² Subsea
Worldwide ROV services supplier M² Subsea, which maintains bases in Aberdeen and Houston, has been sub-contracted by Next Geosolutions of Italy under a contract worth over £1m to carry out detailed UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) removal surveys for the Nord Stream 2 twin pipeline system supplying natural gas from Russia to ...
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Multibeam sounders for new Japanese Coast Guard vessels
Denmark’s Teledyne Reson is to provide extensive multibeam equipment assemblies for two new hydrographic survey vessels under construction for the governmental Japan Coast Guard (JCG) organisation.
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World first remote ROV operations claimed
The world’s first commercial ROV operations conducted direct from a newly developed onshore dual control centre at its Norwegian headquarters in Bryne have begun, say subsea specialists IKM Subsea.
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NewsUnderwater drone autonomous launch and recovery
UK project partners recently demonstrated autonomous launch and recovery of multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) from an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) as the closing part of their Innovate UK project.
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NewsDual basket LARS for Briggs
As part of its ongoing growth plans, UK-based Briggs Marine Contractors has made a six-figure investment into its diving division’s capabilities with the purchase of a dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS)
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NewsIMCA diving seminar and DMAC workshop
The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) and the Diving Medical Advisory Committee (DMAC) are staging a two-day IMCA Diving Seminar and DMAC Workshop in London, UK on 25-26 September 2017 that will present a number of topics of interest to the global offshore diving community.
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NewsSubsea inspection competition
The UK-headquartered Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), a collaborative RD&D programme funded by nine leading offshore wind developers and the Scottish Government, has recently launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind underwater substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind.
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NewsMacArtney vehicles for North Sea Link job
The first electricity link between the UK and Norway is to interconnect Nordic and British energy markets, the project involving among others equipment from Denmark-headquartered MacArtney Underwater Technology fitted on board a multipurpose supply vessel.
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NewsAquaculture DSV
Workships Contractors, the Netherlands-headquartered manager of the four point mooring Diving Support Vessel, ‘Offshore Beaver’, has announced that the vessel has been sold to Seisund AS of Torangsvag, Norway.
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NewsECM Award for DLM
UK company Dynamic Load Monitoring Ltd (DLM) was named winner of Spirit of Innovation award winner in the category: Marine Engineering and Construction at the recent European Commercial Marine (ECM) awards for Subsea Datalogging Tensile Link. The awards were judged and presented at the Seawork International 2017.
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NewsMicro-AUV development
Marine science technology specialists Planet Ocean of Camberley in Surrey, UK, has developed a new range of mini Autonomous Underwater Vehicles claimed to be around three times smaller than any other comparable systems. At around 50cm long, their miniature size allows them to be used in ways not previously ...
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‘Celtic Explorer’ interactive virtual tours
Opportunities to jump on board the Irish Marine Institute’s multi-purpose research vessel, the 65.5 metre ‘Celtic Explorer’, using new interactive 360 virtual tour facilities have been introduced by the organisation.
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Seawork debut for iXBlue catamaran
iXBlue, the specialist French navigation, positioning and imaging organisation operating in over 30 countries, launched at Seawork International its latest all-purpose catamaran designed for hydrographic, oceanographic and biological missions, iXCat 80.
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NewsNew Fugro vessel begins offshore operations
Fugro’s latest all-purpose survey vessel, ‘Fugro Venturer’, has begun maiden operations in the deep waters of Ireland’s Atlantic margins followed by far north sectors of the Barents Sea.
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NewsUSV for seismic operations
Norway''s Maritime Robotics specialises in the development of unmanned craft and following extensive trials the company has developed the Mariner USV which is claimed to be a revolutionary tool for seismic operation.
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NewsKongsberg enters vessel market
Norway’s Kongsberg, the leading equipment manufacturer, has developed its first-ever survey vessel designed for integrating all necessary sensors for rapid operation in shallow and coastal waters as well as waterways, the GeoSwath Compact Survey Vessel (CSV). It was first shown and demonstrated at the recent Ocean Business event in ...
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NewsCheetah Marine export successes
Isle of Wight, UK catamaran builder Cheetah Marine plans to exhibit at Seawork International a new 8.5m hydrographic craft prior to its delivery to SinoHydro, a Chinese hydropower and construction company engaged in building a multi-purpose bridge project in Bangladesh.
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Anglo-Canadian underwater mapping venture
Subsea technology leaders Sonardyne International in Hampshire, UK and 2G Robotics of Ontario, Canada are to formally collaborate on the development and promotion of a dynamic underwater laser mapping system which they say will significantly reduce the time needed to survey seafloor sites and offshore structures.
