Subsea Services News – Page 52
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Norwegian Arctic to be mapped
Seventeen leading oil companies are teaming up to map the seabed for exploration in an Arctic offshore zone once disputed by Norway and Russia.
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Periplus-Rijkswaterstaat framework agreement
Amsterdam based Periplus Group, which specialises in providing construction support work for the oil and gas industries on the Dutch Continental Shelf with in-house processing of hydrographic and geophysical data, has signed a three year framework hydrography agreement with Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure & Environment Department organisation responsible ...
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Dalrymple Award for ABP hydrographic manager
William Heaps, assistant marine advisor and hydrographic manager of Associated British Ports Group at Southampton, is the recipient of this year’s UK Hydrographic Office Alexander Dalrymple Award.
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NewsEuroport success for DutchWorkboats
The first sale of a transportable ready to work fast hydrographic vessel with a top survey speed of 30km per hour was reported at last month’s Europort exhibition in Rotterdam by Muiden based DutchWorkboats BV and its partner, Stema Systems.
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Google maps the Thames
Google has completed mapping 360 different views of the River Thames as part of its global Street View with the aid of specialist survey equipment aboard the Port of London Authority’s hydrographic vessel, Yantlet.
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Fugro EMU completes MCA project
Fugro EMU of Durley, Southampton, which claims to be the UK’s largest commercial marine environmental services organisation, has concluded its involvement in the 2011-2013 Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) Civil Hydrography Programme with acquisition of the last of over 15bn bathymetric soundings.
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Latest release of Hydromagic software
Eye4Software BV of the Netherlands has released the latest version of its hydrographic survey package, Hydromagic version 5.2.
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NewsFinnish surveyors order Workcat for Baltic
Finnish survey company FCG (Finnish Consulting Group) Ltd has placed an order for a new GRP survey boat from Blyth Workcats Ltd of Canvey Island, UK.
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NewsDual role survey boat for Belgian operator
Belgium based independent hydrographic survey company GEOxyz took delivery of its latest vessel, Geo Surveyor X, last month.
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NewsChinese type approval for TSS gyros
China Classification Society’s recent type approval of Teledyne TSS’s Meridian ranges of gyro compasses should lead to improved sales prospects in local offshore survey and shipbuilding markets.
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NewsD-Day mapping expedition completed
Ahead of the 70th anniversary next June of the World War 2 D-Day invasion of Normandy by allied forces, the UK Hydrographic Office and its French counterpart, SHOM, are collaborating on updating an international wreck database of the former combat area.
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London P&I ECDIS warning
Poor ECDIS training can be a factor in maritime accidents, says the London P&I Club, one of the world’s leading mutual marine liability insurers acting on behalf of the global shipping community.
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Korean Hydrographic Society joins IFHS
The Hydrographic Society of Korea (HySK) has been elected a member of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS).
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Seadock simplifies stern tube seal repairs
Netherlands based AEGIR-Marine has recently joined into a cooperation agreement with Underwater Propulsion Engineers B.V. (UPE).
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NewsNew boat for UK’s only fire service dive team
Norfolk Fire and Rescue’s new Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (UWSAR) has just been equipped with an inflatable work boat from Zodiac MILPRO.
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News3D technology enhances seabed exploration
The French Navy, 3D pioneers Dassault Systèmes, and archaeologist Michel L''hour with his team are using innovative Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE technology to explore, record and recover artefacts from a wreck site 300 feet below the surface.
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NewsReady to work survey boat at Europort
DutchWorkboats BV and Stema Systems BV introduced the Fast Surveyboat 7.50, fitted with fully calibrated survey equipment, at Europort 2013 in Rotterdam this month.
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NewsAnother survey SWATH for Osiris Projects
Osiris Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, is building a sister ship to Bibby Tethra, named Bibby Athena, to be launched in winter 2014.
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NewsPatch prevents sinking of PSV
A 38 year old, mothballed platform supply vessel awaiting disposal in a Saudi Arabian port was saved just hours from sinking in late August by the speedy application of Miko magnetic patches after it sprang a leak in its engine room.
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NewsCutting the tether but keeping control
Underwater optical communications is an emerging technology, complementing the capabilities of acoustic communications, write Simon Partridge, engineering director, and Darryl Newborough, with subsea product development, at Yately UK based Sonardyne International Ltd.
