Subsea Services News – Page 85
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2006 Hydrographic Symposium
Kris Peeters, Flemish Minister of Public Works, Energy, Environment & Nature, will formally open the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies'' 15th Biennial International Hydrographic Symposium in Antwerp, on Monday 6 November.
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NewsMarina Surveyors Stick to RIBs
C & S Survey Solutions has successfully coupled the Ohmex range of echo sounders to the 1200 Series GPS System, and their existing range of robotic EDM''s. The company has been equipped with Leica GPS and traditional surveying equipment for several years. It approached to complete surveys that would include ...
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NewsViroSoil: Environmentally Friendly Sediment Remediation
An innovative treatment solution for contaminated sediment has been developed by Virotec Europe in the UK, which believes that the problems associated with contaminated sediment, including acidity and heavy metals, can be effectively decontaminated in the long term using the company''s ViroSoil technology.
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Marine Measurement Forum
Scheduled presentations include those by Intelligent Exhibitions (organisers of the three-day Ocean Business 2007 event in Southampton next March), CEFAS/BGS/Seasurvey, Axys Technologies/Planet Ocean, YSI Hydrodata, Aanderaa/RS Aqua, Sontek, OSIL, and MacArtney. The delegate registration fee is £35. Further details are available at www.mmf-uk.org>.By DAVID GOODFELLOW
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NewsEngineer-Divers Prove Their Worth in Water
The problem of taking engineering expertise below water is increasingly being addressed through the use of engineer-divers. Rather than have engineers stay on dry land to glean essential information from non-specialist divers, firms are looking to place engineer-divers into the water.
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NewsDive Team Recovers 'Pamela S'
Swansea based Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering Ltd were asked to assist in the recovery of the wreck of the fishing vessel Pamela S, which sank in Camarthen Bay on 17 July.
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Fugro Geos Ormen Lange Project
Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norway''s largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to provide all-important real-time current profile, wind and wave data for both the pipeline and the field itself.
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Irish Marine Institute Opens New HQ
The Irish Marine Institute''s new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institute''s 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features 54 scientific laboratories, a crescent-shaped office facility and a 150-seat auditorium specially designed for both national and international ...
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Seismic Development
Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic survey services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.
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NewsRussian Contracts for Veripos
Veripos in Aberdeen has been awarded two major contracts by Romona, the Russian survey company. The first is for supply of two LD2 integrated GNSS demodulator systems installed by Romona aboard its specialist survey vessel, Teknik Perdana, operating in the Sakhalin oil and gas sector in the Russian Far East ...
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NewsGTS Subsea Completes Coring Contract
GTS Subsea, the Surrey and Somerset based independent site investigation business, has successfully completed its part of a cable route survey between Oban and Mull.
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Kongsberg Maritime Extends its Acoustic Range
Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has extended its HiPAP series of acoustic positioning and underwater navigation systems with introduction of a portable 350P model which, it says, heralds a new era of positioning for vessels of opportunity.
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NewsBGS-UKHO Mapping Agreement
The UK Hydrographic Office, whose new chief executive Mike Robinson assumed office last month (see inset), has signed an agreement with British Geological Survey for joint production of new digital seabed geological maps covering UK continental shelf regions.
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Australian Video Recorder Contract
NETmc Marine in Aberdeen reports an order worth more than US$100,000 for its range of digital video recorders from SureSpek of Western Australia, an inspection, maintenance and repair consultancy retained by Australia''s largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production concern, Woodside Petroleum.
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Intelligent GPS Units
French company Cadden has launched a multipurpose system for synchronising data from differing sensors in UTC (Universal Time Clock) time and space with a facility for integrating high-precision GPS positioning, data acquisition and measurement functions.
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NewsGardline Continues Survey Fleet Expansion
Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Shipping continues its acquisitive fleet expansion programme with the successful purchase of RRS Charles Darwin. The 69m LOA vessel, renamed RV Ocean Researcher, follows RV Triton and MV Confidante as the third ship purchased by Gardline in the past 18 months. It was delivered in ...
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Positioning & Surveying Courses
University of Nottingham''s Institute of Engineering Surveying & Space Geodesy (IESSG) says it has funding available to support UK and EU students on MSc courses in satellite positioning and navigation technology as well as geodetic surveying.
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Thales Navigation Takeover
GPS equipment specialist Thales Navigation, whose European headquarters are in Carquefou, France, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Shah Capital Partners (SCP), a private equity consortium based in Santa Clara, California.
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NewsBMT SeaTech Studies Re-Design of Portsmouth Harbour Channel
BMT SeaTech Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, has recently completed a comprehensive study for Defence Estates South West. Forming part of the Portsmouth Harbour Regeneration Project, the study looks at the re-design of the deep water channel for Portsmouth Harbour in the light of its use by large future ...
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NewsLights, Cameras, Action at Seawork
Kongsberg Maritime''s camera division will be showing several new cameras for divers at Seawork 2006.
