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Oceaneering and GDi Team Up for Oil and Gas Digital Asset Management

Oceaneering International has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with Global Design Innovation (GDi) to deliver digital asset management solutions for asset-intensive industries such as oil and gas, utilities, and power generation. The agreement Oceaneering signed through its Integrity Management and Digital Solutions group will allow the company to provide digital solutions, including a technology-focused approach to remote support, inspection, and digital asset management services.As part of the collaboration agreement, Oceaneering will utilize GDi’s Vision software solution for

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BladeBUG and FORCE Technology Partner to Revolutionize Wind Turbine Blade Inspections

is streamlined, allowing for fast and efficient inspections," the company said.Chris Cieslak, Founder and Director at BladeBUG, explains, “BladeBUG’s joint solution with FORCE Technology is set to empower wind industry stakeholders with advanced inspection capabilities that enhance asset management, ensuring the integrity and longevity of wind turbine blades. Combining the maneuverability, accuracy, and adaptability of BladeBUG’s crawler, with the reliable, trusted technology within FORCE Technology’s custom-built NDT solution will help revolutionize O&M activities in the

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Strategizing Connectivity for Fleet Optimization, Remote Ops

, says Inmarsat.In its recent report, The Network Effect: Strategizing Connectivity at Sea for Maximum Impact, Inmarsat explains that a good connectivity strategy addresses the flow of data and information based on desired use cases and outcomes. As Chris Sepp, Vice President of IT at leading global asset management company Atlas Corp. (Seaspan), puts it: “A modern vessel can harvest 800–900 data points per second if you allow it to.” Even if data is only measured and collected four times per minute, he adds, “that’s a lot of data points per vessel over a 24-hour period.&rdquo

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Oceaneering to Use HUVR's Inspection Data Management Software for Integrity Management Offerings

value to Oceaneering’s customers," Oceaneering said."The collaboration between Oceaneering and HUVR is a key component of our strategy to enable cross-segment digital transformation in both offshore, from topside to subsea, and onshore environments. With the launch of a new digital asset management system, Oceaneering expects to leverage its network of partners and deliver digital solutions to the integrity management market," the company said.According to Oceaneering, HUVR’s cloud-based IDMS platform is mobile-connected, flexible, scalable, and vendor-agnostic. Its capabilities

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Proserv to Monitor Cables at Equinor's Hywind Scotland Floating Wind Farm Using 'Disruptive' Tech

;s largest offshore wind farm once completed at 3.6GW capacity in total.Davis Larssen, Chief Executive Officer, Proserv Controls said: “The deployment of ECG to Hywind Scotland marks another important stepping stone towards this disruptive technology becoming the benchmark solution for cable asset management in offshore wind.“In a few short months we have seen ECG selected to support the operation of the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, due to the strength of its proposition, and now it will be supplied to a well-established floating asset, indicating its flexibility, versatility

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AST Marine Sciences Rebrands as Applied Telematics

Applied Telematics is the new name for AST Marine Sciences Limited, a provider of remote monitoring and asset management services for fishing enforcement authorities, vessel owners and commercial operators of fixed and mobile assets globally.Applied Telematics, part of The AST Group, was given the new brand and operating name to reflect the its expertise in telemetry and services—its core focus and business—the company said,As part of this rebrand, the firm's growing team of maritime experts have moved into new offices in Norwich, U.K., where the company is now a key element to AST&rsquo

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OTC & Offshore Innovation: From Sarajevo with L(ament)ove

sensor can be deployed efficiently and easily across any operating asset. Subsea 7 NESP, which requires no power supply or batteries, offers a scalable, cost-effective, zero maintenance solution to extend asset life and improve uptime.The NESP technology fully integrates with Xodus' Asset Management & Integrity Network (XAMIN) tool, which allows the company's experts, infrastructure owners and operators to capture design, installation, testing, operating, inspection, and decommissioning information within a single system. This additional capability leads to a further increase in

“Since plans for our OceanVision project started in 2018, we have been preparing our industry leading Synthetic Aperture Sonar and 3D underwater laser scanning technologies to be used in a Robotics/Data as a Service (RDaaS) business model as opposed to a product only strategy," said Karl Kenny, Kraken President and CEO, in discussing the Letter of Intent to acquire PanGeo Subsea. Photo courtesy Kraken Robotics

Kraken Robotics Enters LOI to Acquire PanGeo Subsea

Kraken Robotics Inc. has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) in connection with the proposed acquisition of PanGeo Subsea Inc. from Cahill Innovation Inc, a member of the Cahill Group of Companies, and Argentum Asset Management AS. Moya Cahill, a director of Kraken, is a shareholder of Cahill Innovation Inc, and she resigned as a director of Kraken prior to the approval and execution of the LOI in order to ensure proper governance and review of the transaction by a fully arm’s length board.PanGeo is a private Canadian services company specializing in high resolution 3D acoustic

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HPR ROV Increases International Footprint with KSA Partnership

known for its unique micro ROV capabilities, HPR ROV has worked on an array of projects with tier one operators and service companies for inspection scopes in the North Sea, Central Asia and West Africa. Its cost-effective solutions have also seen the company complete a number of late life asset management work scopes within the UK decommissioning sector.The agreement with i-Energy, a provider of drilling tools, completion equipment, and plug and abandonment solutions, provides HPR ROV with 12,000 m² premises that includes office warehouse and yard facilities in Dammam’s second industrial

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