Floating Offshore Wind: Technip Energies' Semi-Submersible Concept Wins FLOWIN Prize
Technip Energies, with its three partners Crowley, Anchor QEA, and Offshore Construction Associates, has been awarded the Floating Offshore Wind Readiness (FLOWIN) prize for Phase One by U.S. Department of Energy. The prize was awarded for Technip Energies’ in-house floater solution INO15, a three-column semi-submersible concept designed to support 15 MW wind turbine. Technip Energies was one of nine $100,000 award winners."The overarching goal of the three-phase FLOWIN prize is to establish a pathway to cost-effective domestic manufacture and deployment of commercial utility-scale
Saildrone Closes $100 Million Series C Funding Round
Saildrone in mid-October announced the close of its $100 million Series C round, bringing its total funding to $190 million.Led by BOND, the round includes new investors XN, Standard Investments, Emerson Collective and Crowley Maritime Corporation, as well as participation from previous investors, Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, Lux Capital, Social Capital and Tribe Capital. Saildrone said it will use the new financing to grow its data insight teams and scale go-to-market functions to meet the rapidly growing demand for ocean domain intelligence.An American owned and operated company founded
Michael Johnson, Sea Machines: MTR's #3 Ocean Influencer
and then on and on. Now it’s digital sensing, deep processing and the shift of manual operation to the autonomous.”A native Texan and a marine engineer by education, Johnson has always fancied himself an innovator, but early in his career – from shipyard post to executive leadership at Crowley Maritime – he never imagined in those early years that he would take a leadership role in maritime autonomy. “Mariners aren’t usually the type of people that make long-term fixed plans,” said Johnson.But it was one of his first experiences as a mariner that helped shaped
OVI: 103 Tons of Garbage Removed From North Pacific Gyre
ocean plastic accumulation regions, or Gyres, in the world’s oceans.This expedition sets a record for the largest at sea clean-up in the Gyre to date, and more than doubles Ocean Voyages Institute’s own results from last year.“I am so proud of our hard-working crew,” said Mary Crowley, founder and executive director of Ocean Voyages Institute. “We exceeded our goal of capturing 100 tons of toxic consumer plastics and derelict ‘ghost’ nets, and in these challenging times, we are continuing to help restore the health of our ocean, which influences our own health
Ardent and Ardentia Join Forces
vehicles in 2015. Ardentia has also completed the fuel and bunker removal of the M/T Woodford at 85m underwater in 2012, and the wreck removal of the trawler Santa Ana in Cabo Peñas, Spain. In May, 2015, Svitzer Salvage, a part of the Maersk Group, and Titan Salvage, under the Crowley Group, merged to form Ardent. Ardent sustains one of the most robust maritime preparedness programs in the industry for all vessels
Precision Work between Volcanoes and Strong Currents
arrangement for the vessel, drafted the temporary living quarters onboard the MV Svenja and accompanied the project steps in detail – from scheduling over cost-controlling to vessel stability calculations, rigging design and lifting procedures. 25 SAL colleagues and a team of 58 experts from Crowley and sub-contractors did rely on the most accurate preparations for the later installation onboard the vessel. After mobilization in Singapore MV Svenja set off to Alaska. 14 days of sea passage later she had to get secured on-site by a two and a half days operation. Ten pre-installed anchors
Ushering in the Age of the Autonomous Workboat
is and entrepreneur, founding two companies and serving in various roles – offshore, heavy lift ocean transport and marine salvage – since graduating from Texas A&M University with a BA in Marine Engineering. Most recently he was a VP of Business at Titan Salvage and a VP of Projects at Crowley. His new venture is Sea Machines, a company created to design and provide unmanned work boats and autonomous control systems for the commercial marine and offshore markets. “The idea was conceived like a puzzle over the last five years, piece by piece as I managed and executed various marine
New Salvage Joint Venture in Africa
As part of the next step in creating its global marine services network, Ardent, the newly created company between Svitzer and Crowley, is launching a joint venture with Southern African diving and marine services company, Subtech. Subtech brings a Sub-Saharan African presence through an infrastructure network with facilities and activities that cover both East and West Africa in additional to its home territory of South Africa. Subtech’s experienced marine and subsea personnel, equipment resources, entrepreneurial business model and the support of James Fisher Group will help the joint
Crowley Transports Panama Canal Gate
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s heavy lift barge 455 4 successfully delivered the first in a series of new gates for the ongoing Panama Canal expansion. Crowley is scheduled to help transport all eight of the gates involved in the Pacific side lock expansion of the Canal – a project that when coupled with the Atlantic side expansion will create a new lane of vessel traffic and double the waterway’s capacity. The 455 4 was contracted by Sarens, a Belgium-based heavy lift company, to transport the gates from Cristóbal, a port on the Atlantic side of the Canal, to Grupo
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