Haun, Eric
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Swearingen Joins PMI Industries
PMI Industries, Inc. announces that Sandon Swearingen has joined the company as Account Manager, Technical Sales. Swearingen is primarily responsible for account management for the company's subsea cable hardware, testing laboratory and seismic exploration customers. He serves as the primary contact and liaison between PMI and various domestic and international accounts, as well as other marine companies.
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Wachs Subsea CPT Combination Prep Tool
When looking for an emergency preparedness system for the GoM and elsewhere, Chevron partnered with Wachs Subsea to create a highly automated pipeline repair system that utilizes our Combination Prep Tool (CPT) as the key operational component. The CPT-3, or Combination Prep Tool Generation 3, is a hydraulically powered subsea machining system equipped with three modules that perform five functions: cutting, beveling, counterboring, weld seam removal and FBE removal.
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IKM Instrutek AS – DNV-GL and Lloyds Approved
IKM Instrutek AS is a sales and service supplier of test and measurement instruments. for electrical, electronics, automation, condition monitoring, maritime navigation and communication and calibration. As a full partner, IKM Instrutek offers its products and services to the industry, marine and offshore, installers, energy suppliers, technical training schools and public service. The Norwegian company has about 60 employees…
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New UK Hydrographic Office Chair Appointed
Adam Singer has been appointed to the role of Chair of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) for three years. He takes over the role from Sandra Rogers who has served on the Hydrographic Office Board for 13 years. Adam is currently Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council, Digital Radio UK, and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society. He is also on the Board of Trustees for The Sixteen, one of the U.K.’s leading choral groups.
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Call for Nominations: UNOLS Council Positions
The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) is an organization of academic oceanographic institutions working in cooperation with agencies of the U.S. Federal Government to ensure broad access to modern, well-operated, state-of-the-art research vessels, aircraft, submersibles and facilities required to support a healthy and vigorous research and education program in the ocean sciences.
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Instrument Donation Program Awarding Tryptophan Sensors
Turner Designs announced it is now offering a new instrument donation program to allow more customers with budgetary constraints to use its instruments for research. In the past, Turner Designs’ donation program awarded one instrument every six months. The company is changing this program to issue requests for proposals based on specific instruments or applications. Turner will select from the proposals and possibly award donations to several researchers, rather than just one as before.
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Underwater Metal Detectors for Law Enforcement, Commercial Diving
Commercial diving companies and law enforcement agencies are acquiring underwater metal detectors to help in their search and recovery operations. Designed for use in the subsea environment, these detectors have a minimal number of controls making them easy for divers to operate. They are an essential piece of equipment for locating and tracking pipelines, searching for lost tools and equipment, pinpointing the position of anchors and moorings…
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Sonardyne Offers Discount to US Academics
Marine science and ocean research programs across the United States are set to benefit from access to more affordable underwater technology thanks to a new discount scheme introduced by Houston-based Sonardyne Inc. Under the terms of the company’s Academic Discount Partnership, Sonardyne is offering eligible U.S. academic and oceanographic institutions a 20% discount on equipment across its product lineup…
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WindSentinel Awaits US Navy Deployment
AXYS Technologies Inc. announced it has completed pre-commissioning of a WindSentinel platform for the United States Navy project to validate an offshore floating LiDAR wind resource assessment system. AXYS teamed up with Sound & Sea Technology (SST) as well as DNV GL to secure the U.S. Navy contract and supply the system. The LiDAR underwent an initial six month side by side testing process overseen by DNV GL in 2013.
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MacArtney, Meyah Ich Ha Join Forces Offshore Mexico
The MacArtney Underwater Technology Group announced the entry of a representative agreement with the Mexican ROV and subsea service company, Meyah Ich Ha, who is set to administer the promotion and sales of MacArtney systems and products within the Mexican part of the GOM region. The name Meyah Ich Ha originates from Mayan culture and means "work under water" - and based out of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico coast, Meyah Ich Ha provides ROV services, ROV pilot training and counseling.
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ASL Builds Custom Instrument for Hydrothermal Vent Flow
ASL Environmental Sciences Inc. has been awarded a $500,000 contract by the University of Georgia to build a reciprocal transmission acoustic scintillation instrument to measure the flow dynamics of a hydrothermal vent plume for a research project led by Dr. Daniela Di Iorio of the Department of Marine Sciences. The instrument will be installed at the Ocean Networks Canada NEPTUNE cabled observatory at the Endeavour hydrothermal vent site…
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Applied Acoustics Debuts New Release Beacon
A new acoustic release beacon has been launched by Applied Acoustic Engineering based in Great Yarmouth, U.K. The model, the omni-directional 1519, is part of the company’s 1500 Series that employs spread spectrum technology for added ‘uplink’ reliability. The compact and lightweight release beacon can be operated by both the Applied Acoustics’ Easytrak USBL system and a dedicated PAM 3510 Acoustic Command/Configure unit.
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Northrop Grumman Turbine Generators Selected for USN ORP
Northrop Grumman selected to provide turbine generator units for U.S. Northrop Grumman Corporation announced it has been awarded a contract by shipbuilder General Dynamics Electric Boat to complete detailed design and subsequent manufacturing, assembly, qualification and delivery of the first turbine generator units for the Ohio Replacement Program (ORP), the U.S. Navy's next-generation ballistic nuclear submarine.
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MMT Side Scan Sonar Survey for Nord Stream
MMT (Sweden) has been awarded a contract for side scan sonar survey and a camera based study of benthic fauna by Nord Stream AG. The scope of Nord Stream´s monitoring campaign is to assess the impact of the presence of the pipelines on the near seabed currents through the observation of potential localized scour and sedimentation. To determine seabed sediment features, such as objects, linear features, obstructions and sediment characteristics MMT will use a ROTV mounted side scan sonar system.
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USV Powered by Renewable Energy
Eco Marine Power (EMP) today revealed details of its Aquarius Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) and announced that it will begin work related to the construction of a prototype. The Aquarius USV is being developed as a cost-effective unmanned surface vessel (USV) and will incorporate a number of technologies from EMP and its strategic partners. These technologies include marine computer systems and lightweight flexible marine solar panels.
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FairfieldNodal Announces Contracts for new ZLand Nodes
FairfieldNodal has signed contracts that will put 60,000 of its new Land true cable-free nodes to work for the seismic acquisition division of a worldwide geophysical solutions company. This comes within two months of beginning manufacturing of its latest generation nodes, FairfieldNodal said. ZLand nodes are now available in two variations. The cable-free 1C model is smaller and lighter weight than before, which adds to its easy and safe deployment attributes.
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Independent Report: WMB-3250 Multibeam Sonar
Multibeam manufacturer WASSP Ltd. announced the release of an independent report on their WMB-3250 Multibeam Sonar. Based in New Zealand, WASSP Ltd. has been supplying its Multibeam systems globally since 2007 and have over 700 systems being used in the commercial fishing industry and other applications including survey, dredging, fisheries research and defense. Using advanced signal processing techniques coupled with the latest generation hardware platforms…
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Osiris Projects Updates Bibby Athena Build Timeline
Osiris Projects, part of Bibby Marine Survey Services, have issued an updated timeline with the latest time lapse footage of the Bibby Athena build, which the company said has progressed substantially since the original video was made available. Fabrication of the hull is now complete, and Bibby Athena was moved outdoors in preparation for outfitting works at the end of March. The updated timeline footage is now live on the company’s website.
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Can O&G Drilling Methods Help Mars Exploration?
As the search for oil and gas reserves continues, exploration and production activities are occurring in increasingly harsh environments and drilling is going deeper than ever before. An experienced petroleum engineer is set to explain exactly how far this could extend – namely to Mars - at a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen presentation and dinner meeting this month. Professor Alfred William Eustes III…
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DOF Subsea Announces Several Contracts
Bergen, Norway – May 21 – DOF Subsea has been awarded several contracts totaling approximately NOK 475 million, including orders for work in Asia Pacific, North Sea and North America. DOF Subsea reported a range of contracts in what it calls the Atlantic region. Maersk Oil UK contracted DOF Subsea to perform removal and replacement with related survey work for the Dumbarton Drill Cluster Centre (DCC) flexible production riser at the Global Producer 3 FPSO located in the U.K. sector North Sea.
August 2024
