Haun, Eric
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Subsea Risk Management in Real Time
Bergen, Norway – May 20, 2014 – A newly established research center on Norway’s west coast hopes to improve subsea operation and maintenance by bringing risk management into real time. Integrated Well and Subsea Instrumentation (IWSI) is the latest development from independent technology research institute Christian Michelsen Research AS (CMR), which aims to establish an arena for subsea and well instrumentation…
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Subsea: Standardization is the New Innovation
Oslo, Norway – May 19, 2014 – As one of the world’s most technologically innovative industries, the highly specialized subsea sector is not typically known for standardized operations. But that might change. But as the complexity of global subsea projects grows, so too does the bill for contractors, suppliers, operators, engineers, researchers and just about everyone involved in subsea projects. Many believe that this doesn’t have to be the case.
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ATL Secures 10-Year OSV Contract for ExxonMobil
Atlantic Towing Limited (ATL) announced today that it has secured a new 10-year firm contract, plus a total of 15 years of options at the Charterers’ discretion, with ExxonMobil Canada Properties and Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC) for four new state-of-the art Platform Supply Vessels operating out of St John’s, NL. The first ships for the contract will be delivered in 2016 and will join Atlantic Towing’s current fleet of eight offshore support vessels in Atlantic Canada.
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US Hearing to Focus on New Ocean Technologies
The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), will hold a hearing next week to examine the proliferation of new ocean technologies, how such technologies could improve government performance, and any impediments that exist in the use of such technologies. The federal government is responsible for recording, understanding, monitoring and protecting…
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Wärtsilä Gas Units Selected for Largest Ever Spar Platform
A new spar platform being built for Statoil's Aasta Hansteen field off the coast of Norway will feature Wärtsilä's Inert Gas and Nitrogen Generator systems, the power solutions company said. The contract has been issued in the first quarter 2014 by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of South Korea, the yard building the platform. The Wärtsilä Inert Gas Generator will utilize titanium in its construction, the first time ever that this material has been used in such a system.
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DOF Subsea Wins Maersk Oil UK Contract
DOF Subsea UK Limited, a provider of integrated subsea solutions, has been awarded a contract by Maersk Oil UK to undertake replacement of the Dumbarton Drill Cluster Center (DCC) flexible production riser at the Global Producer 3 FPSO located in block 15/20 of UK sector North Sea. The work will take place at a water depth of 140m. Engineering work associated with the project has already commenced with the offshore works scheduled to begin in July 2014.
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MMT Wins Statnett Survey Work
MMT said it has been awarded the SK4 & NorNed protection survey contract by Norway’s Statnett. This contract is divided into two separate projects and includes detailed high-resolution offshore ROV surveys and cable tracking. MMT has also been contracted for a geophysical and geotechnical survey of a cable corridor in Gandsfjorden, Norway. This year´s survey campaign for Statnett was granted to MMT.
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Nordic Maritime Lands 3D Seismic Contract
Nordic Maritime announced it has been awarded the provision of 3D marine seismic data acquisition and processing services in collaboration with ELNUSA for Husky-CNOOC Madura Limited, Offshore Indonesia. Nordic Maritime said its seismic vessel S/V Nordic Bahari, which recently completed a 2,500 line km 2D marine seismic data acquisition and processing services in East Malaysia's Sarawak T3 Block, for Pexco Sarawak N.V.…
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Divers Guilty of Raiding Historic Shipwrecks
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced that two divers from Kent have pleaded guilty to not declaring valuable items from shipwrecks off the U.K. coast. David Knight and Edward Huzzey, both from Sandgate, admitted to 19 offences between them, contrary to section 236 and section 237 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. Items were taken from shipwrecks off the Kent coast, with the first known objects removed in 2001.
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WFS Debuts Improved Subsea Video Camera
WFS Technologies announced the launch of Seatooth Video, the new edition of its subsea wireless video camera. Seatooth Video is an upgraded version of WFS’ previous Viewtooth product enhanced with the latest Seatooth S300 technology. The new subsea wireless video camera exceeds the underwater wireless video streaming capabilities so far known in the subsea industry, WFS said. A solution for subsea construction and IRM activities…
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HYPACK to Release Real Time Point Cloud
Hydrographic surveying software company HYPACK, Inc. announced the release of its new REAL TIME POINT CLOUD, an upgrade to the HYPACK2014 release. The new program runs in conjunction with HYSWEEP SURVEY and displays both multibeam and topographic laser data in a corrected and geo-referenced color-coded point cloud. According to HYPACK , the REAL TIME POINT CLOUD program will be useful for easier feature detection and categorization, system calibration and verification, and data quality control.
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CMRE to Host AUV and Robotics Competitions
From September 20 to October 3, 2014 the NATO Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation will host the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Challenge - Europe (SAUC-E) for the fifth year in a row, and for the first time the euRathlon sea robotic competition. The NATO Center for Maritime Research and Experimentation (part of the NATO Science and Technology Organization) confirms and increases its commitment to foster a new generation of robotic engineers.
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SUBSEA 20/20 Named N. American Agency for EvoLogics
SUBSEA 20/20, Inc. announced it was recently named an authorized sales agency for EvoLogics underwater communication and positioning systems. In support of the new partnership, SUBSEA 20/20 principal, Eric Munday, completed a technical sales training program at EvoLogics headquarters in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, SUBSEA 20/20 becomes the first factory-trained agency for EvoLogics in North America.
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MacArtney Bolsters North American Sales Focus
MacArtney announced an initiative to bolster its North American system sales focus, spearheaded by the hiring of experienced sales and business development professional, Shannon Lewis, as System Sales Manager, and appointment of long-standing MacArtney ocean science expert, Andrew Ziegwied, as Vice President of Ocean Science and System Sales. As part of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) operations in Houston…
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Cruise Ship Data to Assist Ocean Scientists
Celebrity Equinox becomes third Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Last week, as Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Equinox completed its scheduled drydock in Cadiz, Spain, it joined Royal Caribbean International’s Allure of the Seas and Explorer of the Seas in a program that tracks ocean circulation dynamics and measures atmospheric and oceanographic conditions, on repeated journeys. According to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.…
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AML Selected as Finalist for Innovation Award
AML Oceanographic has been named a finalist for Innovative Excellence by the judges of the VIATeC Technology Awards. The category seeks to recognize the company that has best embodied the progressive nature of the technology sector by designing and producing a revolutionary product. VIATeC, a networking and resource hub for Greater Victoria’s technology sector, has taken notice of AML this year for its development of UV•Xchange, a biofouling control product unlike any currently on the market.
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Keppel Q1 Profits Dip Slightly
The Keppel Corporation released its limited unaudited results for the first quarter ending March31, 2014, reporting a 5% decrease in net profits to S$339 million compared to Q1 2013's S$357 million, though the company attributed the decline to one-off gains from the reversal of provision from the sale of a power barge and write-back of tax provision made by Keppel Land in Q1 2013. Earnings per share also fell…
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Interview: Global Diving & Salvage CEO Devon Grennan
Devon Grennan was named CEO of Global Diving & Salvage in November 2013 after company founders Tim Beaver and John Graham stepped down from direct operational involvement. MTR caught up with Grennan for his insights on the business of Diving and Salvage. Your title is new, your tenure is not. How is your company the same as it was in 1995? We still focus on making sure that our customers receive the best service, regardless of the services they need.
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X (Prize) Marks the Spot
Nonprofit organization XPRIZE creates and manages large-scale, high-profile competitions that aim to stimulate research and development solutions to grand problems across a number of scientific fields. The group has previously held competitions targeting advances in personalized medicine, automotive fuel efficiency, oil cleanup and privatized space exploration, to name a few. For its latest competition…
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Bourbon: Offshore Seismic Survey Vessel Success
Announced in June 2011, Bourbon and CGG entered a five-year charter agreement for a series of six custom newbuild seismic support vessels. Now more than two years later, the third ship in the series, Bourbon Gannet, is due to enter service in the early part of 2014, following the launch of the first two vessels, Bourbon Petrel and Bourbon Fulmar, in summer and autumn 2013, respectively. The remaining three sister vessels are under construction in Dubai’s Grandweld Shipyard…
