Haun, Eric
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UNOLS Seeks Input on the Regional Class Research Vessel
Over the past few months, the UNOLS Council and Fleet Improvement Committees have been working on a response for the NSF to evaluate the need on the number of regional class research vessels to be built as part of the UNOLS fleet replacement efforts. The UNOLS Council said it continues to discuss and research this issue and seeking community views and input. The UNOLS office will collect the feedback in advance of our Council meeting discussion in October 2014.
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OII Orders Six RTI Deepwater SeaPilot DVLs
Rowe Technologies, Inc. (RTI) announced a recent order of six SeaPilot DVLs from Oceaneering International, Inc. (OII). RTI developed a 4,500-meter rated titanium SeaPilot DVL for deepwater deployments which the company said provides a slightly smaller footprint when compared to other products in the market and also provides the industries newest electronics platform. A leak detection sensor has been…
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Offshore Terminal Shut After Sheen Discovered
LOOP's Offshore Marine Terminal suspended its crude oil offloading operations while investigating an oil sheen discovered along the LOOP pipeline right-of-way on August 13. Sheening continued in the area of the pipeline. Activities are underway to inspect and repair the pipeline. Preliminary estimates indicate that marine offloading operations may resume between August 23 and 2. LOOP said it will continue to evaluate options to safely expedite offloading operations when repairs are complete.
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TRDI to Host Underwater Navigation Training in Houston
Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) – manufacturer of Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs); Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD); and Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) for offshore, academic and defense applications – announced it will host a two-day training seminar focused on their Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) technology in Houston, October 21-22, 2014. DVLs are used extensively onboard underwater platforms and surface vessels to provide precision navigation capability.
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Boskalis JV Awarded Cable-laying Contract
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announced that VSMC, its strategic cable-laying joint venture with VolkerWessels, has been awarded a contract by Sandbank Offshore Windfarm GmbH (a joint venture of energy companies Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München). The scope of work for VSMC includes cable supply, CPS, installation, post lay burial and termination and testing of 76 infield cables. The total contract value to VSMC is €90 million.
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Polarcus Tests Market, Improves Earnings
Polarcus Limited today announced the release of its second quarter 2014 financial statements in which it reported revenue rose 13% sequentially and 5% YoY to $137.6 million while. The company highlighted EBITDA of $49.9 million and EBIT of $23.8 million, a net profit increase to $9.2 million, from 6.3 million in Q2 2013, net cash flow from operations of $45.6 million, a strong Multi-Client prefunding of 92% and 30% reduced financing costs YoY with improved maturity profile.
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McClaugherty Joins SeaTrepid International
SeaTrepid International announced that Jim McClaugherty has joined the company as senior sales manager for the Gulf of Mexico. McClaugherty joins with 45 years of experience in the offshore industry, starting his career as a commercial diver in 1970 in the Gulf of Mexico, and over a 10 year period moved up the ranks as diver, lead diver and diver supervisor. He then became a project manager and won…
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ESS Notches Third Seabed Clearance Contract
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) announced it was awarded a third seabed clearance contract on a major wind farm construction project. The subsea engineering specialist has started offshore operations on the Westermost Rough development, located eight kilometers off the Yorkshire coast, east of Hull. The contract has been awarded by DONG Energy, one of northern Europe’s leading energy groups. The £800 million Westermost Rough wind farm will contain 35 turbines of 6MW capacity…
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Benthos Aviation Pinger Line Sold to RJE
RJE International, Inc. and Teledyne Benthos today jointly announced the sale of the Benthos aviation pinger product line, which includes the ELP-362D Underwater Locator Beacon, to RJE. In this transaction, the Benthos intellectual property related to the manufacturing of underwater locator pingers for aviation “black boxes” and associated accessories has been sold to RJE, who will build and manufacture pingers for the aviation market.
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Forum Expands DYNACON Facility in Texas
Forum Energy Technologies, Inc. announced the completion of the expansion of its DYNACON facilities in Bryan, Texas. The expansion effectively doubles the square footage of manufacturing space to 110,775 sq. ft. which includes larger welding and assembly shops. Additionally, a new 53,000 sq. ft. testing facility has been added as well as a new state-of-the-art environmentally controlled blast and paint booth which will speed associated processes.
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Calecore, N-Sea to Continue Survey Work in Barents Sea
Calesurvey, Calecore’s Offshore Geophysical division has seen steady increase in demand over the past two years for ROV Survey Services. In June, WROV operations were undertaken onboard the Kommandor Calum for a project West of Shetland whilst the Kommandor Stuart has been undertaking multiple integrated 2DHR, ROV and seabed testing and sampling campaigns offshore Northern Norway. The Siem Stork will today replace the Kommandor Stuart.
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Cameron Announces Second Quarter Earnings
Cameron; a provider of flow equipment products, systems and services to worldwide oil, gas and process industries; reported earnings per share for the second quarter of 2014 of $1.00 excluding unusual items. This compares to earnings per share for the second quarter of 2013 of $0.77 excluding unusual items. The unusual items for the second quarter of 2014 were after-tax credits of $0.02 per share and a $0.06 per share gain from discontinued operations.
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MacArtney Mooring Winch for MBARI
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) has recently selected a MacArtney MERMAC SC mooring winch solution to empower the deployment and recovery of scientific moorings onboard MBARI vessels R/V Western Flyer and the R/V Rachel Carson. The new mooring winch represents the second MacArtney winch system in operation with MBARI, adding to a MacArtney ROV and AUV tether management winch system in operation on R/V Rachel Carson.
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North Sea Atlantic Joins the Technip fleet
On Saturday July 26, 2014, a ceremony was held in Bergen to officially name the latest new subsea construction vessel to join the Technip fleet, the North Sea Atlantic. More than 200 guests from shipowner North Sea Shipping, ship charterer Technip and supply chain partners, gathered to attend the ceremony held at the NorYards BMV AS shipyard (previously Bergen Group) in Laksevåg, Bergen, Norway. The event was hosted by North Sea Shipping CEO…
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Hydro Group: Invest in the Future
Figures published earlier this year show that Scotland’s current levels of youth unemployment (16-24-year-olds) is at 853,000 – 18.8 percent – more than double that of the average age working population. According to Sir Ian Woods’s new report, Scotland's vocational education system must be improved if youth unemployment is to fall. He launched the report aimed at getting more young Scots into work recommending that employers play a far bigger role in schools and colleges.
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McMillan, Sea Catch Celebrate 20 Years
McMillan Design is celebrating 20 years of design, manufacturing and sales of the Sea Catch Toggle Release. Since 1994, Sea Catch, a quick release hook designed for the release of lines or objects under load, has gained praise from engineers and users in 14 major industries around the world and is now available in over 68 different models with capacities ranging from .65 ton to 150 tons or larger.
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Statoil, Repsol, ExxonMobil Win Colombian Offshore License
Statoil announced today that it has been awarded interest in the COL4 license offshore Colombia in the Caribbean Sea in the 2014 Colombia Licensing Round, along with Respol and ExxonMobil. Statoil said it will hold 33.33% in the license, while Repsol will be the operator of the license and will hold 33.34% and ExxonMobil Exploration Colombia will hold 33.33%. The award is subject to the final approval of the National Hydrocarbons Agency of Colombia (ANH).
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Sunken WW II Ship Oil Leak Plugged
Atlantic Coast Marine Group, Inc. successfully responds to World War II era motor tanker leaking massive cargo of oil into the Atlantic Ocean's waters. Beaufort, North Carolina-based Atlantic Coast Marine Group, Inc. (ACMG), a marine salvage, emergency towing and environmental services provider, was recently contracted to provide an initial survey and fast response pollution mitigation to a World War II era vessel believed to be the SS W.E. Hutton. As ACMG explained, motor tanker W.E.
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USCG Searching for Missing Diver
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a missing 59-year-old diver off the coast of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Station Gloucester launched a rescue crew aboard a 29-foot small boat and Air Station Cape Cod launched a search and rescue crew aboard a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter after watchstanders at the Sector Boston Command Center received notification at about 10:30 a.m. from the man's family stating he was overdue.
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PMI Industries Promotes Zivich to Manager
PMI Industries, Inc. announced that Phil Zivich has been promoted to Manager, Inside Sales/Customer Service. In his new position, Zivich is responsible for managing PMI's customer-facing timely responses and day-to-day interaction. He supports PMI's sales and service organization and also interfaces with the company's subsea cable hardware, testing laboratory and seismic survey and mapping customers.
