Haun, Eric
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Another Cougar ROV for Wind Power
Demand from the offshore wind industry has led Innovatumto add a second Saab Seaeye Cougar XT Compact to its ROV fleet. This comes as Innovatum’s reputation grows in the offshore wind industry for cutting the cost of inshore survey work. They have achieved this by creating the world’s smallest system of compact and rapidly mobilised packages for the location, tracking and survey of inshore and coastal pipelines and cables.
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Aker Subcontracts RDS for Statoil FEED Work
RDS, a rig design and engineering subsidiary of international drilling contractor KCA Deutag, has been awarded a $10 million contract to carry out front-end engineering design (FEED) work on Statoil’s Johan Sverdrup development in the Norwegian North Sea. The FEED work will be undertaken by the RDS team in London through a subcontract with Aker Solutions for full front end engineering of the drilling facilities throughout the platform.
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Borets Expands US Team
Borets, a global company in the engineering, manufacturing, sales and service of electric submersible pump (ESP) systems, has added several sales and marketing professionals to its Texas and Oklahoma offices. Cheri Vetter has been named business development manager in Houston; Stan Herl, U.S. sales manager, in Oklahoma City; Chad Hamilton, district manager, in Kilgore, Texas; and Jim Bacon, senior adviser technical support, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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MacArtney Debuts Camera Protection Solution
MacArtney said it has responded to demand from the professional diving industry to develop an protection solution for its LUXUS series of compact underwater cameras and lights. The new LUXUS Protection Cap will primarily be used to shield the lens of diver camera and light systems during hyperbaric welding, blasting and cutting operations but can also be used for equipment protection on other mission types.
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Harkand Hires New Group General Counsel
International subsea inspection, repair, maintenance (IRM) and light construction company Harkand announced the appointment of Jacqueline Hill as the group general counsel. Hill brings more than 15 years of experience in corporate law, most recently in energy marketing and trading in the U.K. She has been instrumental in advising senior management on corporate structure and governance issues during periods of negotiation and business expansion…
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Technip Expands Communications with MTN
MTN Communications announced that Technip, a company performing project management, engineering and construction for the energy industry, has awarded a new contract that will service a substantial portion of its global fleet with broadband communications. MTN has delivered communications to Technip for the past 10 years, and this enhanced contract more than doubles the number of Technip vessels MTN is serving.
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VSMC Wins Cable-laying Contract for Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announced that VSMC, its strategic cable-laying joint venture with VolkerWessels, has been awarded a contract by Dudgeon Offshore Wind Limited, owned by Norwegian companies Statoil and Statkraft, for the export and inter-array cabling for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm. The project has a total contract value of €110 million (Boskalis share €55 million). VSMC will perform two 1…
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Coackley Joins Envitia’s Infrastructure Solutions Team
Geospatial information systems company Envitia said it has expanded its U.K.-based business development team with the appointment of Robin Coackley to its national infrastructure solutions team. Coackley’s primary role at Envitia is to ensure the company’s geospatial solutions are optimized to meet requirements within the government and utility sectors. Coackley joins Envitia from Exelis where he was focused on imagery exploitation in the environmental and defense domains.
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EIVA Adds Reseller in China
China has been the destination of quite a number of orders shipped from Danish EIVA the last couple of years. Due to expectations of further growth in demand from this market for EIVA solutions, the company said it has added a new member to the group of authorized resellers in China. Chinese Smartsea Technology Co., Ltd has become authorized reseller of EIVA software and hardware solutions for the offshore industry.
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FMC Technologies Receives ROV Orders from Delta SubSea
FMC Technologies has received new orders from Delta SubSea (DSS) for HD59 and HD60 ROVs for delivery in July 2014. Its Schilling Robotics business unit entered into a frame agreement with Delta SubSea for the supply of work-class ROV systems in 2013, to supply a fleet of ROV systems over the next several years. Scott Dingman, President-CEO of DSS said the two Schilling Robotics HD 150Hp work-class…
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Unique Supports Hydrographic Project for Bayanat
A division of Unique Maritime Group (UMG), an integrated turnkey subsea and offshore solutions provider, Unique System FZE has recently supported a hydrographic project that included the installation of Kongsberg’s EM 2040 multibeam echo sounder units for Bayanat for Mapping & Surveying Services (Bayanat) in two different vessels at Abu Dhabi. Bayanat is a wholly-owned Mubadala company that was born from the commercialization of the UAE Armed Forces Military Survey Department (MSD).
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Severn Telemetry and Control for Wave Power Device
Severn Subsea Technologies, part of the Severn Glocon Group, has developed an integrated telemetry and control system for wave power company Seatricity’s Oceanus 2 wave device, now moored at the Cornish Wave Hub. The SST system will enable researchers to correlate wave movement with power generated, and thus optimize power generating conditions offshore. Seatricity wave energy generation is based on a float tethered to the seabed via a pump.
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HYPACK Used at Texas A&M Nautical Archaeology Program
As part of HYPACK’s academic initiative to promote and encourage training and education, HYPACK, Inc. was involved in the Remote Sensing Survey Workshop 2014 which is part of Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University. Several graduate students from the Nautical Archaeology Program, and undergraduate students from Texas A&M Galveston attended the seminar and were able to gain experience in HYPACK for their study.
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Alion to Support Virtual Training for Antisubmarine Warfare
A $24 million U.S. Alion Science and Technology, a global engineering, technology and operational solutions company, has been awarded a $24 million contract by the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) to design, build and maintain Live, Virtual, Constructive Modeling and Simulation (LVCMS) Antisubmarine Warfare Virtual At-Sea Training (ASW VAST) and simulation systems. Alion…
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Bellingham Named Director of WHOI Robotics Center
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has appointed James Bellingham as the first director of its Center for Marine Robotics. Bellingham will come to WHOI in early fall 2014 from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where he was director of engineering and most recently chief technologist. Bellingham earned his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was founder and manager of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory.
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UK Divers Fined for Undeclared Shipwreck Raids
In a landmark case, two divers today have been made to pay a total of £63,500 in fines and costs for not declaring valuable items from shipwrecks off the U.K. coast. David Knight and Edward Huzzey, both from Sandgate, had previously pleaded guilty to 19 offences between them, contrary to section 236 and section 237 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995. Knight was fined £7,000 and Huzzey £6,500. They were each ordered to pay £25,000 in costs.
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Market Improving for German Equipment Suppliers
The German Engineering Federation (VDMA) reported a good order situation for German marine and offshore oil and gas equipment suppliers, but the upsurge in incoming orders is not making the sector euphoric. “The boom in world ship newbuilding orders in 2013 gave us strong order growth, particularly from China and Korea. Here our ongoing export commitment in the global market is paying off: Germany remains the leading country for marine equipment suppliers worldwide.
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EMAS AMC Installs 50 Platforms for Chevron
EMAS AMC, the subsea services division of EMAS, a global offshore contractor and provider of integrated offshore solutions to the oil and gas industry has achieved the milestone of installing 50 platforms for Chevron in the Gulf of Thailand. Under a multiyear contract that commenced in 2011, EMAS AMC has also laid 376km of subsea pipes utilizing the construction vessel Lewek Champion, a DP2 rigid pipe laying vessel with heavy lift capabilities.
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DSM Expands into Egypt with Maersk Drilling
Deep Sea Mooring (DSM) has won the contract to provide a range of mooring services to Maersk Drilling for its sixth generation, semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Discoverer. DSM will now design, engineer and install the mooring system for the rig. “This is the first time we’ve worked with Maersk Drilling and the first time we’ve undertaken operations in Egypt,” commented Åge Straume, CEO of Deep Sea Mooring.
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Dead Sharks Found in Illegal Gill Net
U.S. Coast Guard crews in South Texas located and recovered a gill net near the Mexico-U.S. maritime border with 65 deceased sharks. At approximately 2 p.m. on Monday during a routine patrol, an aircrew aboard an HU-25 Falcon airplane spotted floating fishing gear approximately 20 miles off South Padre Island and 37 miles north of the U.S./Mexico maritime border. Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi immediately diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Amberjack, an 87-foot coastal patrol boat.
