Autonomous Survey Technology: Cutting the Umbilical
the Ossian wind farm, deep push seabed CPTs, seabed seismic CPTs and vibrocore operations were carried out remotely using over-the-horizon commands sent via a remote-control system.Recent advancements in AI and in low orbit, low latency satellite communications which have greatly enhanced remote control solutions and real-time data transfer have made it possible to do this. Infinity CPT and other payloads communicate directly with control systems on the mother vessel via a lift umbilical. The vessel's control systems communicate via satellite to the remote control center and the cloud. Infinity
Michael Johnson, Sea Machines: MTR's #3 Ocean Influencer
announced going back to 2018 with AP Moller Maersk, and then last year major strategic alliance with Huntington Ingalls and Hamilton Jet and this year with Damen.” (Note: at press time Rolls-Royce and Sea Machines signed a partnership agreement to cooperate on smart ship and autonomous ship control solutions).“Autonomous operations will be mainstream,” said Johnson. “I doubt there are many that question that. The challenge, especially for a startup innovation company like ours, is time.”Taking a historical perspective, Johnson reckons that most major technological shifts
Gilmore Names New CEO. Targets Acquisitions
Gilmore, a U.S.-based flow control solutions provider for the oil and gas industry, has appointed David Nemetz as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).The company is a subsidiary of Aberdeen-headquartered Proserv and provides flow control products and equipment for the drilling, downhole, production, and wider industrial sectors.Gilmore said that under Nemetz, who has 25 years' experience in the energy industry, it would actively pursue appropriate business acquisitions that will accelerate penetration into new markets or widen its product capabilities and range."Nemetz has significant
Cubility Launches CubeLink
Cubility AS, a provider of solids control solutions, has launched CubeLink, a new technology that aims to dramatically improve the transportation of drilling waste. Based on an existing technology utilized in food processing and commercialized by Cubility and Ellegaard Components A/S with support from Statoil, CubeLink safely and cost-effectively transports drilling waste directly from shale shakers or Cubility’s own MudCube solids control system to a storage unit or final processing unit on a drilling rig. The system is targeted at onshore and offshore drilling contractors
Scantrol Delivers AHC System Number 65
of the customer’s products and the expectations from the users. One of Scantrol’ s OEM customers states that the agreement allows the company to focus on the hydraulic and engineering requirements involved with the installation of AHC knowing that it has a very successful control solutions provider ready to meet the customer requirements. After working together with Scantrol since 2014 the natural step was to bond this relationship further and to use joint knowledge to work towards simple solutions to allow fitting and retro fitting of AHC to be both cost and time efficient for
WFS Cuts Cost of Monitoring Pipeline Temperature
WFS Technologies (WFS), producer of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the offshore oil and gas and renewables industries, announced the launch of Seatooth PipeLogger Thermal Insulation (TI), an asset integrity monitoring and flow assurance product designed to reduce the cost of monitoring process temperature of subsea pipelines and jumpers with up to two inches of thermal insulation. The Seatooth PipeLogger TI incorporates an RTD (Resistance Temperature Device) housed in a novel mount designed to trap heat from the insulated pipeline. Process temperature is measured
Reducing the Cost of Subsea Corrosion Monitoring
WFS Technologies (WFS), a supplier of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the offshore oil and gas and renewables industries, has launched the Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion Monitor, designed to reduce the cost of long term monitoring of subsea pipelines and jumpers. The Seatooth PipeLogger Corrosion Monitor incorporates Ultrasonic Thickness (UT) sensors that monitor wall thickness to an accuracy of 0.1 millimeters through up to 6 millimeters of pipe insulation. Up to eight UT sensors can be integrated with a single Seatooth PipeLogger to measure wall thickness at key
Subsea Data Logger and Controller Commissioned
to 2,000m, managing the signal conversion electronics at water temp of near boiling point and reducing power consumption for longer duration subsea application. With over a decade of subsea industry experience WFS Technologies Ltd is a global leader in subsea wireless instrumentation and control solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry. Founded in 2003, WFS launched the world’s first commercially available underwater radio modem in 2006. WFS continues to innovate in the subsea industry, focusing on Asset Integrity, Drilling Controls, Flow Assurance and Subsea Operations.
WFS, Fugro Offer Wireless ROV Integration
WFS Technologies (WFS), a global leader in the delivery of underwater wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the Offshore Oil and Gas and Renewables industries and Fugro Subsea Technologies (Fugro), which designs, builds and delivers the FCV range of ROVs to its Subsea Services Division, are pleased to announce an agreement to offer subsea wireless capability on all FCV Work Class ROVs from 2015 onwards. Having successfully worked together in the past to deliver Seatooth® Video deepwater systems to Fugro for the Moho Nord project in Congo, the companies agreed to enter a partnership
February 2025
