NOAA Awards 5-yr Hydrographic Gig to Fugro
will manage all work associated with the new IDIQ award from its Houston-based Hydrography Centre of Excellence in the Americas. Fugro established the center in 2017 to address the region’s growing need for hydrographic services.Since then, the center has successfully developed innovative data acquisition systems, which are complemented by remote processing and large data transfer capabilities. These technologies allow Fugro to deliver high quality hydrographic services with increased safety and efficiency, and a significantly reduced carbon footprint.Two new technologies available to NOAA for upcoming
The Decommissioning, Marine Life Connection
industry will help by providing data, but also access to facilities for data collection, i.e. marine life surveys, sampling and monitoring, access to survey vessels and ROVs for monitoring, and the deployment and collection of data acquisition tools.The technology program will seek out low-cost data acquisition systems and other technologies to enhance the data initiative.Richard Heard, Insite Program director, told the Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St Andrews, late 2018: “This is about providing science for all stakeholders to try and understand what’s going on in the eco-system,
PGS Sells OptoSeis to Geospace Technologies
the acquisition of the OptoSeis business."The OptoSeis fiber optic technology has been deployed by PGS in a marine permanent reservoir monitoring system in the Jubarte field located offshore Brazil and has also been demonstrated as a viable technology for large scale cabled land seismic data acquisition systems
Atlantic Canada Profiles: CNA's Wave Energy Center
testing of anticorrosive and antifouling marine coatings – all set in the harsh North Atlantic waters off Newfoundland’s southeast coast. The facility, which is housed in a former fish plant in the community of Lord’s Cove, has grown to include a variety of automated data acquisition systems including a weather station, Doppler and capacitive wave measurements, an inspection class ROV, and both land- and sea-based multichannel systems capable of recording outputs from a wide array of instruments. These abilities, coupled with six fully permitted mooring sites
Station-Keeping In Ice
engineers who are analyzing the data and developing formulas (algorithms) to represent the measured forces. Based on this data, they are currently building the numerical ice model. The physical model used for testing is self-contained, providing its own power to the thruster and data acquisition systems onboard. An optical six-degree-of-freedom system is used to track the position and orientation of the model. NRC OCRE’s in-house DP system is used to maintain station and record forces and moments. A camera is mounted over the bow with the purpose of observing ice-ice and ice-hull
MTR100: InterOcean Systems Inc.
Established in 1945, InterOcean Systems provides oceanographic sensors such as wave/tide and current meters, integrated data acquisition systems, acoustic releases for mooring deployment and recovery, cable handling winches for coastal or deep ocean survey, and pollution detection and control devices for reducing oil spills in the environment. In addition, InterOcean Systems also offers specialized design, engineering, and production for unique applications. The products developed and fabricated by InterOcean use proven and up-to-date technologies to meet customer requirements with durable, easy-to-use
ASV Builds Four C-Worker 5 Vehicles
C-Worker 5 uses a direct drive marine diesel propulsion system operated via ASV’s ASView control system. The C-Worker 5 integrates quickly and easily with a wide variety of payloads including hull mounted and towed sensors. The ASView control system enables line plans from a variety of data acquisition systems to be uploaded for efficient data collection. ASV Chairman Thomas Chance called the C-Worker 5 “an exciting new ASV that will dramatically help our clients’ bottom line.” He added, “The new vehicle also complements ASV’s C-Worker 6 and C-Worker
Sabertooth AUV Goes 4D in Lake Vättern
instructions uploaded over the internet. As offshore operators go deeper and into more difficult to access areas, the Sabertooth Hybrid AUV/ROV concept is attracting interest from those looking for a reliable and versatile underwater vehicle that can accommodate a wide range of data acquisition systems and tooling onto a single platform, its developers said. The strategic alliance between Saab Seaeye and Saab QPS bridges the gap between hardware and software development that is bringing innovative technology opportunities to the industry and setting new standards
Ricardo to Support Kongsberg WFMS Development
of the Kongsberg Wind Farm Management System (WFMS) as well as related condition monitoring systems for a range of other industrial sectors. The Kongsberg WFMS is a turbine independent decision support system. It surpasses the functionality found in wind farm supervisory control and data acquisition systems, and offers a modern and intuitive user interface based on Kongsberg’s wide ranging experience in automation and decision support systems for the defence, maritime and offshore oil and gas sectors. Kongsberg selected Ricardo to support the development of the WFMS not least due to
February 2024
