General Atomics LiFT Batteries to Support UUV
and platforms. LiFT’s single cell fault tolerance prevents uncontrolled cascading cell failure. This ensures the safety of onboard personnel and keeps systems operational through faults to enable mission completion. LiFT has been approved for use and classified by DNV-GL (Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd)
MTR100: Venture into the Norwegian Subsea Valley
GL Best Practices that targeting subsea safety and cost-cutting. “Years from now, these will be the standards. There will be no discussion,” said Jarl Magnussson, a documentation expert for DNV GL. The 16,000-strong outfit formed by the merger between Norwegian DNV and Germany’s Germanischer Lloyd (GL) Noble Denton says the focus on achieving standard methodologies for subsea documentation, at least, has been “talked about for 20 years but needed now.” Recommended practices for subsea documents, forged subsea parts and wellhead fatigue target interchangeability, safe operations
MTR100: The Norway Way
$3.4 billion. Det Norske Veritas (DNV) began in 1864 as a small Norwegian classification society, and in the 150 years since, has grown into one of the world’s largest enterprises of its kind with the formation of DNV GL. In September 2013, Norway’s DNV and Germany’s Germanischer Lloyd (GL) Noble Denton merged to create what is now the DNV GL Group. DNV Foundation holds 63.5 % of the group, while GL’s owner Mayfair SE holds the remaining 36.5%, and together, DNV GL serves the maritime, oil and gas, energy and business assurance segments. DNV GL is a leading technical
DNV GL Celebrating A Double Milestone
;s leading risk and sustainability service providers, is celebrating a double milestone: The Foundation DNV’s 150th anniversary and DNV GL’s first year as a merged company. To mark the 150th anniversary of Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and the one year anniversary of its merger with Germanischer Lloyd (GL), DNV GL is hosting a prestigious event in Oslo today. Over 1000 guests, made up of dignitaries, government officials and top industry figures and customers, will be present. “Created from two highly respected companies with parallel histories spanning 150 years (GL was
ICTINEU 3 Development of a Research Submersible
ICTINEU 3, a work class vehicle with high capabilities for research, ocean observation and underwater intervention, but also suitable for filming and leisure. It has been designed for 1,200m depth and a crew of three: one pilot and two observers (passengers, and will be certified and classified by Germanischer Lloyd). The challenge has been to achieve a very small and lightweight but at the same time versatile and highly operational vehicle, with the aim to improve the capabilities of existing submersibles in this depth rate. The result is a new generation of manned submersible, a compact vehicle of only
Kongsberg Systems for New Fugro Survey Ship
; Route Survey • Site Survey • Pipeline inspection Kongsberg Maritime scope of supply to this high sophisticated survey vessel includes a Dynamic Position System Class 1 (DP1) with class notation Germanischer Lloyd and various sounding equipment placed in a specially designed blister in the keel section area. This includes the middle water EM710 multibeam system, as well as the latest generation of shallow water multibeam system EM 2040. For underwater positioning and ROV operations a Kongsberg HiPAP
Class Clash: DNV, GL to Merge
The ever changing face of ship classification has received perhaps its biggest makeover yet, with the announcement this morning (December 20, 2012) that Norway’s Det Norke Veritas (DNV) and Germany’s Germanischer Lloyd (GL) have signed a deal to merge. While the deal is termed a merger, considering that the DNV Foundation will hold 63.5 %, and GL’s owner Mayfair SE will hold 36.5%, and the fact that the new company, to be called DNV GL Group with a combined turnover of approximately $3.3 billion, will be headquartered and registered in Norway, it is not a stretch to call it a DNV
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