Kongsberg’s First HUGIN Endurance Passes Factory Acceptance Testing
Kongsberg Discovery has completed factory acceptance testing of its first long-range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) HUGIN Endurance.Sea trials began in September 2023, and over the last months, the Kongsberg Discovery Uncrewed Platforms team has put HUGIN Endurance through its paces, verifying and refining all system capabilities. Sea trials culminated in March 2024 with a successful demonstration of the AUV capabilities to the customer.The HUGIN Endurance program has attracted significant interest both from the defence sector and commercial operators. It can accommodate whatever kind of payload
Argeo Inks Pact with CSI for Second HUGIN Superior AUV
Argeo Subsea, CSI Nordics and Kongsberg Discovery signed a three-party Certificate of Delivery and Acceptance for a new HUGIN Superior AUV. The agreement supports Argeo’s fleet expansion plans, as it aims to build the world’s most advanced AUV fleet, with seven high specification units. Argeo already has one HUGIN Superior in service.CSI Nordics, a subsidiary of CSI Leasing, one of the largest independent equipment leasing companies in the world, will purchase the unit from Kongsberg Discovery, entering into a long-term leasing agreement with Argeo.Argeo CEO Trond Crantz says the deal
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Kongsberg Discovery Banks Corcovado Geosub Deal
& storage and oil & gas recovery, within the Brazilian market.Corcovado Geosub is a specialist Brazilian supplier of Survey, ROV and AUV services, has an established relationship with Kongsberg Discovery, having conducted high resolution mapping of significant areas of the seafloor with the HUGIN AUV.The latest order, confirmed at Oceanology International in London, will put Corcovado at the forefront of serving the Brazilian market to monitor seabed displacement. Monitoring for changes to elevation of the seabed during carbon capture, for example, is essential to mitigate against the risk
Kongsberg Discovery introduces SAS Target Assistant
Kongsberg Discovery debuts a new analysis tool developed with Cathx Ocean that it says 'radically' reduces the time and effort required to detect and classify objects of interest in seabed surveys undertaken by Kongsberg's HUGIN AUVs, automating the object identification process using the SAS Target Assistant. The application runs in the background, leaving users to focus their mental capacity on the most valuable task of evaluating and classifying the potential objects of interest."In conventional survey analysis, the operator has to laboriously play through the scanned image
Kongsberg Discovery Wins US Navy DIU Contract
Kongsberg Discovery announced a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) award to assist in the U.S. Navy’s Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype.Kongsberg Discovery has been awarded a contract with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to rapidly deliver HUGIN Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) capabilities for the U.S. Military. The total contract could result in the Navy acquiring HUGIN Endurance and HUGIN Superior deep-water AUV systems.HUGIN Endurance, one of the newest members in the HUGIN AUV family, measures 39-ft. long and nearly 4-ft. in diameter, with a 15-day
Argeo Searcher Set to Sail to Indian Ocean after Shell’s Nigeria Task
.“We have several strong tender leads for Searcher in the second half of 2024 and see a further increase in backlog and revenues for the vessel,” the company said.“In addition, Argeo Venture is finalizing reactivation task outside Bergen in Norway and will commence rigging our second Hugin Superior for an international oil company,” Argeo said in an update.Argeo Venture will mobilize on the contract mid-March, and the work is expected to be completed in late fourth quarter of 2024, the company confirmed
Mega AUV HUGIN Endurance Passes Sea Trials
Kongsberg Discovery started sea trials with its new long-range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), HUGIN Endurance.Launched in 2021, HUGIN Endurance measures nearly 11m long with a 1.2m diameter, weighing around 8,000 kg. This mega AUV is rated to a depth of 6,000m and designed to facilitate independent multi-role operations spanning approximately 2,200km or 1,200 nautical miles.Powered by pressure-tolerant lithium batteries, the unit can be deployed directly from shore and spend up to 15 days at sea “The name Endurance says it all," said Martin Wien Fjell, President Kongsberg Discovery
Argeo Elevates its Game with Argeo Searcher Vessel Upgrade
, and we confirm both secured backlog and further new projects as a result of this strong move in capacity. Argeo Searcher will commence operations immediately after completing the yard stay," the company said.New AUVsThe upgraded Argeo Searcher vessel will be equipped with the recently purchased Hugin Superior Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), boosting operational capacity and productivity.“By incorporating the advanced Hugin Superior AUV, featuring exceptional sensor payloads, into the Argeo Searcher, along with our proprietary electromagnetic sensor systems, we will achieve unprecedented
Aker BP Taps Multiconsult for Yggdrasil Power from Shore Project Work
for civil engineering, consultancy, and supervision services in the Yggdrasil power from shore project.The development plan for Yggdrasil offshore project was sanctioned by the Norwegian parliament on June 5, and approved by the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on June 28, 2023.Yggdrasil consists of the Hugin, Fulla and Munin license groups. The area is located between Alvheim and Oseberg in the North Sea. Partners in the area are Equinor and PGNIG Upstream Norway. Gross resources in the area are more than 700 million barrels of oil equivalent. Extensive new infrastructure is planned, including three
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