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Proserv, Intelligent Plant Ink Deal Aiming to Drive Digital Evolution
Proserv Controls signed a strategic alliance with software engineering firm Intelligent Plant, a deal aimed to deliver advanced…
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PD Ports chooses NORBIT Multibeam Tech
NORBIT Subsea will supply an Integrated Wideband Multibeam System (iWBMS) to PD Ports. With NORBIT iWBMS and integrated iLiDAR capability…
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EvoLogics Launches a Fully integrated USBL Buoy
EvoLogics debut a new USBL buoy, a fully integrated solution based on the company’s S2C USBL devices.The buoy comprises a…
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STR adds iXblue new Gaps M5 USBL system to its rental pool
iXblue new Gaps M5, has been selected by global rental company Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) to offer USBL solutions to their customers.
Cables
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Subsea Europe, Cyprus Subsea Partner Up
Germany-based marine data and equipment firm Subsea Europe Services and marine robotics and autonomous systems Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services…
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DLM Delivers Monitoring Systems for Offshore Wind Farm Cables
UK-based Dynamic Load Monitoring (DLM), said Monday it has built two bespoke monitoring systems that have been installed…
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Eco Wave Power Commences Grid Connection Works in Israel
While wave power is still in its infancy relative to offshore wind in the renewable power space, several companies are making…
Cameras
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Teledyne to Acquire FLIR Systems in $8 Billion Deal
Industrial conglomerate Teledyne Technologies Inc said on Monday it will acquire thermal imaging camera supplier FLIR Systems Inc in a $8 billion cash
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Chile's Underdeep Solutions Adds Another Falcon ROV
Chile's Underdeep Solutions has expanded its ROV Fleet with a third Seaeye Falcon ROV, to support its aquaculture workUnderdeep’s…
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Technology: New Manta Underwater Camera
Arctic Rays, LLC has released Manta HD, a small HD-IP or HD-SDI underwater camera. The Onvif profile S compliant Manta HD…
Commercial Diving
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Sonardyne Suite for Dive Technologies’ AUV
Dive Technologies of Quincy, Mass., selected a suite of Sonardyne technologies for navigation, tracking and control of its…
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Norway Eyes Sea Change in Deep Dive for Metals Instead of Oil
Norway's oil and gas reserves have made it one of the world's wealthiest countries but its dreams for deep-sea discovery…
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Damen Completes Work on German Diving Bell Ship
Damen completes work on German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration (WSV) diving bell shipDamen Shipyards Group…
Communications
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NASA’s JPL Using Teledyne Marine APEX Profiling Floats
Teledyne Marine announced the recent sale and deployment of three APEX profiling floats to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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Sonardyne's Sensors for Ocean Infinity's Armada USV Fleet
Ocean Infinity, a U.S. based marine survey firm developing the world's largest fleet of unmanned surface vessels - Armada…
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50 Years from Now: Perspectives from Marty Klein
"50 Years From Now" was published in the Oceanology International 50th Anniversary Edition published by Marine Technology Reporter.
Connectors
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Linden Introduces Buoyant Optical Cables
Linden’s patented BSTFOC are thin, rugged, buoyant optical cables that can float on the surface, remain neutrally buoyant…
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Balmoral Develops Offshore Wind Cable Protection System FibreFlexx
Balmoral, a UK-based engineering company specializing in offshore buoyancy, insulation and protection solutions for the offshore energy industry…
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Hydromea Launches LUMA X, Wireless Underwater Optical Modem
Hydromea launched a new patent-pending subsea wireless communication modem LUMA X. The LUMA X can beam data using light at…
Data Processing
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Indonesia Using ROV in Search for Sriwijaya Air Plane Crash Victims
Indonesia has deployed a remotely operated underwater vehicle to help divers search for the remains of victims and recover…
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Saildrone Launches 72-foot Surveyor
Saildrone has launched the Saildrone Surveyor, a new 72-foot uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) equipped for high-resolution…
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Subsea Europe Services Supports Hydrographer Training in Hamburg
Donation of multibeam technology and support strengthens hydrographic research capabilities of university’s new dedicated…
Deepwater Positioning
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Subsea Tech Firm Ashtead Names CFO and Five Managers
Ashtead Technology has appointed a chief financial officer (CFO) and five managers for newly created roles across its international…
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Boskalis Buys Rever Offshore's Subsea Services Business
Dutch marine contractor Boskalis on Monday acquired all the shares of Rever Offshore’s subsea services business.Rever, formerly…
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Manufacturing Grants Offered to Subsea Startups
CNC machining specialist and manufacturing partner Get It Made announced a new initiative aimed at innovative startups in…
Diving Helmets
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On the Bookshelf: Diving the Thistlegorm: The Ultimate Guide to a World War II Shipwreck
Diving the Thistlegorm is a unique in-depth look at one of the world’s best-loved shipwrecks. In this highly visual guide…
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On the Bookshelf: Wild and Temperate Seas: 50 Favorite UK Dives
From highlands to islands, wrecks to reefs and caves, this new-style guide whets the appetite for UK diving. These are over*…
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Rodger Joins ETPM
Subsea and marine recruitment specialist ETPM has added a new member to its team in response to increasing business activity.Hannah…
Environmental Monitoring
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Baker Hughes Flexible Pipe: Reinventing the Familiar for Subsea Production
In 2017, the Brazil National Petroleum Agency (ANP) issued a failure mode alert: stress corrosion cracking (SCC-CO2) triggered…
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Atlantis Delivers Tidal Power Equipment to Japan
Tidal energy developer Atlantis said Tuesday its Scottish-made tidal generation equipment had arrived in Japan.The Atlantis…
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Ponant Moves Forward with BV to Mitigate Underwater Radiated Noise
Le Jacques-Cartier, the last sister-ship in the Ponant Explorers series of six expedition class cruise ships, was awarded…
Fiber Optics
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iXblue Nav Tech onboard Mayfolower
iXblue navigation technology was selected by marine research organization ProMare, to provide accurate navigation capability…
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AUV Case Study: Marine Roboticists are Turning AUV Sight into Perception
In 2018, marine robotics scientist Arjuna Balasuriya was at the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) in Newport, Rhode Island…
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iXblue Tech for Oz Navy's New Offshore Patrol Vessels
French tech company iXblue will deliver inertial navigation systems and gyrocompasses for new Royal Australian Navy’s SEA1180…
Fresh Water Monitoring
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Equinor, Moss Maritime Testing Floating Solar in Rough Waters
Equinor, Norway's largest oil firm, increasingly involved in renewables such as offshore wind and floating wind, is now looking…
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Sweden to Allow Underwater Probe of Estonia Wreck Site
Sweden said on Friday it would allow an underwater examination of the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic 26 years ago with the loss of 852 lives…
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Arctic Warming Cascades Through Ocean and Over Land
The Arctic region has had its second-warmest year since 1900, continuing a pattern of extreme heat, ice melt and environmental…
GPS
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Unmanned Marine Systems, Squared
Unmanned platforms and underwater vehicles have been providing new ways for ocean scientists to study the ocean in more detail…
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MIT Studies Underwater Navigation Powered by Sound
New approach could spark an era of battery-free ocean exploration, with applications ranging from marine conservation to…
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Xerox and DARPA Partner to Develop IoT Ocean Sensors
PARC, a Xerox company, announced Thursday it has been awarded a contract by the U.S.' Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Gyrocompass
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Around the World in 49 Days
On Christmas Day 2016, Thomas Coville completed a record-breaking trip. He sailed around the world in 49 days aboard Sodebo…
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Sonardyne Navigation Chosen for Thai AUV Program
A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) being developed by a joint-research program between PTT Exploration and Production…
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Schmidt Selects Sonardyne Navigation for SuBastian
The international science community’s newest ocean research platform, a deep-rated remotely operated vehicle (ROV) called SuBastian…
Instrumentation
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SeaRobotics Launches Utility Class ASV
Marine robotics company SeaRobotics Corporation (SRC) on Monday revealed details of its next-generation utility class autonomous…
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MacArtney LARS for Fifth Asia Pacific Research Vessel
MacArtney completed its order of a launch and recovery (LARS) system for Taiwan National University, the fifth Ocean Research…
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Valeport onboard Mayflower Autonomous Ship project
The Mayflower Autonomous Ship which is set to self-navigate across the Atlantic autonomously in Spring 2021, will be fitted…
Lights
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SASEMAR, ASCM Recover Wreckage of Aircraft Crashed Off Spanish Coast
The Spanish Maritime Safety and Rescue Society in cooperation with ACSM, the Spanish provider of subsea services, have this…
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EcoLight AZFP Buoy to Monitor Light and Under-Ice Zooplankton
A team of scientists led by Dr. Giulia Castellani of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and Dr. Jeremy Wilkinson of the British…
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Soil Research Unearths Collecting Point for Plastics
Collaborative research team, led by KAUST scientists, reveals a history of plastic sequestration in mangrove ecosystems.Global…
MEMS Motion Tracking
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HP to Help Carnegie Develop AI-Tech for Wave Energy Project
Australian wave energy technology developer Carnegie Clean Energy has signed an agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise…
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Kongsberg to Deliver Fish-Finding Sonars for Artemis Trawler
Norway's Kongsberg Maritime will supply SIMRAD sonar equipment for a new 75-meter Pelagic trawler, currently under construction…
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USA: Fugro Completes Mayflower Wind Site Survey
Dutch offshore survey services provider Fugro has completed a large site characterization field program off the coast of…
Mooring & Anchoring
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Fugro's Positioning Services for Petronas' Suriname Drilling Program
Dutch offshore services company Fugro has said it has won a contract with Malaysia's Petronas, to provide positioning services…
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Neodrill Pens Neptune Contract for CAN Tech
Norwegian pre-rig technology company Neodrill, known for its Conductor Anchor Node (CAN) technology, has signed a frame agreement…
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VIDEO: Vryhof's Mooring Solution Eliminates Need for Winches
Vryhof, a provider of anchoring and mooring solutions for the offshore energy industry, has developed a mooring solution…
Oil Spill Monitoring & Tracking
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Virtual Conference to Focus on Transatlantic Marine Renewables
Marine industry experts from Portugal and Canada are staging a special Blue Economy conference to spark transatlantic business growth.
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Reidy Awarded NSERC Grant in Partnership with ASL to Measure Baleen Whale Prey in BC
The University of Victoria Ph.D. candidate Rhonda Reidy has recently received funding for her project “Modifying an Acoustic…
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Subsea Valve Actuator certified for Safety Integrity Level 3
The new concept for Subsea Valve Actuators (SVA) from Bosch Rexroth has been certified by DNV GL for application in safety…
Power Supply
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Ocean Power Technologies Adds Three Directors to Its Board
Ocean energy technology developer Ocean Power Technologies's stockholders have appointed Clyde W. Hewlett, Diana G. Purcel, and Peter E.
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Danish Firm Working on 'World's largest' Wave Power Test Facility
Denmark-based clean-tech company Floating Power Plant (FPP) said Friday it was building what it said was "the biggest wave…
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IKM Works on Pipeline, Umbilicals Concept for Equinor's Barents Sea Oil Discovery
IKM Ocean Design has won a contract with Equinor for a pipeline engineering concept study for the Wisting oil field in the Barents Sea.Wisting…
Remote Sensing
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Wintershall Noordzee Deploys Wärtsilä Software to Boost Offshore Safety
Dutch offshore oil and gas operator Wintershall Nordzee has recently seen Wärtsilä's Navi-Harbour WebVTS 5.0 software application…
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Minesto Delivers First Tidal Energy to Faroese Grid
Tidal energy developer Minesto said Tuesday it has delivered the first tidal energy produced electricity to the Faroese grid."As…
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Teledyne CARIS receives Canada’s Ocean Supercluster Award
Teledyne CARIS announced significant funding from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster award to develop software for remote operations survey processing.
Salvage & Recovery
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Enhanced Drilling Tech for Vår Energi's Ops Offshore Norway
Norwegian oil and gas company Vår Energi has signed a framework agreement with drilling equipment firm Enhanced Drilling.Under the agreement…
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Saab Seaeye Falcon Tapped for Swedish Survey
Peab Marin chose a Saab Seaeye Falcon as a multi-functional resource in support of the company’s marine survey, salvage and…
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Elakha: The Repowering of OSU's Valued Research Vessel
Ocean science is in high demand by scientists studying ocean acidification, wave energy, seabed composition, changing water temperatures…
Seafloor Engineering
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Williams Named GM at Klein
MIND Technology, Inc. named Michael A. Williams as General Manager at its Klein unit located in Salem, NH, following the…
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NUWC Division Newport Names Chhim Director of Cybersecurity for Undersea Warfare
Rebecca Chhim has been promoted to director of cybersecurity for Undersea Warfare (USW) Combat System Integration for Submarines…
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Greensea Continues to Grow, Gill Joins Team
Sunnyvale, CA Native Karnveer Gill is Passionate about Algorithm Design and New Technology DevelopmentGreensea, creator of OPENSEA…
Software Solutions
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HII Delivers REMUS 100 to the German Navy
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) delivereda new REMUS 100 Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) to the German Navy.
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SUBSEA TECH: Compact Hydrographic System for Shallow-Water ‘Gap-Filler’ Surveys
Subsea Europe Services GmbH has introduced a new compact version of its unique integrated Hydrographic Survey System (iHSS).
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OPT PowerBuoy Tested at DeepStar's 'Zero Carbon Power for Electric Subsea Operations' Project
Ocean energy technology developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has received a DeepStar project award to study the use of…
Sonar Systems
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iSURVEY Completes Landmark North Sea Project
iSURVEY recently completed its largest project to date, a project which saw a 10-strong group of offshore survey experts complete a 6…
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L3Harris Expands RI Facility to Service USN Contract
L3Harris Technologies announced plans to expand in Ashaway by investing $1.5 million in its operations. The company will…
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INTERVIEW: RDML John Okon, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
Recently the United States Navy and NOAA signed an agreement to jointly expand the development and operations of unmanned…
Seafloor Mapping
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Autonomous Offshore Power Trials Get Underway off Hawaii
With the advent of autonomy on and under the water, part of the value proposition is the ability to stay at sea, on station…
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NOMEC Seeks Comment on Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Efforts in the U.S. EEZ
The United States National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council (NOMEC Council) Seeks Public Input on…
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DriX USV Scores Contract with OECI
The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) recently…
Subsea Pipeline Survey & Inspection
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Gibbons Wins UCL's NORBIT Prize
This year, NORBIT UK chose to sponsor an academic prize for a high achieving student at UCL (www.ucl.ac.uk). The academic…
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Solstad Taps IKM Subsea for ROV Services in Taiwan
ROV manufacturer and operator IKM Subsea Singapore has won a contract with the Norwegian offshore vessel owner Solstad for…
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Derecktor Wins Deal to Build Hybrid RVl for University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM) has ordered what is touted as the first hybrid research vessel, a project which brings together Derecktor Shipyards…
Telemetry
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Teledyne Benthos Acoustic Modems Aid in Innovasea Fish Tracking
Through the acquisition of VEMCO and HTI, Innovasea has become a pioneer in acoustic telemetry to aid researchers worldwide…
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Del Mar Oceanographic, RBR Ink Deal
Del Mar Oceanographic (DMO) and RBR signed a collaboration agreement for the provision of Wirewalkers with RBR CTDs and sensors…
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Schlumberger Introduces Remote Well Op and Downhole Reservoir Testing Tech
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger has this week introduced two interesting technologies for remote well operations and downhole reservoir testing…
Training & Education
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Partners Team Up to Develop Utility Class ASV
CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) and SeaRobotics Corp. (SRC), both based in Stuart, Fla., are working together to jointly develop…
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Vestdavit Wins NOAA Marine Davit Deal
Vestdavit won a frame agreement to provide service, support and spares for the variety of marine davits it has supplied to…
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Gibbs & Cox to Develop 'Sea Train' Concept
Naval architecture firm Gibbs & Cox said it has been awarded a multi-phase contract from the U.S.' Defense Advanced Research…
Umbilicals
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In a First, ROVOP Inspects Offshore Installation via Video Link
UK-based ROV services provider ROVOP has said it has delivered its first remote platform-based inspection, repair, and maintenance workscope…
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Welaptega's Riser Cleaning Tech in Successful Debut Offshore Norway
Underwater asset integrity company Welaptega's recently launched system for marine growth removal from offshore risers recently…
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Fugro Inspecting Cygnus Subsea Structures
Dutch offshore geo-data specialist Fugro will deploy remote monitoring technology to survey subsea structures at the Cygnus…