How AUVS Can Spot Oil Plumes After an Ocean Spill
On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned, sank in the Gulf of Mexico and terrified the world. This horrific accident — recorded as the largest oil spill in history — killed 11 workers and released 210 million gallons of crude oil into the ocean.While about a half of the oil rose to the surface, the other half formed a suspended plume of many tiny oil droplets about 1,000 meters below the surface. Its extent and whereabouts couldn’t be determined from above.Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are untethered marine robots that can explore the underwate
Transocean's Offshore Drilling Rig to Drill Carbon Injection Well in Norway
Offshore oil and gas drilling firm Transocean said Tuesday that one of its drilling rigs would later this year be used for a not-so-typical project for an offshore oil rig.Namely, the Norwegian oil firm Equinor plans to use the Transocean Enabler semi-submersible drilling unit to drill a carbon injection well and a sidetrack for another carbon injection well drilled early 2020 in support of the Northern Lights Carbon Capture Storage Project.Northern Lights is a joint venture created by Equinor, Shell, and TotalEnergies. The project is designed to mitigate emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the
'Catastrophic' California Offshore Oil Spill Kills Fish, Damages Wetlands
;potential ecological disaster". The beachside city, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Los Angeles, was bearing the brunt of the spill.Carr added: "Our wetlands are being degraded and portions of our coastline are now covered in oil."The spill was caused by a breach connected to the Elly oil rig and stretched from the Huntington Beach Pier down to Newport Beach, a stretch of coast popular with surfers and sunbathers.Carr said the oil rig was operated by Beta Offshore, a California subsidiary of Houston-based Amplify Energy Corporation. Calls to Beta and Amplify went unanswered.Carr, in
Chinese Seismic Vessel Seen Moving Near Malaysia Amid Rising South China Sea Tensions
.Earlier this year, the Washington think tank Asian Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) said China has maintained a near-constant presence in Luconia Shoals, off the coast of Malaysia’s Sarawak state on Borneo.Last year, at least one China Coast Guard vessel spent weeks in waters close to an oil rig in a Vietnamese oil block, operated by Russia's Rosneft, while the Haiyang Dizhi 8 conducted suspected oil exploration surveys in Vietnam's EEZ. (Reporting by Rozanna Latiff in Kuala Lumpur and James Pearson in Hanoi; Additional reporting by Joseph Sipalan and A. Ananthalakshmi in Kuala
Teledyne CARIS to Display AI Sonar Noise Cleaning Platform at OI
their data cleaned on the spot.Teledyne Optech will also be on hand to discuss its marine lidar surveying solutions. Learn about the advantages of the Optech Polaris terrestrial laser scanner that can operate from small watercraft, making it an excellent low-cost tool for mapping shorelines, checking oil rig stability, and surveying the underside of bridges.Live on-boat demos will showcase Teledyne’s one-source marine survey capability using Teledyne Optech lidar, Teledyne Marine sonar and Teledyne CARIS Onboard software. Catch Onboard demo streaming live from the Teledyne Marine boat at the CARIS
Higher Learning & SINTEF’s Existential Rise
and the river and offer to help creating innovations like lasers that shoot the lice off the fish. For large-scale aquaculture and fisheries vessels, there’s SINTEF wave and model analysis in first-class test tanks. The result has been offshore aquaculture structures on the scale of an offshore oil rig and fish-handling vessels for worldwide markets.“The commercialization of our research results is part of SINTEF’s role in society. We achieve this by means of licensing and creating new companies based on technologies developed as part of our research activities,” a SINTEF statement
Giant Squid Filmed in America's Backyard
be monsters." However, the "monsters" are here, in our own backyard. It's not often appreciated, but half of U.S. territory is underwater, extending 200 miles or so from the coast. We are also right at the edge of the Gulf oil field, and only a few miles from the Appomattox Deepwater oil rig, one of the largest on the planet. We see it burning off methane each night at sunset. The creature of our wildest imagination is living not in a pristine deep, but among the heaviest tools of our energy infrastructure.Most importantly, we did not find a monster. The giant squid is large and certainly
Teledyne Introduces New ADCP
, a game-changing field-swappable system configuration for real-time or self-contained applications, independent or interlaced long-range and high-resolution modes, as well as many other innovative new features and product enhancements.The Pinnacle 45 can be used for real-time applications, such as oil rig monitoring; moving boat applications, such as mid- to deepwater oceanographic studies; or self-contained applications, such as bottom-mounted, mid-column, or surface buoys used to collect long range, precision current profiling data
One-on-One: Chris Gibson, VideoRay
, professional facility. The building is about 25,000 sq. ft. and has dedicated areas for Production, Repairs, Operations, and Sales. We also have a separate nearby Research & Development facility and remote employees in Rhode Island and San Diego.The VideoRay Pro 4, Pro 5, and Defender on an oil rig. Photo credit to Dean Nafziger of UROV. Image: VideoRayPlease provide an overview of the VideoRay ROV family today.VideoRay is well-known for our three-thruster, yellow ROVs. These ROVs are portable, rugged, and reliable. We have sold more than 4,000 Pro 4, Scout, Explorer and Voyager models.
February 2024
