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Plexus Completes Work on North Sea P&A Campaign for Oceaneering

together with our unique and innovative IP so as to succeed in meeting the demands of such projects. "Now that the product is field tested, we believe that additional P&A contracts will arise for this product, and that longer term opportunities will be generated to develop and deploy similar equipment for other specifications and sizes."

MBARI engineer Brian Kieft with researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on board the USGS vessel with the Tethys LRAUV, in the southern portion of Lake Michigan (Credit: Brett Hobson © 2016 MBARI)

AUV Mission in the Great Lakes

means is the spatial and temporal resolution and scope. “[With the AUV], we have samples every few meters horizontally and less than every meter vertically . . . The Tethys data we have ended up being somewhere in the order of 150,000 data points compared to what we collected using similar equipment from the ship that amounted to in the thousands of data points, not hundreds of thousands.”    “We’re trying to transform the way we go about sampling in the Great Lakes by utilizing these, what I would call, complimentary tools like the AUV to simply have capabilities

EIVA System Leads the Way for A2SEA Jack-ups

, it will be the second of two sister vessels delivered to A2SEA that includes an EIVA solution. "In our efforts to continue the standardization of equipment and instruments on board our installation vessels, we have chosen to use equipment from EIVA on our second newbuilding Sea Challenger. Similar equipment can be found on all our installation vessels," said Michael Østergaard, Head of Newbuilding at A2SEA A/S. Pooling the benefits of a variety of equipment The EIVA NaviSuite navigation and sonar software constitutes the core of the complete navigation and leg penetration/barge

Don Rodocker: The Man in the Sea

five-year period. We had 130 employees, but we were underfunded. Most of the units we were shipping from San Diego were going to the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. There was a lot of freight involved, which made it very expensive. So once the technology caught up and other companies could build similar equipment, it made it very competitive. Also, the way we wanted things done and how we thought they should be done was not really what the industry was about. It was do the minimum to get the job done. We were quite a ways away from that ideology, so we decided to shut it down. We shut it down and disbanded

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