Vallourec, Aramco Expand Tubulars Partnership
French tubular solutions provider Vallourec has signed an agreement with Saudi Aramco covering the supply of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG), further expanding a relationship between the companies that dates back more than six decades.The agreement, signed during the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable Meeting in Paris, is intended to strengthen the companies' commercial, industrial and technological cooperation.Vallourec has worked with Aramco since 1962, when the companies entered into an agreement for the supply of the first generations of VAM connections for OCTG pipes.The French company
T12 Engineering Gets OWGP Funding for Floating Wind Mooring Tech
T12 Engineering has secured funding from the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) to advance its Floating Mooring System (FMS), a technology designed to reduce the cost and complexity of maintaining floating offshore wind turbines.The latest project follows a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study supported by Scottish Enterprise in 2025, which confirmed the technical viability of the system.T12 estimates the technology could save floating wind operators up to $3.6 million (£2.7 million) per turbine over its operational lifetime by providing an alternative to mobilizing large specialist
Floating Titanium Lattice Could Out-Perform Steel and Plastic
from flooding the hollow struts,” Noronha said. “In this way the foam acts as a distributed barrier that helps the structure remain afloat after damage – unlike conventional hollow marine structures, which can rapidly fill with water after cracking.”The team demonstrated the technology with a 3D-printed marine buoy that remained stable in a turbulent seawater tank rotated up to 45 degrees, without needing a sealed casing, protective coating or extra flotation.Project leader Distinguished Professor Ma Qian said next steps included scaling up the demonstration parts and testing
Sonardyne Expands SPRINT-Nav into Family of Navigation Products
Sonardyne, a Kraken Robotics company, has expanded its industry-leading SPRINT-Nav technology into a complete, scalable family of underwater navigation systems for marine robots, built around a single shared architecture.For more than a decade, SPRINT-Nav has combined the key sensors needed for underwater navigation in a single pre-calibrated instrument. This has helped subsea vehicle teams around the world to save space, reduce build complexity and lower integration risk.Now the SPRINT-Nav family has expanded, providing higher performance to the smallest vehicles and extending how far the largest
MacGregor Advances Floating-to-Floating Transfer and LCO2 Systems
MacGregor has expanded its offshore technology portfolio with a certified floating-to-floating personnel transfer capability for its Horizon gangway and a new bow transfer system designed for direct ship-to-well transfer of LCO2.The Horizon gangway has received DNV certification under DNV-ST-0358 for floating-to-floating personnel transfers following a successful sea acceptance test. The certification enables motion-compensated connections between two vessels moving independently, allowing personnel to transfer between floating assets without a fixed landing point.The capability is designed for
SMD Appoints New Senior Leadership
Subsea technology company SMD has strengthened its capabilities with key senior appointments, meeting the evolving needs of customers and growing demand for its advanced vehicles.The company has appointed Ryan Lumsden as product line manager for ROVs and Paul Green as head of continuous improvement. Together, they hold decades of subsea engineering, product development, and operational expertise to support SMD's technology roadmap, including its next-generation EV portfolio and first all-electric trencher.Ryan brings around 30 years of industry experience, including senior roles with Rovtech and
LR: Subsea Pipeline Design Choices Determine Integrity
Early design decisions and robust qualification of subsea connectors can materially shape the long-term integrity of subsea pipelines warns Lloyd’s Register (LR), as part of a new study delivered for the Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil).The report, commissioned by Havtil, provides an updated industry experience base for assessing the performance of welded and mechanical connectors used in subsea systems and pipeline infrastructure.Pipelines and subsea facilities are critical components of offshore energy production, connecting fields to processing and export infrastructure while
US Proposes Seabed Mining Auction off Northern Mariana Islands
The U.S. Interior Department on Monday proposed a sale this year of deep-sea mining leases in U.S. waters surrounding the Northern Mariana Islands, the latest step in President Donald Trump's push to expand domestic supplies of critical minerals.The Marine Minerals Administration proposed an offshore minerals auction covering about 67 million acres of seabed east and west of the U.S. Pacific territory.The sale would be held on Dec. 16, 2026, in California, with leases awarded through a competitive bidding process.The leases would allow companies to explore for and potentially develop deposits of
MOBY Robotics: A New Playbook for Subsea Mineral Recovery
;s soup to nuts."Rather than outsourcing development, MOBY designs and builds nearly every component of its robotic systems in-house. The Miami facility includes CNC machining, additive manufacturing and vehicle assembly, allowing the company to rapidly iterate designs and maintain control over its technology stack.Image courtesy MOBY RoboticsSwarms Instead of GiantsConventional deep-sea mining concepts generally revolve around large collection vehicles feeding minerals through massive vertical riser systems to production vessels on the surface. MOBY is pursuing a very different architecture.Its vision
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