Greensea IQ and VideoRay Partner to Enhance ROV User Experience
both companies are making to our US Navy and defense customers. This Agreement ensures our customers will have constant and stable access to the most advanced remote undersea robotics platform available. This Agreement removes the blockages of day-to-day operations and allows us to focus on technology advancement and customer satisfaction while maintaining our collaborative position as a world leader in ROV solutions." said Ben Kinnaman, CEO, of Greensea IQ."With our long-standing partnership, this new deal ensures our capability to address the long-term software demands of our defense customers
Greensea, OPT ink Deal
what working with Greensea is all about, an open business relationship where we work collaboratively with all partners to develop their differentiating technologies based on the proven and stable technologies of OPENSEA. This is the only way to eliminate the barriers that often prevent rapid technology advancement.”“There is growing international focus on Maritime Domain Awareness to prevent and prosecute activities from some of the most remote areas of the seas,” said Philipp Stratmann, OPT President and CEO. “Greensea brings decades of experience in developing agile and adaptable
VA Offshore Wind: A Strong Foundation
– through a competitive process – to be Consortium administrator. With wind, NY is all-in – the state matched DOE’s $18.5 million, accounting for almost half of the $41 million total.To get started, the Consortium has three priority R&D topics:• Wind plant technology advancement;• Wind resource and physical site characterization; and,• Installation, operations and maintenance, and supply chain technology solutions.This is all new work, really upcoming work. The Consortium held the first meeting of its Board of Directors in October 2018 at which it
NYK to Sponsor Shell XPrize Finalist
the final round will be asked to map at least 250 square kilometers of ocean floor in 24 hours at ocean depths up to 4,000 meters. The results will be announced in December 2018. NYK is proud to be able to make use of its business monohakobi (transport) to support Japanese engineers and technology advancement that are contributing to improvements in marine science and technology around the world. * Team KUROSHIO A Japanese collaborative research team formed to participate in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition. Sponsors include the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
US Invests $18.5 Mln in Offshore Wind Research
and maintenance solutions to address the challenges of building and maintaining turbines at sea. Setting out to tackle these challenges and more, the new offshore wind research and development (R&D) consortium will be a cooperative private-public innovation hub addressing wind plant technology advancement, resource and physical site characterization, installation, operations and maintenance and supply chain technology solutions. “As the former Governor of one of the largest wind producing states, I know the value of wind power in our energy portfolio,” Secretary Perry said.
Partnership Yields New Helical Buoyancy Technology
with this agreement, Diamond Offshore has ordered Helical Buoyancy from Trelleborg for drilling risers on the Ocean BlackRhino and Ocean BlackLion, two of Diamond Offshore's sixth-generation drillships currently under contract in a high-current area in the Gulf of Mexico. "This technology advancement is the result of Diamond Offshore's engineering expertise and thought leadership and should benefit the broad offshore drilling industry as it gets adopted," said Woll
BOEM Approves Virginia’s Offshore Wind Research
efforts to a build a new Virginia economy." The RAP was developed by DMME’s operator, Virginia Electric and Power Company (dba Dominion Resources, Inc.), and describes the proposed construction, operation, maintenance, and eventual decommissioning of the Virginia Offshore Wind Technology Advancement Project (VOWTAP). “Data collected under this research lease will help us better understand the wind potential, weather and other conditions relevant to generating power from wind offshore Virginia,” said BOEM Director Abigail Ross Hopper. “It will also allow us
DNV GL Wins KOGAS TQ Contract
next TA workshop is scheduled for May 2015 at KOGAS’ Incheon LNG Terminal where the KSMRTM pilot plant is located. The project is part of the LNG Plant R&D initiatives which was set up by MOLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport) and KAIA (Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement) and involves 80 institutions with more than 600 researchers. KOGAS was appointed project co-ordinator and host in 2008. The vision of the LNG Plant R&D initiative is to reduce Korea’s reliance on overseas LNG technology and equipment and to instigate the creation of local capability
BOEM Issues Offshore Wind Energy Research Lease
others.” In 2012 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding awards for seven proposed "Offshore Wind Demonstration Projects." One of the awards was given to Dominion Resources, Inc., which partnered with DMME and others to establish the Virginia Offshore Wind Technology Advancement Project (VOWTAP). This was also one of three projects to receive a second funding award from DOE in 2014 for deployment activities. In February 2013, DMME submitted a lease application to BOEM for the installation and operation of two 6-MW turbines, associated cabling to shore, and
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