UTEC Makes Two Key Appointments
Surveying company UTEC, part of subsea services group Acteon, has appointed Jon Beatty to lead its Geomarine business unit and long-term employee Greg Hammond to head its StarNet business unit.Beatty joins UTEC Geomarine as managing director and is responsible for its range of geotechnical services, which, when combined with UTEC’s geophysical survey offering, provides a one-stop solution for seabed characterization and sampling. He has more than 25 years of international experience with Schlumberger, having served in technical and management positions spanning reservoir characterization, well
UTEC Geomarine Completes Caspian Sea Project Using geoROV
UTEC Geomarine, the geotechnical service line of UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, informs it has completed the first phase of a geotechnical site investigation in the Caspian Sea for a major oil and gas operator. The project was completed using a suite of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) conveyed technology, comprising of UTEC’s patented geoROV seabed cone penetration test (CPT) and sampling system, geoREACT suction skid and a specially developed rotary core drill. UTEC Geomarine’s geoROV technology is an ROV-compatible, CPT, T-bar and push sampling tool. The geoROV
UTEC Survey Merges its EMEA Operations
and training facilities, and the critical mass to respond to our clients’ complex survey projects across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.” As well as its HQ in Westhill, Aberdeen UTEC will continue to operate in Norway (UTEC NCS), Livingston (UTEC Starnet), Newcastle and Bath (UTEC Geomarine).
New UTEC Website Enhances Customer Experience
a new website which doubles as an interactive customer interface and offers access to a range of information and tools on a 24/7 basis. The company has a global footprint with 15 offices in eight countries and has completed projects in over 35 countries. The new website fully integrates UTEC Geomarine and UTEC StarNet into the main UTEC site, streamlining and standardizing how users can access information into one location. In addition to keeping up with corporate developments and news, visitors will also be able to learn where UTEC is exhibiting, learn more about performance history
UTEC Announces Equipment Investment
One of the world’s largest independent survey companies, UTEC Survey, announced significant investment in new equipment which is about to be put to work in the South China Sea. UTEC Geomarine, part of the UTEC Group, announced the purchase of a comprehensively instrumented DB-240 metocean buoy as part of a construction support soliton monitoring project in the region. The equipment has been manufactured by Planet Ocean and is an upgraded version of the basic buoy model which comes with 12 x 20W solar panels and two rechargeable batteries. In addition, the company has also purchased a
Study Targets Reduced Offshore Wind Costs
Xodus Group, Cathie Associates and UTEC Geomarine have formed an industry leading consortium to deliver a study which will aim to reduce the costs of generating electricity from offshore wind farms in U.K. waters. The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), which brings together nine offshore wind developers (DONG Energy, E.ON, Mainstream Renewable Power, RWE Innogy, ScottishPower Renewables, SSE Renewables, Statkraft, Statoil and Vattenfall) in a joint industry project, is working towards reducing the cost of offshore wind by at least 10% by 2015. Technology challenges are identified
UTEC Geomarine Announces BP Quad 204 Geotechnical Survey Success
UTEC Geomarine has announced the successful completion of a significant geotechnical survey program in the West of Shetland region. The work was carried out for BP on their Quad 204 development and involved the utilization of UTEC Geomarine’s unique and innovative ROV-deployed geoROV™ CPT and sampling system. The project was conducted in conjunction with Subsea 7 who provided vessel and ROV support services. For the first time, geoROV™ was also used in conjunction with UTEC Geomarine's recently developed geoREACT suction anchor tooling skid. As part
August 2026
