RDSEA "Pic of the Week"
Combined efforts, University of South Florida's College of Marine Science; Ocean Circulation Laboratory, and the Center of Ocean Technologies (COT), bring back to life a Met-Ocean site on USF's "Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System" (COMPS), West Florida Shelf (WFS), eastern Gulf of Mexico, the initial/original coastal monitoring system in the U.S.:
CSignum Promotes Reyes to Chief Commercial Officer
, she has established global networks across markets, successfully launched new products and built profitable income streams. Molly has the ability to identify new product opportunities and will work with customers to help position CSignum as their development partner of choice.”Reyes joined WFS Technologies in 2019 as Sales Director, North America before it was acquired by CSignum the following year. Prior to CSignum, she promoted emerging technology research offerings to domestic and international energy and petroleum operators as a consultant at Darcy Partners and was Business Development
WFS, SES Team Up in Subsea Cable Protection Space
WFS Technologies (WFS) and Subsea Energy Solutions (SES) have joined forces in the space of condition monitored cable protection systems for the offshore energy industry.The collaboration will see WFS utilize its smart wireless Seatooth technologies, which provide real-time insight in extreme environments, with SES’s offshore cable and subsea umbilical, riser, and flowline protection systems.In a statement on Tuesday, the firm's said the aim was to help the offshore energy industry further extend asset life and boost productivity by reducing costs and increasing efficiencies.Philip A.R.
WFS Technologies Appoints Sharpe as Interim CEO
WFS Technologies embarks on a transformation program to manage its business expansion and ensure consistent quality and delivery of its product line. To enable a smooth transition and seamless delivery of products for its customers, WFS has appointed Peter Sharpe as interim CEO, taking over from Brendan Hyland who is stepping down after founding the firm more than 17 years ago in 2003.Sharpe, who was formerly a non-executive director of WFS, brings a wealth of experience. His career has included being Project Director of Digitization for the UK Ministry of Defense, and a Director of Operations
Japan, Scotland Invest in Subsea Technology
and power systems for offshore and subsea infrastructure including renewables, hydrocarbons and aquaculture.Bridon Bekaert, Tension Technology International and Toda (£7.5 million)Developing new mooring systems and ropes to replace chains which are unable to handle the deep waters off Japan.WFS and Shimadzu (£388,000)Working on underwater communications for broadband optical systems.Ecosse IP and JMU (£470,000)Looking at new installation methods for floating offshore wind using semisubmersibles and a novel ambient lifting system for foundations.Hyslop said, “I am encouraged
WFS Appoints Darroch as CTO
Continuing their ambitious growth plans for 2019, global provider of disruptive wireless subsea internet of things technology, WFS Technologies, has appointed a new Chief Technology Officer to drive its evolving product portfolio and software development roadmap.Jim Darroch has been appointed CTO to own the company’s product vision and roadmap, and to expand the product engineering team to meet growing client demands for its existing product range.WFS allows operators to monitor subsea infrastructures with their patented Seatooth real-time and edge computing sensors that view, detect, measure
WFS Unveils Riser Monitoring System
New solutions unveiled Thursday by WFS Technologies aim to tackle the real-time monitoring of offshore risers both above and below surface, on fixed structures including jackets and braces.The new Seatooth Assure Riser Monitor products allow for the measurement of 9-axis motion (vibration, orientation), local analytics and the reporting of real-time information through the water-air boundary with WFS’ patented Seatooth technology; a first of its kind for the industry, the Scotland-based subsea technology company said.Seatooth communicates through the water-air boundary removing the need for
Priestley Joins WFS Technologies
Theo Priestley, a technology futurist who focuses on emerging trends and their impact on business and wider society, has joined the team at WFS Technologies.Priestley takes up the role of chief marketing officer at WFS Technologies and is lined up to speak at a number of key industry conferences including this month’s Digital Oilfield event in Aberdeen, and the International IoT and Digital Transformation for Oil & Gas conference to be held in Amsterdam in June.Widely recognized as a thought leader and evangelist on emerging technologies, Preistly has written more than 100 articles for
WFS Launches Subsea Wireless Edge Network
WFS Technologies Limited (WFS) unveiled what it claims is the world’s first subsea wireless edge network for real-time monitoring of subsea assets.ExtremeEdge was developed to process and analyze the raw data at the sensor level, thus reducing information overheads by transmitting only the data needed to downstream solutions in real-time rather than all sensor data collected.In addition, by deploying a number of ExtremeEdge-enabled sensors, WFS has created the first subsea network designed to operate wirelessly. Traditionally, most solutions operate by individual sensor only, and not as a
February 2024
