Xiamen University Selects AML’s Moving Vessel Profiler
Xiamen University has purchased a Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) for the research vessel Jia Geng. The university’s State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science will use the deep water underway profiling system, MVP300, to collect CTD, sound velocity and environmental data in support of both hydrographic and ocean science applications. The ability to collect high density data in real-time while the vessel is underway will produce higher quality results than can be achieved with static profiling systems, and in a fraction of the time. The contract was secured through
China Optimistic of Finding Gas off Vietnam
of the Paracels where military fortifications belonging to China, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia dot the waterways. "The rig was designed, meant for oil exploration in the South China Sea," said Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University and an adviser to China's National Energy Administration, the top regulator of China's energy industry. "It will move into deep waters in other parts of the South China Sea." Wu, from the South China Sea Studies institute, said Beijing was sending a clear signal to the international