OTC Names Technology Award Winners

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which takes place May 4-7 in Houston, has announced 17 technologies that will receive the Spotlight on New Technology SM Award. The 2015 awards will be presented May 4, in the NRG Center Rotunda Lobby. The Spotlight on New Technology Awards—a program for OTC exhibitors—showcase the latest and most advanced hardware and software technologies that are leading the industry into the future.

SubCom Supplies Undersea Communications for OSI

TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company was contracted by Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) as the supplier of the Poseidon project, a high-capacity undersea cable system that will enable advanced communications for the oil and gas industry in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Designed to deliver communication to an active region for oil and gas production, Poseidon will be owned and operated by Radius Oceanic Communications, Inc. (Radius), a wholly owned subsidiary of OSI.

In Rhode Island, the Future is Blowing in the Wind

It’s powerful, it’s clean, and it’s something the Ocean State has plenty of: energy-rich offshore winds. Rhode Island, along with its designated developer, Deepwater Wind, hopes to be the first in the U.S. to harness that blow, starting with an initial, five-turbine, 30-MW demonstration project off Block Island, to be quickly followed by the nation’s first 1,000-MW farm situated further out in federal waters.

Xylem Acquires Tideland

Xylem Inc., a global water technology company dedicated to solving water issues, has acquired Tideland Signal Corporation, a privately owned company specializing in analytics solutions in the coastal and ocean management sectors. News of the acquisition was shared in the Company’s 4th quarter earnings announcement. Headquartered in Houston, with key locations in the Netherlands, the U.K. and Singapore…

Sabertooth AUV Goes 4D in Lake Vättern

For offshore operators, a 4D geo-spatial data acquisition system with data visualization in real-time is now available for the Seaeye Sabertooth AUV. Its full capabilities were demonstrated to representatives of 12 companies from seven countries, together with the Danish Navy, in Saab’s exclusive underwater test center at Lake Vättern, Sweden. The system has been configured for the Sabertooth by Saab QPS, a Saab Seaeye partner and developer of hydrographic survey and mapping software.

AUV Helps Locate Sunken Japanese Warship

Bluefin Robotics underwater robot helps locate historic sunken Japanese battleship Musashi; located by philanthropist and entrepreneur Paul G. Bluefin Robotics underwater autonomous vehicles (AUV) scour the ocean floors around the world looking for items critical to the defense industry, oceanographic researchers and the oil and gas industry. Most recently, a Bluefin vehicle was used by Paul G. Allen and his team of researchers in their search for the sunken Japanese battleship Musashi…

UK Subsea Industry Supports STEM Initiative

More aspiring young engineers will get the chance to participate in an international competition to design underwater machinery and robotics thanks to leadership and support from Subsea UK. The body, which represents the U.K.’s £9 billion subsea industry, has entered into a long-term partnership with RGU to sustain and extend the highly successful Scottish MATE ROV Challenge. The STEM initiative aims…

IKM Instrutek AS – DNV-GL and Lloyds Approved

IKM Instrutek AS is a sales and service supplier of test and measurement instruments. for electrical, electronics, automation, condition monitoring, maritime navigation and communication and calibration. As a full partner, IKM Instrutek offers its products and services to the industry, marine and offshore, installers, energy suppliers, technical training schools and public service. The Norwegian company has about 60 employees…

DST Toolstring Deployed in Gulf of Mexico

International oilfield services company, Expro, has deployed its new design ExACT (Expro Annulus-Operated Circulating and Test Tool) in its first live offshore well. The successful operation, a tubing conveyed perforating ‘shoot and pull’, took place on the Vermillion field offshore in the Gulf of Mexico following trial work onshore in Brazil last year. The tool, one of the most advanced of its kind, combines downhole shut-in and circulating functionality.

Navy Christens, Launches New Oceanographic Survey Ship

Accompanied by azure blue skies and a stiff breeze, the Navy christened and launched its newest oceanographic survey ship, USNS Maury (T-AGS 66), the last of its class at VT Halter Marine’s shipyard in Moss Point, Miss., in a traditional Navy ceremony on March 27. The 350-foot ship is named for Cmdr. Matthew F. Maury, considered to be the father of oceanography, nicknamed the “Pathfinder of the Seas” and the first superintendent of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Innovative New System Delivers Surface Current Data

Fugro and technology partner Areté Associates have delivered near real-time, synoptic, surface current data to characterize Loop Current and Loop Current eddy conditions in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico during a period of intense current conditions. The new Remote Ocean Current Imaging System (ROCIS) was deployed on its first operational project, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Over the course of the five-month program…

Safety Drives Digital Plant Upgrade, Says Aveva

Aveva’s new business paper examines how 3D laser surveying technology can transform brownfield asset information. Aveva announced its publication of a new business paper, Seeing Through the Fog, describing how recent advances in both 3D laser surveying and Information Management technology combine to enable the capture and use of an accurate digital counterpart of a brownfield plant. It explains how…

Ashtead Technology Increase Subsea Equipment Rental Stock

Ashtead Technology announce at the U.K.'s Ocean Business 2013 expo that it has purchased Sonardyne 6G acoustic positioning equipment value £1.3 million. This latest acquisition is the second significant order placed by the company for 6G in the last 12 months, further strengthening the Ashtead Technology fleet of Compatt 6 transponders, including various sound velocity, digiquartz and inclinometer sensors…

FUGRO Upgrades Offshore Positioning Service

Fugro announced the launch of a further advancement in the field of GNSS augmentation with its high accuracy G2+ service, designed to benefit offshore operators around the globe who require positioning and measurement accuracy at centimeter level. G2+ is an enhancement of Fugro’s G2 service (based on GPS and GLONASS) and utilizes GNSS augmentation algorithms developed in-house. The code and carrier…

3D-Simulator Generates Training, Expertise on Subs

A new diesel generator simulator has been delivered to Pearl Harbor naval facilities by the TechSolutions program at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), officials at ONR announced March 18. High-fidelity 3D software will allow Sailors to use 50-inch touch screens to see and access all parts of the massive generators aboard Virginia-class subs. The Navy's Virginia-class submarines are among the most technically advanced vessels ever built.

FarSounder Updates Navigation Sonar Software

FarSounder announced the release of SonaSoft version 3.2, an upgrade to the software which powers the FarSounder-500, FarSounder-1000, and FS-3DT sonars. This upgrade includes significant processing, user interface and display improvements. “Our development team continues to set the standard for 3D Forward-Looking Sonars,” said Matthew Zimmerman, FarSounder’s Vice President of Engineering. “Our focus on improving navigational safety is evident to our customers.

DSIT Introduce New Diver Detection Sonar

DSIT Solutions Ltd., a subsidiary of Acorn Energy, Inc., says it spotlighted the addtion of its AquaShield Extended Range (ER) Swimmer Delivery Vehicle Detection Sonar (SDS) to its product line at the Undersea Defense Technology conference, UDT 2014 in Liverpool, England. The AquaShield ER was developed based on the best seller AquaShield™ Diver Detection Sonar (DDS) which is widely used around the world to protect naval…

CGG Wins 6-year Contract for Brunei Shell Petroleum

CGG has announced  that it has been awarded a contract by Brunei Shell Petroleum to operate a dedicated processing center (DPC) at its Seria office in Brunei Darussalam. The contract will run for a period of six years, from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2022. Under the terms of the contract, CGG will deliver the full scope of processing services for 2D, 3D and 4D seismic data acquired onshore and offshore Brunei…

Atlantic Canada Profiles: Agile Sensor Technologies

Agile Sensor Technologies, a manufacturer of intelligent robotic components based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, has launched its new performance monitoring multi-motor controller Synapse. Developed for industrial and military UAVs, Synapse advances beyond traditional electronic speed controllers (ESCs) to offer flight data recording, real-time propulsion system feedback, faster controller response time, and the ability to increase flight time by approximately 10%.

Modus unveils Saab Sabretooth for cost effective survey, inspection

Modus Seabed Intervention has successfully completed trialling one of the subsea industry’s first commercially available hybrid unmanned underwater vehicles. It will be one of the first autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to feature the capabilities and characteristics of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). In partnership with Saab Dynamics, Modus has developed the Saab Sabretooth to offer greater endurance and speed…