SBG Systems Launches Navsight Marine Solution at OI2018

SBG Systems releases at the Oceanology International trade show in London (UK), the Navsight Marine Solution, a full high performance inertial navigation solution designed to made surveyors’ tasks easier on both shallow and deep water. Built on a proven technology, Navsight strengthens SBG Systems position as leading innovator in the marine technology market. Navsight Marine Solution consists in an…

Acteon Partners Win Heavy Lift Survey Support Deal

UTEC NCS Survey, part of UTEC Survey, an Acteon company, announced it was recently awarded a contract for heavy lift support services for a project in the Baltic Sea. Partnering with another Acteon company, LDD, the contract is to deliver, in January 2016, a pile guide frame monitoring system, which will be used for the installation of approximately 70 foundation pile clusters for the subsequent installation of four-legged jackets for the Wikinger windfarm development in the Baltic Sea.

Polarcus Innovation in Seismic Vessel Design

Polarcus Limited received its eighth 3D seismic vessel on 21 June 2012 when Polarcus Adira was delivered at Ulstein Verft in Norway. The vessel is the second of two 12-14 streamer Arctic 3D seismic vessels built at the yard, and is the eighth vessel in the Polarcus fleet of the Ulstein SX134 design. The marine geophysical company Polarcus Limited received its eighth 3D seismic vessel on 21 June 2012 when Polarcus Adira was delivered at Ulstein Verft in Norway.

Fugro Wins 3-Year Offshore Malaysia Positioning Contract

Fugro informs it has been awarded a contract for three years, plus a one-year extension option, by Murphy Sabah Oil Co., Ltd. for the provision of rig and subsea positioning services offshore Sabah & Sarawack, Malaysia. Fugro considers that the award will further strengthen a decade-long working relationship in support of Murphy’s deepwater drilling and development programmes offshore Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia.

Northrop Grumman Wins BAE Systems Award

Northrop Grumman Corporation has received the Customer Focus Award from BAE Systems Maritime-Submarines in recognition of the role the company has played in supplying the platform management system (PMS) for the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s (MOD) Astute nuclear-powered submarine program. The award was presented during BAE's 2014 Annual Supplier Forum to Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit…

Oceanscan Invests in Tritech’s Gemini Systems

Tritech International Ltd, a Moog Inc. company, has secured a deal with Oceanscan for the purchase of multiple Gemini 720is and Narrow Beam Imaging (NBI) units from the company’s range of multibeam imaging sonars. Launched in March 2016, the Gemini 720is is an upgrade of the Gemini 720i combining the benefits of high-definition imaging with long-range target detection making it suited for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) platforms…

Software Aids Subsea Power Cable Installation

Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. recently modified the popular telecom cable lay software, MakaiLay, to address specific issues experienced by the subsea power cable industry. The result of this effort was MakaiLay Power, a real-time software tool for controlling power cable deployment at-sea. This software was recently purchased and used by the OUOCI Consortium to install a subsea power cable in Venezuela for the Chacopata-Margarita Submarine Cable Interconnection Project.

Aqua Comms Taps Bayliff as CEO

Aqua Comms DAC, the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fiber-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, has appointed Nigel Bayliff as its new Chief Executive Officer. A global telecom industry veteran of 25-plus years’ experience, Bayliff joined Aqua Comms in October, 2016, replacing the company’s interim CEO, Greg Varisco, who remains a senior executive of Aqua Comms. Prior to joining Aqua Comms…

Engineering Representative Appointed for Lake Erie Wind Project

The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) in Cleveland, Ohio has appointed international engineering and operations support services contractor Offshore Design Engineering Limited (ODE), part of the DORIS Group located in the U.K., as the engineering representative for Icebreaker Wind, a 20.7 megawatt offshore wind project in Lake Erie, and the first freshwater offshore wind project in North America.

Seatronics Adds M3 Multibeam Sonar to Rental fleet

Seatronics Pte Ltd, an Acteon company, has purchased Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd’s M3 Sonar System to add to its Asia Pacific rental fleet. The purchase is part of an ongoing investment by Seatronics into cutting-edge technology to support its global marine equipment rental fleet growth and marks a significant improvement in Seatronics’ advanced sonar imaging and profiling capabilities. Offering multiple sonar functional capabilities in a single compact housing…

Laing Appointed NSRI Director

The National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) has appointed Tony Laing as its new director of research and market acceleration. Bringing more than 35 years’ experience, Laing will be tasked with ensuring the UK’s subsea technology needs are understood and met within an increasingly diverse business environment and the associated complex innovation and funding landscape. Laing has been an independent consultant within the oil and gas industry since 2015…

Bourne Tidal Test Site Receives Preliminary Permit from FERC

The Bourne Tidal Test Site is now a bit closer to reality. The Marine Renewable Energy Collaborative (MRECo) was notified by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that it has been approved for a preliminary permit to set up a test site for tidal energy in the Cape Cod Canal. “This is the first and very important step to gaining all the regulatory permits required for the test site, which will be the first in the United States,” said MRECo Director, John Miller.

Schlumberger Acquires Rock Deformation Research

Schlumberger announced today that it has acquired Rock Deformation Research (RDR), a U.K.-based company specialized in geological software development and structural geology consultancy for the oil and gas industry. By integrating with the Petrel E&P software platform and Studio E&P knowledge environment, RDR’s Structural and Fault Analysis module provides users with tools to reduce risk and quantify uncertainty…

New Sercel Marine Survey Design Software

Seismic equipment provider Sercel adds 'SeaPro Design' software to its marine navigation portfolio. SeaPro Design is a highly versatile tool for generating everything from simple geometry to complex designs for all types of marine surveys, whether 2D, 3D or multi-vessel seismic surveys. The software provides an enhanced graphic interface and all the advanced features needed to design surveys in a few simple clicks.

BMT Rolls Out New Big Data Product: BMT Deep

BMT has introduced BMT Deep, an advanced interactive asset data platform designed to deliver deeper insights for enhanced offshore asset performance management. “With 20+ years practical experience of working with marine structures, we have developed a platform that can monitor, review or forecast the performance of offshore assets,” said Soma Maroju, Product Development Lead for BMT Deep. “Using AI…

US Navy Submarines Surface in the Arctic Circle

A pair of U.S. Navy submarines recently surfaced in the Arctic Circle as part of multinational maritime exercise north of Alaska. Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) and Seawolf-class fast attack submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN 22) surfaced in the Arctic Circle March 10 during the multinational maritime Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018. Both submarines, as well the UK Royal Navy submarine HMS Trenchant (S91)…

MacArtney, Alakaluf Inititate Chilean Underwater Venture

The MacArtney Group has entered an exclusive representative agreement with Chile-based marine technology provider Alakaluf Ltda, representing another leg in the thrust to increase its local presence in South American underwater technology markets, the company said. Founded in 1994, in Punta Arenas by marine biologist and M. Sc. Oceanography Sergio Andrade, Alakaluf Ltda. has achieved expertise in supplying…

The World’s Largest Ocean Garbage Patch is Growing Rapidly

The world’s largest heap of ocean garbage is growing at an alarming rate. The 600,000-square-mile collection of ocean plastic and trash floating halfway between California and Hawaii known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch now contains four to 16 times more plastic than previously estimated, with pollution levels increasing exponentially, new analysis reveals. It’s estimated some 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic weighing 80…

Project Mars: The future of Autonomy

Innovation and technological advancement is central to propelling maritime industries into a new era of efficiency. While the idea of autonomy is now a welcome solution for several military and scientific applications, other sectors are yet to fully take the concept on-board. As autonomous systems are continually proven a success in the field, the spotlight has now turned to the maritime sector. World…

Autonomy by (Software) Design

Over the last decade or so there have been rapid advancements in the area of maritime smart software and autonomy solutions, with developments ranging from advanced 3D graphical interfaces, operator-in-the-loop assistance all the way to un-assisted autonomous adaptive operations. Adaptive is to say that the vehicles are being equipped with the capabilities to re-plan and change their missions and behavior in response to feedback from the data they have gathered.