In line with Tritech’s policy of continuous product development the Eclipse Multibeam Sonar system has undergone major software and partial hardware redevelopment, which encompasses the following updates: * The standard depth rating is now 1000m * Eclipse no longer has Profiling/ bathymetry capabili
Kongsberg Maritime’s next generation multibeam echosounder the EM 2040 is now available with the HUGIN 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle – AUV. With improved resolution and depth rating of 6000 metres, this provides a substantial improvement from the EM 2000 used in deep-water HUGIN versions up to
Statoil wants to compress gas on the seabed to boost recovery. Subsea compression was recently selected as the preferred concept for Gullfaks. “Gas compression on the seabed represents an important advance in technology, and once again, Statoil is leading the way for development of new technology. T
A New Zealand Lobster fisherman has had such great success with WASSP Multi Beam Sonar in his fleet, that he has ordered a fourth unit to be fitted to his newest vessel. Trevor Burkhart and his family have been actively involved in the New Zealand Lobster fishing industry since it’s commercial incep
A team of Westinghouse engineers have demonstrated a landmark technological achievement in the nuclear industry’s ability to take in-vessel measurements and track cycle-to-cycle degradation with the deployment of a nuclear underwater laser scanner specifically designed to deliver precise measurement
Aker Solutions won a contract from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Equipment to supply a complete drilling equipment package for a new deepwater drill ship. The contract is worth about NOK 540 million. The drill ship will be owned and operated by Tungsten Explorer Company, a subsidiary of Vantage Drill
Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced orders worth over £100 million to supply propulsion systems for offshore construction and drilling vessels. The ships will be built at shipyards in Asia for a range of ship owners including Seadrill, Pacific Drilling, Noble, Ocean Rig an
STX OSV Holdings Limited , one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of offshore and specialized vessels, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Industrial Control Design AS (“ICD”) of Norway to establish a new company for the development of offshore handling systems.
The University of Washington,recently retrieved a BioSonics DT-X SUB split beam echosounder after a 1-month deployment in northern Admiralty Inlet, WA. The study location is a proposed Snohomish Public Utility District tidal energy demonstration project site. The BioSonics DTX-SUB is an autonomous s
Shoaibi Group, the commercial, technical and market experts in Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas industry have signed an exclusive distribution… (ameinfo) [mappress] Source: ameinfo, June 16 , 2011;
Cygnus Instruments, the leading UK manufacturer of digital multiple echo ultrasonic thickness gauges, have launched a new range of ROV mountable devices. The new gauges are designed to work at greater depths, streamline the measurement process and provide unrivalled functionality. With two new model
GE Oil & Gas announces that its Wellstream business, acquired in March, has been awarded a long-term, flexible pipe and subsea equipment logistics services contract by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), one of the largest companies in Latin America which also controls significant energy assets in
GE Oil & Gas is announces that its Wellstream business, acquired in March, has been awarded a long-term, flexible pipe and subsea equipment logistics services contract by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras), one of the largest companies in Latin America which also controls significant energy assets
RESON, a market leader in underwater acoustic sensors, state-of-the-art echosounders, multibeam sonar systems, transducers, hydrophones, and PDS2000 software will be displaying their SeaBat 7125 at SeaWork International 2011, at Canary Islands Fruit Terminal, ABP Southampton, Hampshire UK from the 1
