Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has completed the world’s largest deepwater proprietary 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. This is the fourth OBN survey completed by Seabed Geosolutions in Brazil. The survey, started in late 2018, cove
Royal IHC has been awarded another contract by Van Oord to design and supply the dredge installation for its new 10,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD). The suction pipe installation with underwater pump, two dredge pumps and three jet water pumps will be installed on the new TSHD and built
Hydroid, a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has integrated the Seaglider autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) division into its organization. The transfer of Seaglider from Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. (KUTI) allows Hydroid to leverage complementary technologies and markets across the REMUS
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) said that Jeffrey R. Wiener has joined the company as vice president of global sales. Prior to joining OPT, Jeff was senior vice president of sales for EOS Energy Storage, where he helped to develop and commercialize Eos’s proprietary zinc hybrid battery storage soluti
Huisman has been selcted by Boskalis to deliver a 4,000mt offshore mast crane (OMC) to be installed on their crane vessel Bokalift 2. This deal follows successful delivery of the 3,000mt offshore mast crane for the Bokalift 1 in 2017. With a lifting capacity of 4,000mt at 100 meters above deck, this
RusselSmith, a Nigeria-based oilfield services provider, has added Saab Seaeye’s Cougar XT electric underwater robotic vehicle to its ROV fleet. “The Cougar is an ideal choice,” said RusselSmith CEO, Kayode Adeleke. “It is a powerful, highly maneuverable and capable ROV and we believe it will add a
NOVACAVI has recently provided a couple of specially engineered mooring cables for the Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabeled Ocean Observatory. The Lofoten-Vesterålen Cabeled Ocean Observatory (LoVe) is a Norwegian infrastructure for marine research, monitoring and subsea technology development off the North N
SBT Energy has completed a wave-tank test programme and preliminary field trials, for its buoy concepts, part of a disruptive offshore buoy and tank technology for the renewables, oil and gas and other offshore industries. SBT’s technology covers eight unmanned offshore buoy and storage tank concept
Oceanteam Solutions has secured a subsea cable storage contract extension with one of its premier clients. The extension follows a two-and-a-half years of storage of client’s subsea cables in Oceanteam Solutions’ 5300Te carousel at its cable storage facility in Velsen, the Netherlands. With this ext
Nexans has been appointed by SSE as the preferred supplier to design, manufacture and install the onshore and offshore export cables for the Phase 1 development of the Seagreen offshore wind farm project. Currently under construction off the Angus coast, Phase 1 comprises the Seagreen Alpha and Brav
Norwegian equipment provider for aquaculture industry AKVA Group said that Hallvard Muri has resigned from his position as the company’s CEO with immediate effect. Muri has held the chief executive officer position since November 2016. Muri stated: “After serving as CEO for three years, I believe it
SEA has completed sea trials of its Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) System with the Portuguese Navy as part of Exercise REPMUS (Maritime Unmanned Systems) 19. The KraitSense low-profile passive sonar system detected, tracked and classified a submarine whilst deployed from a Portuguese Navy offshore pat
Dredging Today brings you an overview of the most popular stories from the past week (October 28 – November 3, 2019). Launching of TSHD Meuse River Set for November 16 A launching ceremony of the new 7.950m³ trailing suction hopper dredger (TSHD) Meuse River will take place on Saturday, November 1
OceanGate has said it plans to build two new submersibles using its innovative carbon fiber and titanium design. The Everett-based company has begun the construction planning for the next two Cyclops-class subs (Cyclops 3 and Cyclops 4), which are planned to be rated for up to 6,000 meters. The comp
