A team of North East-based subsea engineering experts are preparing to represent the UK in the final of the prestigious $7-million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition to map the sea floor. This month TeamTao, the only UK team and one of the smallest to reach the grand final of the Ocean XPRIZE,
Siemens has won a contract to upgrade the AKOFS Seafarer vessel with a battery solution, making it the first such upgrade for a well intervention vessel.
Kongsberg Maritime has unveiled its new HUGIN SUPERIOR Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The HUGIN SUPERIOR is equipped with the new HISAS 1032 Dual Receiver Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) which generates approximately 1000 meters swath at 2.5 knots for SAS imagery, real aperture and SAS bathymet
Norway’s Equinor is stepping up its use of wired drill pipe to acquire subsurface real-time data during drilling operations, in line with the corporate digitalization strategy and to prepare for automated drilling.
Orbital Marine Power has signed an agreement to demonstrate its floating tidal technology at the Morlais Tidal Energy Project, located off Anglesey in Wales. The agreement with Menter Môn, the not for profit developers of the project, would see a commercial scale tidal array of Orbital’s ‘O2’ 2MW ti
Siemens and Aker Solutions have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to further develop digital offerings in engineering, operations and services. The collaboration focuses on the creation of software applications and joint service offerings including the development of industrial digital twin
Siemens and Aker Solutions have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to further develop digital offerings in engineering, operations, and services.
Seabed Intelligence provider Ocean Infinity has awarded a contract for the provision of survey services for the MV Island Pride to geophysical and hydrographic survey provider Guardian Geomatics. The contract further enhances the existing Autonomous Surface Vessel partnership between the two entitie
Royal IHC has just released this beautiful photo of their IHC Beaver 1200C, recently commissioned at a customer site in Congo. “We provided the assistance needed to get the cutter suction dredger (CSD) operational, including providing training for the new dredging crew,” the Dutch supplier of equipm
The Van Oord Innovation Challenge has come to a close, and out of more than one hundred submissions, Portuguese start-up Abyssal has claimed the prize. Abyssal specializes in the visualization and remote control of subsea operations using sensor data to deliver real-time 3D virtual overviews of the
ABS, one of the world’s leading classification societies, has teamed up with GE collaborating on digital twin offshore rig deployment for equipment health monitoring and prediction.
Synergy Resource Management yesterday released a very interesting video about the progress on the Coomera Dredge Sediment Management Facility and its earthworks, construction, dredging and sediment processing operations. For many years, the Gold Coast Waterways Authority (GCWA), City of Gold Coast C
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (November 26 – December 02). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/29/bhge-reveals-new-approach-to-subsea-development/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/11/29/anadarko-selects-technipfmc-van-oord-consorti
Portuguese start-up Abyssal has claimed the first prize of the Van Oord Innovation Challenge as part of the quest for new partnerships. Out of more than one hundred submissions, the Dutch offshore contractor nominated 8 participants to the final round. Abyssal specialises in the visualisation and re
