The French company Seaviews has recently developed a new surface platform for underwater photogrammetry in the framework of the GreenTech Verte grant from the French Minister of Environment. Coupling a RTK GNSS with a high resolution underwater camera, the data acquired by the PHOTOCEAN platform all
Norwegian contractor Kvaerner has sent on its way the second jacket destined for the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The drilling platform jacket, named ‘Vilje’, left Kvaerner’s shipyard in Verdal at 08:45 on Wednesday, the company reported on social media. The jacket was named earlier this m
Gardline Group said it has made a strategic decision to close its Metocean department. The company said it has informed its long-term clients and added that it won’t accept new assignments within the Metocean department going forward. “The Metocean department has always delivered work of the highest
Marina Barcelona 92 (MB92) has signed a master relationship agreement with Triton Submarines to create the very first ‘Submersible Supercenter’ to provide large yachts with service, including integration, surveying, repair and maintenance of submersible crafts. Having previously established an after
Ardmore Craig has secured a contract for the design of a shallow water cable lay and beach pull in spread. The customized deck spread includes two chutes, a subsea quadrant with support frame, tensioner grillages and auxiliary equipment. The work scope also includes the sea fastening design for the
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has taken delivery of a 5-meter wave-propelled unmanned surface vessel, built by AutoNaut. The vessel will be used by NTNU for development in autonomous systems and oceanographic studies. The new 5-meter vessel has more power and space availa
Alfa Laval has won an order to supply Framo pumping systems to an FPSO vessel to be built in China.
Planet Ocean has delivered fourth Radac WaveGuide Onboard systems to Fugro under the frame agreement signed earlier between the companies. A modified WaveGuide radar wave sensor is installed on the bow of the ship. The sensor uses radar to measure distance to the water surface. A motion sensor is in
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has entered into a long-term collaboration with North Sea Systems (NSS) to bring new monitoring tool, the CableFish, to the market. CableFish is a touchdown monitoring tool for cable installation which can be utilized in all marine environments. It was engineered to
A customized Damen cutter suction dredger – type CSD500 – has arrived on site at Port of Umm Qasr, Iraq. The dredger was named recently by her owner, Basra Gateway Terminal (BTG), at the Damen Dredging yard in the Netherlands. Immediately after the ceremony, the dredger was made ready for transport
North-east Scotland has marked a UK offshore wind first following the installation of the first pioneering suction bucket jacket foundation for Vattenfall’s 11-turbine European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) in just 15 hours. The EOWDC in Aberdeen Bay is the first offshore wind project to d
Huawei Marine has kicked off Phase II of its Sorsogon-Samar Submarine Fiber Optical Interconnection Project (SSSFOIP) for the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The SSSFOIP system is located in the San Bernardino Strait, linking Sorsogon, the southernmost province on Luzon to the i
The Environmental Hydraulics Institute of the Cantabria (IHCantabria) is carrying out physical experiments of the scour protection around the Jacket Legs at the new Iberdrola offshore wind farm – East Anglia ONE In these physical tests the metocean characteristics of the studied location are simulat
Sonar imaging systems and underwater technology specialist EdgeTech has recently introduced the next generation swath bathymetry & side scan sonar system – the EdgeTech 6205s. Building on the 6205 system, EdgeTech has redesigned the 6205s in a smaller, lighter package with additional features and fu
