Kraken Robotics has informed that retired Vice Admiral Michael J. Connor, United States Navy, has joined its Board of Directors. In a 35-year career in which he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, Connor commanded at the ship, squadron and task force levels. His assignments i
Kongsberg Maritime has completed the installation of Simrad marine ecosystem assessment technology aboard the Victor Angelescu, the Argentinian National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development’s (INIDEP) new oceanographic and fishing research vessel. Built at Spanish yard Astilleros Armon Vi
Tekmar Energy, specialists in cable and subsea protection systems for the offshore energy markets has recently welcomed several new additions to its ever-expanding team. Rob McGill, joins as the HSQE manager, bringing with him years of experience from the offshore space working within both Oil & Gas
ASV Global and TerraSond have completed the first ever seabed cable route survey supported by an unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The survey route included various water depths and strong currents, while facing difficult wind and sea conditions in the Bering Sea offshore Alaska, ASV explained. The pr
Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH shared today this video of a duty cycle crawler crane type HS 8300 HD working in the Port of Piombino. The duty cycle crawler crane, with hybrid drive system from Liebherr is currently being used to remove sediment and increase the depth of the water at the mouth of the po
Denmark-based engineering company EIVA said it has expanded the payload of its ScanFish remotely operated towed vehicle (ROTV) by some 700 percent to integrate PanGeo Subsea’s Sub-Bottom Imager (SBI) unit. Namely, the EIVA R&D took up the challenge in May 2017, to expand the 50kg sensor payload of t
DeepOcean said it has installed all 91 inter-array cables and completed the base scope trenching operations at DONG Energy’s (Ørsted) Race Bank offshore wind farm site. Once fully operational, Race Bank will have a capacity of 573MW which should provide sufficient green energy to power over half a m
Offshore access solutions provider Ampelmann has enhanced its existing E1000 gangway transfer system to speed up conversion of its gangway from personnel to cargo mode. Ampelmann said that the latest enhancement to the E1000 would speed up crew to cargo mode change from at least ten minutes to less
Optical Metrology Services (OMS) has released a new version of its Auga weld inspection technology, the OMS Auga Lite. The new Auga Lite, which is currently being utilised on a project in the Middle East, has been developed specifically to be more agile and can be packed into cases prior to deployme
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (October 02. – October 08). Subsea Integration Alliance, which is a partnership between Subsea 7 and OneSubsea, a Schlumberger company has been awarded a contract by Ophir Energy for the Fortuna LNG pr
Subsea Technologies Limited (STL) has announced the win of two new global contracts worth £3.8 million. The Aberdeen-based subsea technologies specialist was awarded the first contract, worth £2.4 million, by a undisclosed international service company. STL will supply a number of proprietary STL co
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources (VIGMR)have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which should develop joint training and technical programmes for knowledge transfer and research collaboration around areas of marine science a
Heerema Marine Contractors’ deepwater construction vessel (DCV) Aegir will dock next week for maintenance at the Huisman Schiedam quayside in the Nederlands. The vessel should be at Huisman until the end of the year, the company specialising in lifting, drilling, and subsea solutions said on social
Nexans has claimed a new record for the installation of the longest and deepest 420 kV XLPE submarine cable system as a part of the Modalen-Mongstad connection in Norway. BKK Nett awarded Nexans with a contract worth approximately 37 million euros for delivery of the third and last submarine cable t
