Female marine students are said to be showing growing interest in electric underwater robotics according to Northwestern Michigan College, the first in America to offer a Bachelor of Science in Maritime Technology. Saab Seaeye, makers of the college’s new Falcon robotic vehicle, agrees. The underwat
Enra Icon has been granted a licence for novel technology by Petronas for its small field development, minimal facilities wellhead platform designs under the standardized work and equipment categories (SWEC) code. Enra Icon is a joint venture between Malaysian oil & gas services provider Enra and Au
Cosasco, the corrosion monitoring company, has appointed Anupam Sangal to the newly-created role of vice president of operations. Sangal will also become a member of Cosasco’s board. He takes the role from his existing position as operations manager. Based in Cosasco’s California headquarters, Sanga
Five gravity based foundations (GBFs) have now been installed off the coast of Blyth to mark the latest stage of a pioneering offshore wind farm development using a new “float and submerge” process. EDF Energy Renewables is currently delivering the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Wind Farm after taking
Kraken Sonar Systems has been awarded a contract valued at approximately C$3 million by Ocean Infinity. Kraken will supply and integrate its AquaPix (Miniature Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Real-Time SAS Signal Processor) solution onboard eight of Ocean Infinity’s HUGIN autonomous und
Atlantis’s tidal stream project in northern Scotland, MeyGen, was not awarded a contract for difference (CfD) from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in this allocation round in respect of Phase 1C of the project. According to Atlantis, cost reduction for the Phase 1C a
Baker Hughes, a GE company, said it has been awarded a “major” subsea contract from Petrobel for phase two of the “supergiant” Zohr Gas Field situated in the Mediterranean Sea, off the Egyptian coast. BHGE will provide project management, engineering procurement, fabrication, construction, testing a
Seaborn Networks has informed that its Seabras-1 subsea cable system is ready for operations. Seaborn’s Seabras-1 is a new 6-fiber pair, 72Tbps submarine cable system that is the first and only direct point-to-point system between São Paulo (Brazil) and New York (US). Seabras-1 is owned jointly by S
On the Brazilian South Atlantic coast, the continuous transport of sediment threatens the accessibility of the Belmonte terminal. To tackle this problem, the owner has acquired a Damen DOP250 submersible dredge pump. The DOP, powered by a dedicated diesel hydraulic power pack, is attached to a crane
NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen have teamed up to deploy a large array of new deep ocean floats to expand ocean observations in a key area of the western South Atlantic Ocean. These instruments, called Deep Argo floats, can col
The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) will be deploying two offshore artificial reefs off the southern Sydney coast to increase fishing opportunities in the region. The reefs will be accessible from Port Botany and Port Hacking. Australian reef specialists, Subcon have been
Seatools has completed the upgrade of the fall pipe remotely operated vehicle (FPROV) installed on Van Oord’s flexible fall pipe vessel ‘Stornes’. The work entailed a depth upgrade that enables Van Oord to perform precision rock installation in water depths of up to 2100 meters. Seatools initially d
On 27 August 2017, deep-sea researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recovered the underwater robot Tramper, which had been taking measurements at a depth of 2435 metres for nearly 60 weeks – the first long-term mission involving a crawler u
Scripps Oceanography research vessel Sally Ride, loaded with three-legged orange sea spider equipment platforms, bright yellow bulbous floats, anchors, line, and a variety of oceanographic instruments, departed Thursday to participate in the Inner Shelf Dynamics main experiment. Researchers from a n
