NEC Corporation has demonstrated a transmission capacity of 50.9 terabits (Tb) per second on a single optical fiber, over a distance greater than 11,000km. According to the company, this is the first time 50Tb have been achieved over 10,000km using C+L band erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA). Achi
Aqua Comms, the operator of Ireland’s first dedicated subsea fibre-optic network interconnecting New York, Dublin and London, has appointed two new members to its executive leadership team. Andy Hudson has been named chief networks officer and Kevin Foley has been named chief financial officer. Huds
Engineering services firm SengS has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of a new managing director and secured new deals which will take its turnover for this financial year past the £2 million mark for the first time. Formerly the company’s operations manager, Peter Thomson has taken
Aberdeen-based Balmoral Offshore Engineering is creating a new hyperbaric pressure testing facility in its Subsea Test Centre with financial support from the Scottish Government. Balmoral’s new open access hyperbaric pressure testing facility will support the oil and gas supply chain, specifically,
HYPACK, a software developer for the hydrographic and dredging industry, has appointed Dr. Peter Ramsay as business development leader and opened a new European office in Germany. Ramsay was previously a director at Marine GeoSolutions Pty Ltd in Australia. He will be seeking further growth at HYPAC
Atlantis Subsea Farming has decided to appeal the decision by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries regarding the awarded development licenses for its submersible fish-farming project. In January 2016, the Norwegian company applied for 6 development licenses of which 2 were approved by the Director
Geophysical contractor TGS has posted first-quarter 2017 net profit of $1.6 million, compared to net loss of $20 million in the same period in 2016. This comes down to quarterly earnings per share (fully diluted) of $0.02, against $0.20 loss per share same time last year. The Oslo-listed firm genera
The launch and recovery system (LARS) equipment for the Nautilus Minerals’ production support vessel has arrived at the Mawei shipyard in China, Toronto-based underwater mineral exploration company informed on Tuesday. The LARS, built by AxTech on behalf of Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), consists of A
Two engineers from Wood Group have supported the National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI), the technology arm of industry body Subsea UK, in its drive to speed up the development and implementation of near to market technologies in the subsea sector. Jamie McCallum and Christer Fjellroth, who are
Norwegian oil services company Aker Solutions has reported net income of NOK 62 million ($7.3 million), or NOK 0.23 in the first-quarter 2017, versus net income of NOK 169 million ($19.5 million), or 0.53 NOK in the prior-year comparable period. The company has seen its revenue decline to NOK 5.17 b
Oil and gas services provider Paradigm Flow Services has secured a series of new contracts in the Gulf of Mexico. The Aberdeenshire-based company said its Flexi-Coil system is currently operating on a hat-trick of projects for a variety of new international operators. Two of the jobs are located in
ROV operator IKM Subsea has begun mobilization of first equipment for Statoil’s Visund and Snorre B fields in the North Sea. IKM was awarded a contract by Statoil for ROV services on the Visund and Snorre B fields in August 2016. IKM Subsea said on Monday that the contract entails the provision of t
Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. has agreed with CoMotion, the University of Washington’s collaborative innovation hub, to obtain the sole rights to produce, market, and continue development of two new underwater glider systems. Both new glider systems are based in part on the original, Seaglid
UK-based Tekmar Energy (Tekmar) has supplied its TEKLINK cable protection system (CPS) to protect the underwater power cables as they enter the wind turbine foundations on the Formosa 1 Phase 1 offshore wind farm project, the first offshore wind farm in Taiwan. Formosa 1 Phase 1 is the first phase o
