General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Hydrogen fuel cells convert high-energy hydrogen efficiently into electricity
The winner of the Underwater Technology Foundation (UTF) Subsea Award 2016 is OneSubsea Multiphase Compressor. Specifically, Bernt Helge Torkildsen and Simon Kalgraff, from OneSubsea, and Jarle Ottar Hella and Caroline Bøe, from Statoil are the winners of the 2016 UTF Subsea award for their efforts
Impact Subsea has delivered its ISA500 units to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The ISA500 units have been selected to monitor the position of an ice boring tool in the Antarctic hundreds of meters below the surface. During deployment of the ice boring tool, the ISA500 units measure the distance
Trelleborg’s engineered products operation is now manufacturing a pre-bend rubber dredging hose in China. “For the first time, Chinese dredging and mining operations will be able to take advantage of the superior wear resistance and flexibility that Trelleborg’s rubber dredging hoses provide, compar
At the WODCON 2016 held last week in Miami, USA, Damen has been awarded the “Best Paper Award”. The paper on dredge pump design, written and presented by Mr Klaas Slager, is about efficient dredge pump design. In total some 120 presentations were held over the 4-day WODCON conference. During the clo
Oil prices slumped by more than 6 percent on Friday after results of a landmark referendum showed Britain had voted to leave the European Union, causing huge market uncertainty and fracturing European efforts to forge greater unity.
Danish engineering services firm Ramboll will support DONG E&P with engineering services for upstream oil and gas activities as a result of a new framework agreement that has been recently signed between the two entities. The agreement is valid for four years. According to Ramboll, the framework agr
EdgeTech, a manufacturer of underwater technology solutions, now offers a communication interface to the University of Rhode Island Inverted Echo Sounder or “URI PIES” system through the 8011M deck box. The URI PIES system is often moored in deep locations for extended periods of time. Acoustic comm
World’s largest oilfield services provider Schlumberger has, through its subsidiary Cameron, signed an exclusive marketing and distribution agreement with a water technology company, MyCelx, for its products used in the upstream oil and gas market. MyCelx said on Friday that the deal relates to expe
The 15th annual MATE international ROV competition starts today June 23, 2016 at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) in Houston, Texas. With NASA and Oceaneering Space Systems (OSS) looking to make use of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), the 2016 MATE competition highlights
Quintillion will start laying subsea cable offshore Alaska’s Nome coast in the first week of July, Alaskan media informed. Quintillion’s vice president of external affairs, Kristina Woolston, said: “We actually are going to start a little bit early here in Nome than what we had thought because we ha
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) has permitted Shell Canada to resume drilling with restrictions at its Cheshire L-97 exploration well. Drilling was halted on March 5, 2016 after an operations incident on the Stena IceMAX drillship. After securing the exploration well with tw
STATS Group has signed an agency agreement with Norwegian distributor PSO AS which should provide a strategic entry to the Scandinavian onshore and offshore market. The Kintore-based company designs and manufactures products to support hydrostatic testing activities and weldless pipe connection prod
Torrance startup, Blue Robotics, has released a new underwater drone, the BlueROV2, presented as high-performance and affordable solution for ocean exploration and study. “From day one, our goal has been to make marine robotics accessible to more people and businesses than ever before,” said the com
