Houston-based flow equipment specialist, Cameron, informed that its stockholders have voted to adopt the previously announced merger agreement providing for the acquisition of Cameron by a wholly owned subsidiary of Schlumberger. Upon completion of the transaction, each share of Cameron common stock
Swedish marine survey specialist, MMT, will be exhibiting at Subsea Expo 2016 to present its new fast survey method with Surveyor Interceptor ROV (SROV). The Europe’s largest annual subsea exhibition and conference takes place in Aberdeen AECC on February 3-5. At the last year’s event, MMT presented
Australia’s Total Marine Technology (TMT) has been contracted to support Murphy Malaysia during 2015/17 deepwater and shallow water operations. According to the company, the work scope includes the call out of up to five ROV systems over the contract period. “TMT look forward to delivering innovativ
OceanWorks, a subsea solution engineering company, has delivered another fully refurbished and upgraded Node Pod to CSnet. The Node Pod is a part of CSnet’s Offshore Communication Backbone (OCB) ocean observatory, and represents the 2nd unit refurbished by OceanWorks as part of CSnet’s planned maint
Atlantis and ScottishPower Renewables (SPR) are teaming up to develop a joint portfolio of projects for the tidal sector. Namely, Atlantis’s Scottish project development vehicle, Tidal Power Scotland Limited (TPSL), will acquire SPR’s portfolio of tidal projects in exchange for a 6% shareholding in
Heriot-Watt’s Ocean Systems Laboratory, Hydrason Solutions, and CENSIS have joined forces on a research project to create sensor technology inspired by Bottlenose Dolphins that could help improve subsea detection capabilities. Namely, the project will develop an enhanced wideband sonar system based
The 120-ton subsea generator switchgear of the Sotenäs Wave Energy Plant on the Swedish West Coast has been deployed and connected to the Swedish National Grid via a 10 km long subsea cable. A number of Wave Energy Converters (generators) were also connected to the subsea switchgear and the wave par
Plexus informed that Christopher Fraser has stepped down as a director of the company with immediate effect. Fraser (age 51) was appointed to the board of the company as a non-executive director in March 2012. As announced on July 2, 2015, pursuant to the Share Subscription Agreement entered into by
Global Marine Systems has secured a sub-contract to install approximately 48 km of optic cable between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok. The main contract of this project was signed to the turnkey solution provider Huawei Marine. The main lay of the project will see cable surface laid betwe
The Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell recently shared a video tracking the 2015 progress of the company’s first ever FLNG project, Prelude, that will be located offshore Western Australia. The video covers the installation of the last giant topside module in South Korea, through subsea equipment i
Between November 12-17, Underwater Systems was on location at NASA for a technology symposium in Houston, Texas. The symposium comprised both seminars and product demonstrations of the underwater vehicle – Seaeye Sabertooth. The product demos took place in NASA´s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL), i
Sonardyne has received an order to supply five Ranger 2 Pro USBL tracking systems to survey and mapping specialists C&C Technologies, a subsidiary of Oceaneering. Ranger 2 Pro is designed for deep water tracking of underwater targets and position referencing for dynamically positioned (DP) vessels.
Hydroid, a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, has released Line Capture Line Recovery (LCLR), a self-contained module that is initially offered on Hydroid’s REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle for the purpose of autonomous launch and recovery. “We designed the LCLR to be a first-of-its-kind syste
Ocean energy company, BioPower Systems (BPS), has set up its 250kW bioWAVE pilot demonstration unit off the coast near Port Fairy, Victoria. The $21-million project has been in development by BPS for three years, with $11 million funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and $5 mil
