Coda Octopus announces the launch of simultaneous analog and digital acquisition for the DA4G™ sonar acquisition platform. Building on the successful launch of the CodaOctopus DA4G, simultaneous seismic and side-scan sensors are supported and up to 8 sonar channels can be acquired, displayed, proces
BioSonics, Inc. and The Oceanscience Group release a portable remotely-operated habitat-mapping survey boat, the Z-Boat 1800MX. This boat is a combination of Oceanscience’s remote hydrographic survey boat and BioSonics’ industry-leading MX echosounder. With Z-Boat 1800MX researchers can obtain quant
The survey vessel Taharga, built on Hermann Barthel shipyard in Derben / Germany, has been completed end of last year. Just recently the 17,6 x 4,7m vessel arrived in her home port in Sudan. Soon it will be used for survey purposes in the Merowe Dam Reservoir, which covers an area of 476 km². It [&h
On December 22, scientific research vessel “Huajiachi”, the first Chinese floating marine test platform was delivered after acceptance check. A variety of ocean engineering research work can be done on the platform, including the determination of storm flow, installation and testing of subsea produc
MacArtney announces the introduction of SubConn® coax connectors – a brand new series within the industry leading SubConn® underwater connector range. The new connectors will primarily be used for transmission of High Definition (HD) video signal underwater and for interfacing HD video based equipme
The Fraunhofer IWES is building an oil sensor test stand in Bremerhaven, in order to better suit oil sensors to requirements of wind farm operators. Wind turbines are being increasingly equipped with oil sensors, which monitor the condition of the gearboxes. So called oil condition monitoring is bas
GDF SUEZ announces that the Amstel field oil production has started from its newly installed Q13a-A production platform off the Dutch coast. After the acquisition of 50% into the Q13a offshore production licence in 2010, GDF SUEZ Dutch Exploration and Production affiliate – GDF SUEZ E&P Nederland B.
The Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water published the approval of the investment proposal for the South Stream Offshore Pipeline. This follows the Supreme Expert Environmental Council’s positive decision on the Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIA Report) of the South Stream Offshore
A new European FP7 project, LEANWIND, which commenced in December 2013, received funding of €10million from the European Commission. The project seeks to address inefficiencies in logistics and transport issues for offshore wind installations and so contribute to the reduction of costs. LEANWIND was
Principle Power’s WindFloat Pacific (WFP) floating wind project cleared its first major hurdle last week by getting approval from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and by that automatically gained more attention from the public and media. One of the raised questions is the final use o
The Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources, Mr Pat Rabbitte, T.D., launched the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (OREDP) to provide a framework for the sustainable development of Ireland’s offshore renewable energy resources. Speaking at the Ocean Energy Industry Forum in
Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) Ltd launch a revolutionary oil field services unmanned surface vehicle. ASV has announced a breakthrough in unmanned oil and gas operations with the introduction of C-Worker. The multi-use offshore unmanned surface vehicle has been developed to conduct subsea positi
A project between Cranfield University and Sustainable Marine Energy, funded by the Low Carbon KEEP programme, has developed an innovative ‘platform’ designed to dramatically cut the cost and risks of tidal energy projects. The UK’s aging electricity generation infrastructure and reliance on importe
Sustainable Marine Energy and a team of academics headed by Dr Florent Trarieux, Lecturer in Offshore Engineering at Cranfield University have recently completed a 12 month project developing an innovative deployment platform, PLAT-O, that substantially reduces the cost and risks associated with dep
