Moana Project marine scientists from New Zealand have gathered virtually to review their progress in the $11.5 million five-year research project to revolutionise the understanding of Aotearoa’s oceans and the ability to forecast ocean behaviour. In less than two years since being awarded the fundin
Teledyne Marine has promoted Stephen Apsey to the role of vice president and general manager of Teledyne RDI. California-based Teledyne RDI manufactures acoustic Doppler products, servicing a wide array of marine markets and applications. Apsey is a graduate of Louisiana State University where he ea
Richmond-based marine robotics firm Greensea has entered into a sales partnership with 3D Spatial Solutions. The Houston-based company will provide US sales support for Greensea’s open architecture navigation, control, autonomy, and human-machine interface technology. 3D Spatial Solutions delivers s
ThayerMahan has signed a partnering agreement with Geo SubSea to expand portfolio of seabed surveying capabilities and services which will be provided to the offshore wind industry, offshore oil and gas and US Government customers. ThayerMahan CEO Mike Connor said, “ThayerMahan is bringing best-in-c
Brazilian geoscience services company OceanPact has chosen Sonardyne deep water positioning technology to support its research operations across the region. The company has installed Ranger 2 Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) systems on board its research vessels Seward Johnson and Austral Abrolhos. The U
Modus Seabed Intervention has completed a high speed bathymetric and depth of burial survey of the inter array cable routes on the innogy operated Gwynt-y-Môr offshore wind farm. The company utilised the Modus HAUV-2 (Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) for the work. The Gwynt-y-Môr offshore wind
Subsea 7 has issued further details of its workforce and fleet reduction initiative announced earlier this year. Namely, the offshore engineering firm predicts overall workforce reduction of approximately 3,000 by the end of the second quarter 2021. Subsea 7 also said that two-thirds of the reductio
Igeotest Geoscience has secured a contract with Prysmian to carry out the geophysical and geotechnical campaign for the installation of the Lanzarote-Fuerteventura AC cable. In December last year, Prysmian announced a €27-million deal with Spanish TSO Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to connect two Can
Subsea services specialist Acteon said that Dr Carl Trowell will become Group’s new chief executive officer, succeeding Richard Higham. Trowell will join Acteon from offshore drilling company Valaris (Ensco). He was Ensco’s chief executive and subsequently became executive chairman in 2019 following
Norwegian contractor Reach Subsea has widened its quarterly loss against prior-year comparable period on currency effects and IFRS16 depreciation effect. For the first quarter 2020, Reach booked loss of close to NOK 32 million, versus loss of NOK 19 million in the year-ago quarter. To remind, in the
Ashtead Technology has signed partner agreement with Trinidad-based Reliance Subsea Services Reliance Subsea provides tooling and equipment rentals and services to the industrial oil and gas marine sub-sector throughout the Caribbean and north Latin America. Ashtead will provide subsea survey and RO
DOF Subsea has reported loss in Q1 2020 of NOK 1.5 billion, against NOK 25 million in Q1 2019. Earnings hit was due to depreciation and impairment of NOK 976 million. This was because of the weakening market for vessel services and the low demand visibility for services going forward. DOF Subsea als
Fugro’s hydrographic survey vessel has supported Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, in monitoring a giant active underwater volcano off the east coast of Africa. The Fugro Gauss vessel, heading from the Netherlands to South Africa, made a 10-day detour to support Ifr
Fugro IOVTEC has received third offshore geotechnical site investigation project award in Taiwan for the Hai Long 2 and Hai Long 3 offshore wind farms. The project will follow Fugro’s “Triple A” approach of acquiring, analysing and advising on geo-data. The contract will take around ten months to co
