Canada’s ocean tech company Kraken Robotics has recently secured contracts with Royal Danish Navy and Polish Navy. The Royal Danish Navy deal will see Kraken supply mine-hunting sonar equipment. Specifically, Kraken will deliver its KATFISH towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar, Tentacle Winch and Autonomo
Underwater tech company OTAQ has appointed two key figures as it eyes to grow turnover to £50 million by 2025. Chris Hyde steps into the role of chief technical officer having filled the position of chief commercial officer since 2015. Furthermore, Maurice Coull has joined the marine technology comp
Norwegian-based Jotun has signed the first commercial contract for container vessels for its Jotun Hull Skating Solutions (HSS) with container shipping major Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). MSC plans to install the Jotun HullSkater, a robotic technology that has been designed for proactive cle
Survey and ROV services operator ACSM selected electric Saab Seaeye Panther XT vehicle for pipeline inspection in Gulf of Mexico. The Panther inspected 261 pipelines totalling 2,340 kilometres in four fields in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The project campaign lasted less than 10 months at depths rangi
Subsea vehicle specialists Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has secured a new contract working in collaboration with a subsea cabling company. As part of the contract, SMD will supply the next-generation MD3-XT Plough. The plough is capable of trenching up to 3.3 metres with jetting, at depths of up to 1
The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has partnered with start-up company Wight Ocean on a successful proposal into the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator’s (DASA) Map the Gap funding programme. The project will develop an amphibious bottom crawler to navigate and transit water crossings to
Blue Logic has been awarded the Innovation Award 2020 from ONS, in the SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) category, for its development of an open-standard subsea docking station for underwater vehicles. Blue Logic’s seabed installed docking station enables underwater vehicles or drones to be
Kraken Robotics has secured $2.9 million from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The Canadian company will receive the funding over a 26-month project period. Specifically, Kraken will use it to support the development of its seabed resident
DNV GL has completed the world’s first in-water remote ship surveys using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). In-water bottom surveys using ROVs have now been carried out on three separate Wilson ASA-managed vessels with the first having been completed on the Wilson Fedje in December 2019 by a survey
Fugro has, in partnership with Solstad and Oceanpact, been awarded three long-term contracts by Petrobras to provide remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services for a variety of subsea activities in Brazil. All three contracts are for three-year firm periods with additional one-year options. Fugro will
Tetra Tech’s Marine Services Division has taken delivery of an Inception Class MKII Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) with a bespoke cooling system and two additional survey instrumentation pods for harbour survey projects. The first payload pod has been fitted out with an R2SONIC 2020, SBG Ekinox-D, Va
Film-Ocean has recently invested a six-figure sum in the design and manufacture of its latest compact remotely operated vehicle (ROV) launch and recovery system (LARS). Film-Ocean’s LARS system has a smaller footprint than the more traditional A-frame systems, an overall weight reduction and its bui
Ocean Power Technologies’ (OPT) PB3 PowerBuoy ,operating in the Adriatic Sea, has surpassed 600 days of continuous operation for Eni’s Phase 1 resident autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) project. “The PB3 PowerBuoy continues to validate its durability as a proven marine power asset,” said George H.
Welaptega, owned by integrated subsea technology and services company Ashtead Technology, delivered the Riser/Rope Cleaning and Inspection System (RCIS) to Ocean Installer for its inaugural deployment in May. The project saw riser cleaning operations carried out in Norwegian waters as part of the Ba
