Fugro announced a partnership with the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE to support the oil major's global, three-year ocean mapping competition. The competition is looking for rapid, unmanned and high resolution ocean mapping technologies鈥
Wärtsilä and PGS Geophysical have signed a service agreement that makes Wärtsilä the preferred service supplier for engines and other Wärtsilä equipment. According to the agreement, Wärtsilä will take care of the maintenance of engines and鈥
Oceaneering International signed a long-term agreement with Mærsk Supply Service to provide eight work-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), survey and associated services, including subsea tooling, engineering, communication and data solutions鈥
Polarcus has received a letter of award for a 4D marine seismic acquisition project offshore West Africa. The project is due to start in Q2 2017 and will run for approximately one month.
DeepOcean subsidiary, ADUS DeepOcean, completed a 3D laser survey offshore Ghana, which has led to a further three-year contract for DeepOcean Ghana Ltd. The recent climate in the oil and gas industry has sharpened the need for cost effective鈥
Using expertise developed for the oil and gas industry, Seaproof Solutions has carved out a market in offshore wind. Seaproof鈥檚 J-tube interface. Images from Seaproof Solutions. In a short period of time鈥
North Sea decommissioning is finally happening and it means some difficult questions are starting to be asked about what should be left behind and what might benefit sea life. Elaine Maslin explores the details. Shoal鈥
Statoil has awarded a subsidiary of Oceaneering International a technology development contract to provide the development, manufacturing, testing, and mobilization of a self-contained, battery-powered work class remotely operated vehicle (E-ROV) system deployed on the seabed of the North Sea鈥
Webtool, a hydraulic cutting tools provider, will highlight its latest cable gripper and retrieval tools, and electrically operated subsea cutters at Subsea Expo 2017. The stand will feature the Webtool cable gripper, which allows the鈥
Following the award of an order from Shanghai Salvage for a 6000m Quasar Work Class ROV (remotely operated vehicle), SMD engineers have successfully completed work on the associated Curvetech subsea components to assure maximum working depth up to 6000m鈥
Mermaid Maritime鈥檚 Indonesian business unit PT Seascape Surveys Indonesia has agreed an additional one-year charter for the DP2 multi-purpose support vessel (MPSV) Resolution. The Resolution is a remotely operated vehicle and air diving support vessel鈥
Unmanned autonomous systems and the internet of things are two phrases that are bandied about a lot. But, it鈥檚 not so often that they have come together and within the marine environment in a project involving offshore industry players 鈥 albeit those who also have a foot in the defense sector鈥
Elaine Maslin reports on the launch of a new concept in AUV deployment, which sees six vehicles deployed in conjunction with USVs. The multi-AUV concept. Image from Swire Seabed. It鈥
Elaine Maslin profiles some of the projects moving forward that pledge to deliver autonomous underwater vehicles for life of field operations. Modus鈥 AUV launch and recovery system, designed and built by Osbit鈥
Richard Mills, of Kongsberg Maritime, discusses survey class AUVs and USVs. Workers ready Hugin AUV. Photo from Kongsberg Maritime. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) market鈥
