Prysmian Chairman Resigns | Subsea World News
Prysmian’s chairman Massimo Tononi has tendered his resignation from the positions of company’s chairman of the board of directors, board member and member of the remuneration, nomination and sustainability committee. The resignation is effective as from the end of the meeting of the board of directors currently scheduled on September 18, 2018. Massimo […]
Fugro’s David Millar to Serve on IHO-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) has appointed Fugro’s government accounts director for the Americas region, David Millar, to serve on the Guiding Committee of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Project. GEBCO is a non-profit organisation operating under the joint auspices of the IHO and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations […]
Naval Energies Shelves Tidal Energy Plans with OpenHydro in Liquidation
Naval Energies has decided to stop investing in the field of tidal turbines and to concentrate its efforts on floating wind turbines and ocean thermal energy conversion. Following Naval Energies’ decision, its Dublin-based subsidiary OpenHydro has been put under provisional liquidation. On 24 July, the company deployed a new tidal turbine in Canada and connected it […]
Van Oord Progresses East Anglia ONE Jackets Installation
Van Oord has started its next campaign to install jackets at the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The wind farm’s 102 three-legged jacket foundations will be installed at depths of down to 55 meters in the southern North Sea, located 45 kilometers southeast of Lowestoft, UK. ScottishPower […]
OSIL Multiple Corer for US Antarctic Program
Seabed sampling experts Ocean Scientific International Ltd has delivered a 12-station multiple corer to Colorado-based ASC, the support contractor to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), for use in Antarctic waters. The corer will be deployed by upcoming projects in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, a joint project of the United Kingdom’s […]
Cape Sharp Tidal Deploys In-Stream Turbine at FORCE
Cape Sharp Tidal has deployed an in-stream tidal turbine and connected it to the power grid at the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) site in Nova Scotia’s Minas Passage. “This exciting achievement can be credited to the hard work and dedication of our team,” said Alisdair McLean, Cape Sharp Tidal director. “This is […]
TGS – PGS Start East Canada Seismic Shoot
TGS and PGS have started the Lewis Hills 3D Geostreamer survey covering approximately 3,400 km² in an active Newfoundland area of the Flemish Pass Basin in East Canada. Data will be acquired using the PGS Ramform Sterling. As previously announced, this vessel will also acquire approximately 2,700 km2 of additional data on […]
Rotech Cable Grab Tool Executes Its First Campaign
Rotech Subsea has launched the RSG1 – a new cable grab system which has already been deployed on a major North Sea renewables project. The debut of the tool – designed and manufactured by Rotech’s in-house R&D division – heralds the launch of a new service from the subsea operator which is now able to […]
Fugro Mercator Makes Pit Stop at Damen
Damen Shiprepair Harlingen (DSHL) has completed maintenance and repair works on the Fugro Mercator, a twin-hulled survey vessel operated by Fugro. Fugro Mercator is a 42.35-metre survey vessel deployed by Fugro for bathymetric and geophysical surveys, cable and pipeline route surveys. The vessel’s visit to DSHL was a scheduled docking for maintenance […]
Fugro Recognized for Red Sea Hydrographic Survey
Fugro has been presented with the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX) LCDR Peter Johnson Best Practices Award 2018, for its completion of a large, multi-year hydrographic survey in the Red Sea. The survey project was finalised in December 2016. It covered over 113,000 square kilometres and resulted in more than 192 […]