Subsea Services News – Page 60
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News€2.3m Norwegian contract for Fugro OSAE
Fugro OSAE of Bremen, Germany has been awarded a €2.3m contract by the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) for surveys of a 12,000 sq/km area of the Barents Sea in the northern-most part of Norway, close to the Russian border.
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Russia completes GLONASS constellation
Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system now has a full orbital constellation of 24 satellites following successful launch of the final unit from the Plesetsk spaceport at the beginning of October.
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Norwegian ENC distribution agreement
Navtor, a newly established Norwegian e-navigation company based in Egersund near Stavanger, has signed a distribution agreement with the Norwegian Hydrographic Service’s Primar organisation for supply of its official electronic nautical charts (ENCs).
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New Teledyne TSS motion sensors
Watford UK based Teledyne TSS, whose Meridian Standard and Surveyor gyrocompasses have recently been type approved by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, has launched a new range of motion sensors, the DMS-500 series.
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NewsSubsea trials and testing boom
The Underwater Centre in Scotland has seen a 100% increase in companies using its trials and testing facilities this year.
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NewsSunken Guinness ship detected
High resolution images of W M Barkley, the first Guiness merchant vessel, which was sunk by a German torpedo seven miles off the coast of Dublin in 1917, have been revealed.
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NewsUnderwater works avoid Algeciras drydocking
To save time and money for the owners of a 270m container vessel that was leaking oil, a Hydrex diver/technician team replaced four stern tube seals on site, using one of Hydrex’s flexible mobdocks.
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Calibration-free acoustic positioning
CSA International Inc, an environmental survey company working in the Gulf of Mexico, is the first organisation to purchase the new GyroUSBL calibration-free acoustic positioning system from Sonardyne International of Hampshire UK.
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49th Marine Measurement Forum
Partrac, the Glasgow based marine data acquisition company specialising in oceanographic, environmental and geoscience surveys, is to host the 49th UK Marine Measurement Forum at the city’s prestigious Science Centre on Wednesday 9 November.
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Monitoring study of Western Med
Researchers in the Balearic Islands and beyond will soon gain a better understanding of the environmental conditions in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
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NewsRenewables focus attention on nearshore seabed
Aspect Surveys Ltd of Irvine in Scotland has added an Inshore Boomer System to its equipment pool to survey the sub-seabed layers.
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MCA contract for Netsurvey
Netsurvey of Banbury UK, now part of the Swedish MMT Group, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency for hydrographic survey work under Lot 2 of its Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP).
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New Dutch Chief Hydrographer
Captain Peter Kortenoeven, until recently a staff officer for maritime planning at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels, has been appointed Chief Hydrographer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, in succession to Captain Floor de Haan.
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UTEC opens Italian subsidiary
UTEC Survey, which claims to be one of the world’s largest independent offshore survey companies with offices in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Singapore and the UK, has established an Italian presence in Naples with the formation of UTEC Survey Mediterranean Srl.
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Mystery Baltic Sea find
A team from Stockholm based Ocean Explorer headed by researcher and treasure hunter Peter Lindberg has found what some are suggesting is either a crashed flying saucer or a subsea version of Stonehenge.
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Offshore positioning guidelines
The former UKOOA (UK Offshore Operators Association) document, Guidelines for the Use of GPS in Offshore Surveying, has been jointly revised by the International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) and the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA).
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NewsD-Day survey gives hydro a wider audience
An alliance of global hydrographic organisations led by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is teaming up for a two week survey mission of an artificial harbour used during D-Day.
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NewsLARS stars in wind farm cost reduction
International diving equipment technology company Divex has been selected by the UK’s Carbon Trust for support within the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme for their Launch and Recovery technology.
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NewsWind farm winner for new diving division
Fendercare Marine’s recently established diving division has picked up its first major contract, extending the group’s profile within the offshore renewables sector.
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NewsGerman system for new Indian research vessel
Sindu Sadhana, a new 80m research vessel nearing completion for India’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa is to be equipped with an all-purpose integrated survey sensor system assembled by Atlas Hydrographic.
