Subsea Services News – Page 81
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NewsAcoustic Advances Aid Diver Safety
Oceanteam 2000 Ltd (ot2k) has deployed the Easytrak underwater tracking and positioning system from Applied Acoustic Engineering for mattress laying operations to protect power cables running from the offshore wind farm at Scroby in the North Sea.
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NewsSonardyne USBL System for Norway
Yateley UK based Sonardyne International, in association with its local representatives, Aquadyne AS, has delivered its latest Ranger USBL (Ultra-Short Baseline) acoustic positioning system to Artec Subsea AS of Norway.
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Dutch Ocean Group Formed
Nearly 20 leading domestic institutes, agencies and companies concerned with oceanography and related disciplines in Holland have pooled their resources and expertise as part of a new consortium recently established in Delft, the Dutch Ocean Group.
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NMA's Visitor Friendly ROVs
Atlantas Marine of Yeovil UK has supplied two of its VideoRay Pro lll ROVs to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. Equipped with Tritech sonars and manipulators, both are now a major feature in the NMAs ExplorOcean water tank where visitors are able to race them against other mini-ROVs over ...
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Offshore Survey 07
Its joint organisers, Intelligent Exhibitions and TMS International, say that speakers will be drawn from leading international oil and gas organisations as well as global contractors and service providers along with government and academic institutions.
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NewsNew UK Hydrographer
new Chief Executive of the UKHO, he will be responsible for the organisation''s key role within the world hydrographic community while also overseeing the Government''s own responsibilities for the Maritime & Coastguard Agency under the UN Convention of Safety of Life at Sea.
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Headline: Spain Extends Multibeam Capabilities
The new system utilises CHIRP technology to obtain extended survey coverage from shorelines to continental rises at depths down to 6,000m. It also provides high density signal processing in addition to increased numbers of soundings for improved resolution. By DAVID GOODFELLOW
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Marimatech Boosts sounder Memory
Danish survey and positioning systems specialist Marimatech has increased the data capacity of its widely used E-Sea Sound MP 35 series of dual channel echosounders with the addition of up to 8 GB storage via flash memory.
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2006 Hydrographic Symposium
Kris Peeters, Flemish Minister of Public Works, Energy, Environment & Nature, will formally open the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies'' 15th Biennial International Hydrographic Symposium in Antwerp, on Monday 6 November.
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NewsMarina Surveyors Stick to RIBs
C & S Survey Solutions has successfully coupled the Ohmex range of echo sounders to the 1200 Series GPS System, and their existing range of robotic EDM''s. The company has been equipped with Leica GPS and traditional surveying equipment for several years. It approached to complete surveys that would include ...
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NewsViroSoil: Environmentally Friendly Sediment Remediation
An innovative treatment solution for contaminated sediment has been developed by Virotec Europe in the UK, which believes that the problems associated with contaminated sediment, including acidity and heavy metals, can be effectively decontaminated in the long term using the company''s ViroSoil technology.
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Marine Measurement Forum
Scheduled presentations include those by Intelligent Exhibitions (organisers of the three-day Ocean Business 2007 event in Southampton next March), CEFAS/BGS/Seasurvey, Axys Technologies/Planet Ocean, YSI Hydrodata, Aanderaa/RS Aqua, Sontek, OSIL, and MacArtney. The delegate registration fee is £35. Further details are available at www.mmf-uk.org>.By DAVID GOODFELLOW
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NewsEngineer-Divers Prove Their Worth in Water
The problem of taking engineering expertise below water is increasingly being addressed through the use of engineer-divers. Rather than have engineers stay on dry land to glean essential information from non-specialist divers, firms are looking to place engineer-divers into the water.
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NewsDive Team Recovers 'Pamela S'
Swansea based Kaymac Marine & Civil Engineering Ltd were asked to assist in the recovery of the wreck of the fishing vessel Pamela S, which sank in Camarthen Bay on 17 July.
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Fugro Geos Ormen Lange Project
Fugro Geos, which has provided measurement support services since 2001 for development of Ormen Lange, Norway''s largest gas field, due to come onstream next year, has been contracted by Norsk Hydro to provide all-important real-time current profile, wind and wave data for both the pipeline and the field itself.
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Irish Marine Institute Opens New HQ
The Irish Marine Institute''s new headquarters at Oranmore, Galway Bay have been formally opened by Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. Housing a majority of the Institute''s 200-strong staff, the 50m, 11,000m 2building features 54 scientific laboratories, a crescent-shaped office facility and a 150-seat auditorium specially designed for both national and international ...
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Seismic Development
Paris-based Compagnie GUnUrale de GUophysique (CGG) has announced that it is to acquire US competitor Veritas in a 2.4bn takeover that will create a giant in the supply of geophysical and seismic survey services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.
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NewsRussian Contracts for Veripos
Veripos in Aberdeen has been awarded two major contracts by Romona, the Russian survey company. The first is for supply of two LD2 integrated GNSS demodulator systems installed by Romona aboard its specialist survey vessel, Teknik Perdana, operating in the Sakhalin oil and gas sector in the Russian Far East ...
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NewsGTS Subsea Completes Coring Contract
GTS Subsea, the Surrey and Somerset based independent site investigation business, has successfully completed its part of a cable route survey between Oban and Mull.
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Kongsberg Maritime Extends its Acoustic Range
Kongsberg Maritime in Norway has extended its HiPAP series of acoustic positioning and underwater navigation systems with introduction of a portable 350P model which, it says, heralds a new era of positioning for vessels of opportunity.
