Upwing Energy, an artificial lift technology company, will be recognized for winning the Spotlight on New Technology® Award for its Subsurface Compressor System™ (SCS) at the 2021 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), due to the cancellation of the event this year.

Logan Industries (Logan), a hydraulic repair, manufacturing and rental company, has delivered a custom A-frame to TechnipFMC for one of their new state-of-the-art ROVs, which will deploy later this year.  

Crowley Maritime Corp. has agreed a contract to install Fleet Xpress from Inmarsat, a world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, on a majority of its vessels.



Saipem has been awarded a contract by GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. for the transportation and installation of a natural gas pipeline between Denmark and Poland in the Baltic Sea. The contract, signed by its controlled subsidiary in U.K. Saipem Ltd, is worth approximately 280 million euro.

VideoRay is no stranger to remote collaborative meeting technology. Since a major expansion in 2013, all functions except Engineering moved to a larger office building in Pottstown, leaving Engineering a 15-minute drive away in Phoenixville.

Swedish wave developer Seabased is joining the Ocean Energy Europe Board of Directors as a Lead Partner. As a member of the Board, Seabased VP Marcelle Askew will play an important role in steering the strategic direction of the association and in ensuring that wave energy reaches its full industrial potential. 

Global energy consultancy Xodus Group has appointed a new manager to head up the company’s London subsea and pipelines division.

Some good news: The global imbalance between oil supply and demand, which has built to 26.4 million barrels per day (bpd) in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to halve to 13.6 million bpd in May and fall further to just 6.1 million bpd, according to a Rystad Energy analysis.

Greensea Systems, Inc., an industry-leading marine robotics company headquartered in Richmond, Vermont, is expanding its international presence to meet increasing customer demand for its trusted open architecture navigation, control, autonomy, and human-machine interface technology. 

Freeport LNG began commercial operations for its third liquefaction train on Friday, May 1, with the commencement of liquefaction services to Total S.A. and SK E&S under their tolling agreements with Freeport. 



Canyon Marine Solutions has been approved as an authorized distributor for Thordon Bearings, manufacturer of the award-winning water lubricated COMPAC propeller shaft bearing system.

Pulse Structural Monitoring, an Acteon company, signed its first major contract for the provision of digital structural monitoring and insight services and equipment on an offshore wind farm.

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) announces the 2020 recipients of the Spotlight on New Technology® Award. Eighteen technologies from 14 companies from around the world will be awarded this year, including six companies who will be recognized for the Spotlight on Small Business Award.

Oceaneering International (Oceaneering) announces that its Remotely Operated Survey (ROS) group has successfully completed an Integrated Rig Services campaign for a major operator offshore South America and recorded a milestone 150,000 hours of ROS operations with 99% uptime with no client operations or vessel downtime.

The joint proposal from MENCK and LM Handling, both Acteon Group companies, has recently been selected to support piling operations for a platform installation off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.

In early 2020, XELLZ secured approximately 200,000 sqm of land at the port of Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland. XELLZ has now divided the land into zones and the entire area will be known as Rosslare Europort Business Park (EBP).