Osbit Limited has successfully delivered an advanced multi-function pre-lay and backfill subsea plough to Global Marine Group.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, opened its transformed Centre of Excellence (CoE) facility at an inauguration ceremony with Minister for Energy, Paul Wheelhouse, customers and employees. The world-class CoE will deliver engineering, manufacturing, test and assembly and services to advance deepwater technology for customers.

Aberdeen-headquartered Exceed, a well management and performance improvement specialist, has announced the acquisition of Lowestoft-based Managed Pressure Resources (MPR), adding managed pressure drilling engineering and supervisory services to the Exceed portfolio.

Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure operation was recognized with an award at the Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB’s (LKAB) annual supplier day, held in Dalian, China. The award recognizes the performance of Trelleborg’s high-performance mill wear equipment, which since 2017, has facilitated continuous improvement for LKAB across plant management, manufacturing processes, environment, health and safety, and social responsibility.

Headquartered in the USA, TerraSond is a multidisciplinary geospatial and geophysical business with global experience.

WorkFloat, a company supported by Marine-i, has been awarded the overall ‘Spirit of Innovation’ Award at the European Commercial Marine Awards, held at Seawork 2019.

ICR Integrity (ICR), a leading global provider of integrated maintenance and integrity solutions to the oil and gas, power, chemical and nuclear industries, has announced nearly $2 million of project awards since the start of the year in the Middle East and the appointment of a new Head of Sales to support the continued expansion in the region.

Winner of this years’ annual Underwater Technology Foundation’s UTC Subsea Award for outstanding achievements within the subsea industry, is Saab Seaeye.

Total has brought on line its new Pangea III supercomputer, multiplying the Group’s computing power by almost 5 to 31.7 petaflops¹ (equivalent to 170,000 laptops combined) and tripling its storage capacity to 76 petabytes² (equivalent to about 50 million HD movies).

Industry leading mooring solutions supplier, SOFEC, Inc., has selected BMT and Sonardyne Inc., under their teaming agreement, to supply an innovative mooring monitoring system (MMS) for a major new deepwater development.

Harvey Gulf has announced that it has signed two, one-year charters in Nigeria, Africa for the placement of two US Flag, 3250DWT DPS-2 Platform Supply Vessels, both fully capable of safely working in shallow water ports with 4.5 meters of transit depth.

Ole Martin Grimsrud has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Aker Solutions, effective August 1, 2019. He replaces Svein Oskar Stoknes, who is taking over as CFO of Aker ASA on the same day.

In 1954, exploration in the subsea industry was in its relative infancy. In fact, some of the very first unmanned submersibles were introduced in the 1950s.

International energy consultancy Xodus Group has added a new principal consultant to strengthen its renewables team as the company sets its sights on a range of new offshore developments.

Survitec’s pioneering approach to safety within the maritime industry has been recognized by industry experts with two of its innovative products being shortlisted for the Safety at Sea awards.

Ocean Specialists Inc. (OSI), announces the completion of a series of seabed characterization projects that involved geophysical and geotechnical surveys at selected locations in the Gulf of Mexico and Western Atlantic.