Safety specialist Survitec is supplying the offshore oil and gas sector with the Virustatic Shield antiviral snood, following calls for better protection for offshore workers during helicopter transfer to and from their workplace.  

Engineering firm, Innovo, has relocated its ground-breaking electric Modular Reel Drive System (RDS), Innodrive 800T to Aberdeen to ensure that it is readily accessible to the North Sea, Southern North Sea and West Africa.

Pharos Marine can trace their origins back to 1904, and have been producing world class navigation buoys throughout the World. Planet Ocean are experts in the field of sensors and systems and have been producing data buoy solutions since 2004.

The largest offshore wind energy conference in the Western Hemisphere successfully brought together over 800 leaders in the U.S. industry this week at IPF Virtual, the Business Network for Offshore Wind’s first virtual event.

DNV GL has issued an international call to oil and gas operators and the supply chain to pilot a methodology that will prove whether the data generated by digital twins can be trusted, and if the technology is delivering value.

Mark de Barr has joined the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) as Technical Adviser – Marine specialising in Dynamic Positioning (DP) and vessel assurance.

Wild Well Control, Inc., a Superior Energy Services company and a global leader in well control and engineering services, now offers WellSharp Live: an IADC-approved distance learning training delivery option for all WellSharp Drilling and Well Servicing well control courses.

Instead of waiting for breakthrough technological innovations to deliver low emission vessels, workboat operators have the opportunity to use the latest advances in hull design and alternative propulsion systems, to achieve efficiency gains while tackling pollution problems in ports and other workboat sectors – and helping offshore wind to work towards emissions targets.

The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) appointed and approved the 2020-21 term of the NOIA Board of Directors and Executive Committee. There are 12 new members on the Board of Directors and three new members on the Executive Committee:

Greensea, creator of OPENSEA®, the open software architecture for the marine industry, recently added key personnel to its engineering team in their Plymouth, Massachusetts office to support their hull robotics program. 

McDermott International, Inc. and its joint venture partner, Chiyoda International Corporation, a U.S.-based wholly-owned subsidiary of Chiyoda Corporation, Japan, have announced that Train 3 of the Cameron project, located in Hackberry, Louisiana, has reached the final commissioning stage.

Total Company revenue was $3,130.3 million. Net loss was $3,256.1 million, or $7.28 per diluted share. These results included after-tax charges and credits totaling $3,207 million of expense, or $7.17 per diluted share. Adjusted net loss was $49.1 million, or $0.11 per diluted share.

Sonardyne International Ltd. and XOCEAN have successfully completed a live seabed-to-shore data harvesting mission using an unmanned surface vessel (USV) for A/S Norske Shell, as part of a seabed monitoring campaign at the giant Ormen Lange field offshore Norway.

Delmar Systems, Inc. successfully completed the 200^th mooring line release using RAR Plus Releasable Mooring System (RMS) during Equinor’s Barents Sea drilling campaign utilizing Odfjell’s Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig. The rig disconnection was performed in less than an hour and half without assistance from an Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessel.

Subsea 7 has been awarded a substantial ⁽¹⁾ contract by Vattenfall for the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) 1-4 offshore wind farm project, located between 18-36km off the Dutch coast in the North Sea. 

Okeanus Science & Technology (Okeanus), an established provider of marine equipment and engineering services, today announced the appointment of Amanda Ingram as one of the firms Senior Project Managers. Amanda comes to Okeanus with over 25 years’ experience in the subsea industry.