Volstad Maritime has contracted Norwegian Electric Systems AS (NES) to deliver the battery pack and associated control system for battery charging to the Grand Canyon III offshore construction vessel.

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA), an international marine environmental consulting and survey company, announced the official launch of Slick Kit to equip offshore professionals with the ability to collect opportunistic but high quality samples of suspected surface oil slicks and unidentified sheens in marine environments.

This year’s discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, an incredible feat of subsea engineering and specialist expertise, and the recent publication of ‘The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance’ were reasons enough for The Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) to invite its author, marine archaeologist Mensun Bound, to speak, in London on 6 December, at their Annual General Meeting.

Aberdeen based Marine technology company, Seall has secured a partnership deal with leading marine electronics service provider, Elcome, to expand its global footprint.

Equinor has signed a strategic collaboration with Hitachi Energy, to collaborate within electrification, renewable power generation and low-carbon initiatives worldwide. The agreement underlines both companies’ commitment to accelerate the energy transition and advance a more sustainable, flexible and secure energy system.

JDR Cable Systems (JDR), the global subsea cable supplier and servicer, part of the TFK Group, celebrates commencing construction for its new state-of-the-art subsea cable manufacturing facility in Cambois, near Blyth, Northumberland.

BIRNS, Inc. announces that Rafael Velezmoro has joined its team as Quality Assurance Manager.

Bollinger Shipyards (“Bollinger”), the largest privately-owned and operated shipbuilder in the United States, that it has entered into an agreement to acquire VT Halter Marine, Inc. and ST Engineering Halter Marine Offshore (“STEHMO"), together a leader in the design, engineering, construction, and repair of complex, state-of-the-art vessels for government and commercial customers, from parent company ST Engineering North America, a leading technology, defense and engineering group.

HII’s Mission Technologies division has revealed a new medium-class unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV): REMUS 620.

In response to the Green Shipping Challenge formulated jointly by the Governments of Norway and the United States, Norwegian maritime cluster organisations, shipping-industry associations, shipowners, business organisations, classification societies and finance actors together commit to far-sighted cooperation to achieve zero emissions for the maritime sector.

OSEA (Offshore Southeast Asia), the largest offshore energy event in Asia will take place on November 15-17, in Marina Bay Sands Singapore, with 12,000 attendees from over 60 nations and regions for three days.

Sparrows Group (Sparrows), the engineering and maintenance services specialist for the global energy and industrial sectors, has secured a two-year contract to provide crane maintenance services onboard Tullow Oil’s FPSO Kwame Nkrumah (KNK) in Ghana.

Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement from Petrobras and Partners (Consortiums) to provide subsea production systems (SPS) and subsea lifecycle services (SLS) for Petrobras-operated oil and gas fields offshore Brazil.

LYTT, an end-to-end sensor fusion analytics platform provider, has demonstrated the effectiveness of its innovative, fiber-enabled analytics application for flow profiling applied to production and injection wells in one of the largest offshore oil fields in the world.

OMV (Norge) AS, operator of production license 1100, is in the process of concluding the drilling of exploration wells 30/5-4 S and 30/5-4 A.