The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) recently signed a purchase contract to acquire a DriX Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) from high-tech company iXblue.

Motive Offshore Group, specialist in marine equipment fabrication and rental, has appointed Declan Slattery as Chief Financial Officer.

METIS Cyberspace Technology S.A. has launched a new software module to tackle the huge challenges shipping companies face in monitoring vessel performance effectively to meet Charter Party Agreement (CPA) reporting needs.

LLOG Exploration Company, L.L.C. announces that Rick Fowler, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, will retire effective December 1, 2020. Eric Zimmermann, LLOG's current Vice President of Geology and Business Development, will serve as Chief Operating Officer upon Rick's retirement. 

Ocean Business organizer Diversified Communications UK has confirmed that the show’s next edition has been postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The ocean technology exhibition and training forum will now take place from 6-8 July 2021 at the National Oceanography Centre, in Southampton UK.



McDermott International, Ltd. has been awarded a contract to provide front end engineering and design (FEED) services for the INPEX-operated Ichthys Liquified Natural Gas Field Development.

They say few US Presidents ever really change a great deal. Certainly, the bolder aspirations of the Democratic campaign – among them tackling the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare, the economy and climate change – may founder on the hard grit of Washington politics.

Acteon Group Ltd, a global provider of industry-leading products and services for the marine and subsea renewable, nearshore construction and oil and gas sectors, announced that Chris Johnston will be joining InterMoor as group managing director of its global moorings and anchors business. He will be based in Houston, TX, USA.

Nortek announces the sale of its SeaDarQ radar technology for environmental monitoring and oil spill detection to NORBIT Aptomar, a technology provider to global maritime markets.

Equinor has, on behalf of the partners ExxonMobil and Petrogal Brasil, awarded Baker Hughes, Halliburton and Schlumberger contracts for drilling and well services on the Bacalhau field in Brazil.

Atlantis, the global sustainable energy generation company and technology developer, alongside its partner Asturfeito SAU, announces that its VPSTTG project has been given the go-ahead to proceed to the manufacturing stage.

A new Roadmap for Smart and Autonomous Sea Transport Systems was unveiled at the SMI Forum in Singapore on October 22, by Senior Minister of State for Transportation and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chee Hong Tat, and the Ambassador of Norway to Singapore, Ms. Anita Nergaard.

Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. (C-Power) announce it will commence six-month sea trials in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Navy to test and validate the technical and economic capabilities of C-Power’s SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS).

The Tyra platforms have been used as core infrastructure of Denmark’s energy for 30 years.
 However, due to subsidence of the depleted reservoirs causing the platforms to sink, the filed required decommissioning and redevelopment.


On November 8, 2020, Nexans’ next-generation Cable Laying Vessel, the ‘Nexans Aurora’ was launched at Ulstein Verft. The 149.9 m long and 31 m wide vessel will be working in the offshore renewables market, installing subsea cables including cables connecting offshore wind farms to the grid and interconnector systems.

KENC Engineering has revealed two new automatic boat landing systems (ABLS). The ABLS provides a safe transfer between a CTV and large vessels and is now available in two configurations.