REV Ocean is excited to announce the purchase of the Supporter 6000 ROV from Kystdesign AS in Aksdal, Norway. The state-of-the-art submersible will be one of the most important tools used to achieve the core scientific goals of the REV Ocean research vessel.

Marlink and Intelsat have agreed to a multi-year renewal and expansion of their partnership to provide broadband services to maritime vessels around the world. The multi-year agreement will deliver additional throughput to vessels via multiple layers of space-based coverage, ensuring that ship owners and operators have the flexibility and access to reliable, high-quality, always-on connectivity.

Cyberhawk Innovations Limited (Cyberhawk), a global leader in UAV inspection and creators of cloud-based asset management platform iHawk, has announced a significant increase in its software development capabilities following the acquisition of Arum’s cloud-based software development team in Edinburgh.

PSA Marine (Pte) Ltd has awarded Hydroniq Coolers a frame agreement which makes the Norwegian technology company the shipowner’s supplier of seawater cooling systems.

Global safety, skills and competency training organization, RelyOn Nutec, has appointed Bob Donnelly as new managing director for their UK business to lead the expansion of the UK and join RelyOn Nutec’s global management team.

Motive Offshore Group, specialist in marine equipment fabrication and rental, continues to consolidate its position as the leading provider of back-deck services, announcing a major contract win.

A globally recognized advanced drilling, well engineering and well control training business is investing more than a million pounds to open four new training centers.

The technology group Wärtsilä and Norsepower, a leading provider of low maintenance, software operated, data verified auxiliary wind propulsion systems, have signed a service cooperation agreement. This will enable Norsepower to order service work from Wärtsilä, while Wärtsilä can pursue and sell Norsepower Rotor Sail projects with support from Norsepower. The agreement was signed in Q3 2019.

Hunting Energy Services’ UK center of excellence is on the hunt for innovative individuals and companies to form partnerships across Norway and bring oil and gas technologies to market.

Kraken Robotic Systems Inc., intends to establish a joint venture with a company owned by Kraken Board member, Larry Puddister, for the provision of subsea services.

Element Materials Technology (Element) has opened the doors to its expanded Center of Excellence for Oil & Gas materials testing in Houston. This follows a successful integration of people and expertise, while bringing enhanced capacity and capability.

InEight’s next-generation planning and scheduling solution, InEight® Basis, now includes a risk management module, which introduces unprecedented risk and confidence management capabilities to the construction and engineering industries. The new module helps identify and quantify project risk considerations that affect cost and schedule selections, ultimately offering greater certainty to sectors where budget and project overruns are common.

ChartCo’s new central location will help to support customers and provide an excellent base from which to present the company’s innovative products.

BISEN Technology Investment Ltd is developing a new way to deliver hovercraft to remote areas, with the support of a grant from Marine-i.

As investments in tight oil increased from 2016 to 2018 and offshore investments decreased, tight oil investments almost reached the same level as offshore in 2018. However, in 2019 the table has turned. Now offshore investments are on the rise again, while tight oil has started to decline.

Equinor and the Snorre and Gullfaks partners have made a final investment decision for the Hywind Tampen offshore wind farm development. Two updated plans for development and operation will be submitted to Norwegian authorities.