Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has accepted MGVK-300 diving system to its class. The system is a modular setup for deep diving designed for simultaneous work of 9 persons at a maximum depth of 300 metres. This is the first diving system in RS class designed to operate at such a depth. The request [...]
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Intertek Energy & Water consultancy services (formerly Metoc), is undertaking specialist studies for Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Ltd, to assess the potential impact of a tidal lagoon on marine water quality. Intertek is the leading quality solutions provider to industries worldwide. The Swansea Bay project aims to provide enough power for 107,000 homes from 250MW [...]
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Clariant, a world leader in Specialty Chemicals, has announced that it signed an agreement with Ecolab Inc. to acquire certain of its deep water Gulf of Mexico assets. The divestment of the assets by Ecolab was a prerequisite by the U.S. Department of Justice for the approval of the acquisition of Champion Technologies. Financial details [...]
Bluefin Robotics, a leading provider of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), announced that the company has successfully completed deep-water testing of a specialized UUV for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The system was developed under a Phase II subcontract from Applied Physical Sciences Corp. (APS) for the Deep Sea Operations (DSOP) Program. DSOP is [...]
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Marine Instrumentation Limited (MIL) in conjunction with NOC Liverpool (NOCL), Marine Revolution and Liquid Robotics have completed the first successful PAMBuoy™ on water trials. PAMBuoy™ and the NOCL glider completed a diamond shaped course. Throughout this time PAMBuoy™ sent telemetry to Liquid Robotics, which included summary information from its detectors running on-board. Commands can be [...]
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65% of the world’s offshore pipelines are designed and installed to DNV’s pipeline standard. Now DNV sees the need to capture more knowledge on how pipelines can safely withstand the pressures of 3000 meters depth, without prohibitive cost. Through a Joint Industry Project (JIP), DNV aims to research and explore together with relevant companies from [...]
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FoundOcean has completed the installation and grouting for a clamp repair to an 18” pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. Saipem America awarded FoundOcean the contract to repair the damage caused by a vessel’s anchor being dragged along the seabed over the pipeline in bad weather, at a water depth of 750 meters. The seabed [...]
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ONGC’s chartered-hired ultra deepwater drillship DDKG1 has set a world record for drilling well in deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig. The rig DDKG1 has spudded well NA7-1 in exploratory block KG-DWN-2004/1 in east coast India at a water depth of 3165m (10,385 feet) on Jan 23, 2013. Thereafter it successfully lowered and [...]
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Highly sophisticated computer models of the turbidity from material disturbed during extraction of rock phosphate nodules by Chatham Rock Phosphate have shown encouraging results. The modelling work is being undertaken by Dutch applied research organisation Deltares using complex modelling techniques developed at their Delft headquarters. Deltares was asked to look at the dispersion behaviour of [...]
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Tocardo International, the leading producer of free-flow turbines, has commenced the manufacture of six free-flow water turbines for installation in Nepal and Japan. This follows the partnership agreements announced in March to supply 8MW of bi-directional turbine power over a three-year period to Japan and, in June, to supply 2.5MW of uni-directional turbine power to [...]
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