By: Ross MacLeod, Business Development Director, Ashtead Technology

Wireless technology has transformed the way we live—yet today, most communications from oil and gas platforms and vessels to shore still depend on expensive satellite links and capturing data from these remote locations is still a major challenge for the industry.

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Ocean News December 16, 2016

Even as the oil and gas investment cycle reaches its bottom, the strategic imperative to improve productivity through innovation has never been clearer as the industry prepares for a slow, drawn-out recovery. Despite the high-tech nature of oil and gas, historically, energy firms have been hesitant to embrace new technology. Yet as the market recovers in coming years, the industry can expect to see a bifurcation between firms that merely survived the crash versus those that used the crisis as an opportunity to drive productivity throughout their business model. As a result, the energy ecosystem is seeing a thought shift in approaches to adopting new technology as firms challenging their old models will be best positioned during the inevitable rebound. Communication service providers play an important role by assimilating new solutions across the industry to enable the gradual shift to the digital oilfield where connectivity will allow secure real-time collaboration and enable data analytics. The future of oil and gas will be centered on information technology and software. Firms failing to make these investments today will be left behind.

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Ocean News December 16, 2016

DeepWater Buoyancy Inc. is the world's largest producer of subsea buoyancy products for the oceanographic industry and has a vast product line of buoyancy solutions for offshore oil & gas, energy and technology companies. This product portfolio has been built over the course of 35 years serving these industries. Though they offer products for shallow water applications, the company specializes in deepwater, providing solutions to depths of 6000 meters and beyond.

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Ocean News December 16, 2016

A client-focused company, Balmoral Offshore Engineering is dedicated to technologically-driven composite and polymer solutions for today's demanding subsea and deepwater oil and gas industry.

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Ocean News December 16, 2016

Nereid: The Latest Deepsea Robot From Woods Hole

by: Louise Murray

In August 2016, a new hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)/Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) robot from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was sea trialled in Panama to 2,500 m. The innovative design concepts being tested in the Nereid HT will have long-term implications for submarine robotics and control systems in diverse applications from science to oil and gas and the military. Nereid HT was developed for deep-sea scientific and filming missions, and WHOI is actively seeking partners who can apply these new technologies to a range of emerging applications.

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Ocean News November 28, 2016

Cyberhawk Innovation: Flies High In The Wind Sector

By: Philip Buchan, Commercial Director at Cyberhawk

“Our inspection solution represents a huge leap forward for drone technology. IHawk is dramatically improving asset management,  providing high quality and detailed reports for our clients, while our pioneering technology offers significant safety improvements. These  come hand-in- hand with reduced costs and quicker inspection times—all  of which are being increasingly recognised by wind farm operators both onshore and offshore.”  Philip Buchan, Commercial Director at Cyberhawk.

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Ocean News November 28, 2016