Milestones

Greensea Systems, an industry-leading marine robotics company headquartered in Richmond, Vermont, has announced plans to open an office on the waterfront in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (Phoenix) announces that Matthew Long has been promoted to Corporate Vice President. Matthew will retain his current duties as General Manager of Phoenix’s Largo, MD operations, and in his additional role as Corporate VP will assume responsibilities for company-wide financial forecasting, reporting and budgeting.

Jim Hanlon has announced his plans to retire as Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE) in 2020.

A world’s leading safety training provider has made a five-figure investment at its Aberdeen facility to diversify into offshore wind safety training.

Two prestigious names have been added to the MTS Board of Directors at the Vice President level.

The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) is pleased to announce the hiring of Richard England and Ashley Parkins. Richard is the new NOIA Vice President of Government Affairs, while Ashley is joining NOIA as the Director of Meetings and Events. In addition, Justin Williams has been promoted to Vice President of Communications.

Subsea 7 S.A. has announced changes to the Executive Management Team, effective from 1 January, 2020.

Aberdeen based production optimization specialist, Enpro Subsea has rounded off 2019 with the granting of supplementary patents which underpin and expand its already robust technology portfolio and further strengthens its offering to the global subsea market.  

The Supervisory Board of Fugro has decided to reduce Fugro’s Board of Management, which currently consists of three persons, to the CEO and CFO positions only.

The new Director of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, Jamie McMichael-Phillips, has now taken up his position as leading one of the most challenging projects of the next decade, the mapping of the entire ocean floor by the year 2030.

More than 1700 people attended OCEANS 2019 Seattle, October 27^th through 31^st, at the Washington State Convention Center and the new Hyatt Regency in downtown Seattle. The area’s unique history of forward-thinking ocean research, technology development, federal agency and Navy presence, and focus on the Blue Economy combined to make this a great place to host OCEANS this fall.

With a projected increase in well management work in the coming 12 months, Zenith Energy has increased its engineering team with two appointments.