Milestones

MTS ROV Committee has announced the winners of its 2018 scholarships. Saul Hughes, Sriram Govindarajan, Khaled Saad, and Matt Glencross each received ROV scholarships. Saul Hughes received the MTS ROV MATE Center scholarship.

Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore has launched the latest addition to their end-to-end and integrated platform of digital tools and services, Approval Explorer, a free and user-friendly web application available on any electronic device.

The Supervisory Board of Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG) announces the appointment of Oliver Kassam as CEO. Mr. Kassam was most recently at SBM Offshore N.V. as President and Managing Director in charge of the company’s activities in Brazil. He has over 20 years of experience in the global offshore services industry holding various senior executive roles.

Subsea Supplies has launched a new service offering following an exclusive agreement with a multi-billion pound global business.

Teledyne Marine announces the return of its annual photo contest. All Teledyne Marine customers and product users are invited to submit their favorite photos showing any of Teledyne Marine’s over 400 products in action in their office, laboratory or deployed in the field.

Equinor and Microsoft have entered into a strategic partnership agreement. As part of the agreement, Equinor will provide industry knowledge and business needs to support Microsoft in developing new solutions for our industry. Microsoft will provide expertise to accelerate Equinor’s IT development and establish new data center regions in Stavanger and in Oslo.

The World Ocean Council (WOC) announces that Mr. Kenneth C. K. Koo, TCC Group Chairman and CEO, is the Conference Chair for the 6th Sustainable Ocean Summit (SOS), Hong Kong, 14-16 November 2018.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced the second sale of a number of its highly differentiated optical magnetic heading sensors to enable subsea vehicles to quickly reach their desired destinations. In the fourth quarter, successful field trials demonstrated the advanced compasses’ accuracy and robustness in GPS-deprived environments and led to delivery of the first commercial order in the first quarter.

i-Tech Services, a Subsea 7 company, has further strengthened its Underwater Inspection in Lieu of Drydocking (UWILD) capability with certification to deliver to guidelines set by American Bureau of Shipping, DNV-GL, Bureau Veritas and Lloyds Register.

Bureau Veritas has strengthened its offering to marine and offshore clients with significant promotions and appointments to its senior teams in North America and Europe.

OPITO, the international, not-for-profit, skills body for the energy industry, has announced a new format for its annual safety and competence conference. Now in its ninth year, the event will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 7th November 2018.

A mobile drilling platform developed by Fugro that switches seamlessly between land and shallow water work has won the Equipment Innovation category in the 2018 Ground Engineering (GE) Awards.