Milestones

A global leader in specialist subsea technology and services, Ashtead Technology has announced that it has received further endorsement from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) for its enhanced range of calibration services.

SUBSALVE USA and Performance Inflatables Company, jointly announces the acquisition of SUBSALVE USA by Performance Inflatables Company. The business will continue to operate, with its current staff, at its current location, as a subsidiary of Performance Inflatables Company. Details of the transaction remain private.

Okeanus Science & Technology, LLC has launched its online marketplace. Through SeaCatalog, suppliers of subsea survey and oceanographic equipment and products sell to a targeted audience of online customers.

Former Louisiana state official Scott A. Angelle will head-up the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. As part of the Department of the Interior, BSEE fosters safe and responsible energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf through regulatory oversight of oil and gas operations.

Recently established Aberdeen-based subsea integrity consultancy, 1CSI (1 Consulting Subsea Integrity) has marked the launch of its business with a move into premises at the James Gregory Centre in the Aberdeen Innovation Park, Bridge of Don.

Oceaneering International, Inc. (“Oceaneering”) (NYSE:OII) announces that one of its oilfield business segments, Asset Integrity, has been awarded a three-year operational inspection Frame Agreement extension with Statoil Petroleum AS (“Statoil”).

The 2017 North Sea Regional Award for Productions and Operations from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is this year awarded to Professor Eric Mackay of Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering (IPE).

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has announced the appointment of Eric Roan as its regulatory representative in North America.

Marking a major step forward in the application of 3D printing techniques in the maritime sector, Damen Shipyards Group has entered a cooperative consortium with RAMLAB, Promarin, Autodesk and Bureau Veritas. The goal of this group of forward-looking companies is to develop the world’s first class approved 3D printed ship’s propeller, to be called the WAAMpeller.

Bibby Offshore, a leading subsea services provider to the oil and gas industry, has appointed Dorothy Shepherd as general manager, renewables.

For thirty years, iXblue has pioneered inertial navigation, subsea acoustics, geophysics and shipbuilding. iXblue technology is at work everywhere, from the ocean depths – 11,000 meters under the sea – to outer space – some 1.5 million kilometers above the Earth.

Hydraulic cutting tools specialist Webtool has developed an integrated fibre rope emergency cutter for maritime winches. In the event the winch gets into difficulties during towing and lifting, the softline cutter provides an instant emergency disconnect, preventing further risk to the vessel.