Subsea & Survey

Owners of the world’s largest fleet of Saab UK’s Seaeye Falcons, Underwater Contracting (UCO), has ordered a further six Falcons, boosting their fleet to 33 vehicles.

TDI-Brooks successfully completed phase four of a deepwater geotechnical coring and CPT project for DenAr Ocean Engineering S.A. TDI-Brooks utilized their Jumbo Piston Cores (JPC) and CPT Stinger geotechnical tools and operators to the ongoing project off Turkey in the Black Sea.

SLB has signed a subsurface technology partnership with INEOS Energy—the energy division of INEOS, a global chemical and manufacturing company.

Oceaneering International announced at Offshore Europe, that its Subsea Robotics group is introducing a new Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) service to support remote survey work scopes.

Unique Group, global innovators in subsea technologies and engineering, has announced the launch of a groundbreaking advancement in the subsea survey sector—Aquila Subsea.

With an increasing number of severe accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections.

Kraken Robotics Inc. has received contracts totalling $2.7 million for subsea batteries and synthetic aperture sonar systems (SAS).

FibreMax from Joure, the Netherlands, announced that the producer of the strongest cable in the world, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Entrion Wind from Houston, USA.

Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. has received a two‐year contract extension with a major Operator in Brazil for the use of the 6”, 15K Trident Intervention System to facilitate well interventions as well as plug and abandonment operations.

Sercel has launched MetaBlue, a ground-breaking data-driven solution for marine seismic survey planning and management.

A collaborative renewable subsea power project has successfully completed its initial four-month test program in the UK North Sea, proving that a subsea battery storage system can reliably power subsea equipment through being recharged by a wave energy device.

CGG announces that Sercel now has a complete portfolio of seabed nodal solutions for all water depths down to 6,000 m to meet growing industry demand for ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic surveys.