Teledyne Slashes Gyro Compass Delivery Times
09/05/2008
New manufacturing techniques and streamlined product design are enabling Teledyne TSS to deliver new gyro compasses in less than six weeks. High demand combined with the complexity and precision manufacture of TSS and S G Brown gyrocompasses had traditionally required delivery lead times of several...
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Teledyne TSS Opens New Facility in Singapore
09/05/2008
Teledyne TSS has expanded its global sales and support network with the opening of a new facility in Singapore. The new premises are located with the Teledyne Geophysical facility at Loyang Base in Singapore and are being used initially for sales and customer liaison...
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Heriot-Watt University Wins SAUC-E
09/05/2008
For the third time, The Heriot-Watt University team triumphed over international opposition at the third edition of the Student Autonomous Underwater Competition – Europe (SAUC-E 2008), held at the IFREMER deep wave tank near Brest, France. This year the event was hosted by La Délégation Générale...
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Subsea 7 Gets $30m Order from Shell
09/05/2008
Subsea 7 Inc., announced has received a $30m the Northern North Sea. The project is a call-off under the existing Pan European USC frame agreement held with Shell.
The project is related to Shell’s installation of a new type of Tanker Loading System, which will replace an existing tanker loading...
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Thomas Chance Named “Seamaster” of the Year
08/27/2008
Thomas S. Chance, President of C & C Technologies, Inc. (Lafayette, La.), has been named “Seamaster” of the Year for 2008 by Marine Technology Reporter, the world’s leading B2B magazine and information authority serving the subsea technology industry...
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New AUV Surveys the Deep
08/27/2008
Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of Washington (UW) have completed the first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 m (3.1 miles) into the ocean...
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Sleipner Turns 15
08/27/2008
On Sunday, August 24, one of the world’s most profiled platforms turned 15. Sleipner, also known as the carbon dioxide (CO2) platform, does not look its age. Sleipner had a tough start. The construction of the first installation became one of the most dramatic in Norwegian oil history...
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Oil Discovery near Sleipner
08/27/2008
StatoilHydro has made two new discoveries on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The presence of a considerable oil column has been confirmed under the Dagny structure in the North Sea. Gas has been proven in the deep-water Snefrid South prospect near the Luva discovery in the Norwegian Sea...
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Access to Energy Resources
08/27/2008
"There is no quick fix-route to a non-fossil future. Fossil fuels will be crucial to meet growing energy demand the next few decades," said chief executive Helge Lund at ONS in Stavanger.
In a world where large parts of the remaining hydrocarbons are concentrated in some of the worlds most complex...
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US Patent awarded to OceanLED
08/27/2008
OceanLED has been granted a US patent for its LED underwater lighting products. The patent has enabled OceanLED to own the rights of using optical collimators with LEDs for underwater lighting. A collimator placed over an LED uses total internal reflection to intensify the light leaving the fixture...
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Lund: No O&G Without Geology
08/13/2008
StatoilHydro CEO Helge Lund urged cultivating stronger scientific communities and encouraging more youth to study science during opening ceremonies at the 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC),Wednesday, 6 August, in Lillestrøm, Norway.
“Without your expertise, there would simply be no oil...
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