• Quick Links
• Home
• Site Map

• News Items
• Books
• Contracts
• Homeland Security
• International
• Marine Electronics
• Meetings
• Ocean Business
• Product Development
• People

Books

Featured Books — April 2008 Issue

Offshore Systems Ltd., Vancouver, Canada, contract awarded (terms not provided) to provide six Warship electronic chart display information navigation systems, including both hardware and software, for the grantee’s Collins-class submarines. (Royal Australian navy)

The Engineering Business (EB), Riding Mill, England, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply a complete new J-Lay system for a field development ship. EB is responsible for the design, manufacture, assembly, testing and delivery of the tower. It is EB’s largest ever contract. (Saipem SpA)

Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, California, $25 million contract award to provide shipboard instrumentation and systems calibration. The cost-plus-fixed-fee order has a 19-month base period and three options for varying lengths. Work will be performed primarily in Norfolk, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Bath, Maine; Pascagoula, Mississippi; San Diego, California; and Mayport, Florida. (Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division)

Bluefin Robotics Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts, $2.7 million contract award for further development of Bluefin’s hovering autonomous underwater vehicle as part of the explosive ordnance disposal hull unmanned vehicle (HAUV) localization system contract. The money will go towards funding two HAUV prototype vehicles and associated equipment in the prototype phase. (Naval Sea Systems Command, Indian Head Division)

AXYS Technologies Inc., Sidney, Canada, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply a WatchKeeper™ oceanographic and meteorological data collection buoy. The 1.7-meter diameter WatchKeeper will support offshore oil and gas exploration activities in approximately 100 meters of water. The solar-powered buoy is equipped with a variety of sensors, including sea temperature, directional waves, currents, wind speed and direction, relative humidity and air temperature. (Subtronic SA)

Markey Machinery, Seattle, Washington, contract awarded (terms not provided) to supply a general-purpose winch, wire rope and integrated winch controls and cable displays. The supplies are for the second phase of work converting the Okeanos Explorer, formerly USNS Capable, into a scientific research vessel. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Marport Canada Inc., St. John’s Canada, contract awarded (terms not provided) to develop a compact autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed for search and survey applications. The AUV is code-named SeaQuest X-1 and is a hydrodynamically stable platform designed for reliable performance and low life-cycle cost. (National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Ocean Technology)

WFN Strategies, Potomac Falls, Virginia, contract awarded (terms not provided) for the provision of telecom engineering support for the oil and gas interplatform submarine cable system set to be located on the Northwest Shelf of Australia. The system will comprise a backbone cable that loops out across the shelf between Dampier in the north and Onslow in the south. (Ochre Services pty Ltd.)

Acergy SA, London, England, $58 million contract award for the installation of a Maghreb-Europe gas (MEG) pipeline and umbilical and tie-in of the MEG line, umbilicals and flowlines in a water depth of 900 meters on the Ormen Lange Southern field development project. Offshore installation will start in the second quarter of 2009. (Hydro)

C & C Technologies do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, two linked contracts awarded (terms not provided), one for chartering the RV Emma McCall and the other to supply services to operate the vessel and support oceanographic data acquisition along the coast of Brazil. Services include the collection of oceanographic parameters to support the design and installation of offshore structures and pipelines. The duration of both contracts is two years with an extension option for another two years. The vessel is expected to be ready to work by mid-February. (Petróleo Brasileiro SA)

Sea Technology is read worldwide in more than 110 countries by management, engineers, scientists and technical personnel working in industry, government and educational research institutions. Readers are involved with oceanographic research, fisheries management, offshore oil and gas exploration and production, undersea defense including antisubmarine warfare, ocean mining and commercial diving.