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Floating Wind: What Opportunities Exist for Installation Companies and Vessel Owners?

Sep 11, 2023

Floating offshore wind is an emerging technology with strong potential to become a major energy source. A fleet of specialized vessels will be required to help grow grid-connected floating wind capacity from 200 megawatts at the end of 2022 to a projected 61 gigawatts by 2035…

CEO in Focus: Chris Gibson, VideoRay

Sep 10, 2023

With a plethora of low-cost ROV manufacturers entering the market,  VideoRay made the strategic decision to re-focus the company on selling fewer, but much higher value units. The strategy has paid off, and revenues have soared year-on-year since…

HexDefence Aims to Protect Offshore Wind Assets, Cradle to Grave

Aug 28, 2023

As the pace of offshore wind installation accelerates globally, all eyes turn to tools and techniques that will enable efficient installation and lifecycle protection of offshore wind towers. Balmoral, with decades of experience protection offshore oil and gas infrastructure…

Video: Seagreen Offshore Wind Jackets Lifted via Ring Crane

Aug 21, 2023

Offshore wind projects taking place in macrotidal environments, such as around the U.K., must deal with water level changes of more than four meters every six hours. This extreme tidal range is difficult to compensate for using ballasting, so…

Ailing Liftboat Crewmember Medevaced in US Gulf

Jul 17, 2023

An ailing crewmember was medevaced from a liftboat approximately three miles south of Pecan Island, La., Saturday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard said.The Coast Guard said its watchstanders at Sector New Orleans received a call at approximately 1:12 a…

VIDEO: Two Dead, One Missing after Fire Tears through Pemex Offshore Oil Platform

Jul 08, 2023

Two workers died and another remained missing after a raging fire broke out early on Friday morning at an offshore platform run by Mexican state oil company Pemex just off the southern edge of the Gulf of Mexico.In posts on Twitter, Pemex said…

Ørsted Unveils USV for Met-ocean Measurement

Jun 22, 2023

Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted announced it has developed an uncrewed surface vessel (USV) for offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns.The USV was invented by Ørsted employees and has been designed as a generic platform for a range…

ABB Introduces Operational Planner for Offshore Wind Vessel Operations

Jun 20, 2023

ABB has introduced a new Operational Planner module for its ABB Ability OCTOPUS – Marine Advisory System to help offshore fleet managers plan and optimize the maintenance of offshore wind farm operations.For support vessels moving between turbines or rigs during a single shift…

CSignum RadiEM Wireless, Seamless Data Transmission from the Water

Jun 19, 2023

CSignum CEO Chris Brooks and his team discuss how its RadiEM innovation can seamlessly transmit data through the water-air boundary wirelessly.

‘Game Changer’ SOV Rem Power Sports Innovative Electric Crane

Jun 15, 2023

Rem Power is tabbed as a ‘game changer’ in the SOV market, with a number of technological highlights including the mutual design, development and delivery of an innovative 5-ton, electric, heave compensated crane from Seaonics. Ronny Pål Kvalsvik…

RTsys NemoSens Micro AUV Pulls its Weight

Jun 04, 2023

The NemoSens micro AUV from RTsys is designed to be easy to deploy and recover, with simple to swap payloads. On display at Ocean Business in Southampton, the AUV is making waves in its ability to survey hard to access shallow regions for extended endurance…

Ampelmann takes the lead as the gangway provider for US offshore wind

Jun 04, 2023

Offshore wind is growing exponentially around the globe and Ampelmann is at the forefront of this – especially in the US market. The Netherlands-based offshore access provider recently signed six new contracts in the offshore wind market in the US for 2023…

Ampelmann takes the lead as the gangway provider for US offshore wind

May 31, 2023

Offshore wind is growing exponentially around the globe and Ampelmann is at the forefront of this – especially in the US market.The Netherlands-based offshore access provider recently signed six new contracts in the offshore wind market in the US for 2023…

Meet the Affordable Barracuda AUV

May 28, 2023

Born from the Shell Ocean Discovery XPrize, Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers today offers the Barracuda autonomous underwater vehicle. With its affordability, it ability to be launched and recovered by hand, and its 600 ft. depth rating, this capable…

Voyis Launches Discovery Vision Systems for ROVs

May 21, 2023

Voyis CEO Chris Gilson discusses his company’s recent introduction of the Discovery Vision System, a system which aims to revolutionize how ROVs see the underwater world. The Discovery camera is a single camera and lighting system that offers 4K low-latency video for piloting…

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