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UK Hydrographic Office

Acquires SevenCs

The UK Hydrographic Office recently acquired SevenCs, a German navigational software supplier.

Dr. Williams, Chief Executive of the UKHO said "We are delighted to incorporate the skills set of SevenCs into the UKHO family. This is a nat- ural alliance for us, and the opportu- nity to work with a very capable

ECDIS supplier will be key in devel- oping new products for the mariner in the future.”

SevenCs will continue to operate out of the Hamburg base, with the technical directorate of the UKHO ensuring full compatibility across the production systems involved."

NOC Receives Coda

GeoSurvey System

The National Oceanography

Center in Southampton, U.K. (NOC) recently took delivery of a

Coda DA200 Geophysical

Acquisition System for use with their numerous existing sensors including boomer, chirp sub-bottom and sides- can sonar systems. Destined for a wide range of applications from teaching through to academic research, the DA200 will be the prime acquisition system for much of

NOC's inshore work. CodaOctopus has further boosted the center's order with the sponsorship of a further two full Coda GeoSurvey post-processing suites worth over $90,000. Together with the three Octopus 360+ seismic acquisition systems and Octopus 361 processing software delivered last year and installed on NOC's larger research vessels, this recent order marks a significant milestone for

Coda GeoSurvey.

Sabeus Wins $1.56M

NAVSEA Contract

Sabeus Inc., a developer of fiber optic sensing technology for military undersea surveillance and perimeter security applications, won a $1.56 million contract by the Naval Sea

Systems Command (NAVSEA) for the development of an All Optical

Embedded Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) Sensor Array.

Exploration Agreement

Signed

National Joint Stock Company

Naftogaz Ukrainy (NAK) and Shell

Exploration and Production signed a

Cooperation Agreement covering licenses, agreed work program levels and the main terms of joint activities at a ceremony attended by President

Victor Yushchenko of Ukraine,

British Prime Minister Tony Blair,

Chairman of the Board of NAK

Naftogaz Ukrainy Olexiy Ivchenko and Shell's Executive Director for

Exploration and Production,

Malcolm Brinded. This is the first important milestone after the two companies previously agreed to carry out joint studies in an area of over 31,000 sq. km. in the Dniepr-Donets

Basin, located in central-eastern

Ukraine and thought to contain resources of natural gas. The agree- ment involves a total initial invest- ment by Shell of around $100m.

C&C Technologies Buys a

Third Octopus F180

With the purchase of a third unit,

C&C Technologies has adopted the

Octopus F180 as its primary GPS aided attitude and positioning sys- tem. The F180 is compatible with all hydrographic survey systems includ- ing Simrad multibeam systems used by C&C. With standard data outputs including EM3000 motion and head- ing strings in addition to TSS1 motion and standard NMEA heading and positioning formats, the Octopus

F180 interfaces easily to all multi- beam sonars. people & companies

Dr. Justin Dix and Stephen Auld.

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