Page 53: of Marine Technology Magazine (May 2006)

www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 53

Sentinel ADCPs for a variety of self- contained current profiling applica- tions; and (11) Workhorse Navigator

Doppler Velocity Logs (DVLs) for precision navigation applications onboard Autonomous Underwater

Vehicles (AUVs) and Remotely

Operated Vehicles (ROVs).

These latest additions to the lease pool are scheduled for use on Ormen

Lange in the Norwegian sector of the

North Sea, and for current monitor- ing in the deeper regions of the

Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico.

FarSounder Appoints

Japanese Distributor

FarSounder appointed TOYO

Corporation as the exclusive distribu- tor of FarSounder products in Japan. "All of TOYO's sales staff and sup- port engineers have the engineering technical background allowing them to successfully market and support our advanced sonar products,"

FarSounder CEO, Cheryl M.

Zimmerman said. "We are confident that Mr. Fujishima and TOYO will swiftly capture the Japanese markets for us while providing their cus- tomers with the service that we expect from our distributors."

Used for obstacle avoidance and shallow water navigation, FarSounder

FS-3 sonars are capable of generating a complete 3-dimensional image of the sea floor and in-water objects at navigationally significant ranges with a single ping. The small, lightweight sonar can be installed on newbuilds or fitted into existing vessels.

PSS Secures Contracts from Rovtech

Perry Slingsby Systems (PSS) announced the placement of an order by Rovtech for a Tether Management

System (TMS) for delivery early

April. The TMS will be used in con- junction with Spartan 7, which has been awarded a two-year contract for a drill support project commencing in May. This takes the Rovtech total to nine PSS-built WROVs, launched from PSS built TMSs. In addition

Rovtech have placed a contract with

PSS for the upgrade of Spartan 3 to a 100 HP vehicle. The order includes new buoyancy thrusters, giving enhanced payload and performance capability. The upgrades will be car- ried out when the ROV returns from

Baku in June, on completion of its contract with Technip for the Shah

Deniz project. PSS are will upgrade

Rovtech's 5 remaining 75 HP

Spartans to the same specification, once they become available from existing contracts. The upgrade work will be carried out in Aberdeen utiliz- ing Rovtech personnel.

Veritas Makes

Appointment

Houston-based Veritas Geophysical

Company has appointed Veripos of

Aberdeen as primary positioning provider for its entire worldwide fleet of seismic survey vessels under a multi-million dollar contract cover- ing a two-year period with options for future extension. Under the con- tract, Veripos will provide continuous high-precision positioning via its

Ultra Precise Point Positioning (PPP) service as well as its independent multi-station single-frequency

Standard and dual-frequency

Standard Plus Differential GPS net- work facilities via fully redundant global networks and multiple delivery satellites.

Oceanteam Awarded

Contract

Oceanteam Power & Umbilical BV has been awarded a contract by the

Joint Venture for the installation of subsea cables for the shore connec- tions and the inter array cables, including shore landings and j-tube pulls on the wind turbine founda- tions. The Windfarm is located 8km west of Egmond aan Zee in Dutch territorial waters. The contract includes the collection and transport of all cables from Naples to

IJmuiden, installation of 3 x 15 km shore connection cables, installation of 34 inter array cables between the wind turbine generators and one met mast. The project management, engi- neering and installation will be car- ried out by Oceanteam P&U's opera- tions and engineering offices in

Aberdeen and IJmuiden (the

Netherlands). All offshore work will take place in 2 Q 2006 using several chartered vessels including Team

Oman, a turn table cable installation vessel, a DP II vessel and a coastal work vessel. Trenching of cables to max 3m will be performed with

Oceanteam's Trenching Tools -

Oceanjet 200 and the ROV Oceanjet 900. people & companies

MTR#4 (49-64).qxd 5/8/2006 10:29 AM Page 53