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people & companies 10,000 sq. m. in floor area, and is the first such Schlumberger facility in the southern hemisphere. When fully staffed, up to 300 scientists, engineers and technical staff working in multidisciplinary, collaborative teams will work on the development of innovative solutions to the techni- cal challenges associated with the complex formations found deep off- shore Brazil. Continuing a theme that now runs across all

Schlumberger research centers, the new Brazil facility is located close to the leading academic expertise of the

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and is located on the same campus that houses the Petrobras CENPES

Research Center.

Technip Wins North

Sea Deal

Technip won a contract worth approximately $95m by Total E&P

UK Limited, as operator of the Islay

Gas Field, to deliver a full EPCI project in the UK North Sea. The

Islay field is located in the North Sea, 440 km north-east of Aberdeen, in 120 m of water depth. The contract will involve the world’s first subsea implementation of Technip’s reelable, electrically trace heated pipe-in-pipe (ETH-PIP) technolo- gy. Technip Wins Pipelay Contract

Offshore Ghana Technip was award- ed by GNPC a lump sum contract for phase 1 of the Natural Gas

Transportation and Processing proj- ect, 60 km offshore Ghana.

Small Submarine

Incorporates HD LBV

SeaBotix teamed with SEAmagine

Hydrospace Corp., manufacturers of one-atmosphere submersibles, to

Crowley Recognized by NOAA

Crowley Maritime Corp. was selected as a 2009 Company Award

Winner for the U.S. National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA) and the

National Weather Service's

Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program. The selection was based on Crowley's 38 vessels providing 15,798 timely weather observa- tions for the U.S. VOS program in 2009. Particularly impressive was

Crowley's Resolve, a pusher tug residing in Alaskan waters, whose crewmembers alone made 1,738 observations last year, ranking her the fourteenth-highest highest reporting vessel in the entire pro- gram.

The VOS program, which was established in 1853, relies on vol- unteer crewmembers on nearly 1,000 ships around the world to monitor the weather at their loca- tions and submit the observations to national meteorological services.

This data is used to create marine weather forecasts and is archived for future use by climatologists and other scientists. "Our vessels' crewmembers have been contributing first-hand weather data to VOS for decades," said Ed Burdorf, manager of marine operations for Crowley. "Crowley is proud of our history with the program and we are com- mitted to continuing to support it.

We see the impact it has each day on our own vessel operations, and we are very appreciative of this recognition." 52 MTR November/December 2010

MTNW Wins Award from US NSF

Measurement Technology

NW (MTNW) won a con- tract from the National

Science Foundation (NSF) and the University-National

Oceanographic Laboratory

System (UNOLS) to upgrade winch monitoring technology across 15 federal- ly funded research vessels.

This award brings new

MTNW hardware and soft- ware technology to the sup- port of winch operations. “The recent change in the operating safety standards for UNOLS vessels has required a technology upgrade on every active vessel,” said Tom

Rezanka, Managing Director of MTNW’s Line Control Instruments. “Our technology exceeds the newly-adopted standards and will both increase safety for personnel and enhance marine sensor deployments.”