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CSIP’s

Lightweight Electric

Manipulator Arm 5E

Since the launch of the market’s first 5-

Function Electric Underwater

Manipulator Arm, CSIP has developed a lightweight version of the product follow- ing a customer requirement. CSIP claims this to be the only 5-Function Electric Manipulator Arm available globally. With the ability to design and manu- facture systems that are specific to the needs of its clients,

CSIP were commissioned to design and engineer a light- weight arm to be fitted to an AUV. Using mostly 6082 T6 anodized aluminum alloy to construct the arm, it weighs just 12KG in water, 4.5KG lighter than the original arm launched in 2009. The upper arm has been designed with a sandwiched closed cell foam core structure, adding buoyancy, and all component voids are retained as atmos- phere air spaces as opposed to the more traditional oil filled and compensated spaces.

OSIL Offer New Slick Sleuth for

Hazardous Environments

OSIL (Ocean Scientific International Ltd.) and

InterOcean Systems, Inc. launched a new oil spill detec- tion system, the Slick Sleuth SS300-EX, for use in ATEX

Zone 1 / Class 1 Division 1 locations. Slick Sleuth

Autonomous Oil Spill Detection Stations (ADS) were originally launched in 2008 by InterOcean, and proved extremely popular and successful at providing instant detection and notification of oil spills. The latest model

Kongsberg ‘SiteCom’ Gains Traction

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies entered into an agreement with Statoil to extend the use of the Kongsberg

SiteCom real-time drilling data solution, Discovery Web data browser and SmartAgent calculation tools across all of the leading global energy company's well operations. The new agreement, signed in August 2010, is for three years, with an option to extend for an additional two years. SiteCom has been designed to facilitate safer, faster and better informed drilling decisions. It achieves this by integrating real-time data, historical data, reports, files and chat from all sources on the rig and makes them available to a wider community of professionals and stakeholders at the com- pany offices or in other remote locations anywhere in the world. All this is done through a single, fast and user- friendly web-based interface. Statoil expanded its use of SiteCom by deploying Discovery Web and SmartAgents alongside SiteCom. Discovery Web is a vizualization tool that makes all curves, survey data, mud log data, rig activ- ity, image logs and key performance indicators available in a user-friendly, web-based browser. SiteCom SmartAgents are easy-to-connect custom modules designed to perform real-time calculations required for better interpretation, to check data quality and to help manage the performance of the vendors and service companies working on the proj- ect. www.kongsberg.com