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BMT Scientific Marine

Services Opens in Rio

BMT Scientific Marine Services (BMT) opened a new office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Trading as BMT Scientific Marine Services

Ltda, BMT will operate in Rio de Janeiro as an extension of its existing offices in

California and Houston. The local presence provided by this new base in South America is integral to BMT’s ongoing effort to enhance product sales, delivery and service support to Petrobras and other oil and gas firms in Brazil. BMT’s enhanced presence in the region is supported by a Portuguese lan- guage website at www.scimar.com/Brazil.

OceanTools New Intelligent Subsea Digital

Video Recorder

OceanTools completed the development of a new intelligent subsea digital video recorder, the VideoLOGGER. The first unit was recently shipped to a Canadian cus- tomer. The VideoLOGGER uses a PC104 format Intel Atom CPU to record video to a solid-state disk drive. The recording process is controlled by a microcontroller on a

PC104 card. This card provides an accurate real time clock and a built-in or remote pres- sure sensor interface. Recordings can be scheduled to be triggered on either Time or

Pressure values being reached. An Ethernet interface to the PC allows the unit to be con- figured prior to deployment, and recordings to be retrieved. The VideoLOGGER pro- vides for two types of recording –

Continuous or Snapshot. In Continuous video recording mode, a video recording runs from the Start event to the Stop Event and records all video presented to the

VideoLOGGER between these events. The

Start and Stop events can be based on either

Time or Pressure. www.oceantools.eu

Noordhoek Group: Born Again

After a turbulent period the Noordhoek Group is in the conclud- ing stage of a relaunch. By attracting external capital the company is to proceed to operate at the same location in Zierikzee, while the vast majority of the quality staff will be able to join the company.

The investment company Value Enhancement Partners from

Amsterdam will obtain a majority share and will be supported by the Noordhoek family and Hanzevast, the owner of the Noordhoek

Pathfinder. Because of the new financial structure and the planned reinforcement of the management, future development will be looked upon with great confidence and the company will be able to extend their specialist knowledge in the area of Diving, Subsea

IRM, Survey and Subsea Equipment. Currently, the Noordhoek

Group is involved in a variety of projects, among which the con- struction of the second Coen Tunnel and Survey projects at the

North Sea and the Mediterranean. Noordhoek is a leading provider of Subsea Construction, Diving, ROV and Survey Services to the offshore oil and gas industry, serving operators and contractors internationally and domestically in the North Sea. Construction services include installation, upgrading and decommissioning of pipelines and production infrastructure. Diving, ROV and survey services include inspection, repair and maintenance services and support services for subsea infrastructure and underwater struc- tures. Supply of high-tech subsea equipment is, within the

Noordhoek group, the domain of Seatec.