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sets with vertical subsea trees, subsea control systems, tools and spares to be used at Petrobras? deepwater pre-salt  eld developments in Brazil. ?The forecasts for the Brazilian oil and gas industry are very promising and we are committed to developing our manu- facturing capabilities and local content,? said Araujo.Aker Solutions last year started building a new multi-purpose service site for its drilling equipment business in Macaé, 180 km northeast of Rio de Janeiro. The facility, set to open in 2014, will expand the company?s capacity to serve the fast- growing drilling market in Brazil. Aker Solutions is also located in Rio de Ja-neiro and Rio das Ostras in Brazil. BMT Restructures Marine Survey Businesses BMT Group Ltd. (BMT) announced that marine surveying companies BMT De Beer and BMT Techmar became BMT Surveys on May 1, 2013. Phil Thomp- son, Transport Sector Director at BMT Group explains: ?BMT De Beer and BMT Techmar have combined experi- ence of over 110 years working in the marine surveying market. The company names will disappear, but the breadth and depth of our offering will be avail- able to our customers through a more coherent network. We continue to be one of very few marine surveying companies that deals with both H&M and P&I and we are fully committed to investing in the future of marine surveying.? This name change will see BMT Techmar become BMT Surveys (Antwerp) with BMT De Beer becoming BMT Surveys (Rotterdam) supported by additional of c-es in Amsterdam, Harlingen, Delfzijl and Jakarta. As well as this restructure, BMT Surveys has launched a dedicated Risk & Quality division to re ect an industry demand for loss prevention, audits and risk management. BMT Surveys (Risk & Quality) B.V. will operate as a sepa- rate business unit based in Rotterdam and managed by Olivier van der Kruijs who has been working with BMT since 2007. www.bmtsurveys.com Bibby Offshore Completes Hyperbaric Evacuation Trials Subsea installation contractor Bibby Offshore completed hyperbaric evacu- ation trials across its entire Diving Support Vessel (DSV)  eet. Bibby Off- shore claims that it is the only company worldwide to carry out this procedure on its entire  eet, which includes the Bibby Sapphire, Polaris and Topaz, and the only diving contractor with audited outcomes using performance based standards for this level of contingency planning.The trials involved mating a Self-Pro- pelled Hyperbaric Lifeboat from the DSV to a Portable Hyperbaric Recep-tion Facility onshore, deployed by Mi- mir Marine. The onshore facility is speci cally de- signed to accept divers transferred from the isolation of a lifeboat in the event of vessel abandonment. Specialist tech- nicians from Mimir Marine were also present to support the hyperbaric evacu- ation training exercise. The recent trial involved a simulated dockside rescue of divers from the To- paz hyperbaric lifeboat. This was the  rst time Bibby Offshore had trialed with the Bibby Topaz lifeboat and the simulated transfer of the divers was completed within three hours of the life-boat arriving on the quayside. Bibby Offshore currently has more than 1,000 people working onshore and off- shore worldwide, with of ces in Aber- deen, Liverpool, Singapore and Trini- dad. It recently added two new vessels to the  eet and continues to expand its subsea construction, engineering and project delivery services. Sonardyne Donates to Engineering College?s Fundraising Appeal Alton College?s new Engineering and Design Technology Centre will give stu- dents access to cutting-edge technology in state-of-the-art facilities, creating an inspirational environment and  rm foun- AIRMAR Technology Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of ultrasonic sensor technology for marine and industrial applications. The Companys product line includes ad- vanced ultrasonic transducers, ? ow sensors, WeatherStation® instruments, and electronic com- passes used for a wide variety of applications including ? shing, navigation, meteorology, survey, level measurement, process control, and proximity sensing. In navigation and survey applications, the high-powered, broadband transducers are supplied as original equipment with many commercial- ? shing and survey-echosounder systems from industry-leading manufacturers. When used as re- placement transducers for already-installed systems, they make the perfect, low-priced, high-value, performance enhancement. Established in 1982, AIRMARs headquarters are located in Milford, New Hampshire, with distribution of? ces in Lake City, South Carolina; and Saint Malo, France. John BauchatSenior Business Development EngineerAirmar Technology Corporation -EADOWBROOK$RIVEs-ILFORD.( 4EL  s&AX   www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 39MTR #5 (34-48).indd 39MTR #5 (34-48).indd 396/3/2013 1:28:22 PM6/3/2013 1:28:22 PM