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People & Company News Airmar Acquires Marport Division AIRMAR Technology acquired substan- tially all of the assets of Marport Deep Sea Technologies? Commercial Fishing division, a developer of advanced sonar technology. Airmar will also acquire the name ?Marport? and the web domain (www.marport.com) as a part of the transaction. The Economic Impact of Ocean Observation The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System awarded ERISS Corporation the funds to work with The Maritime Alli- ance on a study that will articulate the economic impact of the ocean observa- tion sector in the U.S. Korean Hydrographic Society Joins IFHSThe Hydrographic Society of Korea (HySK) has been elected a member of the International Federation of Hydro-graphic Societies (IFHS), joining other national organizations representing Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, Ger- many, Italy, South Africa and the U.K. Based in Seoul, the HySK is headed by its President, Dr. Dae Choul Kim of Pukyong National University?s Depart- ment of Energy Resources Engineering, whose fellow directors are drawn from key sectors of the Korean maritime in- dustry. 2H to Assist Riser Engineering for Tullow 2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has been appointed by Tullow Oil as lead riser engineering consultancy for the de- livery of the  exible riser system for its Tweneboa, Enyenra and Ntomme (TEN)  eld development, offshore Ghana. The TEN development is located in the Deepwater Tano block, approximately 30km to the west of the Jubilee  eld and lies in water depths ranging between 1,000-1,800m. The development will consist of oil and gas production wells, water injection wells and gas injection wells. Prysmian Signs with Petrobras Prysmian Group, a company in the ener- gy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded new contract worth a total of up to approximately $260m, related to a frame agreement for Um-bilical products for offshore oil and gas extraction, by Brazilian oil company Petrobras. Ballard Changes Name Ballard Diving & Salvage changed company name to Ballard Marine Con- struction, Inc. to better re ect its cus- tomer base and service capabilities. In addition, the company is expanding with fully staffed and equipped locations in Chicago, Florida and Wisconsin. New Simulator Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT) released LedaFlow 1.4, the new transient multiphase simulator for wells and pipelines. The latest release of LedaFlow contains signi cant additions and improvements that are designed to enable  ow assurance engineers to op- erate faster and more ef ciently. With LedaFlow 1.4, speed increases of up to four times can be seen in network cases using multi-CPU capabilities, shap-ing the LedaFlow solution into a more productive tool for all engineering chal- lenges. Multi-Sensor ROV Survey Package Sonar Equipment Services delivered its  rst multi-sensor ROV survey package to Calecore?s marine survey division, Calesurvey. The supplier of marine sur- vey equipment to the offshore energy industry has integrated, tested and mo- bilized a complex array of survey and subsea equipment complete with off- shore support personnel for the survey in Norwegian waters. Huisman Brazil Receives First Order Huisman received a  rst order for its new production facility in Brazil. The new order includes three sets of  ve cranes, which will be manufactured as soon as construction of the Brazilian production facility is completed in 2014. The sets of cranes are scheduled for de-livery between Q3 2015 and Q1 2017. The order includes three identical sets of cranes for the new build vessels Cassino, Curumim and Salinas. Each set consists of two 60mt Pedestal Mounted Offshore Cranes (PMOC), two 60mt Knuckle Boom Cranes (KBC) and one 12mt Pipe Handling Knuckle Boom Crane (PH-KBC). The cranes can be used for vari- ous applications, including unloading of supply vessels, pipe handling, offshore construction work, and subsea instal- lation. Besides the three sets of cranes, Huisman will also deliver three 550mt Tiltable Lay Systems for Subsea 7 and the two 650 and two 340mt Tiltable Lay Systems for Technip-DOF. All these pi- pelay equipment orders are part of a big Petrobas order and should be ready to serve the Brazilian market in 2017. October 201350 MTRMTR #8 (50-64).indd 50MTR #8 (50-64).indd 5010/16/2013 11:59:11 AM10/16/2013 11:59:11 AM