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People & Company News project, where the ? eld development customers transiting the Canal and the

GD Buys Blue? n Robotics

General Dynamics Mission Systems has will be at depths of up to approximately extensive tug sector in the region, in ad- acquired Blue? n Robotics, a manufac- 800 meters. Subsea 7 said it de? nes a dition to providing support for ongoing turer of unmanned undersea vehicles “major contract” as being over $750 or planned land reclamation dredging (UUVs) that perform a wide range of million. The contract scope includes and new port and terminal construction missions for the U.S. military and com- engineering, procurement, installation projects.

mercial customers. Blue? n Robotics and pre-commissioning of the subsea

Polarcus Buys $11.5m will become part of General Dynamics infrastructure from twelve wells, with

Streamer Package

Mission Systems’ Maritime and Strate- 80 kilometers of umbilicals and 220 gic Systems line of business. kilometers of pipelines. It also includes Polarcus Limited announced the pur- the installation of the export lines from chase of a complete marine seismic in- the subsea location to the Idku terminal. sea acquisition system from Dolphin

Harris CapRock Connectivity

Geophysical AS, for $11.5 million.

Assists Oceaneering ROV Ops

Novacavi to Perform Subsea

Technology from Harris CapRock Com- The Streamer Package comprises 12- x

Monitoring for ENI munications is enabling Oceaneering 8,100-meter active streamers and all pe-

International, Inc. to remotely pilot and Novacavi has been called in to provide ripheral in-sea equipment. Polarcus said automatically control its NEXXUS re- a specially designed custom pressure the purchase provides its planned seis- motely operated vehicle ROV. Harris resistant cable for a new submarine hy- mic CAPEX requirements for the next

CapRock is providing satellite band- draulic digital pro? le meter to be laid three years, and is within the company’s width and service to operate the ROV, on the seabed close to a gas extracting previously guided CAPEX budget for which enables the pilot to execute as- platform. Installation of this monitoring 2016. signments ranging from simple video system may reach a depth of 100 meters

Floating Wind off Hawaii monitoring to highly complex vessel in- to survey and to take permanent read- spection tasks. The satellite link enables ings of the subsidence cone caused by The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Man-

Oceaneering to pilot the ROV from off- gas extraction. agement (BOEM) has received another shore, from another vessel, or from an unsolicited lease request for an offshore

SeeByte, ASV Partner onshore command center. Harris Cap- wind resource development project off

Rock’s innovative data/video communi- SeeByte and ASV announced a com- Oahu, Hawaii. With this latest request, cations technology was originally devel- mercial partnership where the two com- BOEM has now received a total of three oped to aid technical support personnel panies will collaborate to bring new ad- unsolicited wind energy lease requests onshore to help diagnose faults offshore. vanced capabilities and solutions to the from two potential developers: two ? eld of maritime autonomy. This agree- lease requests from AW Hawaii Wind, ment sees SeeByte and ASV build upon LLC (AWH), the AWH Oahu Northwest

Kraken Wins WHOI Contract

Kraken Sonar Systems Inc. won a previous collaborative work to develop Project and the AWH Oahu South Proj- $465,000 contract by the Woods Hole the next generation of adaptive autono- ect; and one from Progression Hawaii

Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). my by working together across the ? eet Offshore Wind, Inc. (Progression), the

Kraken has been contracted to deliver a of ASV platforms and SeeByte’s soft- Progression South Coast of Oahu Proj- deep-sea rated AquaPix Miniature Inter- ware solutions. SeeByte’s smart soft- ect. ferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar, a ware can be integrated onto unmanned Each project proposes an offshore ? oat-

Real Time Embedded SAS Signal Pro- vehicles to offer adaptive autonomy. ing wind energy facility with a capacity cessor and related engineering services. This allows vehicles to react and adapt of approximately 400 megawatts (MW)

Delivery of the system is planned for their missions according to feedback of renewable energy. The energy gener-

July 2016. from their sensors and to collaborate ated by the projects would be transmit- with other vehicles in the ? eet. ted to Oahu by undersea cables.

BOEM said it has already completed a

Subsea 7 Wins BP Contract review of the unsolicited lease request

Offshore Egypt Kongsberg Opens in Panama

Subsea 7 S.A. won a major contract by Kongsberg Maritime has established from the second applicant, Progres-

BP, and partner DEA (Deutsche Erdoel a new country of? ce in the Republic sion Hawaii Offshore Wind, Inc., and

AG), for the development of the Giza, of Panama. Opened in January 2016 has deemed the request complete and

Fayoum and Raven subsea ? elds off- and situated in the ‘Canal Zone’ close con? rmed that the company is legally, shore Alexandria, Egypt. This is the to Panama City, Kongsberg Maritime technically and ? nancially quali? ed to second phase of the West Nile Delta Panama will service merchant ? eet pursue an offshore wind energy lease.

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