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Courtesy Blueye

EGGS Design housing

As if the Blueye wasn’t small enough, a new version 30 per- cent smaller is understood to be under development for deliv- ery next year, and the newest prototype was about to be shown when we went to print. It took 10 weeks to build a prototype, helped by local design consultancy EGGS Design — render- er of all from house-sized subsea manifolds and housings to handheld devices, rigs, and Rolls-Royce ship’s bridges.

Kongsberg Maritime’s Monitoring

Like the Blueye, Kongsberg Maritime’s multiple-sensor enclosure, the K-Lander, could trim ROV costs for ocean monitoring that can reach $150,000 per day, according to VP,

Subsea Monitoring, Soeren Themann. The K-Lander seabed observatory is the core of a Kongsberg Maritime subsea moni- toring network, and starting this spring it will monitor the en- vironmental impact of methane hydrate production. Methane hydrates are a “threat” to conventional oil and gas production for being so abundantly suspended in the world’s northern- most oceans, including the coasts of Japan and Canada. This year’s K-Lander “cage project” launches as we write and will transmit that environmental data from autonomous underwa- ter vehicles, or AUVs.

Rambøll’s “Wind” Platforms

Much of the effort nowadays by large subsea service provid- ers and equipment vendors targets savings for oil? eld opera- tors. Getting in on projects early and standardizing designs www.marinetechnologynews.com

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