Feritech Global has announced the launch of a new product which is expected to create a step change in subsea geotechnical surveying. The Sealance brings the various functions required for geotechnical surveying together in one streamlined product, enabling significantly reduced timescales for projects.
The Sealance is an adaptable survey device offering simultaneous deployment of up to three geotechnical tools. It offers the most comprehensive range of equipment currently available on the market. Sampling can be achieved using the two powered feed systems, coupled with any two of the following tools: Vibrocorer, Cone Penetration Testing equipment, push corer or rotary coring drill. The Feritech heat flow system can also be deployed simultaneously.
Rob Ferris, MD of Feritech Global, says: “The new Sealance benefits from a bespoke twin tool deployment system with additional integrated heat flow, the first of its kind. Because two tools and heat flow can be deployed simultaneously, this greatly reduces the length of time needed to complete a site survey, especially in deep water.”
“Of course, reduced project time also leads to very significant cost savings. With the cost of hiring a vessel running anywhere up from £20,000 a day, saving several days on a project immediately delivers real cost reductions. We also expect that the Sealance will be smaller, lighter and less expensive than its competitors. The impact of this product on the geotechnical surveys market will be huge, delivering a step change in efficiency.”
Rob Ferris adds: “The Sealance will be a real gamechanger in specific areas of geotechnical surveying, such as for cable routes and pipelines.”
Feritech is a leader in geotechnical surveying and has worked for clients around the globe, including recent projects in Australia and West Africa. The company also designs and manufactures innovative products and opened a new £3 million Innovation Centre near Falmouth in Cornwall this year.
The Sealance will be available from Feritech Global from September 2022 and can be pre-booked for projects.
Rob Ferris says: “We believe the Sealance will completely redefine the way geotechnical surveys are approached in future. This is truly disruptive technology and paves the way for our next exciting development, a range of autonomous products within our portfolio.”
Irish based international ocean data company, XOCEAN, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Geomara, a specialist hydrographic survey company, as part of its strategic global growth plan. The announcement follows the investment of €8m in September 2021 aimed to accelerate XOCEAN’s growth. Carbon-neutral XOCEAN is driving down emissions in the offshore industry and is delivering on its impact goal of displacing the emission of one million tons of carbon over the next 5 years.
For over 15 years, Geomara has been providing expert advice and services to a large variety of clients across the marine industry including Renewable Energy developers. It has prided itself on understanding their clients needs and delivering outstanding results which match the goals of the project. XOCEAN is transforming the way ocean data is collected using marine robotics known as Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs). Services provided by XOCEAN include seabed mapping, inspection of subsea assets and environmental monitoring.
Having tripled its revenue for two consecutive years, XOCEAN is developing a world-leading reputation within the ocean data market, and is accelerating this growth as the business scales. The company has tripled its headcount to 150 over the past 12 months and plans to grow it further to 300 over the next 18 months.
The company uses its proprietary marine robotic technology to collect ocean data sustainably across a range of industries including Offshore Wind. In just 3 years, XOCEAN has successfully delivered over 150 international projects accumulating over 45,000 hours of operation. The business continues to drive the development of new products with an ambitious technology roadmap, which integrates new capabilities whilst maximising the efficiency of the platform and pushing the boundaries of the technology to fulfil the growing demand for carbon-neutral data collection.
Geomara owner and Managing Director, Finn Delaney said “Both companies pride themselves on delivering high quality service to our clients, and it was obvious that there was great synergy, both in culture and in our vision. It is an exciting time to be in the industry and together we aim to continue to transform it.”
Commenting on the acquisition, James Ives, CEO, XOCEAN said “We’re delighted to welcome Finn and the team at Geomara. Combining XOCEAN’s innovative technology and Geomara’s strong industry expertise we look forward to further scaling XOCEAN as we continue to deliver low impact, carbon neutral ocean data to our clients.”
Through-water communications and subsea integrity specialist Aquatec is celebrating this week after winning OTC’s 2022 Spotlight on New Technology Award and ASME’s 2022 Albert Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award.
Basingstoke-based Aquatec, announced earlier in February as the winner of Global Underwater Hub’s Subsea Expo Best Small Company Award, has now been honoured with two additional accolades while exhibiting at the Offshore Technology Conference 2022 in Houston.
On Monday 2nd May, Aquatec received the Small Business Spotlight on New Technology Award® for its KINEKtron® Retrofit Subsea Strain Measurement System, an innovative technology developed to measure and communicate strain levels on structural tubular members, pipelines, and other load-bearing infrastructure. The OTC-exclusive award recognises broad interest technologies that are innovative, marketplace-ready, and positively impact the industry.
Also, for its KINEKtron® system, on Tuesday 3rd May, the company received ASME’s (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) prestigious Woelfel Best Mechanical Engineering Achievement Award. The Woelfel BMEA Award recognises a company for a product, device, or system displayed at the OTC Conference that best reflects innovation and practical use of mechanical engineering in solving problems, improving design, or maximising performance.
Tony Mekky, Engineering Manager of Aquatec, commented: “With KINEKtron®, Aquatec has met a challenging customer requirement with a customised solution. It embodies an innovative technique for precise strain transfer. It combines that with our core technologies of high speed, extended endurance data logging, optical and acoustic comms, and innovations around attachment, installation and activation, all in one device. While this is one specific solution, the technologies developed and proven here can be applied to many future challenges.”
Agustín Riso, Marketing Manager of Aquatec, has said: “We are delighted to see that our most recent technology, which includes some of Aquatec’s time-proven and field-tested instrumentation, is having such positive feedback from the industry. Our KINEKtron® Retrofit Subsea Strain Measurement System has the potential to revolutionise the way we measure and communicate aspects that are critical for subsea structural integrity, and receiving these awards underlines the key role companies like ours will play in the years to come.”
Subsea Technology and Rentals (STR), a multi-disciplinary technology expert specialising in the design, production, rental and sale of innovative marine survey equipment, has committed to a multi-million pound investment in seafloor, vehicle and vessel-based positioning hardware from marine technology company Sonardyne.
STR’s purchase includes Sonardyne’s Long BaseLine (LBL), Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) and inertial navigation systems, equipment which will support survey and construction projects across the offshore energy markets.
STR, a Baird Capital portfolio company, continues to significantly invest in new technology. The size and spread of equipment ordered is considered a clear sign of STR’s confidence in the offshore energy market, as activity levels rebound sharply through this year and beyond, and in the commercial and operational value Sonardyne’s innovative subsea technology brings to STR customers.
“We’re witnessing increasing demand for our technology and services across the Offshore Energy markets,” says Scott Johnstone, chief operating officer, at STR. “Timely access to the latest generation of hybrid subsea technology to get these shallow and deep water projects executed on time is critical to us and our customers, which is why we’re making this investment now.
“The value that Sonardyne’s latest 6+ LBL hardware and INS systems bring to offshore operations is clear. Used with Sonardyne’s Fusion 2 combined LBL and INS topside software, surveyors can do more with less kit deployed. Using a single combined operating system makes set up time and complexity is reduced, compared with other systems. So subsea construction operations, from millimetre accurate metrology through to real-time SLAM calibration of sparse LBL arrays, are just simpler and faster.
“This is even more critical today than ever, as operators look to reduce, as practicably as possible, the carbon emissions associated with their projects, delivering the energy the world still needs, but with as low an impact as possible.”
STR’s order includes a large pool of Compatt 6+ LBL transponders, structure-mounted Gyro Compatt 6+s and ROV-mounted ROVNav 6+ ROV LBL transceivers. Sonardyne’s 6+ hardware uses the company’s exclusive Wideband 3 signal architecture, providing fast position updates of mobile targets as well as enabling sensor data, for example inclination and depth, to be embedded with acoustic ranging data – helping further de-risk operations at critical moments, such as structure touchdown.
STR has also invested in Sonardyne’s SPRINT-Nav hybrid underwater vehicle navigation technology. Combing Doppler-inertial navigation and depth sensing in a single pre-calibrated instrument, SPRINT-Nav offers high performance platform navigation without the challenges of separate sensors, size, weight, integration and alignment.
In addition, STR has invested in multiple Sonardyne Mini-Ranger 2 USBL systems and a large pool of Wideband Sub-Mini 6+ transponders (WSM 6+). In combination, Mini-Ranger 2 and WSM 6+ have fast become the go-to positioning system for offshore renewable energy site survey and characterisation operations, tracking and positioning a wide array of sensor systems. Quick to mobilise, easy to operate and then move to the next assignment, it’s a versatile and valuable rental pool asset.
“STR is very much a forward-looking company, both in terms of anticipating customer demand as activity increases, but also in terms of adopting the latest, most advanced technologies that provide the most value,” says Alan MacDonald, sales manager at Sonardyne.
“STR was the first company to invest our Syrinx DVL in 2016, followed up two years later by being the first to purchase Fusion 2, and our 6 plus hardware variants. We look forward to continuing to work with STR, supporting the company and its clients across the Offshore Energy market.”
Teledyne Marine and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are proud to announce the launch of the new NOC Glider Service Centre; a joint partnership created for the servicing, support and repair of Teledyne Slocum Gliders from across Europe. This new partnership will benefit our European glider customers, avoiding the time and expense of shipping systems back to the US for service and upgrades.
The NOC Glider Service Centre will initially service payload bays including sensor calibrations and pressure testing. Services will gradually increase to offer subassembly servicing (shallow and deep water pumps), and will eventually move into complete vehicle servicing, upgrades and repairs. Training, piloting, spares and sales are also in the pipeline.
NOC is at the heart of underwater glider operations in Europe, with extensive expertise in this niche field, making them uniquely qualified to offer this commercial service. The NOC operates the UKs National Marine Equipment Pool, which includes Europe’s largest fleet of underwater gliders that they have been successfully equipping, servicing and operating for extended scientific missions for over 15 years.
iXblue recently completed the bathymetric survey of the Saint Nazaire offshore wind farm using its DriX Uncrewed Surface Vehicle (USV). Relying on 4G and satellite communication, the operation – located 20km off the West coast of France – was remotely conducted by the iXblue teams of surveyors from their Remote Control Center in La Ciotat, South-east of France.
The purpose of the bathymetric survey inspection was to verify the seabed conditions before the deployment of Jan De Nul Group’s Vole au vent Offshore Jack-up Installation Vessel. Despite challenging offshore conditions, with strong winds and side currents, as well as an obstructed site, with around 70 monopiles already installed and several construction vessels mobilized on site, iXblue DriX USV, fitted with a Kongsberg EM2040 MBES, efficiently acquired accurate and high-resolution bathymetric data. The DriX USV conducted the survey without the need of a support vessel, relying on its unique situational awareness and obstacle avoidance system.
“We are pleased to have proven, once again, that the deployment of autonomous platforms is the way to go to deliver safe, carbon-neutral, and efficient offshore survey,” comments David Vincentelli, Head of iXblue Sea Operations division. “From our experience deploying our DriX USV, we know that replacing traditional survey vessels with uncrewed platforms is key to delivering unmatched efficiency and data quality in complex environments such as offshore wind farms. We are very proud to be leading the way towards new remotely operated uncrewed operations, supporting our customers in this transition, and would like to thank Jan De Nul Group and EDF Renewables and its partner for their trust on this new project.”
A-2-Sea are looking for an experienced Hydrographic Surveyor to continue advancing and developing the Survey Department within the Company.
The ideal candidate for this position will be someone with several years of site-based experience looking to take on more responsibility while continuing to work offshore and onshore, with opportunities for international travel.
The primary functions of the Senior Hydrographic Surveyor role include:
Planning, preparation and delivery of our survey projects.
Mobilisation and calibration of survey equipment to survey vessels.
Acquisition of survey data using a variety of survey equipment.
Providing project support, guidance and expertise to other survey team members.
Supporting the project logistics for working alongside surveyors, technicians and project managers.
Data QC, data processing and production of deliverables.
Report writing and interpretation of results.
Input into the day-to-day management of a team of hydrographic surveyors.
Continuous investigation of new technologies, such as UAVs and ASVs, to utilise in future projects.
Maintaining strong relationships with customers and partners through continued communication, collaboration and development of client relationships.
We are looking for the following:
Familiarity with various survey equipment, including Kongsberg, R2Sonic, Norbit and Reson multibeam systems, positioning systems and USBL systems.
Sound knowledge of industry software including Caris HIPS & SIPS, QPS QINSy, QPS Qimera, BeamWorx AutoClean, QPS Fledermaus and Kongsberg SIS.
Minimum 4 years of experience in marine survey, ideally in the coastal zone.
Considerable experience in leading and delivering vessel mobilisations.
A higher education degree in hydrographic surveying (ideally IHO Cat-A accredited) or related science-based subject.
Possession of a full UK driving licence.
Valid offshore medical and sea survival certification.
The Senior Hydrographic Surveyor role is a truly exciting opportunity to develop a career and join a well-established, fast-moving business.
If you are interested in applying for this position at A-2-Sea, please contact Nicola Tucker: [email protected].
Nortek seeks to hire a Managing Director for our UK Headquarters in Southampton.
Areas of responsibility include:
Day-to-day management of a small technical sales and support team
• Support and monitor team performance.
• Motivate and build team competencies.
• Provide training and development opportunities and HR support.
• Legally comply with UK employment regulations.
Sales Management
• Determine sales targets and implement sales planning and resourcing.
• Ensure sales and support engineers have the tools and skills they need to be successful.
• Maintain responsibility for key customer accounts. Business Development
• Seek out new business opportunities and develop strategies to attain them.
• Demonstrate commercial awareness of customer segments and core markets. Finance
• Develop, implement and adhere to the organisation’s yearly budget.
• Understand and approve management accounting including P&L, balance sheet and cash flows.
• Confirm VAT and invoicing requirements where necessary and manage expenses. Compliance Oversight
Ensure organisation complies with employment and business law, export control regulations, and government and corporate contractual obligations. Approximately 25% travel is a requirement of this position.
Travel will primarily be within the UK and Ireland, and occasionally international, including to the parent company headquarters in Norway, and to international conferences or meetings.
Prior experience should include a track record of success in the following areas:
• 5+ years B2B sales management or leadership within the marine or maritime sector
• Technical sales role
• New customer prospecting and acquisition
• Responsibility for managing financial budgets
• Leadership and accountability
• Strong commercial awareness or business development experience
• Strategic planning
• Cultural awareness
The above list is preferred skills and experience, but not all are essential in order to apply. A passion for this industry and strong willingness to learn are highly desirable personal qualities which will help you grow into this position. Please discuss these in your application and do not hesitate to contact us should you have further questions about the role.
Basic requirements:
• Valid UK driving licence and UK residency are essential. We will not accept applications from individuals who are
unable to work or live within the UK for this role.
• Whilst home working may be accommodated, this is not a remote position. Reporting to the main office in
Southampton UK, is a requirement of the job. Additional favourable experience includes:
• Ability to understand and interpret technical information
• Marine technology or instrumentation background
• Prior experience selling into multi-level organisations
• Maths, physical science or engineering, with an ability toward finance or accounting The benefits package includes:
• Competitive salary according to experience. Please indicate salary expectations.
• Private medical and dental insurance at 100% employer contribution for individual coverage.
• 25 days of annual leave plus national holidays.
• Nest company pension with employer contributions of 5%.
• Free car parking at the Southampton office.
To apply, please send CV and cover letter to Claire Cardy, by the 11th of March 2022.
Contact information
Contact person Claire Cardy
Email [email protected]
Phone 0044 7770891160
Metocean Proposal Specialist needed for an exciting opportunity to support a newly merged and growing commercial team in the offshore energy transition sector based in either Portchester or Wallingford. Compiling winning quotes and tenders to secure metocean data analysis work together with business development. Corresponding with clients in Europe and Africa as well as colleagues in the regional Fugro offices in both Asia and the Americas. Fugro places an emphasis on working with clients on a consultative basis so a strong technical knowledge paired with commercial experience is pre-requisite to this role.
Responsibilities:
Preparing quotes and tenders as well as providing technical input to multi-entity proposals for metocean measurement surveys and real-time monitoring systems.
Develop business opportunities in Europe and Africa for metocean studies.
Liaise with technical specialists in the metocean survey team.
Keep in regular contact with the Metocean Buoys team in the UK and Norway
Fugro geoconsulting teams in Europe and Africa
Typical day:
Analyse client requests and engage with clients.
Prepare quotes and tenders for metocean desktop studies.
Prepare costs, margin and schedules.
Ensure all relevant documents are communicated to the clients and all questionnaires are completed as well as reviewing Terms & Conditions.
Attend client meetings, both internal and external.
Keep up to date with industry, competitor and applicable scientific news and developments plus attend selected conferences.
Support marketing activities.
Requirements:
MSc level qualification in offshore metocean, environmental, survey or engineering and professional experience of metocean data analysis, criteria derivation and/or modelling in support of commercial applications.
Experience of tendering and/or commercial activities.
Organised, able to prioritise, strong attention to detail, conscientious and showing initiative
Competent IT skills to include Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
SWIG invites students and employees in the field of water sensors to design a poster summarising their research or development work. This is an opportunity for researchers and new staff within the water and environmental sectors to showcase their scientific talents and innovative thinking.
The SWIG Early Career Poster Prize is intended to raise awareness of technological development and novel applications related to water measurements and thereby promote innovation in sensor research and commercial application. The competition is open to all ‘early career researchers’ to include students either in full time education or within the first 5 years of employment within their area of expertise.
Scientific poster competition 2022:
£1,200 first prize
£500 second prize
£200 third prize
For full details of the competition, including terms and conditions, please see the attached flyer or the SWIG website.
To submit an abstract and a poster, please use the web portal.
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