NOAA intends to collaborate with a private company led by Victor Vescovo, the first person to reach the deepest point in all five of the world's named oceans, in an effort to explore, characterize, and map unknown areas of the deep ocean. 

Teledyne Marine announces the launch of LINK, their new online learning and collaboration center.

Magseis Fairfield has been awarded a deepwater ocean bottom node (OBN) project in the Mexican sector of the Gulf of Mexico. Work is scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2020 and will take approximately 60 days. The survey will be carried out in water depths of 2,000 to 2,600 meters.

Rovco, one of the offshore energy industry’s leading providers of ROV, hydrographic and artificial intelligence-based technology services, has announced a number of key executive team hires and internal appointments.

Fugro has signed a 5-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide shoreline mapping services in support of the agency’s Coastal Mapping Program.

JFD, a world leader in breathing apparatus, life support equipment and hyperbaric medical equipment to support life-critical applications and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has announced that it will bring to market a new patient ventilator system to support global health systems in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic.

This month SEAMOR Marine’s latest innovation, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) with 3-kilometer capacity, arrived in western Panama, where one of the country’s hydroelectric generation companies has begun using it for tunnel inspections of two hydroelectric projects on the Old Chiriqui River.

AqualisBraemar, a global marine, energy, offshore consultancy service provider, has set up a new office in the Port of Tyne to support its rapidly developing rig inspection services and to be closer to numerous clients in the North East of England.  

DeepGreen Metals, Inc. has acquired Tonga Offshore Mining Limited (TOML), giving the company exploration rights to a 74,713 km2 block of CCZ seabed that contains an inferred resource of 756 million wet tonnes of polymetallic nodules.

Seaborn Networks (“Seaborn”), a leading developer-owner-operator of subsea fiber optic cable systems, announces the appointment of Michel Marcelino as Senior Vice President, Head of Latin America. Michel is responsible for managing Seaborn’s sales organization and channel strategies, as well as serving as Seaborn’s most senior officer in Brazil.

Following a competitive tender process, leading safety product manufacturer and service provider VIKING Life-Saving Equipment has won a three-year contract to supply personal protective equipment (PPE) to Serica Energy, one of the UK’s leading oil & gas companies.

Forum Energy Technologies has secured an order from PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (“Amman Mineral”) to supply one of its observation-class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to support operations at Indonesia’s second largest copper and gold mine.

Marine contractor Van Oord is due to complete final tests of its new Deep Dig-It trenching machine, designed and engineered in collaboration with world leading sub-sea technology experts Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD).


Prysmian Group, a world leader in the energy and telecom cables systems industry, has completed the brand integration process following the acquisition of General Cable, launching a new multi-brand strategy and restyling of its visual identity and logos.

Teledyne Marine has promoted Paul Conner to the role of Channel Manager for the Instruments & Imaging sales team in the Americas. Paul will be working with the organization’s sales managers and global channel partners to help drive the team strategy, customer support and engagement. 

Applied Petroleum Technology has been awarded a global frame agreement by Wintershall Dea GmbH to supply geochemical analyses for the energy company’s E&P efforts around the world.