Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. (C-Power) announce it will commence six-month sea trials in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Navy to test and validate the technical and economic capabilities of C-Power’s SeaRAY autonomous offshore power system (AOPS).

Forum Energy Technologies has secured an order to supply specialist subsea equipment for a major cable maintenance project in South East Asia.

Dresser Natural Gas Solutions (Dresser NGS), a leading provider of measurement, instrumentation and piping solutions to the natural gas distribution and transmissions markets, has acquired Flow Safe, a manufacturer of spring-operated and pilot-operated high performance pressure relief devices.

Stinger Technology AS and Houston Mechatronics Inc. (HMI) have entered into a collaboration agreement.

Motive Offshore Group, specialist in marine equipment fabrication and rental, has appointed Declan Slattery as Chief Financial Officer.

Maersk Training has recently announced a significant investment of $1million into its UK business, headquartered in Aberdeen.

Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a leading developer of autonomous systems for ocean-going vessels announces that it has accomplished its full $20M investment goal with a second close of $5M. The company announced the first close of $15M in July.

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc. (CSA) and SeaRobotics Corp. (SRC), both based in Stuart, Florida, announce the joint development of the next generation Utility Class Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV).

LLOG Exploration Company, L.L.C. announces that Rick Fowler, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, will retire effective December 1, 2020. Eric Zimmermann, LLOG's current Vice President of Geology and Business Development, will serve as Chief Operating Officer upon Rick's retirement. 

ROSEN Group, leading providers of cutting-edge integrity solutions, continues to expand the high-quality consultancy support provided to North Sea operators following the appointment of industry expert, Tom Dubern.

Jon Fredrik Baksaas, the former CEO of Telenor, has been appointed as DNV GL’s new Chair of the board.

International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) has signed a major strategic collaboration agreement with the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), the umbrella organization for the worldwide private dredging industry, which will see the two organizations working more closely together and collaborating on matters of mutual interest over the next two years.

Acteon Group Ltd, a global provider of industry-leading products and services for the marine and subsea renewable, nearshore construction and oil and gas sectors, announced that Chris Johnston will be joining InterMoor as group managing director of its global moorings and anchors business. He will be based in Houston, TX, USA.

Kraken Robotics Inc., Canada’s Ocean Company, has announced that Quincy, Massachusetts based Dive Technologies Inc. (“Dive”) recently completed successful sea trials of a Large Displacement Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (LD-AUV) which was powered by Kraken’s pressure tolerant batteries.

Greensea, creator of OPENSEA®, the open architecture robotics platform for the marine industry, has hired Andrew Keefer, Senior Robotics Engineer, to advance navigation and autonomy technologies.

AGR has secured a frame agreement with Vår Energi AS to supply temporary contract workers across their extensive operations on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.