Phoenix International Holdings Inc. (Phoenix) has been awarded a $97 Million (maximum value) contract to provide diving and diving related services to the United States Navy. The primary purpose of this contract is to deliver operational, engineering and technical support to the Navy's air, mixed gas and saturation diving services program overseen by the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Office of Director of Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV).

Damen Shipyards Group has unveiled a Ballast Water Pre-Filtration Barge (BWPF) to assist vessels in complying with the IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention. The new legislation came into force on September 8^th this year and Damen Green Solutions has prepared a range of products and services to assist its clients in meeting the requirements of the new legislation.

CGG has announced the final 3D PSDM seismic dataset from its recent 15,400 sq km multi-client survey of the outer Zambezi Delta in the Mozambique Basin is now available for licence. The ultramodern data was acquired over blocks Z5-C and Z5-D and surrounding open acreage as part of a multi-client program agreed between CGG and Mozambique’s Instituto Nacional de Petroleo (INP).

As the adoption of LNG as a ship fuel continues to speed up, DNV GL has launched a new online bunkering platform to take operators seamlessly from order through to delivery.

A team of Fugro employees has won a global competition in geotechnical machine-learning. Competing with 60 other teams from industry and academia around the world, the Fugro team came first in the pile-driving prediction event organized as part of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG) 2020 conference, which will be held in Austin, Texas, in August.

As part of their continued focus on Subsea Well Intervention, Trendsetter announces that they have expanded their systems inventory in response to market demand to include a second Subsea Tree Injection Manifold (STIM).

Demand from the world’s top oil companies for floating drilling units has climbed steadily in the past two years and is set to rise further through 2020 and 2021 as the majors step up development and exploration activity in deepwater basins.

Survitec’s Marine Training Academy in Stonehaven, Scotland, has been certified as a recognized provider of maritime safety equipment training, following the successful audit of the facility by classification society DNV GL.

Peterhead’s reputation as a hub for Scotland’s offshore industry has been boosted by the opening of a new operating base less than a mile from the town’s port.

Subsea systems technology specialist, Interventek, is celebrating continued success with the award of a multi-million-pound contract to supply three 7.375” 10,000psi in-riser landing string completion systems for an international OEM client. With this and other new business wins over the last twelve months valued in excess of £10M, Interventek has relocated to larger facilities to better service the growing demand for its specialist Revolution valve technology.

Ocean Infinity is excited to announce the launch of a new pioneering marine technology and data company, Armada.

Damen Shipyards congratulates the Mexican Navy for the flagging and entering into service of their two new dredgers, among which is the Damen Cutter Suction Dredger (CSD) 650 ARM Laguna Morelos (ADR-19). The dredger will undertake various dredging, depth maintenance and land reclamation projects in the Gulf of Mexico; the first project being the dredging of the River Grijalba, assigned to the Mexican Navy by the Mexican Federal Government.

Kongsberg Digital (KDI) says it has just been awarded its first K-Sim Safety simulator contract with the Norwegian Sea Rescue Society (NSRS). Under the terms of the agreement, KDI has committed to deliver a brand-new, cutting-edge K-Sim Safety Advanced Fire Fighting Simulator (AFFS) to the NSRS for installation in its Horten-based training center in Norway. As a long-term customer, the new simulator joins several KONGSBERG simulators already being used to train NSRS personnel.

Ship owners and operators using Vessel Insight can now improve performance and reporting, and reduce fuel and energy consumption through the new KONGSBERG application Vessel Performance. Users will also achieve increased transparency and awareness about vessel emissions.

As of 1^st Feb, Tony Stokes has been appointed as President of Delta SubSea and for the DeepOcean Americas region.

Oil production estimated at 1.2 million barrels per day by 2030, Guyana’s total annual oil revenues could approach $30 billion within 10 years, according to fresh research by Rystad Energy.