ROV Planet Articles

MacArtney Renews Distributor Agreement with Teledyne Marine

04.07.2023
MacArtney has recently renewed and expanded its distributor agreement with Teledyne Marine for ODI connectors. This strategic partnership aims to offer comprehensive connectivity solutions to customers in maritime industries.

Square Robot Achieves Groundbreaking Milestone in Gasoline Tank Inspection

03.07.2023
Square Robot has reached an unprecedented milestone in the world of robotic tank inspections. Their cutting-edge SR-3 robot has successfully entered, scanned, and exited an in-service gasoline tank through our Side Launcher (patent pending) attached to a side manway, marking an unprecedented milestone in robotic tank inspections.

Forssea Robotics Delivers Two SMOOVE® Resident Subsea Vision Systems to Ifremer

03.07.2023
SMOOVE® brings together Forssea’s know-how for real-time underwater vision and Ifremer’s expertise in resident systems and scientific observatories deployment.

IAI and ATLAS ELEKTRONIK Unveil a Joint Development Integrated in the BlueWhale Uncrewed Submarine

03.07.2023
Israel Aerospace Industries and ATLAS ELEKTRONIK, a company of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, officially launched their latest joint development for advanced anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missions at the Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) Conference and Exhibition in Rostock, Germany. In a festive ceremony at ELTA’s exhibition booth, Eyal Shapira, Vice President and General Manager of ELTA’s division for Air Defense and Naval Systems, and Michael Ozegowski, Chief Executive Officer of ATLAS ELEKTRONIK, unveiled the joint development, demonstrating an important milestone in the long-standing partnership between thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and the Israeli industry.

Seaway7 Awarded Offshore Wind Contract in UK

30.06.2023
Subsea 7 S.A. today confirmed the award to Seaway7, part of the Subsea7 Group, of a very large1 contract by ScottishPower Renewables for the transport and installation of the foundations and inner-array cables for the East Anglia THREE offshore farm. The award comes a year after the preferred bidder agreement was announced.

Pelagic Returns to St. John's for Demobilization from Titan Mission

29.06.2023
Pelagic Research Services have demobilized from the Horizon Arctic in St. John's, NL , Canada following the Titan rescue and recovery mission. They have been working around the clock now for ten days, through the physical and mental challenges of this operation, and were anxious to finish the mission and return to their loved ones.

NOAA Deploys Drones in the Ocean and Atmosphere to Advance Hurricane Forecasting

29.06.2023
NOAA and partners are improving hurricane forecasting by harnessing the power of new technologies and working to coordinate these technologies to predict hurricane track, intensity, and rapid intensification. Uncrewed systems and other tools are gathering data at different levels of the ocean and the atmosphere that are key to understanding how storms form, build, and intensify.

Argeo Granted New Patent for Tracking and Detection of Pipelines and Power Cables

28.06.2023
Argeo Robotics AS, a fully owned subsidiary of Argeo AS, has been granted a patent from the Norwegian Industrial Patent office (Patentstyret) for a subsea electromagnetic remote-sensing system for tracking of buried cables and pipelines below the seafloor.

Saipem Awarded New Contracts for an Overall Amount of Approximately 1 billion USD

28.06.2023
Saipem has been awarded two new contracts, one for EPCI offshore activities in the Middle East and the other for the development of underwater drones in Brazil. The overall amount of these new acquisitions is approximately 1 billion USD.

DeepOcean Completes Large Decommissioning Project

28.06.2023
Ocean services provider DeepOcean has successfully completed a significant subsea decommissioning project for a client in the central North Sea, reaching a 98 percent recycling rate for the removed subsea infrastructure.

JFD launches its Fourth Generation Submarine Rescue System ‘Agile’

27.06.2023
JFD is proud to unveil its ‘Agile’ Submarine Rescue System (SRS), based on 40 years’ experience, which marks a significant enhancement in available transport options, mobilisation configurations and system safety when responding to a Distressed Submarine (DISSUB) incident.

Elbit America Selected for U.S. Navy Information Warfare Research Project

26.06.2023
Elbit Systems of America (Elbit America) has been awarded a prime contract by the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) to develop and demonstrate an autonomous maritime target tracking capability as part of the United States Navy’s Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP). The company will test its prototype in a series of at sea demonstrations over the next twelve months.

Saipem Wins Two New Offshore Drilling Contracts Totalling Approximately 550 Million Dollars

26.06.2023
Saipem has been awarded two new offshore drilling contracts, one in the Middle East and one in the Mediterranean Sea, for a total amount of approximately 550 million dollars.

Pelagic Odysseus 6K ROV Continues Titan Recovery Mission

25.06.2023
Under unified command of Transportation Safety Board of Canada and US Coast Guard, assisted by the US National Transportation Safety Board, Pelagic Research Services (PRS) continues its role as the ROV in service for the Titan recovery mission.

Nauticus is Contracted by Petrobras to Develop and Test the AUV Aquanaut in Brazil

23.06.2023
Nauticus Robotics, a developer of autonomous robots using artificial intelligence for data collection and intervention services for the ocean industries, today announced that it has been awarded a contract with Petrobras, one of the world’s largest energy companies, to deploy Aquanaut, the Company’s autonomous subsea robot, to support Petrobras’ offshore activities.

Highland Pupils Claim National STEM Title

23.06.2023
School pupils from Inverness proved victorious in the final of a nationwide competition held in Aberdeen last week, which was organised by Global Underwater Hub, the leading trade and industry development body for the UK’s underwater sectors.

PXGEO Awarded 3D OBN Project in Brazil

23.06.2023
PXGEO has secured a contract with Petrobras for a 3D ocean bottom node (OBN) survey in the Campos Basin, Brazil. The survey is to be acquired in water depths of 2,300m with a duration of approximately 10 months.

Ørsted Invents and Patents Uncrewed Surface Measuring Vessel

22.06.2023
Ørsted, the world's leading developer of offshore wind farms, has designed and developed the first uncrewed surface vessel (USV) in the industry for offshore met-ocean measurement campaigns. The measurement data will help lower uncertainties in the expected annual energy production for new offshore wind farms. Ørsted, who has patented the USV concept, sees enormous potential in the technology and has initiated a serial production based on their successful prototype USV.

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