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Sonardyne sonars installed to protect new Middle East energy facility

Maritime security company, Sonardyne International Ltd, UK, has announced that its underwater intruder detection sonar technology, Sentinel, has been installed on the site of a new Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) facility in the Middle East to monitor unauthorised access from the sea. The programme of work included the supply of multiple in-water sonars and redundant …

The Value of AUVs: It’s All About The Data

Author: Ioseba Tena – Global Business Manager – Marine Robotic Systems Why do I need to use an AUV? Why are we putting so much effort into these systems? How are they adding value to our everyday operations? Those of us involved in the marine robotics industry face these questions every day, even though it’s been …

Latest delivery of Sentinel diver detection sonars for Far East OPVs

Maritime security company, Sonardyne International Ltd, UK, has reached the latest delivery milestone in a contract to supply a fleet of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs) under construction in the Far East, with its diver detection sonar technology, Sentinel. Two ship-fit Sentinels have now been tested and delivered with more to follow, as part of a …

Underwater tracking…how far can we go?

Author: Edmund Ceurstemont, USBL technical authority We’re regularly asked “can you provide a tracking system capable of tracking beyond 7 km slant range” or “can you provide a system to track to full ocean depths”? I have been working with underwater tracking systems for over 10 years now, and it’s not an easy task to …

What makes a successful bundle tow?

Since 1993, we’ve worked with seabed-to-surface engineering, construction and services contractor, Subsea 7, supplying them with acoustic monitoring and positioning technology to support the tow-out and installation of prefabricated pipelines for the North Sea. The start of this year was no different and in the last few weeks, one 3.8 kilometre bundle for a field …

Thien Nam Positioning selects Sonardyne to track Vietnamese divers and ROVs

Subsea technology from Sonardyne that tracks the position of divers and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) as they carry out surveys and inspections, has been selected by Vietnam-based Thien Nam Positioning JSC to supports its offshore activities in the region.   The Mini-Ranger 2 Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) acoustic tracking system, the first to be delivered into …

EMGS invests further in deep water positioning technology from Sonardyne

Norwegian survey company, Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has increased its investment in technology developed by Sonardyne International Ltd, UK, which allows hydrocarbon sensing equipment to be positioned in deep water with extremely high accuracy. The Ranger 2 Gyro-iUSBL system combines acoustic positioning and inertial navigation technologies and is the second system now owned by EMGS. …

10 years at Ormen Lange

In 2007, a unique chapter in Sonardyne’s history began to be written – a chapter that would span the next 10 years and lead to the development of a completely autonomous and long endurance seafloor monitoring capability. Shaun Dunn, Global Business Manager, and Tom Bennetts, Project Manager at Sonardyne look back at a unique subsea …

Noble Globetrotter I upgraded to latest Sonardyne DP reference technology

Leading offshore drilling contractor, Noble Corporation plc, has selected acoustically-aided inertial navigation technology from Sonardyne Inc., Houston, for its ultra-deep water drillship Noble Globetrotter I. The Marksman DP-INS system is being used to provide a high integrity, independent subsea position reference for the vessel’s GE DP3 dynamic positioning (DP) system as it drills exploration wells …

Sonardyne all-in-one navigation chosen for Thai AUV programme

Marine robotics technology supplied by Sonardyne Asia Pte. Ltd, of Singapore has been selected to help navigate a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) being developed by a joint-research program between PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) and Kasetsart University (KU), Bangkok, Thailand. The order for a SPRINT inertial navigation system (INS) and Syrinx …