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people & companies 10,000 sq. m. in floor area, and is the first such Schlumberger facility in the southern hemisphere. When fully staffed, up to 300 scientists, engineers and technical staff working in multidisciplinary, collaborative teams will work on the development of innovative solutions to the techni- cal challenges associated with the complex formations found deep off- shore Brazil. Continuing a theme that now runs across all Schlumberger research centers, the new Brazil facility is located close to the leading academic expertise of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and is located on the same campus that houses the Petrobras CENPES Research Center. Technip Wins North Sea Deal Technip won a contract worth approximately $95m by Total E&P UK Limited, as operator of the Islay Gas Field, to deliver a full EPCI project in the UK North Sea. The Islay field is located in the North Sea, 440 km north-east of Aberdeen, in 120 m of water depth. The contract will involve the world’s first subsea implementation of Technip’s reelable, electrically trace heated pipe-in-pipe (ETH-PIP) technolo- gy. Technip Wins Pipelay Contract Offshore Ghana Technip was award- ed by GNPC a lump sum contract for phase 1 of the Natural Gas Transportation and Processing proj- ect, 60 km offshore Ghana. Small Submarine Incorporates HD LBV SeaBotix teamed with SEAmagine Hydrospace Corp., manufacturers of one-atmosphere submersibles, to Crowley Recognized by NOAA Crowley Maritime Corp. was selected as a 2009 Company Award Winner for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service's Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) program. The selection was based on Crowley's 38 vessels providing 15,798 timely weather observa- tions for the U.S. VOS program in 2009. Particularly impressive was Crowley's Resolve, a pusher tug residing in Alaskan waters, whose crewmembers alone made 1,738 observations last year, ranking her the fourteenth-highest highest reporting vessel in the entire pro- gram. The VOS program, which was established in 1853, relies on vol- unteer crewmembers on nearly 1,000 ships around the world to monitor the weather at their loca- tions and submit the observations to national meteorological services. This data is used to create marine weather forecasts and is archived for future use by climatologists and other scientists. "Our vessels' crewmembers have been contributing first-hand weather data to VOS for decades," said Ed Burdorf, manager of marine operations for Crowley. "Crowley is proud of our history with the program and we are com- mitted to continuing to support it. We see the impact it has each day on our own vessel operations, and we are very appreciative of this recognition." 52 MTR November/December 2010 MTNW Wins Award from US NSF Measurement Technology NW (MTNW) won a con- tract from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) to upgrade winch monitoring technology across 15 federal- ly funded research vessels. This award brings new MTNW hardware and soft- ware technology to the sup- port of winch operations. “The recent change in the operating safety standards for UNOLS vessels has required a technology upgrade on every active vessel,” said Tom Rezanka, Managing Director of MTNW’s Line Control Instruments. “Our technology exceeds the newly-adopted standards and will both increase safety for personnel and enhance marine sensor deployments.”
