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Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 16:13
November 7, 2011. Seattle, WA. Measurement Technology NW (MTNW) announces the successful implementation of its running line tensiometer technology with the US Army Corp of Engineers Dredge Potter. MTNW collaborated with C&J Offshore and Ockerman Consulting to ensure the mooring line monitoring project was successful from the initial design to the final installation and commissioning. The US Army Corp of Engineers Dredge Potter is based near St. Louis and is... + continue reading
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:48
Measurement Technology NW (MTNW) implemented its running line tensiometer (RLT) technology with a Samson synthetic rope in an offshore mooring monitoring project engineered by Delmar Systems. This implementation is MTNW’s first use of tension measurement technology with 2”+ synthetic ropes. Recently, Delmar Systems was contracted to moor an offshore supply vessel (OSV) to a major offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The OSV is being used as a support vessel while dive operations are conducted. The OSV is using a three-point... + continue reading
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 14:31
Tension Monitoring for Subsea Cable Laying In subsea cable laying operations, it is imperative to understand the tension on the cable that you are laying on the ocean floor. Too little tension and the cable will potentially kink under the vessel, too tight and the cable could break internally. Once a cable has been bent or broken the entire span is unusable.Often subsea cables will cost millions of dollars and the laying of the cable is a high-profile event with many observers…the cable manufacturer, the insurance... + continue reading
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 11:42
Here is the press release regarding the Adamac project described in the blog post below.http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011bargemooring/03anchorwinchmonitoring/prweb5175084.htm
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 20:53
This January we had the opportunity to bring our barge winch monitoring system to Port Harcourt, Nigeria in support of a local oil and gas services company based there. The Gulf of Guinea is one of the hot new oil patches and it is becoming as criss-crossed with sub-sea pipes as any ocean in the world. Oil companies operating there have to be very careful about where they place their anchors for mooring. And, they need to know immediately if one of their anchors is slipping and could potentially pull through other nearby... + continue reading
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 20:47
Being from the Pacific Northwest, and specifically from the Norwegian/Fisherman’s Terminal area of Seattle, we have always thought that our products and services should play a bigger role in the fishing industry. And now, they are!In the last year, we’ve started to sell trawl winch monitoring systems into the Pacific and Atlantic trawl fishing fleets. Like most industries, winch operators in the fishing industry have worked from “gut feel” about how much tension or speed their winch systems, nets, and cables could support. Now, however,... + continue reading
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 14:17
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (sometimes referred to as SIO, Scripps Oceanography, or just Scripps) in La Jolla, California, is one of the oldest and largest centers for ocean and earth science research, graduate training, and public service in the world.Hundreds of ocean and earth researchers conduct scientific research with the aid of oceanographic research vessels and shorebased laboratories. Scripps manages several research vessels including: RV Roger Revelle, RV Melville, RV New Horizon, RV Robert Gordon Sproul, and RP... + continue reading
Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 13:59
Ever wonder how electrical and telephone cables get from island to island? In late 2010 we supported a Trinity Offshore project in Vancouver, BC by instrumenting a custom cable-laying barge for tension, speed and payout monitoring of the cable. Trinity built this specialized barge to deploy cable for the telecommunications and electrical industry. One of the primary challenges with laying sub-sea cable is that the cable has to be laid in one continuous line without connectors. This means that if you lay your cable too slowly,... + continue reading
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 18:51
When you are 1,200 feet down in the ocean working on delicate operations, where ocean pressures are equal to 74,900lbs per square foot, you don’t want to be in anything but an OceanWorks Hardsuit™. OceanWorks has been an MTNW customer for many years and we thought it would be interesting to show off some of their latest LCI-90i supported systems. In the images on the page you can see the OceanWorks Hardsuit™ 1200 (www.oceanworks.com) owned by the Italian and French Navies. This Hardsuit™ can go 1,200 feet deep... + continue reading
