From left: Camilla Kiss, EVP Finance Kongsberg Discovery – Stene Førsund EVP Gross sales and Advertising and marketing, Kongsberg Discovery – Trond F. Crantz, CEO Argeo – Atle Gran, Senior Gross sales Supervisor, Kongsberg Discovery – Kenneth Mitsem, Common Supervisor, CSI Nordics AS.
Argeo Subsea, CSI Nordics and Kongsberg Discovery signed a three-party Certificates of Supply and Acceptance for a brand new HUGIN Superior AUV.
The settlement helps Argeo’s fleet growth plans, because it goals to construct the world’s most superior AUV fleet, with seven excessive specification items. Argeo already has one HUGIN Superior in service.
CSI Nordics, a subsidiary of CSI Leasing, one of many largest impartial tools leasing firms on the earth, will buy the unit from Kongsberg Discovery, coming into right into a long-term leasing settlement with Argeo.
Argeo CEO Trond Crantz says the deal will amplify the corporate’s operational capability, placing it in “a singular place inside each the marine minerals, oil and gasoline and the renewables section, rising effectivity and productiveness considerably. Our growth plans will set up us because the premier authority in AUV expertise worldwide. The strategic mixture of Kongsberg’s extremely superior AUVs with Argeo’s proprietary cutting-edge electromagnetic sensor system, Argeo LISTEN, propels us forward of opponents.
“Argeo LISTEN permits for environment friendly inspection of cables and pipelines, each buried and on the seafloor, in addition to speedy estimation of cathodic safety standing and remaining lifetime. By integrating this state-of-the-art system into the Hugin Superior, our shoppers can count on expedited mission completion and entry to complete information derived from a number of sensors concurrently, guaranteeing unparalleled high quality and effectivity.”
The Superior sits on the high of Kongsberg Discovery’s HUGIN AUV household of merchandise.
The unit’s commonplace specs features a HISAS 1032 twin receiver, EM2040 Mk2 Multibeam Echosounder, a UHD nonetheless picture digicam, laser profiler, sub-bottom profiler, magnetometer, along with sensors for methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and extra.
