2020 News

Since introduction of the new service offering, OceanTools have secured contracts of over £600,000 for the production of specialised subsea pressure housings supplied to Environmental and Oil & Gas clients.

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, explained:

“This significant investment allows OceanTools to produce our world-leading subsea dye detection systems, cameras, lights and pressure housings far quicker than ever before, due to previous reliance on third-party machine shops. It allows us to respond to the demands of our customers in a more time efficient manner, and provides us with greater control over the quality of our products, enhancing the offerings we deliver to our global clients.”

In addition to producing components for internal consumption, OceanTools is offering machining services to third-parties, focusing on the production of specialised high precision titanium components and pressure housings.

Joining the OceanTools in-house team of subsea design engineers, to manage the new CNC workshop, will be Stuart Low. Stuart has over 16 years of experience as a CNC machinist, exclusively in the maritime and subsea industries, adding to the OceanTools wealth of experience across a wide range of engineering and subsea tooling disciplines.

More information: CNC Machine Shop

Delighted to support their requirements, we soon discovered that the standard DigiCP was not suitable due to the size being too large for their ROV system. OceanTools were faced with the tough challenge to find a suitable solution for our client in a short time frame – challenge accepted!

Fortunately, having an incredibly talented design team and an in-house CNC machine shop, OceanTools successfully designed and manufactured a system specifically tailored to the DTG3 ROV within just two weeks.

Cody Warner, Sales Manager at Deep Trekker, said:

“We are thrilled to work with OceanTools. Their DigiCP allows us to equip our ROVs with an advanced and capable CP system for a variety of offshore applications, helping our customers gain even more valuable data from their inspections.”

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, added:

“We’re absolutely delighted to have helped both Deep Trekker and their end customer by providing an innovative solution in a very short timescale.”

More information: DigiCP Digital CP Probe

The OceanTools subsea design team collaborated with Aberdeen based start-up, Subsea Connect, to develop a pressure housing and cable termination solution which includes stress relief and water blocking functionality.

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, said:

“This contract award proves that when it comes to providing solutions for problems in the world’s harshest environments, our clients realise they’re in safe hands when dealing with OceanTools’ industry-leading design team. We are delighted to invoke the services of Subsea Connect and lend support to their recently formed business.”

Martin Dines, Director of Subsea Connect, added:

“We are thrilled to be involved with OceanTools on this prestigious project and we look forward to working with them on future projects.”

Upon completion of the pre-production unit, it is anticipated that the delivery of this solution will lead to a series of further design work projects for additional cable sizes as well as the annual manufacture of £six-figures supply of termination housings.

More information: Fibre Optic Cable Termination

Seatronics will be supplying the OceanTools technology to their client, a major subsea contractor. The packaged OceanTools order contains the PowerLOG units along with an OceanDISP subsea data display. The supplied solution allows the user to view pressure sensor readouts in real time, while simultaneously logging the data for future analysis. For this planned project, the PowerLOG will be powering and measuring pressures from multiple pressure sensors up to 20,000psi at depths of 4000m.

The OceanDISP subsea display has the capability to scroll between multiple sensor readings as well as displaying battery voltage. The system has sufficient battery life to display readings continuously for five days as well as the ability to store data for 10 days when operating in standby mode. The efficient system has the additional option of a ROV operated C-Switch to extend battery life further to suit project requirements.

Phil Middleton, Group Managing Director of Seatronics, said:

“Our relationship with OceanTools allows us to tackle many complex applications for our clients which is a feature of the service we offer our clients globally, working with best in class engineering to deliver cost effective solutions.”

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, added:

“We are delighted to be supplying this fantastic system the OceanTools team have designed & built in record time for our friends at Seatronics. The solution will bring great efficiencies to Seatronics’ client to support them on a challenging project and is great testimony to our world-class subsea design team.”

More information: OceanDISP-7K Deep Ocean Display

The major order of around £400,000 in value has been confirmed for the design and manufacture of highly specialised deepwater subsea housings. The housings are to be manufactured from super duplex – a type of stainless steel – and form part of a package Proeon are delivering to their client, an oil industry first tier contractor.

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, said:

“We’re absolutely thrilled to have won this prestigious order. Our team of subsea engineers, led by Stuart Rowley, have many years of experience coming up with innovative solutions to complex subsea problems and this, during the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, is great testimony to their engineering prowess.”

Richard Miller, Managing Director of Proeon, added:

“We needed a supplier with the technical capability and specialism to design and manufacture these housings to exacting standards and meet the tight delivery requirements of the project. We entrusted OceanTools with the order as we believe, given their extensive track record, they could be trusted to deliver a quality product on time and to budget.”

This order follows on from another major order OceanTools recently fulfilled for 6000m titanium subsea pressure housings for the National Institute of Ocean Technology in Chennai, India, as Kevin Parker noted:

“Both these orders really do help confirm our position as the world’s leading designer of the highest quality subsea housings. We’ve a proven track-record extending back over 20 years and have supplied thousands of housings for our own products as well as third-parties.”

More information: Subsea Pressure Housings

We can also offer technical assistance in determining interconnect solutions for diverse subsea applications including bespoke cable assemblies. Contact OceanTools today for reliable delivery and technical support.

Brian Hector, Technical Sales Manager of OceanTools, commented:

“It’s great to be working with Glenair. We’ve long recognised and admired the sealing quality and durability of these connectors and are delighted to be both offering them for sale as well as fitting them to many of the OceanTools range of class-leading subsea products.”

The DyeTector uses high intensity LEDs to cause a dye to fluoresce. The emitted light from the dye is then detected by photomultipliers that convert it to a value transmitted to the surface and displayed on a PC or laptop. The powerful ROV mounted DyeTector can detect down to a few parts per billion (PPB) of dye dissolved in seawater.

The DyeTector may be used to detect leaks from subsea infrastructures such as manifolds, wellheads or pipelines, with performance superior to that of any other optical leak detection system. Another use of the product is during offshore drilling operations. Dye may be added to the cement that is used to secure casing to the seafloor. The DyeTector will detect cement returns the moment they return to the seafloor thus saving oil companies a fortune in rig time, cement and, in particular, prevent large amounts of cement pooling on the seabed.

Kevin Parker, Managing Director of OceanTools, said:

“We’re absolutely delighted our friends at Seatronics will be helping promote the D7 DyeTector. The DyeTector offers oil companies significant operational and cost efficiencies due to superior range and detection performance, whilst simultaneously protecting our precious subsea environment. It’s the world’s most advanced optical dye & leak detection product and having a world-class company like Seatronics offering it globally is a great vote of confidence.”

Phil Middleton, Group Managing Director of Seatronics, added:

“Innovation is one of Seatronics core values by exploring, evaluating and promoting new technologies we aim to grow our portfolio of trusted solutions to our clients. The OceanTools D7 DyeTector ticks all the boxes in this respect and we look forward to working with Kevin and the OceanTools team in the promotion of a market leading product.”

The systems will be available via all global Seatronics locations: OceanTools D7 DyeTector

More information: D7 DyeTector

The C-Laser incorporates a visible solid-state Class IIIb / 3B laser, with an output power to suit your application. It is available in a titanium housing rated to 8000 metres as standard, has a scratch-resistant Sapphire window and can be fitted with a connector of your choice.

More information: C-Laser Underwater Laser