Two globally-leading companies in their own respective fields, Subsea 7 and SeeByte, have joined forces to develop the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the offshore oil and gas industry. The project will see the development of the first truly autonomous vehicle capable of both inspection and light intervention in an offshore environment.
SeeByte Ltd. a software product company based in Edinburgh announces the promotions of Dr. Ioseba Tena to Sales and Marketing Manager, Matt Fitchett to Support Manager and Daniel Serrano to Development Manager (SeeTrack Offshore), effective December 2007.
SeeByte Ltd is proud to announce the start of SMART UUV 3000; an ambitious three year undertaking that aims to productise smart Unmanned Underwater Vehicle software solutions that will enable Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) to automatically tackle complex tasks such as inspection of risers, jackets, manifolds, chains, wellheads, rigs, ship hulls and harbours including searching complex areas and intervention tasks on known structures.
Jose Vazquez has joined as Navigation and Control specialist, responsible for further developing SeeByte’s SeeTrack products for autonomous systems, while Hector Hugo Mijares has been appointed senior development engineer, having responsibilities throughout the company’s product lines, with a focus on embedded real time software design and development.
The Rt Hon Des Browne MP, Secretary of State for Scotland and UK Secretary of State for Defence made a special visit to SeeByte Limited on Thursday 16th August 2007. Rt Hon Des Browne MP said “It’s been a pleasure to visit SeeByte today. Success in business by a Scottish company is always welcome, but it is particularly good to see a hi-tech spin-off continuing to flourish."
SeeByte Ltd is pleased to announce CDR Jon Wood, USN (Ret), has joined the SeeByte team in a full time capacity. Located primarily in San Diego, California, he will be responsible for leading the company’s US Business Development activities in the military market, and for establishing a permanent customer facing presence for the company in the US.
SeeByte Ltd is proud to announce the launch of SeeTrack Offshore V.2.1, a Dynamic Positioning system for Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV).
“SeeByte Ltd and the SeeTrack Military system continue to provide state-of-the-art tools and the technical support we need to integrate data and planning across all our MCM assets, including autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), divers and towed sonars. We are able to seamlessly work with other nations through SeeTrack's use of open standards, and through the built in links, supporting ESRI, MINTACS and MEDAL. ”
Cmdr Gordon Stamp, Director of RNZN Capability Requirements
"By choosing SeeTrack Military we can now generate a common picture of our operational environment, share that picture with the warfare commanders and be even more effective with our field operations” Commander Jon Wood, US Navy.
SeeByte appoint C.A. Richards & Associates, Inc. as the exclusive representative for SeeTrack Offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.
Subsea 7 and SeeByte Ltd have successfully completed a 22 km pipeline inspection using Subsea 7’s Geosub AUV and SeeByte’s SeeTrack Offshore system with its Autotracker module.
SeeByte announced the opening of its new headquarters in Edinburgh. The offices were officially opened by Crawford Beveridge, Executive Vice President of Sun Microsystems.
SeeByte today announced the first sales of SeeTrack Military systems to the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), in Wellington, New Zealand.
In partnership with Subsea 7 and funded by BP, SeeByte has successfully completed sea operations of its new SeeTrack Offshore automated inspection system on the Foinaven and Schiehallion oilfields, west of the Shetland.