Latest sales of CONTROS HydroC™ CO2 sensor went to Prof. Ulf Riebesell/GEOMAR.

The CO2 sensor is used in the first long-term experiment of the GEOMAR mesocosms, with investigates effects of ocean acidification on plankton communities and takes place in the framework of the German project on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification).

For more information please visit http://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/erster-langzeit-einsatz-der-kieler-mesokosmen/ or contact Melanie Herrmann.

A monitoring system was sold to Contour Global in order to measure the methane, carbon dioxide concentration and other fresh water parameters incl. H2S, conductivity, temperature, depth, O2 and pH of Lake Kivu in Rwanda. The backbone of the monitoring system for this very particularly challenging KivuWatt Projek consists of the CONTROS HydroC™ High-Pressure CH4 and CO2 sensors.

Naturally occurring methane and dissolved carbon dioxide are trapped in Lake Kivu at significant depth of the lake and are increasing on a daily basis. Project KivuWatt will draw on the trapped methane and dissolved carbon dioxide and process it for power generation; at the same time releasing the gas will reduce the risk of a potentially explosively release, which could cause a serious environmental incident.

Specs of CONTROS KivuWatt Monitoring System
For more information contact Melanie Herrmann.

CONTROS will present its HydroC sensors at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013 in Vienna Austria.

The European Geosciences Union General Assembly will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.

Please visit http://www.egu2013.eu/ for more detailed information on the event or contact Melanie Herrmann.

Ocean Business is one of the most important international events in the ocean technology calendar; it is a winning formula of combining traditional static exhibition stand with the opportunity for delegates to attend training and demonstration workshops.

Please visit CONTROS on booth F14.

For more detailed information on the event please visit http://www.oceanbusiness.com/ or contact Christoph Kirbach

CONTROS ist auf der Jahrestagung 2012 der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie in Koblenz vertreten. Die Tagung wird gemeinsam von der Universität Koblenz und der Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde veranstaltet. 

For Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of the Science and Engineering of Oceanography and Marine Technology CONTROS has obtained the MTS Compass International Award during this year’s OCEANS IEEE conference and exhibition.

OCEANS '11 MTS/IEEE KONA was held in the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Kona on Hawai‘i from September 19-22. The CONTROS team feels honored to receive the only International Award and gives special thanks to the MTS board for the election.

“This award has additionally convinced us that the last 5 years of hard work and many extra hours have been worth spending and it is a great motivation to continue.”

said CEO Daniel Esser during his acceptance speech. He dedicated the award to the whole CONTROS team for the efforts on continuous sensor systems and companies improvements.

CONTROS is exhibiting with its UK partner RS Aqua at booth F550.

For further information please contact CONTROS

CONTROS R&D responsible Peer Fietzek is presenting a poster called “Sensor Evaluation of the HydroC-CO2 from Various Field Tests” which has been prepared together with B. Fiedler and A. Körtzinger from Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR).

The poster session #009 is held on 2/22/2012 at 5:00 - 6:00 pm. Location: Poster/Exhibit Hall

For further information please contact CONTROS

At this years Underwater Intervention, our Managing Director Daniel Esser is giving a talk about Early Leak Detection on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 2:30pm, in room 222.

For further information please contact CONTROS

Stefan Kramer is presenting the latest numbers and projects regarding the 2nd generation of CONTROS sensors together with Turner Designs, Inc. at booth 1556.

The AGU Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences, attracting nearly 20,000 Earth and space scientists, educators, students, and policy makers. This meeting showcases current scientific theory focused on discoveries that will benefit humanity and ensure a sustainable future for our planet.

For further information please contact CONTROS

Following a successful event in 2010 CONTROS CEO Daniel Esser became part of the advisory board for this year’s Subsea & Arctic Leak Detection Symposium (SALDS). Hosted by Shell, and co-chaired by Steven Wong (ExxonMobil) and Sandeep Patni (Shell) the symposium addresses the special challenges of leak detection in subsea, surface and arctic environments.

All leak detection issues will be discussed, but SALDS will provide a special focus on multiphase lines, where it has previously been thought leak detection was not possible. Multiphase pipelines carry oil, gas, and water in any combination produced from one or more oil wells. The event will address the gaps and begin solving the problems with multiphase pipelines, as an industry.

Sören Themann, Managing Director of the German company Meeriana GmbH, one of CONTROS partners, will give a key talk at the event on November 8th and 9th addressing the “Latest Results on Early Leak Detection” also using the CONTROS early leak detection sensor suite.

For further information please contact CONTROS

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has arranged the AAPG International Conference & Exhibition in Milan Italy from October 23-26 at the Milano Convention Centre.

More than 500 technical presentations will discuss the latest advances in Petroleum Geosciences.

The CONTROS sales team can be visited for an update on the latest developments at booth 232 together with their Italian representative MEPECO S.r.l..

For further information please contact CONTROS

CONTROS supporting the event as a gold level co- sponsor will focus on multiparameter systems to increase the number of valuable data sets in future applications.

Read more: www.rdinstruments.com/aia2011.aspx

For further information please contact CONTROS

The OCEANS Conference is a major international forum for scientists, engineers, and responsible ocean users to present the latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in Oceanic Engineering and Marine Technology.

OCEANS '11 MTS/IEEE Kona features tutorials on special interest topics, a comprehensive technical program of lectures and presentations, a student program, and a large exhibit hall with products from over one hundred companies.

Please visit www.oceans11mtsieeekona.org/ for more detailed information on the event.

For further information please contact CONTROS

Daniel Esser will present a talk on MTS TechSurge workshop Ocean Pollution: From Technology to Management.

The MTS TechSurge workshop is highlighting the state of technology as it relates to ocean pollution and will provide a platform and an immense opportunity to identify innovative strategies and technologies for assessing and mitigating ocean pollution.

Please visit www.mtsociety.org/conferences/techsurge/ for more detailed information on the event.

For further information please contact CONTROS

CONTROS hands-on sessions: John Swallow Room 054/06

Wednesday 06 April 1:30–2:30 pm
- ”CO2 measurements from subsea to surface”
Thursday 7 April 10:30-11:30am
“Advanced early leak detection system for hydrocarbons”.

Ocean Business is one of the most important international events in the ocean technology calendar; it is a winning formula of combining traditional static exhibition stand with the opportunity for delegates to attend training and demonstration workshops.

On Wednesday the 5th we would like to invite all our partners and friends to a German beer festival at our booth - see you there at 14:00.

Please visit www.oceanbusiness.com for more detailed information on the event and do not hesitate to contact Melanie Herrmann for any more information.

CONTROS talk: Integrating sensors for dissolved gas concentrations (CO₂ and CH₄) into modern measuring platforms

CONTROS is an official sponsor of the 5th EGO -European/Everyone’s Gliding Observatories- Meeting and Glider School. The EGO Meeting and Glider School is the major forum to exchange knowledge related to gliders technology and its multidisciplinary applications. The meeting will allow potential new users to gain first-hand experience with glider operation, from the mechanical design, to programming and communications, deployment and recovery and data processing.

For more information on the event please visit www.ego2011.eu/.

CONTROS will present its HydroC sensors on the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Puerto Rico. The ASLO meeting brings together freshwater and marine scientists to meet the challenge of global change, exploring diversity and connections across the range of aquatic systems impacted by humans.

Please visit www.aslo.org/meetings/sanjuan2011 for more detailed information on the event or contact CONTROS.

CONTROS will take part in the 30th conference on Seabed Mapping in Geilo, Norway. The conference is the international event for personnel working with technology developments, survey and inspection in the marine segment of the oil and gas industry.

Daniel Esser and Soeren Themann from meeriana GmbH will present a talk with the following topic “On the feasibility of Hydrocarbon Sniffers in Subsea Flowline Monitoring” Time: Thursday, February 10th 2011, 10:00am

Please visit www.tekna.no for more detailed information on the event.

For further information please contact CONTROS.

Please visit us together with Metocean on the ATC in Houston. ATC brings together oil, gas and mining professionals of all disciplines from exploration to production. The conference provides a world-class venue to present creative solutions to the challenging Arctic arena, it will feature a robust technical program and is supported by a dozen scientific organizations.

For more information on the event please visit www.arctictechnologyconference.org.

Please visit us together with RBR on Booth 529
The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 16,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

Please visit www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/ for more information on the event.

For further information please contact CONTROS.

Subsea Survey IRM is the only conference in the world devoted to Oil &Gas and Maritime industry underwater survey and IRM products and services. Daniel Esser will present the latest advances in Subsea Leak Detection at the Technical Program of the conference:

Title: Leak Detection and Monitoring of Subsea Structures / On the Feasibility of optical Sniffers in Subsea Flowline Monitoring
Time: Wednesday, November 10th, 2:30 pm
Place: Track 2

Please visit www.subseasurvey.com for more information on the event.

For further information please contact CONTROS

We will be presenting the new mobile Leak Detection System designed for easy ROV integration as well as the latest improvements on our CH₄ and CO₂ sensors.

You will find us together with our partner Roper Resources Ltd. at booth # 26

For more information please click here: Ocean Innovation

For further information please contact CONTROS

CONTROS is an official sponsor of the 2nd Subsea and Arctic Leak Detection Symposiumheld next week in Houston Texas on 6-7th October.

The Symposium will promote exchange of information between oil & gas companies, regulators, service providers, students and researchers in the field of leak detection. SALDS will exhibit leak detection methods and will cover topics like unique challenges of leak detection and flowline monitoring in inaccessible areas of the subsea and arctic environments, as well as the lack of inlet flowrates and multiphase flows.

CONTROS demonstrates its high sophisticated, cost-efficient and easy-to-use systems for subsea early leak detection and a user presentation is given by one of our clients, Soeren Themann from CCS Consulting in applications such as methane hydrate research, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), ocean acidification, greenhouse gas monitoring, pipeline inspection, long-term monitoring systems for subsea installations, among others.

At SALDS CONTROS will display the new developed Early Leak Detection System, in cooperation with a report of a CONTROS system user and the possibility to test the new system yourself.

For further information please contact CONTROS

The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT), supported by NOAA, conducted a field performance demonstration and evaluation from August to November 2009.  ACT’s unbiased, third party evaluation focused on the accuracy, precision and reliability of commercial in-situ pCO₂ instruments such as the CONTROS HydroC™/ CO₂. Tests were conducted at sites with significant variation in pCO₂ (daily and weekly cycles) and the systems have been compared against well-chosen reference systems.

Reference systems:

1. Flow- through pCO₂ Analyzer (LICOR LI840/ membrane contactor equilibrator)
2. Discrete water sampling (pH and total alkalinity calculated to pCO₂ with CO₂ Sys/ Pierrot)

Results of HydroC™/ CO₂:

• The systems tested functioned continuously throughout the month long test period
• The systems acquired 100 % of the data expected
• The systems collected 10 times the data of the reference systems
• Biofouling did not affect performance during  the duration of the test
• The mean difference (HydroC™ - Reference) is within the given uncertainty interval given by the uncertainties of the instrument and the reference systems.
• “The time-series provided by the HydroC™/ CO₂ revealed diel patterns in CO₂ and captured a significantly greater dynamic range and temporal resolution then could be obtained from discrete reference samples.”

Conclusions:

• As a result of this performance test CONTROS has increased the quality standards for built- in NDIR sensors (e.g. stability, drift, cross sensitivity).
• Analytical filters will be included into the internal gas stream to prevent dust, dirt or any other reversible contamination.
• Update of the algorithms for the NDIR data processing to be implemented.

The full report is available at: www.act-us.info/evaluation_reports

We invite you to visit us at the OCEANS ´10 MTS/IEEE We will be presenting the latest developments in our HydroC™ line for the CH₄ and CO₂ detection in the subsea. We will be togheter with our partner Roper Resources Ltd. booth Nr. 709 This year´s slogan reads: "The global ocean is an uncommon resource demanding common responsibility" * The largest population of oceanographers in the world resides in the Biloxi Venue, for this reason we will be showing our known line of oceanographical gas sensors to solve your needs in the cientifical and offshore area research For more information and details please visit:

www.oceans10mtsieeeseattle.org

We invite you to visit us at the HydroVision International 2010 in the Charlotte Convention Center HydroVision International will highlight perspectives on the role of hydropower, explore issues affecting hydro resources, and help participants develop a vision to meet challenges and ensure the future sustainability of hydro. You will be able to meet our team at booth 658 For additional information please visit:

www.hydroevent.com/