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Leading offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy, Cathie, are pleased to announce the opening of operations in the USA with the appointment of a Vice President. The move is part of the company’s drive for international expansion and will enable them to better serve the US offshore energy industry, following creation of Cathie Inc., at the turn of the year.

As one of the only industry contributions to the highly regarded Canadian Geotechnical Journal, a paper cowritten by Cathie enables more cost-effective pipeline protection solutions, by avoiding overly conservative burial depths. The publication is part of a special issue on pipeline geotechnics, one of Cathie’s special areas of expertise.

The Carbon Trust’s Cable Burial Risk Assessment (CBRA) guidelines, coauthored by Cathie, have now been used as far afield as the CERES Project in Australia. In addition to the now commonplace use of CBRA guidelines for offshore renewables and HVDC interconnectors, this represents a significant step forward in the acceptance of CBRA as best practise in the subsea power cables sector.

Global leader in offshore wind DONG Energy Wind Power has selected Cathie, Ceteal and Ghenova to provide support for its offshore wind farm projects over the next five years.

Since Cathie began trading in 2005 the company has experienced strong organic growth year on year. Operating from a number of offices across Europe, the company is now one of the largest independent offshore geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancies worldwide. Pont will bring strategic and financial support to Cathie to enable further growth and expansion both within and outside of Europe.

Cathie, the leading offshore Geoscience and Geotechnical Engineering Consultancy, have been appointed by the Marine Environmental Data; Information Network (MEDIN) to create a guideline for offshore geotechnical site investigations. This guideline will form part of the MEDIN framework of specifications that govern best practice in collecting metadata for re-use of UK marine information.

Cathie is pleased to announce our participation in the Supergen Wind Screw Pile Research led by the University of Dundee which has been successful in securing funding. This pioneering research will examine the technical and practical potential for screw piles to be used for offshore wind energy.

On June 13 and 14, a team from Cathie will take the challenge of a lifetime: cycling 215 miles/345 km in 2 days between Durham and Edinburgh (UK) to raise money and bring clean energy to some of the 1.3 billion people in the world who have no access to electricity.