ContiTech involved in the first subsea mineral resource project

摘要

ContiTech has achieved another milestone: Its Fluid Technology Oil & Marine segment has been com-missioned by the Canadian Company Nautilus Minerals Inc. to take part in the world's first deep-sea mineral resource project.The undertaking will see natural resources extracted from sulphide-rich deposits found on the ocean floor (Fig.). Nautilus's Solwara 1 extraction project in the Bismarck Sea near Papua New Guinea will be equipped with high-tech hoses specially developed by ContiTech to operate success-fully in the extreme conditions found at depths of more than 1600 m.