[10] The firm subsequently expanded into marine operations to service clients involved in offshore oil and gas production, and developed advanced undersea sonar and robotics.

[10] Kornelis "Kees"[a] Joustra founded Fugro on 2 May 1962 as Ingenieursbureau voor Funderingstechniek en Grondmechanica, Dutch for "Engineering Company for Foundation Technology and Soil Mechanics".

[7] Lapucha garnered the award for his work on an enhanced GPS receiver with a practical resolution of a few inches, which improved "the technical ability and profitability of the Fugro organization".

[15] Fugro purchased the Remote Observation Automated Modeling Economic Simulation (ROAMES) technology from Ergon Energy in 2014.

[10] The initial contract was worth AUD$52 million, which Fugro won in a bid against several firms including Oceaneering International, Odyssey Marine Explorations and Blue Water Recoveries.

[9] The Fugro Chance subsidiary, based in Louisiana, United States, provides services to the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico including making available without cost underwater maps, current and historical, of pipeline courses, useful in the context of post-hurricane damage assessment and property assessment prior to leasing of underwater property from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM).

[1] Fugro provides similar services in Canada, with the inclusion of remotely operated unmanned devices which have advantages of minimizing risks to crew of manned vessels, reducing data latency and increasing analysis speed.

[28] According to an 18 December 2022 broadcast by Dutch KRO-NCRV television programme Pointer, Brazilian police stated Fugro had been involved in the Brumadinho dam disaster in Brazil in 2019 in which 270 people were killed.