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  • UK’s environmental committee calls for more tidal energy to ensure long-term energy security

    9 January 2023
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    In its latest report, the Environmental Audit Committee of the United Kingdom has called for a greater strategic focus on tidal energy, highlighting its potential to contribute to the UK’s energy security in the long term.

  • UK: Gills Harbour Ltd Reveals Future Port Plans

    22 June 2012

    One of the UK’s newest and most versatile ‘marine renewables support vessels’ showed off some of her capabilities at Gills Harbour on the Pentland Firth this week. The one-year-old ‘multi-cat’ vessel Orcadia, which was reported to have cost £3.5 million when she was delivered last year from Damen Shipyards in the Netherlands, was making her […]

  • UK pledges not to leave oil & gas workers behind as landmark North Sea transition deal is agreed

    24 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The UK gov’t has pledged that oil & gas workers and the supply chain will not be left behind in transition to low carbon future as North Sea Transition Deal is agreed.

  • Smart Green Shipping nets more funding as it readies for demonstration of its FastRig wingsail

    6 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Green Marine, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    Smart Green Shipping, a systems design and engineering company based in Dumfries, has secured £ 1.35 million investment for its development of retrofit sails and technology for sustainable commercial ships. MOL Drybulk Ltd (MOLDB), a 100% owned subsidiary of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, and Scottish Enterprise are joint investors in the company that is steering a course […]

  • Orbital Marine to showcase UK’s tidal power prowess at Global Investment Summit

    7 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Vision

    The UK government has unveiled the 12 businesses from across the UK who will showcase their green technology and innovations at the Global Investment Summit – one of which is the Scottish-based tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power.

  • In focus: Offshore renewables and green hydrogen set to herald in a new energy paradigm

    23 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The global energy sector’s transition from fossil-based systems of energy production to renewable energy sources is proving to be an increasingly challenging goal to attain, especially in the context of current energy security and supply setbacks. However, offshore renewable energies – mainly offshore wind and marine energy – backed up with innovation in green hydrogen production, stand to significantly accelerate the energy paradigm shift awaited worldwide.

  • OGA’s competition designed to push UKCS electrification forward

    27 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Environment, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Project & Tenders, Transition

    OGA has confirmed a total of 29 received bids in an update on the £1 million ($1.4 million) decarbonisation competition for the electrification of offshore oil and gas installations on the UKCS.

  • Op-ed: Tidal wave tapping into FLOW of capital

    27 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The All Energy Conference provided an opportunity to see where marine energy sits within the wider context of the energy sector as a whole, and there was plenty of food for thought in terms of what is needed to help the likes of wave and tidal go mainstream, writes Jay Sheppard, project manager for Marine Energy Wales.

  • INTERVIEW: Bourbon Subsea Services Stays Focused on Its Core Markets

    17 December 2018
    Business & Finance

    Bourbon Subsea Services provides clients with a full range of services to assist at every stage of the life of their oil field, from the survey and exploration phases, during the subsea construction and the offshore operations, through to dismantling. In an interview with Subsea World News Patrick Belenfant, CEO of Bourbon Subsea Services, told us […]

  • UK government halves ring-fenced support for tidal energy in next renewables auction

    16 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    The UK government has confirmed the £205 million budget for renewable energy projects in the fifth round of contracts for difference (CfD) auction, which features plans to cut the tidal stream ring-fence from £20 million to £10 million.

  • Offshore wind project costs decrease with bespoke vessels and lower oil & gas activity

    10 September 2020
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    The rising number of purpose-built offshore wind vessels has a direct impact on the costs of offshore wind projects, as the sector is getting more room to use its own fleet instead of deploying vessels from the oil & gas industry, which can be costly if high oil price is driving increased oil & gas […]

  • Nexans Aurora sports novel launch system for workboats and ROVs

    9 March 2021
    Equipment, Vessels

    Newbuild cable layer Nexans Aurora is getting prepped to enter service with the next generation in boat-handling systems from the Bergen-based Vestdavit. Now in the final stages of construction at Norwegian shipyard Ulstein Verft, by design, the Nexans Aurora can work in harsh-environment conditions and therefore required a boat deployment system with a high level […]

  • Green hydrogen produced by wind and tidal energy sets new aviation milestone

    28 November 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Green hydrogen produced at the European Marine Energy Centre’s (EMEC’s) hydrogen production and tidal test facility has been used to fuel the ground test of a Rolls-Royce jet engine.

  • Rovco grows its fleet to service offshore wind projects

    24 January 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Rovco, a UK provider of subsea robotics and integrated survey, has signed an initial three-year charter party agreement with Glomar Offshore for the multi-purpose support vessel Glomar Supporter, as part of its growth strategy within its site characterization business unit.

  • Nordic gas TSOs, offshore wind developers plan giant green hydrogen infrastructure project in Baltic Sea

    16 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    The Finnish and Swedish gas transmission system operators (TSOs) Gasgrid Finland and Nordion Energi, and offshore wind developers OX2 and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have entered into an agreement to investigate the development of large-scale offshore hydrogen pipeline infrastructure connecting Finland, Sweden, and Central Europe by 2030. The project, called the Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector (BHC), […]

  • In focus: The X factor of Power-to-X

    26 August 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Green Marine, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition, Vessels

    While the world is working toward having as much renewable energy as possible, green fuels and energy storage could be what saves the day, at least for energy-intensive industries. News on hydrogen and ammonia projects, and renewable energy developments with Power-to-X components this week certainly reinforce their significance in the grand scheme of energy things.

  • G7 launches Hydrogen Action Pact. Will offshore wind help reach its ‘green’ ambitions?

    31 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The Group of Seven (G7) has launched the G7 Hydrogen Action Pact (G7-HAP), a joint initiative on low-carbon and renewable hydrogen, and its derivatives such as ammonia. The pact comes on the heels of the recently signed declarations through which some of the seven countries vowed to up their energy transition game and entered collaborations on offshore wind and green hydrogen, the latest being the one signed between Germany and the U.S.

  • Equinor: Rosebank FID Expected by May 2022

    5 June 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Equinor and its partners have confirmed a new timeline for the Rosebank project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), with the final investment decision planned to be taken by May 2022.   The new timeline comes after the award of a three-year extension for the Rosebank licences by the UK Oil and Gas Authority. “Together with […]

  • CorPower launches its first commercial-scale wave energy converter

    15 June 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    CorPower Ocean has unveiled its first commercial-scale wave energy converter (WEC) – the C4 – alongside the new CorPack concept providing the building blocks for future utility-scale wave energy farms.

  • In focus: Converting jack-up rigs and combining offshore wind & hydrogen for low-carbon future

    24 September 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Market Outlooks, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    This week saw a plethora of energy transition-related news across the offshore energy industry with updates telling of alternative deployments for offshore drilling rigs, new projects combining offshore wind and hydrogen, the urgency to decarbonise the shipping sector, and more.

  • UK: ESS to Deploy SCAR Plough System on Baltic 2

    13 March 2013

    Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has been awarded its largest boulder clearing and multi-pass trenching contract to date by Siem Offshore Contractors. ESS will deploy its SCAR plough system for clearing and pre-lay trenching operations on a 90km route on the EnBW owned Baltic 2 offshore wind farm project. Baltic 2 is an 80 turbine development […]

  • Nordic TSOs, offshore wind developers plan giant green hydrogen infrastructure project in Baltic Sea

    16 December 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure

    The Finnish and Swedish gas transmission system operators (TSOs) Gasgrid Finland and Nordion Energi, and offshore wind developers OX2 and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) have entered into an agreement to investigate the development of large-scale offshore hydrogen pipeline infrastructure connecting Finland, Sweden, and Central Europe by 2030. The project, called the Baltic Sea Hydrogen Collector (BHC), […]

  • Nova Scotia tweaks tidal energy regulations to meet industry needs

    28 March 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The government of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has introduced amendments to the Marine Renewable-energy Act that will improve the regulatory framework for the tidal energy industry.

  • In focus: Industries, governments start walking the energy transition walk

    18 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Transition

    The ‘transition’ part of the energy transition is starting to show a more defined shape, and what the world’s path towards being net-zero one day entails, as concrete plans and initiatives increasingly emerge across the energy and transportation sectors. Judging by our headlines this week, in the years to come we will see a lot […]

  • UK: Partrac Reports Busy 2012

    8 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    As Partrac enters the 10th year of trading, the Company reports a very busy 2012. Regarding this, Technical Director Kevin Black said: “We have just completed internal reviews for our 2012 Annual Report, and last year was an exciting year for us with projects in every area of our business. The projects, some of which […]