2313 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • RS Aqua to supply wave measurement buoys for MERIKA

    30 March 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    RS Aqua is expected to supply wave measurement buoys for the MERIKA project initiated by UHI (University of the Highlands and the Islands). RS Aqua supplies oceanographic and environmental equipment to the research, survey and monitoring markets. The company has been awarded contract by the Scottish government. It is required to provide 2 years after sale support […]

  • Ocean City: Living Shoreline Project Proposed

    20 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    The City of Ocean City, New Jersey, is proposing a living shoreline project for wetland restoration/enhancement and shoreline restoration of the 1978 shoreline on Shooting Island, a bay island located in the Cape May Wetlands Wildlife Management Area in Great Egg Harbor Bay. According to the city’s latest announcement, the project is intended to enhance the […]

  • Crown Estate Scotland Links Locals with Offshore Renewables

    4 April 2019
    Research & Development

    The Crown Estate Scotland has issued a new study said to help coastal and island communities across Scotland benefit from local offshore renewable energy solutions. Carried out by Everoze, the study looked at six scenarios linked to a number of renewable technologies such as floating wind, wave, and tidal energy, aiming to provide a potential way […]

  • USA: Congressman Announces Restoration Grant for Calcasieu Parish’s Rabbit Island

    8 September 2011

    U.S. Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., MD (R-South Louisiana) has announced a $401,851 Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) grant awarded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) to Calcasieu Parish. This grant will fund the start of a marsh and pelican nesting habitat restoration project on Rabbit Island in Calcasieu Lake. […]

  • Subsea link to Orkney steps closer to reality

    3 March 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Vision

    UK energy market regulator Ofgem has provisionally approved SSEN Transmission’s plans to develop a subsea electricity transmission link to Orkney. SSEN Transmission submitted investment plans to Ofgem in March 2018 to build a new subsea transmission link to provide the additional capacity needed to meet the demand of Orkney renewable developers.  In September 2019, Ofgem set a […]

  • Nova Innovation bags UK funding for 7MW tidal energy scheme in Indonesia

    30 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    Scotland-based tidal energy company Nova Innovation has won funding that could deliver the 7MW tidal turbine array in Indonesia, the first ever in the Southeast Asian island country.

  • NFWF: $48M for Restoration and Conservation of Alabama’s Natural Resources

    21 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced earlier this week that the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has approved more than $48 million for eight new projects, which focus on the restoration and conservation of Alabama’s natural resources. “Alabama’s Gulf Coast is of great ecological importance to our state, and it is imperative we protect and […]

  • HIE appoints new CEO

    14 June 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Scottish business development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has appointed Charlotte Wright as its new Chief Executive Officer.

  • Officials Approve USD 51.7 Million for Maryland Waterway Improvement Projects (USA)

    23 December 2011

    Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) this week was successful in securing $51.7 million for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects throughout Maryland in the fiscal year 2012 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill. The bill’s biggest allocations include $18.3 million for the annual maintenance dredging of the C&D Canal, $13.6 million for the annual dredging of […]

  • Cranberry Bend Scheme Makes Progress

    25 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Missouri River Recovery Program’s Cranberry Bend Project, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is progressing very well. Construction of this side-channel chute, and moving an existing levee further inland, will create 41 acres of aquatic habitat with the intent to benefit the endangered pallid sturgeon and other native fish and wildlife along […]

  • Delay in CfD clarifications could harm Scottish renewables

    22 July 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    A further delay in providing clarity on support for renewables could ’cause damage to Scotland’s offshore wind and islands renewable energy projects’ according to Scotland’s Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has postponed vital announcements on Contracts for Difference (CfD) until at least the autumn. DECC had previously committed […]

  • VIDEO: Unity Island Ecoystem Restoration Project on Display

    16 May 2018
    Business & Finance

     As part of its Continuing Authorities Program Section 204, USACE Buffalo District is creating a new wetland habitat on Unity Island using clean, dredged materials. The District hosted a site visit earlier this week for the Unity Island Ecosystem Restoration Project, to focus on the topic of ‘beneficial use’. Beneficial use is the concept […]

  • Gallery: Ship Suffering Engine Failure Rescued off Scotland

    24 November 2017

    A general cargo vessel broke down half a mile offshore in Sinclair’s Bay, Scotland, in the morning hours of November 22 and was towed to safety later that day, Wick RNLI informed. Shetland Coast Guard tasked Wick Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to go to the aid of the 4,258 dwt ship Jomi. Jomi’s crew […]

  • Drillship worker dies after falling into water in Gran Canaria

    25 October 2017
    Exploration & Production

    An oil worker from Scotland employed on a Stena Drilling-owned drillship has reportedly died after falling into a harbor in the Canary Islands.  According to a Monday report by BBC, the worker was a member of the crew on the Stena IceMAX drillship, which is currently moored in Las Palmas. UK’s Evening Express reported that the […]

  • UK Date of the Offshore Wind Industry Supply Chain Events Second Series

    16 December 2010

    The Crown Estate today have announced the dates of a second series of seven UK supply chain events for the offshore wind industry being organised with partner agencies around the UK. This follows on from events organised at the beginning of 2010 but this time is targeting companies further down the supply chain. With over […]

  • Island Offshore Wins LWI Contract Extension from BP

    22 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore, has been awarded a major contract extension for Light Well Intervention (“LWI”) services with BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd (“BP”). The two-year contract extension, covering 2014 and 2015, has been awarded to Island Offshore and the North Sea RLWI Alliance, which operates three monohull vessels specially designed for well intervention tasks. Island Offshore’s […]

  • UK Date of the Offshore Wind Industry Supply Chain Events Second Series

    16 December 2010

    The Crown Estate today have announced the dates of a second series of seven UK supply chain events for the offshore wind industry being organised with partner agencies around the UK. This follows on from events organised at the beginning of 2010 but this time is targeting companies further down the supply chain. With over […]

  • Caillou Lake Headlands Restoration Project Nears End

    23 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Another barrier island restoration project is nearing completion on Whiskey Island off the coast of Louisiana, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This time it is the Caillou Lake Headlands Restoration Project which uses sediment from the Ship Shoal, an offshore sand source that EPA proposed for use in a 2002. The Caillou Lake […]

  • Top news, May 14 – 20, 2018

    20 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from May 14 – 20, 2018.

  • UK: Team Marine Extends Contract for Island Offshore’s PSV

    26 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore, a Norwegian shipping company that owns a modern fleet of advanced and high quality service vessels for the offshore oil industry, announced that Team Marine (Chevron) has declared the first of five yearly options to use the MV Island Champion. The vessel, built by Brevik Construction in 2007, has sailed with Team Marine ever since, […]

  • Fishing leader disputes rats risk

    6 February 2008

    A trawler which ran aground on a remote island is unlikely to have carried rats, according to a fishing leader. The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is assessing whether rodents escaped the Spinningdale on to Hirta, the main island of St Kilda.

  • Moffatt & Nichol Completes Key CA Wetland Restoration Project

    29 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Four of Moffatt & Nichol’s key wetland restoration projects in the San Francisco Bay Area have returned to natural marshland. The most recent is at Bair Island in San Mateo County, one of California’s largest wetland restoration projects at 1400 acres. The entire project involved placing over one million cubic yards of fill to raise […]

  • USA: Acting Secretary of Commerce Announces USD 102 Million for Three Louisiana Projects

    29 September 2011

    Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank yesterday announced $102 million for three Louisiana projects in the Barataria and Terrebone basins, to restore deteriorated wetlands and barrier island habitats along the state’s coast. These awards are funded by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) program. U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., Louisiana Coastal Protection […]

  • Island Offshore Gets BP LWI Services Contract Extension

    22 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Island Offshore, a leading name in global Light Well Intervention (“LWI”) activities, has been awarded a major contract extension with BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd (“BP”), one of the world’s most respected international energy companies. The two-year contract extension, covering 2014 and 2015, has been awarded to Island Offshore and the North Sea RLWI Alliance, […]

  • BT Delivers New Scottish Subsea Link

    4 December 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Digital Scotland is celebrating the completion of a once-in-a-generation subsea telecoms project which brings faster fibre broadband another step closer for many of Scotland’s most remote communities. Today (Thursday 4 December) the £410 million Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband project partners are in Millport, on the Isle of Cumbrae, to mark the successful installation of 250 […]