2320 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • First steps being taken to bring UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway to life

    20 May 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Transition, Vision

    The UK National Grid and SSEN Transmission have set into motion the first steps for the development of Eastern Green Link (EGL5), the UK’s fifth subsea electricity superhighway that would connect Scotland and England, by launching a public consultation. The partners opened a stage 1 (non-statutory) consultation on May 13, set to close on June […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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, […]

  • Officials to Discuss Rhode Island’s Coastal Projects

    8 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    A public meeting on adaptive strategies in the preservation of threatened coastal wetlands is scheduled for Wednesday, October 22, 2014 from 6–8 p.m. at the URI Narragansett Bay Campus, Coastal Institute. This public stakeholder meeting is planned to explore this issue, as well as the collaborative efforts of both state and community-based options that may be able […]

  • VIDEO: Mariner B floating storage unit reaches Scotland

    30 August 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Norwegian energy company Statoil is making progress with its UK North Sea Mariner field development, located on the East Shetland Platform of the UK North Sea, approximately 150 kilometers east of Shetland. The company has informed that the Mariner B Floating Storage Unit reached Scotland during the weekend and bertherd at Global Energy Group’s Nigg Energy […]

  • Faroe Islands to buy power from Minesto’s tidal kites

    12 November 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Swedish marine energy developer Minesto has signed up its first customer through a collaboration agreement with the main power utility on the Faroe Islands, SEV, for the installation of two DG100 tidal energy devices.

  • Moyle Interconnector Seeks Contractor for Submarine Cable Services

    22 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Moyle Interconnector Limited is looking for a manufacturer led turnkey proposal for the design, manufacture, testing, supply, installation, jointing and commissioning of replacement subsea and land metallic return conductors. There are two options currently under consideration. The first option is to install two discrete replacement metallic return conductors (MRC’s), one for each HVDC monopole that […]

  • CRMC, DEM Continue Wetland Monitoring Program

    16 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC), along with the R.I. Department of Environmental Management Division of Water Resources and the R.I. Natural History Survey have created a new position within DEM’s freshwater wetland monitoring and assessment program. The position will advance wetland assessment, monitoring and restoration in Rhode Island. Since 2007, RIDEM has partnered […]

  • TX Coastal Conservation Association Supports Dagger Island Project

    9 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Coastal Conservation Association Texas and the Building Conservation Trust have committed $250,000 to support efforts by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Ducks Unlimited (DU) to restore Dagger Island and protect important seagrass beds in Redfish Bay, Texas. Commenting the latest news, DU Director of Development Matt Bunn, said: “Partners like CCA and BCT […]

  • VIDEO: Introduction to MERIKA Initiative

    20 October 2014

    MERIKA (Marine Energy Research Innovation and Knowledge Accelerator) is an initiative by UHI (University of the Highlands and the Islands), located in Scotland and the UK’s outermost region. Funded by the European Union FP7 (REGPOT) programme, the project seeks to establish a marine energy research and innovation hub in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, […]

  • Nova Innovation secures £6.4M for mass manufacturing and distribution of tidal energy turbines

    7 September 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Technology, Transition

    Tidal energy company Nova Innovation has secured £6.4 million from the Scottish National Investment Bank to fund mass manufacturing and distribution of its innovative tidal energy turbines.

  • Image of the day: OpenHydro tidal turbine

    4 November 2015
    Research & Development

    OpenHydro is currently preparing for the realization of two tidal energy projects in Canada and France before the end of 2015. Irish-based company is working with Emera, through its joint venture Cape Sharp Tidal, to deploy and grid connect two 2 MW tidal turbines in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada. Furthermore, OpenHydro, toghether […]

  • VIDEO: Introduction to MERIKA Initiative

    20 October 2014

    MERIKA (Marine Energy Research Innovation and Knowledge Accelerator) is an initiative by UHI (University of the Highlands and the Islands), located in Scotland and the UK’s outermost region. Funded by the European Union FP7 (REGPOT) programme, the project seeks to establish a marine energy research and innovation hub in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, […]