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  • Scotland to host fisheries talks

    5 October 2007

    Fisheries ministers from across the UK are meeting in Scotland for the first time. Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead is in Peterhead with colleagues from Westminster, Wales and Northern Ireland.

  • WES announces PTO call contract awards

    3 August 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has announced the list of successful contract awards following its first international competitive open call focused on innovative power take-off systems for wave energy converters. Over £ 7 mln has been awarded to 16 technology developers and consortia, from countries including UK, USA, Italy and Sweden, all looking for investment to […]

  • Royal Navy Divers Clear Garvie Island UXO

    3 November 2016

    Fifteen Royal Navy clearance divers from the Clyde-based Northern Diving Group (NDG) recently traveled to Cape Wrath in Scotland to tackle unexploded ordnance left over from military exercises. The military training range at Cape Wrath is an important defence asset, a remote 107-square miles of moorland used to help armed forces practice vital skills used […]

  • Wave Energy Scotland is recruiting

    19 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) is looking for wave energy professionals to help drive the Scottish wave energy sector forward. WES is recruting for a Project Manager, and two Project Engineers. According to WES, Project Manager will be tasked with managing the projects accepted onto the WES programme, including negotiation of contracts with successful bidders under […]

  • Atlantis Appoints New CFO as It Moves to Scotland

    15 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis has appointed Simon Counsell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The company has accepted the resignation of Duncan Black as CFO, who will step down on 18 September 2015, due to the intended relocation of the corporate headquarters, including the finance and administration function, to Scotland from Singapore. Black will remain on the Board as a Non-executive […]

  • Wave Energy: WES Announces Contract Awards for PTO Systems

    3 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) has announced the list of successful contract awards following its first international, competitive open call. The first call focused on innovative Power Take-Off systems for wave energy devices. Over £7m has been awarded to 16 technology developers and consortia, from countries including UK, USA, Italy and Sweden, all looking for investment […]

  • Scotland’s oil and gas sales up by more than 18 pct

    12 September 2018

    Oil and gas sales value in Scotland has risen by 18.2% between 2016-17 and 2017-18, according to the Scottish government.

  • Minister Welcomes Victoria’s Commitment to Lindsay Island Project (Australia)

    14 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Lindsay Island in the Murray Sunset National Park will be Victoria’s first project to recover water for the environment using the Murray Darling-Basin Plan adjustment mechanism. Under the Basin Plan, states can put forward projects to recover water for the environment through environmental works and measures using funds that had been allocated for buyback. Federal […]

  • Scotland’s Newest Dock Launched at Westway

    21 March 2015

    Scottish Government Minister for Transport and Islands, Derek Mackay MSP, announced a launch of a brand new dock facility at Westway in Renfrew. The new £1.3m development was one of the first locations in the country to receive funding from the Scotland’s National Renewable Infrastructure Fund (N-RIF), managed by Scottish Enterprise. This investment will ensure […]

  • Scotland’s Newest Dock Launched at Westway

    21 March 2015

    Scottish Government Minister for Transport and Islands, Derek Mackay MSP, announced a launch of a brand new dock facility at Westway in Renfrew. The new £1.3m development was one of the first locations in the country to receive funding from the Scotland’s National Renewable Infrastructure Fund (N-RIF), managed by Scottish Enterprise. This investment will ensure […]

  • Unity Island Ceremony Held in Buffalo, NY

    4 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Unity Island project team last Thursday hosted a ribbon cutting and Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) signing ceremony on Unity Island, Buffalo, NY, marking the completion of the ecosystem restoration work performed at the Island’s North Pond. The PPA signing celebrates the onset of a second project to place dredged sediment into the pond for additional […]

  • Scotland establishes Wave Energy Scotland

    26 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development

    Wave Energy Scotland (WES) will foster industry collaboration that will drive research and development, share learning and knowledge and bring in expertise from other industry sectors such as oil and gas. Achieving greater industry collaboration will be a key objective for a new body that is being created to encourage innovation in wave energy technology, […]

  • Energy Minister Launches Wave Energy Scotland

    26 November 2014
    Authorities & Government

    Achieving greater industry collaboration will be a key objective for a new body that is being created to encourage innovation in wave energy technology, Energy Minister Fergus Ewing confirmed yesterday. Wave Energy Scotland (WES) will foster industry collaboration that will drive research and development, share learning and knowledge and bring in expertise from other industry […]

  • WATCH: Diamond Offshore’s giant semi-sub rig getting ready for its North Sea job

    24 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Diamond Offshore’s Ocean GreatWhite rig is in the process of wrapping up its preparations for its upcoming assignment in the North Sea.

  • UK: SSE Increases Its Share in Wind Towers Ltd

    3 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    SSE has agreed to acquire from Marsh Wind Technology Ltd its 40.05% share in Wind Towers Ltd, taking SSE’s total shareholding in Wind Towers Ltd to 80.1% The remaining 19.9% of ordinary share capital is held by Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The transaction is expected to be fully completed in the next couple of weeks. […]

  • RTS Bags Framework Agreement for the Turbine Blade Inspection Services (UK)

    22 April 2011

    RTS has been awarded a Framework Agreement for the Turbine Blade Inspection Services for SSE Renewables in Ireland and Scotland.   (rts-international) [mappress] Source: rts-international, April 22, 2011;

  • Atlantis appoints new CFO as it relocates its HQ

    15 September 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis has appointed Simon Counsell as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The company has accepted the resignation of Duncan Black as CFO, who will step down on 18 September 2015, due to the intended relocation of the corporate headquarters, including the finance and administration function, to Scotland from Singapore. Black will remain on the Board as a Non-executive […]

  • UK: Scotland’s First Wave and Tidal Marine Energy Fund Open for Bids

    23 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      A multi-million pound fund to help develop Scotland’s first commercial wave and tidal power arrays was opened today. Addressing the All-Energy conference in Aberdeen, First Minister Alex Salmond announced that Scotland’s Marine Renewables Commercialisation Fund (MRCF) was now open for bids by marine energy developers. In his address to the audience of industry delegates, […]

  • UK: WFS Technologies Appoints New General Manager

    8 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    WFS Technologies, leaders in through -water and through -ground communication products, announce the appointment of Gerry Watt as General Manager for operations in Livingston, Scotland and Belfast, N. Ireland. Prior to joining WFS, Gerry held senior management roles with Electronics Scotland, where he was CEO, Filtronic PLC where he was General Manager, and with GEC […]

  • USA: Environmental Management Program for Mississippi River Introduced

    2 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, intends to issue an Invitation for Bid (IFB) for restoration and stabilization of a side channel/island complex located on the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi River navigation channel in Pool 9, 5 miles downstream of Lansing, IA. The project site is located in the Upper Mississippi […]

  • Ecosse Nets LoI for Caithness-Moray Transmission Link

    2 March 2015
    Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has signed a Letter of Intent with ABB for a seabed clearance and trenching project in the north of Scotland.  The Aberdeenshire-based subsea technology firm will prepare the route for the 100-mile interconnector cable at the centre of SHE Transmission’s £1.2 billion Caithness-Moray transmission link project. Depending on the final scope […]

  • Comment Invited on Barataria Basin Strategic Plans

    26 January 2018
    Business & Finance

    The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group (LA TIG) has invited public comment on two draft Deepwater Horizon oil spill restoration plans intended to provide and enhance recreational opportunities and to restore wetlands, coastal, and nearshore habitats in the Barataria Basin. The first of the two draft restoration plans is the ‘Draft Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment […]

  • Nova Innovation puts on pause its tidal energy project in Wales

    9 February 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Tidal energy company Nova Innovation has decided to scale back its Enlli tidal energy project off the Llyn Peninsula, in Wales.

  • Bipartisan Approach on GBR Secured

    10 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Newman LNP Government has welcomed Labor’s support to use dredge material beneficially on land rather than disposing of it off shore – marking a crucial step in bipartisan support for protection of the Great Barrier Reef.  Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning Jeff Seeney said Labor’s support for disposing of […]

  • Mocean Energy hails €3.7M EuropeWave funding boost as significant step towards wave energy scale-up

    5 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    Scottish company Mocean Energy has secured €3.74 million in EU funding to develop and deploy a 250kW wave energy device offshore Orkney, as part of the EuropeWave project.