2325 results found for 'Shetland Islands'

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  • Scots start search for MeyGen tidal energy project investment advisor

    9 September 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy

    Scottish government’s public bodies – Crown Estate Scotland and Scottish Enterprise – are looking to appoint consultants who would provide technical advice services for investments in the MeyGen tidal energy project.

  • Kishorn Port Launches 2nd Phase of Offshore Renewables Masterplan (UK)

    20 February 2013

    One of Scotland’s leading sites looking to service the offshore renewables market is launching the second phase of its masterplanning process with a public consultation event. Kishorn Port Ltd (KPL), a joint venture between Leiths (Scotland) Ltd and Ferguson Transport (Spean Bridge) Ltd, is holding a public open day on Wednesday 20 February at Lochcarron […]

  • New Orkney Pier Host to Many Tidal Energy Technologies (UK)

    2 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    A newly extended pier in Orkney is currently host to more tidal energy technologies than at any other single site in the world. Five tidal energy developers – OpenHydro, Alstom Hydro, Scotrenewables Tidal Power, ANDRITZ Hydro Hammerfest and Voith Hydro – have all used the new facilities in recent weeks, with four devices currently on […]

  • UK: Activity Surge at New Pier in Orkney

    2 August 2013

    A newly extended pier in Orkney is currently host to more tidal energy technologies than at any other single site in the world. Five tidal energy developers – OpenHydro, Alstom Hydro, Scotrenewables Tidal Power, ANDRITZ Hydro Hammerfest and Voith Hydro – have all used the new facilities in recent weeks, with four devices currently on […]

  • Prosafe: Flotel Safe Bristolia resumes tow

    11 January 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Prosafe, an owner and operator of semi-sub accommodation vessels, has re-established the main tow for its flotel Safe Bristolia in the North Sea.  The tow line was re-established on Friday, January 8, 2016, and the Safe Bristolia has reassumed the tow at midnight. The Safe Bristolia was being relocated from England to Poland when the towing […]

  • Ahtna Marine Acquires Cavache

    19 November 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ahtna Marine & Construction Company, LLC (AMCC), an Ahtna, Inc. company, has finalized acquisition of Cavache, Inc. a Florida-based dredging and civil construction firm. Cavache has been in operation for over 15 years and it’s 20 employees and vessel and marine equipment assets will be transitioned under AMCC. “Cavache has an excellent reputation with their […]

  • Tri-Nation Accord Copes with Wave, Tidal Risks

    26 October 2015
    Research & Development

    A tri-nation accord between firms based in Ireland, France and the UK is to result in shared research technology designed to dramatically reduce risks faced by developers of renewable tidal and wave power schemes around north western European coast lines. Known as MOREDATAS (Methods to Obtain Refined Environmental DATA from the Seas) the project addresses […]

  • RenewableUK Hails MeyGen Project Funding Announcement

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance

    RenewableUK is hailing the announcement that funding has been secured to build the first phase of the world’s largest tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth region in North Scotland. The MeyGen project has a capacity of up to 398MW and will provide clean electricity for 175,000 homes and 100 jobs in the area upon […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes MeyGen Funding

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    RenewableUK is today hailing the announcement that funding has been secured to build the first phase of the world’s largest tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth region in North Scotland. The MeyGen project has a capacity of up to 398MW and will provide clean electricity for 175,000 homes and 100 jobs in the area […]

  • Tri-Nation Accord Copes with Wave, Tidal Risks

    26 October 2015
    Research & Development

    A tri-nation accord between firms based in Ireland, France and the UK is to result in shared research technology designed to dramatically reduce risks faced by developers of renewable tidal and wave power schemes around north western European coast lines. Known as MOREDATAS (Methods to Obtain Refined Environmental DATA from the Seas) the project addresses […]

  • Statoil’s UK business gets new MD

    14 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Norway’s oil major Statoil has appointed Hedda Felin as the new managing director of Statoil Production UK. Statoil said that she succeeds Tove Stuhr Sjøblom who left the company. As the new head of the company’s Aberdeen office, Felin will be responsible for Statoil’s upstream development and production activities in the UK and Ireland. Hedda Felin […]

  • New design engineering company set up in Scotland

    23 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Envision Engineering & Design (Envision), a company that delivers design engineering solutions to, among others, marine renewable energy sector, has been established in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. The company has been set up by Mechanical Engineer Liam Sutherland and Mechanical Designer Stuart Anderson to provide full design engineering solutions using the latest 3D AutoCAD software to a range of clients in the […]

  • New Bird Monitoring Innovation Challenge Takes Off

    25 May 2017
    Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    Moray Offshore Windfarm (East) Ltd has partnered with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult to launch an innovation challenge to help wind farm developers better monitor and understand the behaviour of important species.

  • Scotland Gets New Design Engineering Provider

    23 August 2016

    Envision Engineering & Design (Envision), a company that delivers design engineering solutions to, among others, marine renewable energy sector, has been established in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. The company has been set up by Mechanical Engineer Liam Sutherland and Mechanical Designer Stuart Anderson to provide full design engineering solutions using the latest 3D AutoCAD software to […]

  • PHOTO: Meet Maersk Oil’s Culzean-bound FSO Ailsa

    12 April 2017
    Project & Tenders

    Danish oil firm Maersk Oil has shared a photo on its social media channels showing the Culzean-destined Ailsa floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel currently under construction in Singapore. The company said that almost 600 Maersk Oil staff took part in the naming competition with Ailsa emerging as the winner by securing half of all […]

  • Canada: Comments Invited on Beaver Lake Dredging

    19 November 2013
    Business & Finance

    Beaver Lake, one of the last remaining wetlands in the City of Vancouver, is rapidly declining and could disappear as soon as 2020 if no measures are taken. The Vancouver Park Board and Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES) have been working in partnership, under guidance from the Stanley Park Ecological Action Plan (2011), to come […]

  • USA: Corps to Host Discussion on North and Sturgeon Lakes Improvement

    21 February 2014

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is hosting an open house in Red Wing, Minn., March 6, to discuss ways of improving habitat in and around North and Sturgeon lakes. The open house will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Red Wing Public Library Community Room., located at […]

  • Ineos completes IGas licences interest acquisition

    7 May 2015

    Ineos said it has completed the deal with IGas, revealed on the 10th March, making it the UK’s third largest shale gas company. The deal includes the acquisition of a 50% interest in seven IGas shale gas licences in the North West of England (the Bowland licences), the company said in a statement. It also […]

  • Bird and Marine Mammal Surveys Underway at First Flight Wind’s Site

    19 May 2014
    Environment, Research & Development

    Natural Power, a renewable energy consultancy headquartered in Scotland, is conducting surveys of birds and marine mammals at the First Flight Wind offshore wind farm site in the Irish Sea. Natural Power’s team of ornithologists and marine mammal observers commenced survey work in July 2013, using a local Kilkeel vessel, the Glenravel. The last from […]

  • EuropeWave unveils top 3 wave energy finalists

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

    EuropeWave project has selected three finalists – CETO Wave Energy Ireland, IDOM Consulting and Mocean Energy – to fabricate, deploy and demonstrate their prototype designs in the third and final phase of the collaborative wave energy project.

  • UK: Crown Estate Announces 2012 Offshore Wind Events

    2 April 2012

     The Crown Estate can announce the dates of third series of UK supply chain events for the offshore wind industry. Five events, being hosted with partners across the country, will bring together key industry players to promote the development of specialist supply chains, maintain confidence in the market and boost the drive to increase offshore […]

  • Anacortes Major Cleanup Program Starts Soon (USA)

    3 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Contaminated sediments and old, toxics-leaching pilings will be pulled from Fidalgo Bay starting in mid-July. Crews are preparing for dredging and other work at the former Custom Plywood mill site in Anacortes. The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is overseeing the project, which is the latest part of a major cleanup and restoration of Fidalgo […]

  • Offshore worker dies on Shell’s FPSO in North Sea

    6 August 2015

    An offshore worker has died on the Shell-operated floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel Anasuria in the North Sea. According to Herald Scotland, William Nichol, 61, fell ill Tuesday while working on the FPSO. Nichol was employed by IKM Testing UK Limited. Despite the best efforts of the medical crew, the worker passed away on board the […]

  • USA: Jindal Highlights Coastal Protection Project in Cameron Parish

    17 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Governor Bobby Jindal and local officials yesterday highlighted a shoreline restoration project east of Holly Beach in Cameron Parish. The project is restoring miles of eroded beach devastated over many years, most recently as a result of Hurricanes Ike and Rita. The restoration project mines sand from federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico and […]

  • Scottish supply chain ‘set to benefit’ from new decom fund

    8 February 2017

    Scottish government has launched a new £5 million ($6.2M) fund that will provide opportunities for the supply chain in the country to benefit from the decommissioning of the North Sea infrastructure. The Decommissioning Challenge Fund (DCF) will support infrastructure upgrades and innovation in salvage and transport methods at Scotland’s ports and harbors. It will also encourage […]