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  • UK universities get grants for underwater offshore wind research

    6 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Hub has awarded four UK institutions with grants from its third Flexible Funding call for research projects focused on underwater offshore wind infrastructure. Southampton University received a share of the awarded £800,000 for a project aimed to identify a method for shared anchor geometry optimization and develop new design […]

  • UK Companies See Tidal Energy Development Potential in Philippines

    7 March 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

      There are several sites at Philippines that investors from UK find interesting for tidal energy ventures. Nautricity is a Scotland-based firm which develops technical solutions to generate electricity from current flows which occur naturally in the world’s oceans, seas, and estuaries. The company has already identified more than eight areas suitable for producing energy […]

  • UK MPs Urge Energy Minister to Support Marine Power

    10 May 2019
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    91 Members of Parliament from all the main parties have signed a letter to the Energy Minister Claire Perry, urging her to put measures in place to ensure that the UK capitalises on its role in wave and tidal power. The world’s first tidal arrays are operating in UK waters, built using local supply chains […]

  • UK: Houlder Presents Its Turbine Access System at BIS

    17 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    UK Engineering company Houlder’s Turbine Access System® is being showcased at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) today, and for the next fortnight, to highlight its contribution to the UK Marine Industry.   Held in association with the UK Marine Industries Alliance ‘Marine Manufacturing – Global excellence and innovation’ celebrates the role of the industry […]

  • Great Yarmouth Port Grabs Piece of Renewable Boom (UK)

    11 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    Great Yarmouth port has been successful in snaring a proportion of the UKs alternative energy market since a wind farm foundation… (portstrategy) [mappress] Source: portstrategy, February 11, 2011

  • World’s first floating wind farm best performer in UK

    23 March 2021
    Project & Tenders

    Hywind Scotland, the world’s first floating offshore wind farm, has reached the highest average capacity factor for any wind farm in the UK for its third consecutive year. With an average capacity factor of 57.1% in the twelve months to March 2021, Hywind Scotland set a new record in the UK. During its first two […]

  • UK: UKHO Delivers Another Successful International Training Course

    18 January 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The UKHO has once again successfully delivered another of its internationally accredited marine cartography courses to six overseas hydrographic officers. The six delegates from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan and Philippines completed the 15 week marine cartography course in December, delivered in support of the Japan Capacity Building Project and funded by the NIPPON Foundation. […]

  • BMT Nigel Gee Expands to Meet Increased Workload (UK)

    10 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    BMT Nigel Gee, a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced recent refurbishment and expansion activity at its offices in Southampton in order to meet a large increase in design work. Operating across four principal market sectors, the naval architectural practice delivers design and engineering services to specialised vessels in the commercial, yacht, defence and renewable […]

  • NGenTec Limited Secures GBP 2 Million in Funding (UK)

    16 December 2010
    Research & Development

    NGenTec has secured inward investment of £2 million from Amsterdam based SET Venture Partners and Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-investment Fund (“SCF”) (£1 million each) to enable the company to design, manufacture and test its innovative generator technology for the multi-megawatt offshore wind turbine market. The investment follows a recent £800,000 grant from the Department of […]

  • Carbon Trust Ensures Development of New 66kV Cables (UK)

    23 May 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    The Carbon Trust, as part of its Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA), has launched a new competition to fast track the development of new 66kV cables to be used by the offshore wind industry. The goal is to ensure that new 66kV cables are developed in time to be used on Round 3 projects in the […]

  • Heerema Wins EPCI Contract for York Platform by Centrica (UK)

    8 March 2011
    Business & Finance

      Heerema Hartlepool, one of the three fabrication locations of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), has been awarded the EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Installation) contract of the 2,750 tonnes York platform destined for the York Field Development gasfield in the UK Continental Shelf. At Heerema Hartlepool the construction work of the 1,300 tonnes topsides and […]

  • WSP to Develop Guiding Principles for Offshore Wind Farms in UK

    30 May 2012

    WSP has been appointed by RenewableUK to develop a set of guiding principles for undertaking Cumulative Impact Assessments for offshore wind farms in the UK. We tendered for this study as part of a consortium including: ABPmer, Oxford Brookes Impact Assessment Group, ERI and Levett Therivel. The consortium offers extensive experience in offshore wind farm […]

  • UK-Taiwan push on hydrogen and fuel cell technology collab

    22 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    The inaugural UK-Taiwan Hydrogen Forum gathered more than 100 UK and Taiwanese hydrogen and fuel cell companies to explore possible areas for collaboration.

  • UK: BG Group Appoints New Non-Executive Director

    15 December 2010

    BG Group has today announced the appointment of Patrick W. Thomas as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Commenting on the appointment, BG Group’s Chairman Sir Robert Wilson said: “We are delighted to announce this appointment. Patrick’s international industrial experience will be a valuable addition to our Board.” Patrick W. Thomas, 53, a British citizen […]

  • UK: Cargotec Receives Large Order from Forth Ports

    30 November 2012

    Cargotec has secured an order for 14 Kalmar straddle carriers from UK based Forth Ports as part of a major investment and upgrade programme at its London Container Terminal (LCT) at Tilbury. Forth Ports is investing in substantial equipment and site upgrading to LCT to ensure customers continue to receive a first rate and enhanced […]

  • Ecosse Subsea Completes Seabed Work at Laggan-Tormore (UK)

    5 October 2012
    Equipment

    Ecosse Subsea Systems has completed a major seabed clearance project on the Laggan-Tormore project west of Shetland on behalf of TOTAL E&P Ltd and its partner DONG E&P (UK) Ltd. The Aberdeen subsea technology company deployed its SCAR1 trenching tool to remove up to 1000 boulders which were delaying progress on cable laying and umbilical […]

  • UK: Proserv Acquires Weatherford International’s Subsea Controls Business

    1 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Global-leading energy production technology services company Proserv is bolstering its rapidly-expanding subsea capabilities and specialist integrated services and increasing its workforce by more than 300 people. Proserv, which has operations globally, has agreed terms to assume Weatherford International’s subsea controls’ business, which specializes in subsea and topside communication and control systems and subsea termination equipment […]

  • MCT’s SeaGen Produces More than 3GWh of Electricity (UK)

    31 January 2012

    Bristol based Marine Current Turbines (MCT) announced that its 1.2MW SeaGen device has produced more than 3GWh of electricity since its deployment in 2008. SeaGen is located in Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough and it is the first of its kind to reach this level. The company has been progressing on many fronts. During 2011, two […]

  • New UK player buys out Shell, Exxon at Triton

    21 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure

    Tailwind Energy has signed an agreement with Shell and ExxonMobil to acquire their interests in the Triton Cluster, which Tailwind intends to further develop. The Triton Cluster, located in the UK Central North Sea 190km east of Aberdeen, was initially brought into production in 2000. Tailwind said in a statement on Thursday that the deal […]

  • UK: FoundOcean Completes North Sea Grouting Works for Saipem

    1 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    FoundOcean has completed grouting operations for a four-legged wellhead jacket in a greenfield location in the North Sea. The project forms part of a three year agreement between FoundOcean and Saipem Ltd. The jacket is installed in 81m water depth and the grouting took place via a sub-sea grouting system. Paul Burns, Operations Director for […]

  • Former UK Energy Secretary slams renewable energy cuts

    23 July 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment

    Ed Davey, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has criticized government’s announcement to cut subsidies for renewables. Following the UK government’s yesterday’s announcement to introduce measures to deal with a projected over-allocation of renewable energy subsidies, Ed Davey has criticized the current government’s policy on his official social media account. Davey […]

  • CS Wind UK Sends Off First Nine Tower Sections

    15 January 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics

    CS Wind UK has shipped out the first batch of UK-made offshore wind tower sections from the Campbeltown harbour in Scotland.

  • UK Offshore Wind Generation Increases by 46.7 Pct in Q2

    27 September 2012
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    Energy Trends and Quarterly Energy Prices publications are published today 27 September 2012 by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Energy Trends covers statistics on energy production and consumption, in total and by fuel, and provides an analysis of the year on year changes, and now includes a section on renewables. Quarterly Energy Prices […]

  • Irish Managed Cargoship Sinks After Collision Off UK

    14 December 2011

      After a collision with a Greek owned chemical tanker on Friday, Irish managed general cargoship Florece sank offshore UK. Seven crew members have been rescued from the Dominican flagged vessel. The unfortunate mishap took place in the Bay of Biscay. Florece, the 88m cargoship managed by Greystones based Berg Maritime Management, collided with the […]

  • Tesco to Fuel Its HGV Fleet with Bio LNG, UK

    29 April 2013

    The distribution division of the world’s third largest grocery retailer, Tesco, has committed a fleet of HGVs to fill up at facilities run by leading Bio-LNG supplier Gasrec. Thirty-five dual-fuel vehicles will run on Bio-LNG from Gasrec’s refuelling station at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: a ground-breaking installation that will officially open to all dual-fuel […]