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  • Current2Current’s Tidal Energy Device Shows Successful Operation (UK)

    30 October 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    Renewable energy developer Current2Current Ltd has confirmed that their prototype recently started with producing electricity in the North Sea enabling the company to move ever closer to securing its future as a renewable energy production company. Generating electricity from ocean currents and tides, the TEC (tidal energy converter) is a working prototype using the kinetic […]

  • UK: CTruk Looks Forward with Hybrid Powertrain SWATH Design

    10 December 2013
    Technology

    A feasibility study around a hybrid powertrain SWATH, commissioned this year by CTruk, has given the company further impetus in its ongoing development of a hybrid electric offshore wind support vessel design. The study was based on the CTruk CWhisper SWATH, a 20m craft fitted with twin Cummins QSM-11 marine diesel engines and Rolls-Royce Kamewa […]

  • UK: New Chairman Excited by Energy Challenge for Suffolk and Norfolk

    30 August 2013

    Bruce Provan is the new chairman of the Norfolk and Suffolk Energy Alliance (NSEA), a group created to provide a unified approach to bringing more investment into the region’s energy industry. And he believes they have invaluable work to do over the next few years, particularly as the offshore wind sector gathers momentum. ”We don’t […]

  • UK: Another Wind Farm Support Vessel Catches Fire

    20 January 2014

    A crewman has been airlifted to hospital this morning after a fire on board a wind farm support vessel 4 nautical miles off Great Yarmouth. Humber Coastguard received a call from the vessel Norfolk Tern just after 8am reporting they had a fire in their starboard engine. They had managed to bring it under control, […]

  • UK: Narec Submits Application for Blyth Offshore Demonstration Project

    28 March 2012

    Narec is seeking consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to construct and operate, for up to 22 years, a 99.9MW offshore wind demonstration site at Blyth, Northumberland. The proposed project will comprise a maximum of 15 turbines, to be constructed across 3 arrays, with a maximum number of 5 turbines in each array, at water […]

  • Onshore Works Approved for Neart na Gaoithe OWF (UK)

    18 June 2013
    Storage

    Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power has been granted planning consent by East Lothian Council for the onshore cable works to connect its 450MW “Neart na Gaoithe” offshore wind farm, located off the coast of Fife, to the National Grid. East Lothian Council’s Planning Committee agreed on 18th June to grant consent for […]

  • UK: Dong Energy to Create around 40 Jobs in Grimsby

    7 February 2013
    Human Capital

    Danish wind energy giant, Dong Energy, is considering to locate a new operations and maintenance base for Westermost Rough in Grimsby, reports the Grimsby Telegraph. Dong Energy expects to create around 40 energy jobs in this area. This comes after the last week’s announcement that the construction work on this wind farm will commence in […]

  • Borehole Survey to Be Carried Out for Dogger Bank Teesside (UK)

    12 April 2013
    Research & Development, Storage

    An onshore geotechnical survey near the proposed landfall location for the Dogger Bank Teesside export cables, between Redcar and Marske-by-the-Sea, will be carried out next week (starting Tuesday, April 16). Specialist contractor VolkerInfra will drill a number of boreholes in total as part of the work, up to two near the Network Rail railway line […]

  • UK exploring shore power in ports to speed up green shipping

    8 February 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics, Research & Development, Transition

    On 7 February, the UK government launched a call for evidence to gather information on the costs, benefits, vessel emissions and options for increasing the use of shore power in the UK.

  • North Sea offshore workers put strike action on hold (UK)

    18 June 2015

    The threat of strike action in the UK North Sea has been suspended due to a new offer made to offshore workers by their employers. According to BBC, two offshore workers’ unions, GMB and Unite, suspended their strike ballot plans after receiving what is reported as an “improved offer” for the North Sea offshore workers. The Offshore […]

  • UK: Naming Ceremony for Deep Sea Supply’s New Vessel

    18 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    On April 16 in Aberdeen UK, a seaport city on the North Sea, SINOPACIFIC & Deep Sea Supply together held a grand naming ceremony for the first PX105 platform supply vessel (PSV) among 12 ones contracted between the above shipbuilder & ship owner. Madame Dana House named this vessel as “SEA FALCON”. The high-tech PSV PX105 […]

  • Maersk Oil UK Gets Go Ahead for Flyndre and Cawdor Development

    28 May 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Maersk Oil UK Limited has received approval from the UK and Norwegian authorities to develop the Flyndre and Cawdor fields. The fields lie approximately 293 km South East of Aberdeen in blocks 30/13 and 30/14 of the UK North Sea (Flyndre and Cawdor) and block 1/5 of the Norwegian North Sea (Flyndre only). The Flyndre […]

  • UK: Shale Gas Could Create Thousands of Jobs, Say Engineers

    18 September 2012

    Shale gas is ‘no silver bullet’ for UK energy security but will provide long-term economic benefits. The exploitation of UK shale gas resources has the potential to create thousands of high-skilled engineering jobs over the next decade, one of the UK’s largest engineering institutions said today. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in a policy statement […]

  • Ithaca takes interest in two UK North Sea discoveries

    2 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    Ithaca Energy has expanded its position in the Greater Stella Area (GSA) with four agreements entered into for the acquisition of additional interests in the Vorlich discovery and an operated interest in the Austen discovery, in the UK North Sea.  Les Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, commented: “This is in line with our “hub and spoke” strategy […]

  • Oil & Gas UK: Tax cuts greeted, but this is just first step

    3 December 2014

    Today’s announcement from the Chancellor George Osborne, that the ‘vital’ UK offshore oil and gas industry is to see an immediate reduction of two percentage points in its tax rate, has been lauded by the industry association  Oil & Gas UK as “an important first step towards improving the fiscal competitiveness of the UK North […]

  • Canadian E&C giant to take over UK rival

    21 April 2017

    Global engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin is set to take over its UK rival WS Atkins.  Canada-based SNC-Lavalin has offered to buy WS Atkins for a total amount of around £2.1 billion (C$3.6 billion), or £20.80-a-share. The Atkins directors have endorsed the offer, deeming it “fair and reasonable,” and will unanimously recommend the shareholders to […]

  • Renewables Boost UK’s 2015 Low Carbon Power Generation

    25 February 2016

    The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) today released its December 2015 energy statistics that allow a provisional assessment to be made of trends in energy production and consumption in 2015. Low carbon energy production rose by 13.8%, with growth due to increased nuclear availability following outages towards the end of 2014, and […]

  • Fire-Stricken Car Carrier Gets Nod to Leave UK

    6 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    The fire-stricken car carrier M/V Honor is scheduled to set sail on March 7 as it was given permission by relevant authorities to depart from the UK. The 19,844 dwt vessel received the approval following a fire inspection and inspection of cargo on all decks aboard the vessel, which was launched last week and finalized on […]

  • EU awards €9M for wave and tidal research in UK and Ireland

    24 July 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Research & Development, Technology

    Queen’s University Belfast has secured over €9.3 million from the EU’s Interreg VA Programme to create a ‘virtual center of competence’ that will support cross-border research into wave and tidal energy in UK and Ireland.

  • CS Wind UK Paints First Offshore Wind Tower Section

    21 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    The first offshore wind tower section has left the paint shop at CS Wind UK’s facilities in Machrihanish, Scotland.

  • Finder Energy picks up its second UK offshore license

    7 April 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    Perth-based oil and exploration company Finder Energy has been awarded a 100 per cent interest in the P2528 Licence in the 32nd UK Offshore Licensing Round.

  • UK: EMEC Director to Open Hatston Pier Next Week

    25 April 2013

    Scotland’s longest commercial deep-water berth has been created in Orkney with the completion of a new extension at Hatston Pier. The 160-metre extension to the existing 225-metre pier will be officially opened next week by Neil Kermode, Managing Director of EMEC, the Orkney-based European Marine Energy Centre. The £8 million project is a key component […]

  • UK Mission Heads to Taiwan to Share Offshore Wind Know-How

    30 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    A trade and technology mission from the UK is visiting Taiwan from 30 May to 1 June to share the UK’s experience on renewable energy, especially on the offshore wind energy industry. With the largest ever number of UK renewable energy delegates to Taiwan, this mission is the first major event of the British Office’s 6-month […]

  • Sir Ian Wood Calls for New Oil & Gas Regulator in UK

    11 November 2013

    Sir Ian Wood, recently retried Chair of the Wood Group, a multi-national engineering services company focused on the energy sector, has published his interim report revealing the economic and energy security opportunities still available from the UK’s offshore oil and gas resources.  The “UKCS Maximising Recovery Review”, the first of its kind in more than […]

  • Centrica, Statoil Sign MOU for Joint Gas Exploration in UK and Norway

    7 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Centrica plc, the parent company of British Gas, and Statoil ASA today signed an extension to their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on gas-focussed exploration opportunities in Norway and the UK. The original MoU, which was signed in November 2011, has already resulted in the companies bidding jointly in the 27th UK North Sea […]