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  • Langlee Teams Up with Tenerife Island to Promote Wave Power

    20 February 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Tenerife Island Council President, Carlos Alonso, and Langlee Wave Power CEO, Julius Espedal, have signed an agreement to promote the installation of wave energy plants off the island of Tenerife. The aim is to install this type of sustainable energy off Tenerife as a viable, competitive and efficient alternative to other types of energy currently […]

  • BOEM Authorizes Transmission Link for Block Island Wind Farm

    18 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM has offered a right-of-way (ROW) grant to Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission System, LLC (Deepwater Wind) for the Block Island Transmission System (BITS). “This is a major milestone for offshore renewable energy in […]

  • BOEM Authorizes Transmission Link for Block Island Wind Farm

    18 November 2014
    Authorities & Government, Storage

    U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Acting Director Walter Cruickshank today announced that BOEM has offered a right-of-way (ROW) grant to Deepwater Wind Block Island Transmission System, LLC (Deepwater Wind) for the Block Island Transmission System (BITS). “This is a major milestone for offshore renewable energy in […]

  • 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.

  • FERC Rejects Allegations Against 30MW Block Island Project

    23 June 2015
    Authorities & Government

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has rejected to take up an allegation against 30MW wind farm project off Rhode Island. Benjamin Riggs Jr., who publicly opposed offshore wind development, claims that the 20-year power purchase agreement violated the Federal Power Act and the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. However, the FERC commissioners rejected the […]

  • Remontowa converts BC Ferries’ Spirit of Vancouver Island to LNG

    15 March 2019
    Vessels

    Poland’s Remontowa Shiprepair Yard completed the liquefied natural gas (LNG) conversion of the BC Ferries’ ‘spirit’ class vessel.

  • EU launches initiative to bring clean energy to its islands

    18 May 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    The European Commission, together with 14 EU countries, has signed a political declaration to launch the new ‘Clean Energy for EU Islands’ initiative.

  • Scottish islands call for swift RE support to keep funding

    1 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Ministers and leaders of three Scottish Island Councils have called for a swift conclusion on the next round of auctions that support the renewable energy sector to unlock £1.3 billion of investments offered by the shovel ready projects on the Western Isles and Shetland.

  • Bardsey Island up for study in support of tidal energy plans

    7 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Researchers from Swansea University are teaming up with local fishermen and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) to assess possible effects on marine environment from proposed tidal energy development off North Wales.

  • Cyclone Olwyn hits Barrow Island, Gorgon workers not evacuated

    12 March 2015

    Hundreds of workers at Western Australia’s Barrow Island where Chevron is building the $54 billion Gorgon LNG project have been stranded during Cyclone Olwyn after not being evacuated early enough. According to local media reports, workers are sleeping on blow up mattresses in hallways because contract companies left it too late to evacuate. There is no […]

  • Offshore Wind Farm to Connect Anholt Island to Danish Grid

    13 November 2012
    Storage

    For the approximately 160 residents on Anholt, Anholt Offshore Wind Farm means that from 2014, the island will be connected to the Danish grid via the offshore wind farm. Energinet.dk will lay a 28km long submarine cable from the substation in Anholt Offshore Wind Farm to the island in the Kattegat. Now, the residents and […]

  • Capstone Turbine: Argonon, First Inland LNG Barge (VIDEO)

    5 February 2013

    Capstone Turbine Corporation uploaded an interesting video showing the Argonon, the first inland barge that runs on liquefied natural gas. Two LNG fueled Capstone C30 microturbines onboard the Argonon Type-C tanker in the Rhine River in Europe, operate in an N+1 setting and serve as the main electrical power supply. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-jjGzWvy4c Capstone Turbine Corporation® is […]

  • Norway: Island Offshore Takes Delivery of LNG Powered Vessel

    21 June 2012
    Vessels

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, announced today that Island Offshore has taken delivery of Island Crusader, the first gas powered Rolls-Royce offshore vessel. This new and advanced UT 776 CDG platform supply vessel, is the first of two ordered by Island Offshore. Managing Director of Island Offshore, Håvard Ulstein, said: “A very important area […]

  • Christening and delivery of an inland container vessel by Damen Shipyards Bergum

    21 February 2006

    In February 2006 Damen Shipyards Bergum delivered the 85 meter inland container vessel MEDUSA to the Belgian Family Vandenbussche of Dendermonde.

  • Australia: Two-Thirds of GLNG Modules Shipped to Curtis Island

    7 February 2014

    Shipments of modules, or prefabricated steel structures, for Santos GLNG’s liquefied natural gas plant are powering through the sea towards Curtis Island, Gladstone with two-thirds of these now sent. Among one of the recent shipments to leave the module yard was the fourth and final propane condenser rack module. Each of these spans 17 cars […]

  • ISS New Office on Bonny Island to Service NLNG Contracts

    23 January 2014

    Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has strengthened its presence in the Niger Delta with the opening of an office on Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria. The office, which complements the company’s existing presence in Lagos, Brass and close neighbour Port Harcourt, will service ISS contracts with Nigeria LNG (NLNG). ISS, which has a worldwide network of […]

  • Two die as fishing boat sinks off Channel Islands

    12 July 2006

    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A fishing boat sank off the Channel Islands Tuesday, killing two people and injuring one, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Clifton Kent, 45, of Santa Barbara swam more than a mile through chilly waters and was rescued about 9 a.m. on the island’s north shore. A scuba diving boat crew called […]

  • Falkland Islands: FOGL Enters Heads of Agreement for Rig Contract

    20 April 2011
    Business & Finance

      FOGL, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its extensive licence areas to the South and East of the Falkland Islands, has conditionally placed 45.7 million new ordinary shares of 0.002 pence in the capital of the Company at a price of 70 pence per share  to raise £32 million before expenses . […]

  • 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 […]

  • Germany: Marshall Islands-Flagged Bulker Violated Environmental Regulation

    20 September 2019

    Germany: A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier violated MARPOL Convention.

  • Global Wind Service Ready for Block Island OWF Work

    14 July 2016

    Global Wind Service (GWS) is starting up the Block Island Wind Farm project after making the preparations to deliver manpower, tools and safety equipment. “We are very proud to be a part of bringing offshore wind to the U.S. and we see great future opportunities for their growing offshore wind industry,” said Chief Commercial Officer […]

  • Blue Water Taking Care of Block Island Turbine Parts

    23 May 2016

    Blue Water USA has been providing hub logistics services to General Electric (GE) in the Port of Providence, Rhode Island, for the 30 MW Block Island wind farm project since December 2015.  The scope of the services includes heavy lift and storage of turbine components for the first offshore wind farm in the United States, as […]

  • Whale Detection Tech Debuts on Block Island Wind Farm

    23 April 2019
    Technology

    The University of Rhode Island (URI) has developed and deployed an acoustic device to detect whales near the Block Island offshore wind farm. MARIMBA (Marine Mammal Monitoring at Block Island Using Acoustics) was developed by six ocean engineering students who deployed it in close vicinity of the 30MW offshore wind project. “What we were trying to […]

  • Block Island Wind Farm to Go Online with 4 Turbines

    6 December 2016

    Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm, has finished the testing phase and will be officially put into operation this month. However, this will be done with four out of the total five turbines running, as turbine number 2 has broken down. The turbine failure was discovered during a test run in early […]

  • Australia Intensifies Efforts to Contain Solomon Islands Oil Spill

    4 March 2019

    Australia is deploying more assets to the Solomon Islands to contain the bulker oil spill.