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  • Norway: Island Offshore Orders Two PSVs from STX OSV Brevik

    17 September 2012
    Business & Finance

    Island Offshore has declared an option with STX OSV Brevik to build 2 medium size PSV`s type UT 717 CD. These vessels will become number 3 & 4 in the series and they will be delivered in November 2013 and February 2014. The hulls will be delivered from STX OSV Braila in Romania and completed […]

  • K Line’s PSV Supports Statoil’s Drilling Ops Offshore Faroe Islands

    4 July 2012

    K Line Offshore has announced that the large PSV KL Brofjord, built in 2011, commenced on a contract for Statoil on 14th June. The contract period is for approximately 130 days. The vessel will serve the COSL Pioneer, semi submersible rig which is presently drilling  at Brugdan II prospect offshore Faroe Islands. “This contract with […]

  • Offshore Renewables Developers Should Pay More Attention to Island Communities’ Needs

    24 March 2016
    Research & Development

    A research by the University of Cape Town and Plymouth University suggests there is an appetite for renewable energy projects within island communities, but public and private sector bodies could face opposition if they fail to take local distinctiveness into account at the beginning of the planning process. The study, published in the International Journal of Marine […]

  • USA: Public Comment Period for Block Island Offshore Wind Farm Extended

    24 December 2012

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District has extended the public comment period until Feb. 10, 2013 for those who want to submit comments on the Deepwater Wind proposal to construct five wind turbine generators and do other work off the southeast coast of Block Island, Rhode Island. In response to additional requests […]

  • Chinese cargo ship with nickel ore sinks off Japan Southern Islands

    16 November 2010

    AHN reported that Taiwanese maritime authorities have as saying that a Chinese cargo ship sank off Japan’s southern islands, killing 2 out of 25 crewmen on board. 3 others were reportedly injured but a joint Taiwan and Japan rescue mission saved the sailors. Coastguard officials said that the rescue mission came to action after Taiwan […]

  • Abu Dhabi Executive Committee Approves Funds for New Port on Delma Island

    27 February 2013
    Business & Finance

      The Executive Committee of Abu Dhabi Executive Council today approved funds for a designing and constructing a new port on Delma Island. The approval was given at a meeting chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahnoun Al Nahyan, Chairman of Abu Dhabi Tourism and Cultural Authority (TCA) and member of the Executive Council. The project […]

  • Australia: Curtis Island LNG projects urged to help domestic gas market

    14 March 2017

    Australia is in urgent need of new and diverse sources of gas supply into the domestic market, the country’s Competition & Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims, said urging the LNG producers to support the domestic market.

  • Falkland Islands: Preliminary Results Show that Rachel North Well is an Oil Discovery

    2 December 2010
    Business & Finance

    Desire Petroleum plc  the oil and gas company wholly focussed on the North Falkland Basin, wishes to advise that the 14/15-2 Rachel North well has reached a total depth of 3052 metres. Preliminary data collected indicate that this well is an oil discovery. The company has run an initial suite of wireline logs and this […]

  • Byron Sets Up South Marsh Island 71 Oil & Gas Lines

    23 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Byron Energy, the operator of the South Marsh Island 71 (SM 71) oil and gas development, has completed the installation of the 500 foot 4-inch oil and 7,000 foot 6-inch gas pipelines. Each pipeline has been laid and buried to within tie-in distance to the SM 71 F platform location and their respective sales lines. […]

  • British Antarctic Survey Discovers Underwater Volcanoes Around South Sandwich Islands

    11 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      Scientists from British Antarctic Survey have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technology during research cruises onboard the RRS James Clark Ross, the scientists found 12 volcanoes beneath the sea surface — some up to 3km high. They found 5km diameter craters […]

  • UK: Orkney Islands Council Urges Talks About Connection Upgrade Delay

    25 December 2012
    Storage

    Following the announcement that the cable upgrade from Orkney to Caithness will be delayed until 2018, Orkney Islands Council has called for urgent talks with ministers. Besides the problems in securing planning consents and land acquisition, SSE said they are also facing problems in the global supply chain for subsea cables, reports Herald Scotland. Councillor […]

  • VIDEO: Work on Curtis Island LNG Projects Leads to Extinction of Sea Turtles

    29 August 2013

     Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) and The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) said that the Australia Pacific and Queensland LNG projects are destroying sea turtle and dugong habitat along Curtis Island in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and polluting the Gladstone harbor with toxic dredge sediments. These environmental societies are warning that the massive fracking […]

  • Minesto flies first Dragon Class tidal energy kite in Faroe Islands

    25 May 2022
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Swedish marine energy company Minesto has successfully completed the first week of commissioning of its new Dragon 4 tidal power plant in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands.

  • AG Tong: Long Island Sound Dredging Crucial to CT Maritime Economy

    7 June 2019
    Business & Finance

    Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has filed a memorandum of law in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York describing the exhaustive administrative record, economic need, and environmental safeguards that clearly support the lawful selection of the Eastern Long Island Sound Disposal Site for dredged materials. The memorandum, filed on behalf of the […]

  • Shelf Drilling hires Drydocks to repair ‘High Island IV’ jack-up

    27 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Drydocks World has been chosen to carry out the drydocking and repairs of the jack-up “High Island IV” for Shelf Drilling, one of the major players in the shallow water drilling market, and owners of 40 rigs worldwide.  Drydocks World-Dubai has a successful past with Shelf Drilling, previously completing a variety of work on six […]

  • U.S. National Grid to Build Block Island OWF Subsea Transmission Link

    21 March 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Storage

    U.S. National Grid has submitted a proposal to the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers (DPUC) for construction of a transmission system to connect Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Offshore Wind Farm to the mainland via a subsea cable. In 2012, National Grid and Deepwater Wind were negotiating an option for Deepwater to build […]

  • Wind Farm Costs Again Main Topic at Rhode Island Supreme Court

    12 May 2011
    Authorities & Government

    Last August, when the state Public Utilities Commission approved a contract for the sale of power from what could be the first offshore… By Alex Kuffner (projo) [mappress] Source: projo, May 12, 2011

  • Carnegie Activates CETO Unit off Garden Island Ahead of Schedule (Australia)

    20 April 2011

    Carnegie Wave Energy has notched up a major win in the race to commercialise new renewable energy technologies, after becoming the first…   By Rachel Donkin (thewest) [mappress] Source: thewest, April 20, 2011;

  • Rhode Island To Provide Economic Benefits From Offshore Wind Project (USA)

    30 July 2010
    Business & Finance

    Deepwater Wind’s proposed offshore wind projects could provide significant economic benefits to Rhode Island, according to analysis…   by Angela Beniwal (nawindpower) [mappress] Source: nawindpower, July 30, 2010;

  • Small Island States Still Cut Off from Major Trade Routes

    21 November 2014

    Small island developing states (SIDS) face severe and complex transport challenges, UNCTAD’s Review of Maritime Transport 2014 reports. For UNCTAD, the way forward requires a portfolio of measures spanning a range of areas, including trade logistics, climate change and resilience-building, energy, and the financing of sustainable and resilient transport systems. In this International Year of […]

  • UK: Aft Island of First Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier Departed

    13 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    The BAE Systems built Aft Island of the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier was yesterday loaded onto a sea-going barge ahead of its journey from the company’s Scotstoun site to Rosyth. The Aft Island, also known as Upper Block 14, is the final section of the first of class HMS Queen Elizabeth to be delivered […]

  • PSE Kinsale Energy ceases gas production from Kinsale field

    8 July 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Project & Tenders

    PSE Kinsale Energy has ceased its gas production at the Kinsale area gas fields in the Celtic Sea after 42 years of production.

  • H2Tec supports hydrogen project in Orkney

    18 June 2020
    Business Developments & Projects, Technology

    Clean energy solutions provider, H2Tec has won a contract to perform key upgrades to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC)’s hydrogen production plant in Orkney. Logan Energy‘s subsidiary work is part of the €11.7 million project, Integrating Tidal Energy into the European Grid (ITEG). The project gets funding from the European Union’s regional development body, […]

  • SmartBay supports marine biodiversity monitoring

    14 April 2020
    Research & Development

    Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is using the SmartBay observatory to integrate environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches to monitor marine biodiversity in Galway bay. eDNA tool relies on the acquisition of nucleic acids from environment to detect species that have shed “biological traces”. The project is using a programmable filtration sampler to filter large volumes of […]

  • Windpark Fryslân turbine installation about to begin

    26 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Project & Tenders

    The installation of Siemens Gamesa turbines at the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands is set to commence at the beginning of March. The 382.7 MW Windpark Fryslân will comprise 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW turbines located in the IJsselmeer Lake. According to the project developer, all preparations are almost ready, Van Oord installed the final […]