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  • USA: BOEM Reduces Offshore Wind Energy Area

    27 February 2012

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)  announced that it reduced the size of the offshore Wind Energy Area between Rhode Island and Massachusetts by excluding commercially important fishing grounds. The reduced Wind Energy Area includes approximately 164,750 acres within the original area identified by Rhode Island and Massachusetts in a 2010 memorandum of understanding. […]

  • NOAA Teams Up with Liquid Robotics to Protect Underwater Ecosystems

    17 October 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Liquid Robotics and NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) Pacific Islands Region (PIR) announced a multi-year agreement to develop solutions to help protect and preserve the Hawaiian and American Samoa marine sanctuaries and monuments. Liquid Robotics’ Wave Glider, an autonomous surface ocean robot, will conduct long-term environmental monitoring and surveillance of the Pacific’s underwater […]

  • VIDEO: Uptime’s Gangway Used at Borkum West OWF

    10 December 2013
    Technology

    Uptime 23,4m AMC gangway has been used during operation at the Borkum West offshore wind farm. To access Borkum West’s wind turbines and substation, the 3-axis compensated UPTIME gangway was attached on the Island Crown vessel from Island Offshore. The gangway is 23,4m long and has a height adjustable pedestal. This access system allows the […]

  • The Netherlands: Havenbedrijf Rotterdam Presents New Dredging Plan

    11 May 2012

    Havenbedrijf Rotterdam NV has announced tender for the port dredging and construction works. The project broadly covers: 1. Design and construction of approx. 1,500m deep-sea quay (retaining height approx. 25m – 30m); 2. Design and construction of approx. 750m inland quay (retaining height about 11m – 12m); 3. Design and construction of a harbour basin […]

  • Stornoway Development Plan Includes Dredging

    10 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    The Stornoway Port Authority has invited bidders to submit their offers for the Newton Basin development project. The scheme will consist of a significant amount of dredging works, aimed to create a navigation channel, pontoons for berthing and storage for up to 70 vessels, along with rock armoring protection to the pontoons and areas that […]

  • The Netherlands: Deltares Tests Cape Verdean Breakwater

    28 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Because of doubts about the original design of the new harbour built in Sal Rei on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, the Cape Verdean client asked Royal Haskoning and Deltares to produce, test and optimise a new design. The harbour is vital for the ongoing development of tourism on the island. Storms resulted in […]

  • Four rescued after fishing boat hits rocks

    22 June 2006

    Four men have been rescued from a liferaft after they abandoned their fishing boat when it hit rocks at Motiti Island in the Bay of Plenty shortly before daybreak today. The Tauranga pilot boat picked up the four, believed to be experienced fishermen, about 8am after their 14 metre fishing boat Lady Luck hit the […]

  • New Trimodal Container Terminal for City of Mainz (Germany)

    18 June 2010

    The City of Mainz and Frankenbach Container Terminal are constructing a new trimodal terminal in the Ingelheimer Au industrial area. In the first phase, 80,000 of the available 130,000 m2 will be used. Initially the handling capacity is 160,000 containers, some 260,000 TEU. The investments are approximately € 30 million. The terminal is planned to […]

  • First Section of Newly Constructed Beach Complete

    29 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    The Town of Duck announced on Saturday, May 27, that the nourishment works on the first 200 feet of newly constructed beach are complete. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock (GLDD) dredge Liberty Island is now working South with an active construction zone of around 500 feet between 147 and 157 Bufflehead Rd., reported the town. […]

  • Queensland Curtis LNG plant ships 500th cargo

    3 October 2019
    Vessels

    Shell’s QGC business, along with its joint venture partners CNOOC and Tokyo Gas, have shipped the 500th cargo of liquefied natural gas from its LNG plant on Curtis Island, Queensland.

  • Denmark: Anholt Wind Farm Transformer Platform Set for Installation

    9 April 2012

    On 2 March, Energinet.dk tied up the foundation and steel structure, and the top site is now ready to be placed on a barge in Aalborg. The top section is expected to be lifted into place around Easter, and it does not only contain Energinet.dk’s transformers but also DONG Energy surveillance equipment for the wind […]

  • UK: Tidal Energy, Answer for Alderney Electricity Prices

    24 July 2013

    Unfortunately for Alderney residents, the prices of electricity cannot be lowered, stated chairman of Alderney Electricity Mike Richards, reports BBC. Mike Richards said that there was no quick solution for this problem, and that tidal energy could be the answer, but not in the near future as it would take some time to develop. It […]

  • Port infrastructure and high costs hamper India

    15 September 2006

    A lack of world-class infrastructure and high port and inland costs continue to limit India

  • Stop using beach as free shipyard

    14 August 2006

    WAIHEKE Shipping is ordered to cease industrial activity on pristine Motuihe Island beaches or risk

  • Global wave characterisation standard for Irish test sites

    2 April 2020
    Research & Development

    Ocean modelling researchers from the MaREI Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) are using wave data collected at the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site and the outputs from NUIG wave models on the site to characterise the wave resource at the site according to […]

  • Canada: AOE’s Test Buoy Captures Ocean Energy in Sooke Basin

    18 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    AOE Accumulated Ocean Energy’s (AOE) 1/8 scale prototype captured ocean energy in the Sooke Basin last week. With founders and potential investors looking on; Jim Matei, COO of AOE pulled the test buoy out into a calm ocean, secured it to the anchoring system and with mechanically generated waves began compressing air. Gauges on the […]

  • Fugro gets work on floating platform for project harnessing ocean energy

    5 December 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro has secured a role in the EU-backed PLOTEC project, providing sensor technology to support the advancement of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology in storm-prone regions. According to Fugro, the sensors will track platform movement and hull response to waves, playing an important role in validating the floating platform’s resilience under […]

  • Marine-i hails first Africa’s OTEC power plant plans

    19 October 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Marine-i has welcomed the news that Global OTEC Resources entered into a partnership for the deployment of the world’s first commercial floating ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) platform, which will be located in the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe.

  • PtX production of green fuels is possible on Bornholm, EU-funded study says

    14 September 2023
    Authorities & Government, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Vision

    An EU-supported feasibility study, led by Port of Roenne and a number of local and national actors, including the Regional Municipality of Bornholm, Ramboll, Topsøe, Ørsted, BEOF and DTU, has revealed that there is a basis for producing green fuels on Bornholm, Denmark. The results came after a year of investigating the possibility of local […]

  • Russia: Baltic Shipyard Launches Fourth BFC’s Oil Tanker

    21 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Baltic Shipyard held an official launching and naming ceremony on June 19, 2012 for the fourth vessel in a series of non-self-propelled oil tankers of 2734 Project, built under order of the group of companies “Baltic Fuel Company” (BFC). The vessel was named “Ksenia”. Construction of the four tankers series started in January 2011, in […]

  • Stonehenge Sets Eyes on Maldives

    23 September 2015

    Stonehenge Metals Limited has entered into an exclusive option to acquire 99% of Clean Energy Maldives Pvt Ltd (CEM). The management of CEM has the approval and local support to facilitate the establishment of a commercial wave energy converter power generation and seawater desalination facility off the coast of Hanimaadhoo Island, Maldives. The wave farm […]

  • USA: BOEM Reduces Offshore Wind Energy Area

    27 February 2012

    The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)  announced that it reduced the size of the offshore Wind Energy Area between Rhode Island and Massachusetts by excluding commercially important fishing grounds. The reduced Wind Energy Area includes approximately 164,750 acres within the original area identified by Rhode Island and Massachusetts in a 2010 memorandum of understanding. […]

  • Work Underway on Subsea Cable Linking Guernsey to Jersey

    28 May 2019
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    Guernsey Electricity has confirmed that the activity is underway to lay the new subsea cable which links the Island to Jersey. Exploratory and research work has been carried out underwater and the cable is currently under construction in Sweden. An environmental survey along the cable route in Guernsey waters has been conducted by Eco Marine […]

  • Jumbo Completes Caisson Transport for Gorgon Project

    31 August 2012

    On August 12, 2012, Jumbo successfully completed the transport and discharge of twenty-five MOF caissons for the Gorgon Project. These concrete caissons will form the base of the heavy lift Material Offloading Facility for the Chevron LNG Plant, to be constructed on Barrow Island in Australia. The crew of the Jumbo Jubilee accomplished a discharge […]

  • Prosecutor Wants 26-Year Sentence for Costa Concordia Captain

    27 January 2015

    Italian prosecutors have called for a 26-year prison sentence for the captain of Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in January, 2012, killing 32 people. Captain of the ill-fated cruise ship Francesco Schettino is being trialed before a court in Grosseto, Italy for manslaughter and abandoning ship. Prosecutor Maria Navarro said that Schettino is a flight […]