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  • Rolls-Royce Showcases World’s 1st Remotely Operated Commercial Ship

    20 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Engineering company Rolls-Royce and towage operator Svitzer have demonstrated the world’s first remotely operated commercial vessel in Copenhagen harbor, Denmark. “It was an honour to be present at what I believe was a world first and a genuinely historic moment for the maritime industry. We’ve been saying for a couple of years that a remotely […]

  • Tideland provides Kittiwake platform with LED light stations

    10 March 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Tideland Signal has supplied Petrofac, the Duty Holder and Operator of the Kittiwake platform on behalf of EnQuest, with Syncrolan LED light stations and fog signals to mark the Kittiwake platform in the central North Sea 160km north east of Aberdeen. The Tideland warning systems for Kittiwake include LED main and secondary lights, fog signal […]

  • UK: OFTO Leaves Electricity Consumers with Long-Term Inflation Risk, Warns NAO

    22 June 2012
    Storage

    The National Audit Office has highlighted the benefits flowing from the innovative use of competition to award companies licences to transmit electricity from offshore wind farms – but warns that electricity consumers are being left with some significant risks, including bearing the cost of inflation. The Government has a target that, by 2020, 15 per […]

  • UK: Offshore Wind Developers Face Workforce’s Competence Issue

    20 August 2012

    As offshore wind projects become larger in size and further offshore the teams involved in their construction will grow significantly. Each project will be phased into separate stages which in turn will create subsets of workers. The issue which arises is the effective management of the entire workforce’s competence. Currently there are 4,700 offshore wind […]

  • World Bank Approves S.D.E’s Sea Wave Power Plant (Israel)

    24 March 2011
    Business & Finance, Technology

    S.D.E’s Sea Wave Power Plant has been approved by MIGA (https://www.miga.org/) – The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of The World Bank. The technology S.D.E has developed is an innovative and unique technique for the production of electricity through “harvesting” of sea wave motions, a renewed and green source. This technology has proved itself as weather-proofed, […]

  • Wartsila to Present at Asia Pacific Maritime Show in Singapore

    12 March 2014

    Wärtsilä’s Environmental Solutions, Ship Design, Propulsion, Pumps & Valves, and Electrical & Automation teams will take centre-stage at the Asia Pacific Maritime (APM) show in Singapore from 19-21 March 2014. Visitors to Wärtsilä’s stand will will have the opportunity to see the presentations and engage in networking discussions on how Wärtsilä products and solutions can […]

  • VIDEO: First oil flows from TEN project off Ghana

    18 August 2016
    Project & Tenders

    Independent oil exploration and production company Tullow Oil plc has informed that first oil has flowed from the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) fields offshore Ghana, to the FPSO Prof. John Evans Atta Mills. The FPSO is moored around sixty kilometers offshore Western Ghana at a water depth averaging 1,500 meters. The charter contract for the MODEC-owned […]

  • DTOceanPlus Calls for More Ideas

    21 February 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    DTOceanPlus H2020 Project is looking to develop and demonstrate a suite of 2nd generation advanced design tools for the selection, development and deployment of ocean energy systems, aligning innovation and development processes with those used in mature engineering sectors. The FP7 funded DTOcean project produced a first generation of freely available, open-source design tools for […]

  • SgurrEnergy’s PPT Services In Line with New IEC Standard

    10 May 2017

    SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group, has informed that its Power Performance Testing (PPT) services, which deliver wind turbine power curve tests, are fully compliant with the recently issued 2nd edition of IEC 61400-12-1 wind turbine standard from the International Electrotechnical Commission.

  • JAXPORT Preps for Bigger Ships

    27 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. port of Jacksonville (JAXPORT) has finalized a USD 37.6 million contract to purchase three new 100-gauge cranes for its Blount Island Marine Terminal, with the Florida Department of Transportation granting the port USD 15 million for the purchase. China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, Co. Ltd. (ZPMC) has been contracted for the manufacturing, delivery and set-up of the […]

  • Circle Oil Acquires Remaining 30 Pct Interest in Mahdia Exploration Licence in Tunisia

    29 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Circle Oil Plc, the international oil and gas exploration, development and production company, announces the following update regarding its operations in Tunisia. Circle Oil Tunisia Limited ( “Circle Tunisia”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, has reached agreement with Tethys Oil and Mining Inc (“Tethys”) to acquire the remaining 30% working interest in the […]

  • Port of Los Angeles Peels Off Container Backlog

    10 March 2015

    The Port of Los Angeles has launched a new program aimed at expediting cargo by streamlining container moves so as to speed up operations at the clogged port. Launched at the end of February, the “Peel Off” program has added a new operational model to the port to clear the current backlog of containers and improve […]

  • Slavenburg & Huyser Brings French Shipping Company Delmas Back to Amsterdam

    14 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    On Saturday 10 September United Stevedores Amsterdam (USA) welcomed back the first vessel of the specialised West African shipping company Delmas, represented in the Netherlands by Slavenburg & Huyser. The ConRo vessel Rosa Delmas carried cocoa beans for transportation to storage warehouses in the region via the Ter Haak terminal. This is not the first […]

  • Research project on sustainable installation of XXL monopiles launched

    2 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development

    A research project on sustainable installation and decommissioning of XXL monopiles for large next-generation offshore wind turbines has been launched in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) will give EUR 4 million to support the project, called Sustainable Installation of XXL Monopiles (SIMOX), with the participating companies investing EUR 2 million. The three-year project […]

  • HR Wallingford, Ørsted Refine Borkum Riffgrund 2 Foundations

    20 April 2018
    Equipment

    HR Wallingford and Ørsted have worked together to test and refine the design of the suction bucket foundations for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The testing was conducted as a part of the research project investigating scour effects, and the most suitable scour protection for the novel foundation structures. The […]

  • CGGVeritas Wins 4D Processing Contract in Angola

    16 April 2012
    Business & Finance

    CGGVeritas  announced today that, after negotiations with Total Exploration & Production Angola and Sonangol, it has been awarded a five-year contract for the 4D seismic processing and imaging of annual and biennial monitor surveys planned to take place offshore Angola. Over 6,000 km2 of seismic data from five of Total’s deep offshore group of fields […]

  • Switzerland: Transocean Appoints New VP, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer

    5 August 2011
    Business & Finance

    Transocean Ltd. announced today that Rob Shaw has been appointed to serve as Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, effective December 1, 2011. Until Mr. Shaw assumes this position, Robert L. Herrin, Jr. will serve as interim Vice President and Controller and Ricardo H. Rosa, the company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, […]

  • SMM Exhibitors to Present New Defence Technologies for Naval Ships (Germany)

    22 August 2012

    The maritime environment has changed significantly in recent years, due to piracy and terrorism, climate change and environmental protection, and the offshore sector. Global trading of goods continues to grow, and 90% of it is carried by sea, so security of the overall global maritime logistic chains is at the focus of attention. The means […]

  • AWI Kicks Off FRAM Observatory Project

    20 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Scientists and engineers of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are currently starting work on a long-term observatory with observation stations from the Norwegian Sea to the Arctic Ocean. In the coming years, the AWI researchers intend to upgrade their existing long-term observatories along this key climatological interface into […]

  • ICE Medal for Coastal Flooding Research

    10 October 2018
    Business & Finance

    New research undertaken on behalf of the Environment Agency by scientists at HR Wallingford has been recognized by the Institution of Civil Engineers, with the award of the Bill Curtin Medal for Research and Innovation at the ICE Publishing Awards ceremony, held at One Great George Street in London on Monday, 8 October 2018. The […]

  • CEDA DMC Holds 8th Meeting

    11 July 2018
    Business & Finance

    The CEDA Dredging Management Commission (DMC) had a busy agenda for their 8th meeting recently, taking place at the premises of the Corporate Member Femern A/S. Amongst the subjects discussed were their proposed outputs for the rest of the year. DMC will follow the CEDA Checklist for Successful Dredging Management (published in November 2017 and available free of […]

  • Sonardyne’s Technology for Brazilian Research Vessel

    1 October 2019
    Equipment

    Sonardyne Brasil has supplied Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) positioning technology to track science equipment and underwater vehicles deployed from Brazil’s oceanographic research vessel, Alpha Crucis. The 64 m-long vessel, which is operated by the University of São Paulo, undertakes research projects spanning global climate change to biodiversity in Brazilian waters. It will be equipped with a […]

  • Alfred Wegener Institute to Start Another Expedition

    7 June 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A group of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research began their journey to South Africa yesterday. However this trip south is no summer holiday, but rather the start of a special journey: on Saturday, 8 June 2013 the research vessel Polarstern will be embarking on an expedition to […]

  • Oxford professor condemns tidal lagoon costs

    17 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    In a paper criticizing the UK energy policy, Professor Dieter Helm proposes for DECC to avoid supporting expensive projects such as tidal lagoons, and to focus on other energy efficiency programmes. The paper ‘British energy policy – what happens next?’ analyzes the British energy policy, and offers propositions for simplifying the UK energy market reforms. […]

  • Swift action needed to bring autonomous inland shipping closer to reality, German insurers say

    10 January 2025
    Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety, Vessels

    From a purely technical perspective, it would be already possible today to allow inland waterway vessels to travel across rivers unmanned and remotely controlled. However, as there are still many legal hurdles standing in the way of the everyday use of such ships, German insurers have called on the government to solve them.