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  • Report: US Atlantic Coast Could Run on Offshore Wind Power

    22 March 2018
    Environment, Research & Development

    Offshore winds blowing off the US Atlantic Coast could produce four times more electricity each year than the region currently uses, according to a report by the Environment Maine Research and Policy Center.

  • Longer Blades and New Materials Affecting Wind Industry, Report Says

    2 March 2015

    A recent report from Navigant Research examines the significant forces shaping the global wind power industry’s supply chain, including analyses of more than 500 component and materials suppliers. As the wind turbine manufacturing industry has evolved and matured, blades have become a strong area of strategic product innovation and sourcing shifts. Turbine makers are making […]

  • SPC to evaluate LPG and LNG as alternative energy sources for the Pacific

    12 September 2014

    There is a growing global trend towards using cleaner and cheaper fuel. The Pacific region has always faced difficulties with this type of change, due to its huge dependence on imported expensive fossil fuels for transportation, power generation, shipping and cooking. In many countries, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) are being […]

  • Professor of Geochemistry Miriam Kastner Receives Francis Shepard Medal from SEPM (USA)

    24 May 2011
    Research & Development

    Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego Professor of Geochemistry Miriam Kastner, a pioneer in the study of the chemistry of marine sediments, received the Francis Shepard Medal from the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM). Kastner’s research has taken her around the world to study sub-seafloor deposits, how sediments form and the process called diagenesis […]

  • The Netherlands: Offshore Wind Farm Boosts Porpoise Activity

    23 June 2011
    Environment

    It is often assumed that offshore wind farms have a negative impact on marine animal populations but researchers from Denmark and the Netherlands have found that, in some cases, wind farms can act as a haven for certain species. The researchers, from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands and Aarhus University in Denmark, monitored […]

  • U.S., Japan Complete Field Trial of Methane Hydrate Production Technologies

    3 May 2012

    U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the completion of a successful, unprecedented test of technology in the North Slope of Alaska that was able to safely extract a steady flow of natural gas from methane hydrates – a vast, entirely untapped resource that holds enormous potential for U.S. economic and energy security. Building upon this […]

  • WHOI Releases Report About Impact of Sonar to Whale Strandings (USA)

    17 March 2011
    Research & Development

      Scientists have long been aware of a link between naval sonar exercises and unusual mass strandings of beaked whales. Evidence of such a link triggered a series of lawsuits in which environmental groups sued the U.S.Navy to limit sonar exercises to reduce risk to whales. In 2008, this conflict rose to the level of […]

  • GE using aviation and MRI expertise to advance wind turbine technology

    5 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Research & Development, Technology

    General Electric (GE) is tapping into the knowledge and expertise from its aviation and healthcare businesses to advance its wind turbine technology. The company is researching the design and manufacture of 3-D printed wind turbine blades, and developing a high-efficiency ultra-light low temperature superconducting (LTS) generator. GE Research, GE Renewable Energy, and LM Wind Power […]

  • Ireland: TechWorks Marine Leads ESA’s Coastal Monitoring Project

    11 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Mr Sean Sherlock TD recently announced that TechWorks Marine, an Irish SME based in Dun Laoghaire, has secured a contract to lead a European Space Agency (ESA) research project on monitoring coastal outlets. This is the first time an ESA Earth Observation project has been led by an […]

  • NSF: Ocean Currents Might Have Caused Ice-Age Prolongation

    27 June 2014

    Climate scientists have long tried to explain why ice-age cycles became longer and more intense some 900,000 years ago, switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles. In a paper published this week in the journal Science, researchers report that the deep ocean currents that move heat around the globe stalled or may have stopped at […]

  • RV Neil Armstrong Makes First Port of Call in San Francisco

    10 November 2015

    The newest addition to the US’ academic research fleet, the Neil Armstrong, made its first port of call in San Francisco over the weekend. The Neil Armstrong, named for the renowned astronaut and test pilot, and the first man to set foot on the moon, is owned by the US Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

  • ABS to Establish Korea Energy Technology Center

    28 October 2011
    Business & Finance

    Leading classification society ABS is further strengthening its ties to the Korean maritime industry by establishing the ABS Korea Energy Technology Center (KETC) in Busan in early 2012. This is ABS’ first energy center and will focus on applied research to a broad range of current and future technology challenges. In a related move, the […]

  • REV Ocean Partners with UNESCO’s IOC

    6 March 2020
    Research & Development

    REV Ocean has signed a collaboration agreement with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Organization (IOC) of UNESCO. The aim is to usher in a decade of ocean solutions through advancing global ocean data sharing and application, providing opportunities for researchers and marine management, including in developing countries, and carrying out a range of other critically needed actions. […]

  • ITRE takes ‘bold action’ to support innovative renewable energy technologies

    14 July 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Innovation, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vision

    The renewable energy sector has called on the EU Member States to support the creation of an installation target for innovative renewable energy in the Renewable Energy Directive.

  • JAMSTEC’s Drilling Vessel Embarks on New Expedition Offshore Japan

    26 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on her next mission, IODP Expedition 337: Deep Coalbed Biosphere off Shimokita- Microbial Processes and Hydrocarbon System Associated with Deeply Buried Coalbed in the Ocean – from 26 July to 27 September 2012, in the northwestern […]

  • BOEM Appoints Chief Environmental Officer

    25 November 2013

    U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau has announced the selection of Dr. William Yancey Brown, the former chief executive officer of the Woods Hole Research Center, to serve as the bureau’s Chief Environmental Officer.   “We are very excited to welcome Dr. Brown to BOEM,” said Beaudreau. “He will have […]

  • ABS Establishes Korea Energy Technology Center

    28 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Leading classification society ABS is further strengthening its ties to the Korean maritime industry by establishing the ABS Korea Energy Technology Center (KETC) in Busan in early 2012. This is ABS’ first energy center and will focus on applied research to a broad range of current and future technology challenges. In a related move, the […]

  • DeepCwind Demonstrates Leadership Role at Maine Wind Energy Conference (USA)

    15 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    A team of interdisciplinary researchers from the DeepCwind Consortium attended the Maine Wind Energy Conference in Augusta January 24 and 25. The conference provided a forum to discuss milestones thus far to develop floating wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine. Researchers answered questions from interested stakeholders, briefed policy-makers and local media, and forged new […]

  • China Longyuan Power’s Evaluation Technology for Offshore Wind

    9 October 2013

    On September 27, the “Observation and Evaluation Technology Research for Wind Resource and Hydrological Information of Offshore Wind Plant” project approved and established by China Guodian Corporation and completed by Zhongneng Power-Tech Development Co., Ltd. subordinate to China Longyuan Power passed the acceptance of China Guodian Corporation as well as the technical evaluation of the […]

  • US: Brown Introduces New Bill to Help Make Clean Energy Production a Reality

    20 April 2010
    Business & Finance

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of five U.S. Senators introduced legislation today that would spur research on potential offshore wind projects, expand incentives for offshore wind development, and require the Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a comprehensive roadmap for the deployment of offshore wind.

  • Number Eastern Siberia Cliff Erosions Increases

    30 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The high cliffs of Eastern Siberia – which mainly consist of permafrost – continue to erode at an ever quickening pace. This is the conclusion which scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have reached after their evaluation of data and aerial photographs of the coastal regions for the […]

  • Study: ADDs Effective on Minke Whales at OW Construction Sites

    14 December 2017
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Offshore Renewables Joint industry Programme (ORJIP), with funding from innogy, Ørsted, and Statoil has concluded a study to examine the effectiveness of using Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs), as a protection method for minke whales during offshore wind farm construction. The research project, managed by the Carbon Trust confirmed that minke whales showed a clear […]

  • Kongsberg to Equip New INIDEP Vessel

    20 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Argentina’s National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) has selected Simrad marine ecosystem assessment technology from Kongsberg Maritime for installation aboard its new oceanographic and fishing research vessel. Currently under construction at Spanish yard Astilleros Armon Vigo, and due for delivery mid-2017, the new 52m research ship will be built as a silent vessel, […]

  • Investigator Completes Cold Water Trials

    10 March 2015

    The new Marine National Facility research vessel Investigator has returned to Hobart after successfully completing its cold water trials. The Executive Director of the project to build and test the vessel, Toni Moate said the voyage to the ice-edge tested out key capabilities of the ship, to ensure the vessel can operate in low water […]

  • Rystad Energy partners zero-carbon shipping center

    18 December 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    Norway’s energy research and business intelligence company Rystad Energy has joined Denmark’s Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to advance the maritime industry’s role in the global energy transition.