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  • WindSentinel’s Virginia Offshore Wind Data Now Available

    19 July 2016
    Authorities & Government, Research & Development

    A WindSentinel buoy that has been gathering offshore wind data off Virginia Beach, Virginia, has ended its 19-month deployment and collected a wealth of information, which forms the first publicly accessible database to help improve offshore wind development. The AXYS’ WindSentinel buoy, one of the two commissioned by the U.S. Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), recorded data […]

  • AUV Maps Seafloor for Tidal Energy Development

    16 December 2014
    Environment

    Pinpointing the best location for tidal energy turbines and providing a picture of seafloor conditions underneath fish pens are two research projects benefiting from the autonomous underwater technologies expertise at the Australian Maritime College. The projects were funded by the University of Tasmania’s research enhancement scheme, designed to help early to mid-career academics increase their […]

  • FLiDAR Joins NORCOWE

    19 November 2014
    Technology

    NORCOWE, the Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy, has accepted FLiDAR, a leading provider of floating LIDAR based measurement solutions, as a new Consortium partner. “We welcome FLiDAR as new member in the Consortium”, said Kristin Guldbandsen Frøysa, Managing Director of NORCOWE. “FLiDAR will add valuable competence based on their commercially proven technology for accurate […]

  • USA: Cornell University and Verdant Power Sign MOU

    15 July 2013

    Cornell University and Verdant Power Inc., signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the intention of entering into a long-term relationship centered on research and other activities related to Marine & Hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies. Verdant Power’s MHK project on Roosevelt Island in New York City is the first commercially licensed tidal energy plant in U.S. […]

  • SINN Power Supports MUSICA Project

    22 October 2019
    Research & Development, Technology

    SINN Power is part of the research project MUSICA that is granted € 9 million to build and test a floating renewable offshore platform. The MaREI center for Marine and Renewable Energy takes the lead and is supported by a consortium of 15 European participants. Under the lead of MaREI’s Gordon Dalston, MUSICA (Multiple Use […]

  • Schatz Energy Probes California’s Offshore Wind Feasibility

    31 July 2019
    Research & Development

    The Schatz Energy Research Center is carrying out a study on the wind resource and transmission constraints related to offshore wind in California. The research is part of three complementary studies that the U.S. center is conducting to assess offshore wind feasibility for the northern California coast. It is being funded by a USD 150,000 grant […]

  • OEA explores insurance-debt link for tidal power projects

    5 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Energy Advisors (OEA) has completed the first phase of the industrial research project that explored the link between the insurance and debt in relation to bankability of tidal power.

  • United States hands out $23 million to boost marine energy

    1 May 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    The Energy Department of the United States has set up a $23 million funding call to support marine energy industry advancement in wave, tidal, ocean and river current technologies.

  • BIRD Energy launches USD 1 mln funding opportunity

    28 April 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    BIRD Energy has issued a new call for proposals for collaborative US – Israel renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. To be considered, a project proposal must include R&D cooperation between two companies or cooperation between a company and a university/research institution (one from the US and one from Israel). The following areas of research […]

  • France: €10 million for marine renewables projects

    23 December 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Technology

    Ten companies have been awarded €10 million total for research and development projects related to marine renewable energy. Following a call for projects issued in July this year by the French National Research Agency (ANR), in collaboration with France Energies Marines (FEM), with the aim of advancing the French marine renewables sector by developing knowledge […]

  • Construction of New Antarctic Wharf Underway

    16 January 2019
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has just reported that the modernization work has begun at Rothera Research Station, with BAM Nuttall starting on the deconstruction of the old wharf. A new 74-meter long wharf, bigger, deeper and stronger than the current one, will be built during the next two Antarctic seasons. The project is due for completion in […]

  • ASV Gains R&D Funds

    26 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Based near Portsmouth in the UK, ASV Ltd, in partnership with nine other commercial and research organisations, has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to undertake in excess of £3 million worth of research and development for Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS). Three separate projects involving ASV will look to address different areas covering the wide […]

  • GM and U.S. Navy Test Hydrogen Fuel Cells in Unmanned Undersea Vehicles

    24 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Hydrogen fuel cells convert high-energy hydrogen efficiently into electricity, resulting in vehicles with greater range and endurance than those powered with batteries. […]

  • WERC intensifies Oz wave resource efforts

    23 February 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The University of Western Australia’s Wave Energy Research Centre (WERC) has intensified efforts to assess wave resources along the coastline of the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

  • ITOCHU to supply marine ammonia fuel in Japan

    15 March 2021
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Japan’s Itochu Corporation, Itochu Enex, Ube Industries and Uyeno Transtech reached an agreement to work together on the supply of marine ammonia fuel and the development of supply sites in Japan.

  • Gulf Island Nets Second RCRV Construction Deal from OSU

    12 June 2018
    Project & Tenders

    Gulf Island Fabrication has received a contract for the construction of an additional Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) for Oregon State University (OSU). The company was awarded the contract for the first vessel in July 2017, which included options for two additional vessels. The vessels, to be built in Houma, Louisiana, will be able to carry up […]

  • Azimut Project Leads to Development of 15MW OW Turbine

    13 March 2014
    Research & Development, Technology

    Eleven Spanish companies and 22 research centers, coordinated by Gamesa, have successfully completed their applied research activities within the Azimut project, which aims to enable the development of the world’s largest capacity wind turbine by 2020. The project has reached the objective of generating knowledge as well as key technologies that will enable the development […]

  • Nova Scotia takes steps to better understand its offshore potential

    31 January 2017

    The Government of Canadian province Nova Scotia has chosen petroleum consultancy firm Beicip-Franlab to develop a comprehensive geoscience picture of the Sydney Basin, off Cape Breton. The government said on Monday that the new research would help Nova Scotians and the industry to better understand the oil and gas resource potential lying off the coast of […]

  • Jensen Maritime Hires Third Naval Architect for Its New Orleans Office, USA

    1 November 2012

    Jensen Maritime Consultants announced, November 1st, the hiring of its third naval architect, Jianjun Qi, in the company’s new office in the New Orleans business district, reporting to Jensen General Manager Sergio Fifi. Qi brings to Jensen a decade of naval architecture, marine engineering and shipyard expertise. Before joining Jensen he worked as a naval […]

  • MegaRoller Project Reaches New Milestone

    20 March 2019
    Technology

    MegaRoller project has reached a milestone by completing an advanced custom structure interaction Wave Energy Converter (WEC) model. The MegaRoller project is an EU-funded research program over the period 2018-2021. The project will develop and demonstrate a 1 MW power take-off (PTO) for wave energy converters. The PTO is developed in conjunction with oscillating wave […]

  • Minesto Could Deploy Full-Scale Deep Green in Wales

    10 September 2013
    Technology

    Minesto has identified the Welsh waters as candidate for a full-scale deployment of Deep Green after extensive measurements of the sea conditions carried out by SEACAMS, a Welsh research project that offers marine businesses access to research facilities, expertise and knowledge from Welsh Universities. “We are very excited about these promising developments, and we see […]

  • MARIN, Deltares Test Transport & Installation of Gravity-Based Structures

    11 December 2017
    Ports & Logistics, Research & Development

    Dutch research institutes MARIN and Deltares have completed a test campaign focused on the transport and installation of gravity-based structures (GBS) as part of the GBS WIND Joint Industry Project (JIP) launched in March 2017.

  • USA: NASA/WHOI to Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness and Climate

    6 September 2012

    A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic’s saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean’s upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet. The research voyage is part of a multi-year mission, dubbed the Salinity […]

  • UK offshore wind and CCS colocation projects kick off

    28 November 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    The Offshore Wind and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Colocation Forum (the Forum), set up to provide strategic coordination of colocation research and activity on the nation’s seabed, has commissioned two research projects. The projects are designed to inform the best approach to test and demonstrate the colocation of offshore wind and CCS activities in […]

  • World’s 1st liquid CO2 carrier intended for CCUS launched

    28 March 2023
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Vessels

    Japanese shipbuilder Mitsubishi Shipbuilding, part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has launched a liquefied CO2 transportation demonstration test ship intended for carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).