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  • Rolls-Royce takes stake in Tidal Power Project

    18 April 2008

    Rolls-Royce is continuing to invest in renewable energy sources by taking a 23.5 per cent equity stake in TGL, a privately-owned company developing free stream tidal power generation capability. Rolls-Royce is researching key technologies to provide solutions to the environmental challenges in aerospace, marine and energy markets in order to bring innovative products to market. […]

  • Subsea UK Presents Global Subsea Market Database

    1 April 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea UK has launched a new market intelligence service to help subsea companies exploit global opportunities. The industry body, which represents the UK’s £9 billion subsea sector, has developed SubseaIntel – a unique on-line database which provides regularly updated details on almost 1,200 subsea projects worldwide. Subsea UK says this unique database will provide sought-after […]

  • ISE Announces Appointment of James A.R. McFarlane as Vice President (Canada)

    2 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

      International Submarine Engineering Ltd  announces the appointment of James A.R. McFarlane as Vice President, ISE Ltd. Mr. McFarlane commenced his subsea vehicle development and piloting career in 1979 when he started with International Submarine Engineering Ltd. From there he became an ROV pilot and technician in the offshore oil and gas industry, military mine […]

  • The Most Complete INBIS Channel Map Released

    21 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A scientific study describes for the first time the submarine cartography of a high-latitude system in the IBIS channel, which covers tens of kilometres in the northern western area of the Barents Sea, in the Arctic Ocean. This channel is one of the few submarine valleys in polar latitudes that kept its geological architecture during […]

  • Helping to Make Maintenance Safer, More Efficient and More Comfortable

    26 March 2014

    The long-term employment prospects within the offshore wind industry lie with the operation and maintenance work that will keep the turbines producing electricity for the next 20+ years. Hundreds of men and women will be climbing up the towers from boats, or down from helicopter dropping areas, into the nacelles for a long time to […]

  • GE’s Power Conversion Business Expands Its Commitment to China

    4 December 2013
    Business & Finance

    Today alongside distinguished guests, decision-makers and thought leaders from across industries, GE’s Power Conversion business expanded on its commitment to innovation and state-of-art technology made in China, for China. The year 2013 marks the sixth anniversary of the In China, For China strategy. More than $250 million has been invested into projects with the purpose […]

  • Norway: Kongsberg,Vestfold University College to Cooperate on Innovation in Maritime Simulator Training

    20 January 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Kongsberg Maritime’s simulation division and Vestfold University College has signed a framework agreement to further explore activities and projects of joint interest within research and development of maritime simulators from an innovation and human factor perspective. The agreement which was signed 22nd December 2010 comprises extensive R&D project plans and the use of an Interactive […]

  • Swedish industry experts developing AI-powered ship operations system to cut emissions

    15 December 2020
    Automation, Collaboration, Innovation, IT & Software, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    Lean Marine and AI-application developers Molflow have joined forces with the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg to develop an AI-powered, semi-autonomous system for planning and executing sea voyages. The Via Kaizen project is funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, and is being coordinated by CIT Industriell Energi AB. The project, which aims to […]

  • Panama Canal Expansion – Chance for Environment

    24 January 2012

    Expansion of one of the world’s most important shipping routes brings with it a unique opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of the marine industry, experts claim. Expanded sections of the Panama Canal are due to open in 2014 following an eight-year programme to widen and deepen the waterway in order to increase capacity for […]

  • Tangier Sinking Island: Engineers’ Efforts Start with Models (USA)

    26 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Waterman and residents on the tiny, sinking island of Tangier worry every time the winds blow through the fishing community at more than 30 miles per hour. The island, located in the Chesapeake Bay just below the Maryland and Virginia border, is sinking and eroding away – a dilemma that’s expedited by churning storm waters. […]

  • EvoLogics Underwater Modems Connect AUVs (France)

    9 August 2013
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    In late July 2013, partners of the Marine Robotic System of Self-Organizing, Logically Linked Physical Nodes (MORPH) European Project concluded five-day sea trials in Toulon (FR), having successfully integrated several AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) and ASVs (Autonomous Surface Vehicles) into a coordinated multi-node MORPH system using EvoLogics underwater acoustic communication devices. The MORPH project was […]

  • USA: Siemens Equips Two AGOR Vessels with Unique Propulsion Solution

    9 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Siemens Industry, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a contract to equip two U.S. Navy Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) vessels with its unique diesel electric propulsion solution at Dakota Creek Industries Inc. (DCI), located in Anacortes, Wash. Seattle-based Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering firm Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) will design the […]

  • Temperature Rise, Forest Fires Ash Cause Greenland’s Melting

    22 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Researchers at Dartmouth College and the Desert Research Institute, funded by the National Science Foundation of the United States (NSF), have found that a combination of rising temperatures and ash from Northern Hemisphere forest fires caused the large-scale surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet in 1889 and 2012. The findings also suggest that continued […]

  • ABS Works on R&D Needs through Arctic Workshops

    26 February 2013

    ABS, the leading provider of classification services to the global offshore industry, continues to help industry push back the technology barriers to Arctic operations through a series of Arctic workshops that are defining the region’s most pressing research and development (R&D) needs. “In the last few years there has been increasing interest in floating, drilling […]

  • FLASC underscores value of patents for industry collaboration

    15 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    In a talk show held as part of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2018, Daniel Buhagiar, senior researcher in a team developing energy storage system tailored for marine renewables, spoke about the importance of patent protection for building strong collaborations within the offshore energy industry.

  • Europeans cofund 8 ocean energy demonstrations

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

    The Ocean Energy ERA-NET (OCEANERA-NET) Cofund consortium has allocated €8 million to eight research and demonstration projects in the marine energy sector.

  • ERTRAC Sees CNG, LNG as Strategic Option Towards Decarbonisation

    22 April 2014

    ERTRAC, The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council, has published a research roadmap on ‘Energy Carries for Powertrains’. Produced in a joint effort between ERTRAC’s Working Group on Energy & Environment and NGVA Europe, the goal is to provide an overview of R&D needs for the most promising vehicle technologies and energy carriers that offer […]

  • Marshfield Lawmaker Pushes for Offshore Hydrokinetic Energy (USA)

    20 July 2011
    Authorities & Government

    A Marshfield lawmaker is pushing to make one of the state’s oldest energy sources new again. State Rep. James Cantwell, D-Marshfield, wants the state to encourage research and investment in hydrokinetics – the harnessing of energy from moving water – by allowing private companies and municipalities to sell back any energy they create through this […]

  • Energy players enter joint R&D project to leverage digital ways in transition to net-zero

    16 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Carbon Capture Usage & Storage, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Transition

    Offshore energy companies in Brazil have come together for a joint industry research and technology development project focused on addressing technologies to reduce carbon emissions. The project named i-Concept JIP Phase 2 focuses on the development of applied computational modules to generate and rank offshore conceptual systems, addressing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and creating […]

  • USA: EPA Awards USD 1 Million to Protect Virginia’s Wetlands

    3 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is awarding a $999,640 Wetlands Program Development Grant to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). VIMS provide critical services by conducting research and sound scientific advice concerning wetland resources to the Commonwealth. In collaboration with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, VIMS will work with […]

  • OPT set for concept design works for next-gen wave energy converter

    17 August 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    Ocean Power Technologies (OPT), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant, is set to perform a preliminary conceptual design study to further develop its novel wave energy converter aimed at powering autonomous ocean monitoring systems.

  • ORE Catapult appoints technical director

    19 November 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, the UK’s leading research and innovation centre for offshore wind, wave and tidal energy, has appointed Cristina Garcia-Duffy as its technical director and a member of its executive management team.

  • Fugro aids Ifremer’s survey of underwater volcano in Africa

    27 May 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Fugro’s hydrographic survey vessel has supported Ifremer, the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, in monitoring a giant active underwater volcano off the east coast of Africa. The Fugro Gauss vessel, heading from the Netherlands to South Africa, made a 10-day detour to support Ifremer’s survey in Mayotte, Mozambique Channel. Ifremer is performing […]

  • Marine-i to Boost Innovation with New Funding

    3 April 2018

    Marine-i, the EU funded programme set up to boost the marine technology sector in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, is inviting applications for a £1 million innovation fund. The fund has been created to support research, development and innovation in marine robotics and autonomous vessels. Some of the key drivers for innovation are expected […]

  • Report: AUV Market Reaches $671M in 2017

    14 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    The global market for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) reached $671 million in 2017, according to ReportLinker. Estimated values used have been based on manufacturers’ total revenues. The market should reach $835 million by 2022, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.5% from 2017 to 2022. According to the report, the global market […]