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  • SDAG and RS Promote Participation of Russian Companies in Shtokman Project

    5 July 2011
    Project & Tenders, Research & Development

    On July 5, 2011, A.Zagorovsky, SDAG CEO, and N.Reshetov, Director-General of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) had a meeting where they agreed on extending their cooperation aimed at increasing the involvement of Russian companies in Phase I of Shtokman gas and condensate field development project. This agreement is stipulated in the frame cooperation […]

  • US Team Developing Mega Turbines Inspired by Palm Trees

    28 December 2015
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    A US-based team of scientists plans to use a USD 3.56 million grant to develop wind turbines able to protect themselves in severe weather by folding in their rotor blades like palm trees in a hurricane. The team, led by Professor Eric Loth, Chair of the University of Virginia’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will spend the three-year grant […]

  • Infographic: Collaboration to save $550B for clean energy

    1 December 2015
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    The world can save an estimated $550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration, according to a report by Carbon Trust. United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration report […]

  • Carnegie Sets Up Cornwall Base

    29 June 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Research & Development

    Carnegie Wave Energy has created a base in Cornwall having secured a berth at Wave Hub and due to the region’s infrastructure, supply chain and suitability for the deployment of the company’s CETO 6 wave technology. Following research and development in Australia, Carnegie is bringing the CETO solution to the UK for pre-commercial testing. Wave Hub offers […]

  • Highlights of the Week

    1 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 26 – February 01). The subsea firm DeepOcean UK has confirmed it is entering into a statutory period of redundancy consultation with a number of its UK staff, based in its operations in the North East of […]

  • UK: Recent Graduate Climbs the Offshore Energy Ladder

    30 October 2013
    Business & Finance, Human Capital

    Recent graduate Katie Musgrave is playing a leading role in a young company’s pioneering scour protection technology thanks to the direct support of her university. Katie became product engineer with Scour Prevention Systems only a month after graduating with distinction from her Masters in Energy Engineering with Environmental Management at the University of East Anglia […]

  • Estimating the Cost of Flooding Around Estuaries

    27 August 2015
    Business & Finance

    The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Liverpool have developed a new visualization tool to predict the maximum cost of coastal flooding to communities around estuaries. This method works by combining high impact flooding scenarios with land use maps. Researchers used this method to find that the economic damage of coastal flooding increased […]

  • Belgian duo eyes innovation in green hydrogen technology

    14 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology, Vision

    Agfa and VITO have signed a long-term cooperation agreement focused on innovation in green hydrogen technology.

  • Hydroid Bags Contract to Provide AUVs for Ocean Observatories Initiative (USA)

    7 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

      Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime, the leading manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems, announces that it has been awarded a major contract to provide AUVs and seafloor docking stations for the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), an […]

  • IMO puts adoption of $5 billion maritime R&D fund on hold

    15 June 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Transition

    The International Maritime Organisation held its Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 78) meeting last week, taking, in the view of the shipping industry, only small steps towards decarbonising the sector.

  • Japan: World’s First Nickel Ore Carrier Completed & Registered to NK Class

    24 October 2012

    The world’s largest classification society ClassNK announced that the world’s first specialized vessel for the carriage of Nickel Ore has been built and registered to the NK class. The vessel, the Jules Garnier II, was built by Naikai Zosen Corporation and delivered to Japanese shipping major JX Shipping Co. Ltd on 19 September 2012, and is the first […]

  • ROV with a Chain Saw! (Norway)

    29 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Using a remotely operated underwater vehicle with an installed saw, researchers have acquired geological samples from the Jan Mayen Ridge this summer. The method is new – and the results provide new and useful knowledge. “This is the most fun thing I have done as a geologist!” says Robert W. Williams in the Norwegian Petroleum […]

  • FMC Technology Expands its Operations in Scotland

    8 September 2011
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

      FMC Technology, a Houston, TX based oil and gas services and manufacturing firm, is expanding its Scottish operations in Bellshill and Dunfermline and creating 240 new jobs, Scotland’s Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing announced. On a visit to the company’s base in Bellshill, south east of Glasgow, the Minister welcomed FMC Technology’s plans to create […]

  • Nova Scotia’s Energy Minister Visits Most Powerful Tidal Stream Turbine

    25 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Nova Scotia’s Minister of Energy and Minister of Communications, Andrew Younger today visited Siemens’ SeaGen tidal energy turbine at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines (MCT) is pushing ahead with even more ambitious innovation in Canada with the SeaGen-F floating turbine, which forms a backdrop to today’s visit. Minister Younger climbed aboard SeaGen […]

  • Thyssenkrupp and Fraunhofer forge ties on SOEC technology for large-scale hydrogen production

    13 March 2024
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Technology

    Thyssenkrupp nucera, the hydrogen business of German-based engineering company thyssenkrupp, and the German Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) have agreed on a strategic partnership in solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) technology for large-scale hydrogen production. Specifically, thyssenkrupp nucera announced that the company is strengthening its technology portfolio with the “highly innovative” high-temperature […]

  • Damen, partners to demonstrate viability of large composite ships

    31 July 2020
    Environment, Vessels

    The Realisation and Demonstration of Advanced Material Solutions for Sustainable and Efficient Ships (RAMSSES) project reached a key milestone. Namely, on July 18th Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding’s (DSNS) location in Vlissingen-East, the Netherlands, the project’s partners unveiled the recently assembled full-scale composite ship’s hull section they have been developing these past three years. The Custom […]

  • USA: Jewell Announces USD 162 M for 45 Development Projects

    29 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    In advance of next week’s one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined Interior and local officials at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey to announce that $162 million will be invested in 45 restoration and research projects that will better protect Atlantic Coast communities from future powerful […]

  • OBG Report Highlights Importance of Qatar as Global LNG Supplier

    11 July 2011

    Qatar’s major domestic gas development projects will help lay the foundations for the country’s economic expansion by generating the power needed for extensive infrastructural works, according to Alex Dodds, the President and General Manager of ExxonMobil Qatar Inc. Dodds was speaking to Oxford Business Group (OBG) as part of the research for The Report: Qatar […]

  • Levels of Chemicals Low in Scottish Marine Sediment, Says Watchdog

    26 October 2011

    Levels of certain chemicals used in forestry, agriculture and fish farming are low in marine sediment off Scotland, research published recently by Scotland’s environment watchdog shows. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s (SEPA) has published two reports on the presence of chemicals in marine sediments, resulting from its surveillance monitoring programmes in 2008 and 2009. Occurrence […]

  • UW Students in Subsea Observatory Setup

    22 September 2014
    Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    Throughout the 83-day expedition, groups of UW students have each spent two weeks or more working aboard the UW’s large research vessel, the Thomas G. Thompson. Around 45 students, mostly undergraduates, are participating. Most are taking the Ocean 411: Seagoing Research and Discovery course, which has them working with scientists, engineers – and a specialized […]

  • UK unleashes £12 million for zero-emission maritime technologies

    24 May 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Transition

    The UK government has announced a multi-million investment that aims to kickstart innovation in the maritime sector and tackle shipping emissions.

  • Corps Partners with Clemson to Monitor Marshes for Harbor Dredging

    5 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Thanks to a partnership with Clemson University and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, scientists are collecting valuable data in the Savannah River estuary for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). The research is part of an extensive pre-construction monitoring plan to establish a baseline of environmental data in advance of the harbor deepening. “Our […]

  • Rolls-Royce, Partners Eye Zero Emission Ships

    29 November 2017

    By combining existing technologies in a new way, it is possible to build ferries that represent a quantum leap for the environment. That is the idea behind a new R&D project involving four major players in the maritime sector – Rolls-Royce, Color Line, Norled and the Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA). The project has now received […]

  • Maritime Traffic Up Fourfold in Two Decades

    25 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased 300 per cent over the past 20 years, according to a new study by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) aimed at quantifying global ship traffic. The research used satellite data to estimate the number of vessels on the ocean every year between 1992 and 2012. The number of […]

  • Gaz-System Receives EU Funds for Investment Projects

    30 December 2013

    GAZ-SYSTEM’s subsequent investment projects, i.e. “Lwówek-Odolanów gas pipeline – preparation of project documentation” and “Czeszów-Kiełczów gas pipeline – preparation of project documentation” will receive more than PLN 4.63 million from European Funds – the Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment (OPIE). On 20 December 2013, GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. signed with the Oil and Gas Institute – the […]