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  • 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 […]

  • SolarDuck tests updated platform design at MARIN’s Offshore Basin

    27 January 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Project & Tenders, Research & Development, Technology

    Dutch-Norwegian firm SolarDuck has conducted basin tests for its updated floating solar platform design at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN).  According to SolarDuck, the tests are part of the DEI+ Merganser project consortium and took place at MARIN’s Offshore Basin, a facility designed to simulate wind and wave conditions for scale model experiments. “These […]

  • GEEN RAY study credits engine technology advancements for lower methane emissions

    12 May 2023
    Environment, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition, Vessels

    The GREEN RAY project has published its findings on methane emissions from a study carried out onboard the Wasaline ferry Aurora Botnia which is powered by LNG. The study was conducted by a team of experts from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, comprising Kati Lehtoranta, Niina Kuittinen, Hannu Vesala, and Päivi Koponen. The […]

  • Organizations Team Up to Preserve RMS Titanic Wreck Site

    17 April 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    RMS Titanic, an affiliate of Experiential Media Group, together with the Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab (AIVL) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Marine Imaging Technologies (Marine Imaging) will join forces to preserve the RMS Titanic wreck site, discovered in 1985, for generations to come. The group will apply advanced underwater imaging technology […]

  • DNV GL: Operators could benefit from capturing flare gas

    2 June 2015

    140 billion cubic meters of natural gas produced together with oil is wastefully burned or “flared” at thousands of oil fields around the world, DNV GL says. The company, citing World Bank data, claims that this is the equivalent to the combined gas consumption of Central and South America in 2013. Now new DNV GL […]

  • 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 […]

  • Tracerco Opens New Measurement Technology Centre in Billingham

    10 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Tracerco, part of Johnson Matthey Plc, has reaffirmed its commitment to the north east region with the official opening of its new 61,000 square feet Measurement Technology Centre in Billingham. The £9million investment, which houses 150 people, at the Belasis Business Park Enterprise Zone, has provided the world leading technology company with a custom built […]

  • NOAA, Partners Survey Wreck of USS Independence

    17 April 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    NOAA, working with private industry partners and the U.S. Navy, has confirmed the location and condition of the USS Independence, the lead ship of its class of light aircraft carriers that were critical during the American naval offensive in the Pacific during World War II. Resting in 2,600 feet of water off California’s Farallon Islands, […]

  • NOAA Appoints Director of Corps and Office of Marine and Aviation Operations

    3 January 2014
    Business & Finance

    NOAA Rear Adm. David A. Score assumed his new role as director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations. Last month, President Obama approved U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker’s appointment of Score. As director, Score will be responsible for the agency’s fleet of research and survey ships […]

  • 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 […]

  • UK: Wind Power Increases Copper Demand

    2 August 2012

    Analysis from Wood Mackenzie’s metal markets and power research teams reveals that a 12% growth in wind power capacity across Western Europe is increasing copper demand, required for component parts of wind turbines and related infrastructure. Growing pressure from European Union (EU) environmental targets in recent years has resulted in the rapid expansion of wind […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]