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  • Tidal Blade Test Facility Cashes In GBP 1 Million

    8 July 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Tidal blade test facility at National Composites Centre was awarded £1 million as part of £86 million of new Government money awarded to the West of England LEP to boost economic growth and create jobs. Located in Bristol & Bath Science Park, it will be the first of its kind as the industry is insufficient […]

  • Deadline for Hudson PCB Cleanup Review Postponed (USA)

    29 April 2012

      After 2 years of the Hudson River dredging, crews from the Environmental Protection Agency will be returning to the river this season. The EPA was originally scheduled to finish their review of the PCB contamination and cleanup by the end of this month, but recently decided to extend the review one more month. The […]

  • Atlantis Resources to hold presentation to investors

    19 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    Atlantis Resources plans to make a presentation to investors at the 2015 Innovators & Investors Forum scheduled for February 3, 2015 at London’s Business Design Centre. Atlantis Resources, a vertically integrated turbine supplier and project developer in the tidal power industry, will be making a presentation to investors, alongside other 40 innovative and imaginative technology-led […]

  • EMGS Vessel Utilization Slips

    6 October 2016

    Norwegian geophysical services company, EMGS, has recorded lower vessel utilization in the third quarter of 2016, compared to the corresponding period in 2015. The utilization dropped from 63% in the Q3 2015 to 52% in Q3 2016. In the Q3 2016, EMGS’ vessels were allocated 31% to multi-client projects and 21% to a funded research and development projects. No vessel capacity was spent on […]

  • NEMOS wave energy converter (VIDEO)

    13 April 2020
    Research & Development

    German company NEMOS has released a video that shows how its wave energy converter (WEC) produces about 1MW of clean ocean energy. The NEMOS WEC is an new system for generating electricity from ocean waves. An elongated floating body absorbs the incoming energy and transmits to a generator by a spring-loaded belt drive. According to […]

  • White House Frontiers Conference welcomes wave energy

    20 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Harvest Wave Energy, one of the finalists of the US Department of Energy sponsored Wave Energy Prize competition, has presented its wave energy technology at the White House Frontiers Conference held last week.

  • GE to use offshore wind turbines with no gearbox

    2 March 2010
    Technology

    Engineering corporation General Electric has recently announced that its future offshore wind turbines will have no more gear boxes for improved reliability.

  • iXblue DriX USV goes to Brazil

    25 May 2021
    Business & Finance, Technology

    The recently launched Brazilian rental and service company WAMS has added iXblue’s DriX unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to its pool of equipment for underwater service and research. The DriX USV is expected to add to the company’s operational performance for shallow water hydrographic and geophysical surveys, as well as LBL array box-in operations, and ROV/AUV […]

  • Project Aquabots at RDM Rotterdam

    7 June 2015

    Part of project ‘Aquabots’ is a battle between two teams of mechanical engineering students. They battle each other with their autonomous and zero-emission floating drones to clean up the plastic soup in the oceans, for example. Each team builds on the experiences of its predecessor and the project assignment gets more complex every time. RDM […]

  • Partrac Conducts Beach Sediment Tracking Study

    9 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Technology

    Sediment tracing specialist Partrac has been assisting academic staff and researchers from Mississippi State University to implement a beach sediment tracking study on Deer Island, the closest barrier island to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The study was commissioned and funded by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ (DMR) Mississippi Tidelands Trust Fund Program. It is […]

  • UK: Narec Submits Application for Blyth Offshore Demonstration Project

    28 March 2012

    Narec is seeking consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to construct and operate, for up to 22 years, a 99.9MW offshore wind demonstration site at Blyth, Northumberland. The proposed project will comprise a maximum of 15 turbines, to be constructed across 3 arrays, with a maximum number of 5 turbines in each array, at water […]

  • New Bedford Terminal Struggles for Return on Investment

    8 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    Massachusetts state officials are trying to find a user of the New Bedford marine terminal, initially meant to be used for the Cape Wind project.  However, current options could bring in a lower return on investment than what Cape Wind would have brought, writes Isaac Orr, a research fellow for energy and environmental policy at The Heartland Institute. The Cape Wind […]

  • EU Commission Approves EUR 86.6 Mln for Alstom’s SuperGrid Institute

    31 October 2014
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Research & Development, Storage, Technology

    The European Commission has concluded that the €86.6 million aid, granted by France to the “Supergrid Institut pour la transition énergétique” for a research project aimed at developing a new generation of long-distance energy transmission networks, complies with the EU rules on State aid.  Joaquín Almunia, Commission Vice President responsible for competition, stated: “Securing energy […]

  • Periplus Provides Shipwreck Assessment in Fehmarn Belt Between Denmark and Germany

    16 May 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    In April 2012, Periplus Archeomare, in close cooperation with surveyors from DEEP BV, performed a number of high resolution geophysical investigations at the sites of two shipwrecks in the Fehmarn belt between Denmark and Germany. The two shipwrecks are located on the route of a new-to-build tunnel in the strait and were discovered during a […]

  • Norway: 22,000 new oil jobs by 2020

    10 March 2016

    The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association (Norsk Olje & Gass), a professional body and employer’s association for oil and supplier companies in Norway, has forecasted that 22,000 new oil jobs will be needed by 2020 in Norway.  According to figures from an independent research institute, IRIS, from 2018 to 2020 there will be 22,000 new […]

  • South Korean Shipbuilders Keep Lead

    19 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    South Korean shipbuilders remain on top in terms of global shipbuilding orders, based on Clarkson’s research statistics for February 2015. The global top five orderbook ranking is lead by Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering’s Okpo Shipyard (7.957 million CGT), Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Ulsan shipyard (5.026 million CGT),  Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje Shipyard (4.866 million CGT), […]

  • VLGC Fleet to Increase by 23 Pct in 2015

    26 May 2015

    Some 37 very large gas carriers (VLGCs) of a total capacity of 3.1 million cum are to be delivered this year, resulting in a 23% fleet growth in terms of capacity, shipping brokerage Banchero Costa Research said in a report. 23 vessels of all sizes were delivered in the first four months of 2015, including seven VLGCs, or vessels of […]

  • France: Total Appoints Sonia Sikorav Chief Purchasing Officer

    2 November 2010
    Business & Finance

    Sonia Sikorav(photo), 53, is a graduate of École Normale Supérieure and an associate professor of Physical Sciences. She holds a PhD in Physical Chemistry and an MSM from the MIT Sloan School of Management (Sloan Fellow Program). Ms. Sikorav began her career at Rhône-Poulenc, where she held various positions between 1982 and 1991, most notably […]

  • Offshore Energy Conference and Exhibition Kicks Off

    23 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Today Joep Athmer, the Director of Van Oord Offshore and Member of Offshore Energy Committee of Recommendation wished a warm welcome to the visitors of the Offshore Energy Conference and Exhibition 2012 on behalf of Navingo. The exhibition is being held in Amsterdam RAI for the second time in a row on a 12,000 m2 […]

  • MOL Teams Up with MES on Vessel Monitoring and Support

    23 June 2017
    Business & Finance

    Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has reached an agreement with Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) to jointly develop next-generation vessel monitoring and support systems for practical applications and commercialization. The systems will be developed utilizing MOL’s operation experience and technologies as well as the experience of MES as a shipbuilder with the latest technologies, ICT, and […]

  • Royal Port Commissions Feasibility Study for Barranquilla Port

    22 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Colombian port operator Royal Port S.A. plans to construct a new port on the mouth of the Magdalena River, near the city of Barranquilla in Colombia, due to the need for additional capacity. Witteveen+Bos, the Netherlands-based engineering and consultancy firm, will conduct a feasibility study on behalf of Royal Port S.A. The company has joined forces for […]

  • Korea Floats Solar-Offshore Wind Combo Project

    31 October 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    South Korean President Moon Jae-in has announced a 4GW solar-offshore wind complex with the Saemangeum reclaimed land area in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do Province, at its centre.

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: Innovative Industry Keeps MARIN Busy

    28 August 2017
    Research & Development, Technology

    Offshore wind has been keeping organisations such as MARIN – working on testing and validation of new technology – busy for quite a while now, and the trend remains as the innovative industry is continuously on a quest to progress in almost every aspect.

  • Senvion Firms Offshore Wind Order Intake

    5 January 2018
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion reported a firm order intake of EUR 306 million in its offshore wind segment in 2017, compared to no firm orders recorded a year earlier.

  • Japan Changes Port and Harbour Law to Promote Offshore Wind

    17 May 2016
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance

    Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MILT) has amended the country’s existing Port and Harbour Law to promote development of offshore wind projects, the Japan Wind Power Association (JWPA) reports. The amendments allow developers to lease designated water zones in port areas for a period of up to 20 years. The newly changed law also sets up a bidding system […]