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  • USA: Funding for Marine and Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Research & Development

    6 September 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Department of Energy announced that they will fund projects to advance marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) renewable energy technologies. Those topics receiving support from this funding announcement include: Advanced Controls Next-Gen Power Take-Off Projects Advanced Structures Projects Marine & Hydrokinetic Environmental Projects Projects Analyzing Environmental Effects of Surrogate Technologies Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition (OREC) members […]

  • Seychelles and Maldives Kick Off Indian Ocean Research Mission

    5 March 2020
    Research & Development

    The newest Commonwealth member country, Maldives, has joined Seychelles to launch a joint scientific expedition to investigate unexplored depths of the Indian Ocean. The research mission, known as ‘First Descent: Midnight Zone’, was officially launched at the Commonwealth headquarters at Marlborough House. Led by the UK research institute Nekton, the goal is to boost the […]

  • MBARI Researchers Discover Seafloor Holes Off Big Sur

    26 December 2019
    Operations & Maintenance

    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists have recently discovered thousands of mysterious holes or pits in the seafloor during a survey off Big Sur, USA. Scientists and resource managers want to understand how these pits formed because this area is the site of a proposed offshore wind farm. The researchers found two different sizes […]

  • Chinese Institute Selects Sonardyne Technology for New Research Vessel

    11 October 2016
    Equipment

    Sonardyne Asia, Singapore, has announced that its underwater acoustic positioning technology has been selected for China’s new polar research vessel currently under construction. Commissioned by the Polar Research Institute of China, the 122 meter vessel will be equipped with a Ranger 2 USBL (Ultra-Short BaseLine) system to allow the position of scientific equipment deployed from […]

  • UK Chooses Preferred Bidder for New Polar Research Ship

    12 October 2015
    Research & Development

    UK government has announced that Cammell Laird in Birkenhead has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a £200m polar research ship. The decision follows a 12-month competitive tender process that involved bids from companies in the UK, Europe and the Far East. The winning project will secure jobs and apprenticeships and provide a significant […]

  • NOCS Oceanographer Gets Wolfson Research Merit Award (UK)

    6 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    Oceanographer Professor Damon Teagle has been awarded highly prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Professor Teagle has received the award in recognition of outstanding contribution to his field of study – which includes drilling through ocean crust to directly sample the upper mantle. Jointly funded by […]

  • Denmark hopes to boost oil production with new research centre

    18 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    With the opening of the Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark is bringing together and developing new technology and knowledge with a view to boosting the extraction of North Sea oil. At the same time, the new facility will pave the way for the next generation of […]

  • BG co-funds natural gas research centre in Brazil

    3 December 2015

    BG Brasil, A BG Group unit, together with the Sao Paulo Research Foundation launched the gas innovation research centre.

  • Government incentive moves Irish tidal up the research scale

    24 August 2018
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    One week after securing the European patent for the system forming an essential part of its tidal energy technology – GKinetic Energy has reflected on the grant support received from the Irish government over the years which helped the company bring its tidal prototype closer to the market.

  • STW Awards EUR 6.2 Mln for TU Delft Research

    27 November 2014
    Research & Development

    The STW Technology Foundation and the business community will make a total of 6.2 million euros available to the UPON (Understanding Processes Using Operando Nanoscopy) and EUROS (Excellence in Uncertainty Reduction of Offshore wind Systems) research programmes. The first programme focuses on using electron microscopy to study material properties more accurately at the atomic level, […]

  • UK Universities Invited to Join Wind Blade Research Hub

    29 September 2016
    Human Capital, Research & Development, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult is looking for a UK-based university with which to collaborate on accelerating offshore wind turbine blade research and development activities through the recently launched Wind Blade Research Hub. The collaboration would provide a combination of academic and industry skills and resources to better respond to industry’s needs, ORE Catapult said. Those […]

  • Aussies say research backs up sand dredging decision

    9 August 2006

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Australia says its decision to approve the extraction of 15 million cubic metres of sand from the Moreton Bay Marine Park is based on years of research. According to local press reports, Caloundra city councillor and a former member of the Beach Protection Authority, Andrew Champion, has voiced concerns […]

  • NOC Researchers Study Boundary Layer Sediment Dynamics (Spain)

    6 December 2012
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Professor Peter Thorne and Dr Richard Cooke of the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool travelled to Barcelona recently to take part in an international study on boundary layer sediment dynamics. The boundary layer in this case refers to the layer of water next to the seabed. Here, flowing water mixes more vigorously than the ocean’s […]

  • UK: BMT Leads Research Consortium for Enhanced Metocean Services

    13 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    BMT ARGOSS, a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced its latest research project in partnership with Reading University and OceanExpert Ltd. The 18 month project which is co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s national innovation agency, will look at developing, trialling and implementing commercial decision support systems for offshore operations. Such systems will […]

  • Sierra Rutile Limited Begins Briefings with Research Analysts and Investors

    20 June 2011
    Business & Finance

    Sierra Rutile Limited commences a series of briefings with investors and research analysts to provide an update on progress. The presentation includes a review of the expansion and optimisation projects currently under consideration at the Sierra Rutile mine as well as a summary of the positive developments in the markets for the Company’s key products. […]

  • Statoil Opens New Research Centre for Improved Oil Recovery

    26 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Minister of petroleum and energy Tord Lien opened Statoil’s new research centre for improved oil recovery (IOR) at Rotvoll in Trondheim, mid-Norway. A key element in reaching Statoil’s 60% recovery rate ambition on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) is now in place. Statoil’s head of research Lars Høier underlined the importance of research and technology […]

  • Chevron Extends Partnership with UWA in Gas Processing Research (Australia)

    12 December 2011

    Chevron signed a major partnership agreement with The University of Western Australia (UWA), elevating the existing Chair in Gas Process Engineering (GPE) from a three to five year fixed term agreement to endow the Chair in perpetuity. The $5.75 million investment over five years is part of Chevron’s global University Partnership Program which partners with […]

  • USA: Navigant Research Releases New BTM Wind Report

    26 March 2013
    Research & Development

    Navigant Research announced today that it has released the annual BTM wind report International Wind Energy Development: World Market Update 2012. The 180+ page BTM wind report, World Market Update 2012, published by Navigant Research, is the eighteenth edition of this annual wind energy market report. The report includes more than 80 tables, charts and […]

  • Gulf Research Program Backs Stones Metocean Observatory Project

    23 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced a new collaboration with Shell and others to provide $1 million in funding support for a pilot effort to convert an existing ocean mooring owned by Shell into the first long-term deep ocean observatory in the Gulf of Mexico. Known […]

  • SPIRE 2 energy storage project opens for tidal researchers

    20 November 2017
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development, Technology

    Strathclyde University is looking for PhD researchers who would work on materials-based research topics in tidal energy sector as part of the SPIRE 2 energy storage project.

  • Research and Markets Publish ‘The Wind Power Industry in India’ Report

    24 June 2011

    India has a great untapped potential for wind energy. According to official estimates, the country’s total wind energy resource amounts to 48 GW of installed capacity, but some experts think that this figure is on the conservative side, and that technological improvements could significantly increase this potential. In India, the wind power generation has gained […]

  • Researchers Developing Tool to Streamline Offshore Wind Farms Planning

    10 March 2014
    Research & Development

    When planning an offshore wind farm, it is important to consider the wind, waves and the seabed at the location where the turbines will stand. Researchers have now developed a dedicated tool that gives a combined overview of all the challenges that need to be considered by developers. “When we began working with the wind […]

  • Germany: KIT Researchers Develop Cooling System for Novel Generator

    6 January 2013
    Research & Development, Technology

    An efficient, robust, and compact wind power plant with a 10 MW superconducting generator is being developed by partners from industry and science within the recently established EU project SUPRAPOWER. Superconduction enables considerable savings of energy and raw materials. Within SUPRAPOWER, researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s (KIT) Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) develop a […]

  • UNNC Researchers Seek for Non-Toxic Solutions to Marine Fouling

    8 January 2014
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Marine industries have long sought chemical solutions to the problem of marine fouling but now researchers at The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) are using innovative approaches to look at how surface texture can be used as a non-toxic solution. Marine fouling occurs when organisms, including red and green algae, hydroids, scallops, mussels and […]

  • Pike Research Predicts Investment Surge into Offshore Wind (USA)

    29 April 2011
    Research & Development

    As global investment in wind turbines continues to increase and a greater percentage of the world’s electricity supply comes from wind… (pikeresearch) [mappress] Source: pikeresearch, April 29, 2011;