1272 results found for 'scour'

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  • Scour protection installation coming up at Hornsea Three OWF site

    1 December 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Installation of scour protection on wind turbine foundation locations at the Hornsea Three offshore site in the UK is set to commence in mid-December. The work will be undertaken by DEME using its rock installation vessel Flintstone, equipped with a fallpipe and flexible bucket system. The vessel is expected to mobilise from Jelsa Quarry, Norway, […]

  • UK offshore wind farm now equipped with scour protection doubling as marine life habitat

    16 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Innovation

    RWE has installed around 75,000 reef cubes developed by the nature-inclusive technology designer ARC marine at the Rampion offshore wind farm in the UK, in what the Rampion owner says is a “global first”. The cubes are a specially eco-engineered scour protection solution for wind turbine foundations, and this represents their first full-scale deployment at […]

  • First US subsea rock installation vessel begins sea trials

    18 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Acadia, the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV), owned by Texas-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD), has begun its sea trials, with operations to start soon. GLDD ordered the vessel from Philly Shipyard, Inc. in 2021, with the first steel cut in July 2023 and the keel laid in May 2024. Acadia was […]

  • New oil & gas prospects pop up in Orange Basin permit offshore Namibia

    22 October 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Pancontinental Energy has shed light on the analysis of quantitative interpretation volumes related to the hydrocarbon potential of a petroleum exploration license (PEL) it operates in the Orange Basin, off the coast of Namibia.

  • US gov’t, TotalEnergies strike $1 billion deal; Company to invest reimbursed offshore wind fees in its oil & gas projects

    24 March 2026
    Business & Finance

    The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and TotalEnergies have signed settlement agreements to terminate the company’s two offshore wind leases in the United States, confirming recent reports that a deal was being drafted under which TotalEnergies would be reimbursed $928 million (around €806 million) paid in lease fees. Under the deal, TotalEnergies, along with […]

  • ADNOC casts the die for gas project as FID seals path to development

    8 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    The UAE’s energy heavyweight Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has put the pen to paper for its ambition to boost its natural gas arsenal by propelling a gas project off the coast of Abu Dhabi, UEA, into execution phase with a final investment decision (FID).

  • Russia’s Lukoil locks in deal to sell off its international assets as sanctions bite harder

    30 October 2025

    Moscow-headquartered energy giant PJSC Lukoil has said yes to a bid from Switzerland’s Gunvor Group for its international portfolio of assets in the wake of growing global sanctions, which keep tightening their hold on Russian businesses overseas.

  • Van Oord’s final part of work at Canada’s oil project on the agenda for next quarter

    28 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Vessels

    With three out of four phases already done, Van Oord, a Dutch marine contractor, is planning to embark on the last segment of its assignment in the fourth quarter of 2025 at a field off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

  • Stillstrom, Danish port exploring large-scale maritime electrification at Energy Island Bornholm

    2 December 2025
    Research & Development, Vessels

    Stillstrom and Port of Roenne have teamed up on a study looking into integrating offshore wind energy with maritime electrification. Maersk’s offshore power and charging solutions developer and the Danish port have initiated a joint white paper to explore how Energy Island Bornholm could serve as a blueprint for this kind of integration. The study, […]

  • $11 billion financing in place for giant offshore gas project

    6 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    ADNOC, in partnership with Italy’s Eni and Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production Public Company (PTTEP), has secured a structured financing transaction of up to $11 billion (AED 40.4 billion) for its multibillion-dollar big sour gas development, which is set on becoming the world’s first project to operate with net-zero emissions.

  • TEAMER selects 18 new marine energy projects for technical support

    27 August 2025
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Exploration & Production, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Research & Development, Technology

    The U.S. Testing Expertise and Access to Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program has approved 18 projects through its 16th request for technical support (RFTS), representing over $2.7 million in funding.  The Technical Support Recipients (TSRs) will receive assistance across numerical modeling, laboratory or bench testing, tank and flume testing, and expertise within the TEAMER Facility […]

  • First US subsea rock installation vessel launches, delivery early in 2026

    23 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Texas-headquartered Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (GLDD) has launched the first U.S.-flagged, Jones Act-compliant subsea rock installation vessel (SRIV), with delivery expected early in 2026. Acadia, launched at the Hanwha Philly Shipyard, Pennsylvania, is capable of transporting and installing up to 20,000 metric tons of rock on the seabed, used as critical scour protection […]

  • ‘World’s first’ fully remote ecology survey done at 759 MW Dutch offshore wind farm

    18 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    The BeWild project, led by the Dutch geo-data specialist company Fugro, has completed what they claim to be the world’s first fully remote ecology survey at CrossWind’s Hollandse Kust Nord offshore wind farm in the Netherlands. Together, the BeWild partners integrated computer vision and environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling into Fugro’s Blue Volta electric remotely operated […]

  • Fugro completes first phase of detailed geotechnical surveys at Dogger Bank South East

    23 July 2025
    Business Developments & Projects

    Fugro has completed the first phase of geotechnical site investigations at the Dogger Bank South (DBS) East offshore wind farm site, located over 100 kilometers off the northeastern coast of England. The first round of geotechnical surveys started in May and was carried out by the vessel Fugro Revelation, which departed the site on July […]

  • Van Oord christens mega jack-up | ‘Boreas is world’s largest, most sustainable offshore wind installation vessel’

    18 June 2025
    Vessels

    Van Oord christened the latest addition to its fleet, Boreas, on June 18 in Rotterdam. The company says its new jack-up, set to soon debut on the German Nordseecluster project, is the largest and most sustainable offshore wind installation vessel in the world. The Dutch marine contractor ordered the self-elevating vessel at the Yantai CIMC Raffles shipyard […]

  • Oxford Hosts Conference on Scour and Erosion

    3 August 2016
    Business & Finance

    The 8th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, ICSE 2016, will take place in Oxford, UK from 12-15 September. The conference, being organized by HR Wallingford this year, will provide a platform for scientists and engineers from around the world to exchange ideas and share advances in research and practice on the scientific and engineering challenges related to scour and […]

  • Scour Protection Works Completed at Nobelwind

    9 June 2016

    The installation of scour protection around the 51 foundations of the Nobelwind (Bligh Bank II)offshore wind project finished yesterday, 8 June. The erosion protection consists of a light filter layer (first phase) and a heavier coating layer specifically designed for various locations and water depths. This protection will remain stable for the next 25 years, […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Exhibits at Event in Aberdeen

    6 February 2014

    Scour Prevention Systems Ltd (SPSL), based at the OrbisEnergy innovation centre, is exhibiting at the Subsea Expo, Europe’s largest annual subsea exhibition and conference in Aberdeen. SPSL has also been nominated for the UKTI sponsored ‘New to Exporting’ Award. More than one hundred and seventy subsea-focused exhibitors and around 4,000 delegates, make the Subsea Expo […]

  • Data-driven cable monitoring extended at world’s largest tidal array

    10 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Technology

    UK-based climate tech start-up Indeximate has secured a three-year extension to provide cable condition monitoring for SAE Renewables’ MeyGen tidal array in Caithness, Scotland.  The contract, active since March 2024, includes an annual subscription to the company’s Scattersphere system, used to monitor cable and environmental conditions across all four turbines. It also covers the storage […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Secures SCORE Funding

    30 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Lowestoft-based company, Scour Prevention Systems, which offers a field proven, patented and innovative solution for the prevention of scour around offshore structures and cables was successful in securing £10,000 funding in the pilot stage of grant programme Supply Chain innovation for Offshore Renewable Energy (SCORE). Scour, the erosion of sediment around objects located in flowing […]

  • New Scour Protection Project Potential Price-Cutter

    31 January 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development

    A new UK consortium is developing a self-installing scour protection system said to be able to save an average offshore wind farm approximately GBP 8.6 million over its lifetime. The Self-Installing Scour Protection for Offshore Wind Farms (SISProtect) project is being led by Seabed Scour Control Systems (SSCS), who will carry out the design of the prototype Frond […]

  • Scour Prevention Systems Secures US Patent for SPM

    23 March 2018
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Scour Prevention Systems has won a full US patent for its Scour Prevention Mattresses (SPM), designed to protect offshore structures, cables and pipelines from scour.

  • Researchers Test Scour Effects on Offshore Substation Jackets

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

    New research being carried out by the University of Rostock and HR Wallingford is assessing the development of scour around substation jacket foundations to provide new insights for the University of Rostock in research funded by the German government. As the hub of an offshore wind farm’s energy export, connecting each individual wind turbine to […]

  • Denmark: WiTuS Predicts Scour in Offshore Wind Farms

    31 July 2012

    DHI’s research into long-term scour predictions has borne fruit in the form of a specialty tool – WiTuS. With WiTuS, it is now possible to model long-term predictions on scouring around monopile type foundations – structures which form the bases of majority of the current and planned offshore wind farms. Offshore wind farm establishment is […]

  • OMM, Geofabrics to Develop Scour Protection Solution

    11 March 2014

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has teamed up with Geofabrics Australasia, a provider of geotextiles and geosynthetic engineering solutions to create a new and effective, environmentally sensitive and sustainable solution for scour protection at the base of wind turbines. OMM will be using Geofabrics ELCOROCK System, a robust sand filled container made from the highest durability […]