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  • UK: ETI, EMEC Begin Environmental Monitoring Survey to Study Tidal Turbine Impact on Marine Mammals

    1 March 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    One of the most comprehensive surveys ever carried out into the environmental impact of tidal powered turbines on marine wildlife has begun off the island of Eday in Orkney. The environmental monitoring and measuring survey is a key part of the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) ReDAPT (Reliable Data Acquisition Platform for Tidal) project. A team […]

  • Golden Ray removal suspended amid COVID-19 outbreak

    27 July 2020
    Vessels

    The removal operation of the car carrier Golden Ray has been paused amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 among the team on-site, which has resulted in the quarantine of around 50 personnel. St. Simons Sound Incident Unified Command said on Friday, July 24, that due to the latest developments the cutting and lifting operations of the […]

  • UK: Partrac Reports Busy 2012

    8 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    As Partrac enters the 10th year of trading, the Company reports a very busy 2012. Regarding this, Technical Director Kevin Black said: “We have just completed internal reviews for our 2012 Annual Report, and last year was an exciting year for us with projects in every area of our business. The projects, some of which […]

  • UK: ETI, EMEC to Study Tidal Turbine Impact on Marine Mammals

    1 March 2013
    Environment

    One of the most comprehensive surveys ever carried out into the environmental impact of tidal powered turbines on marine wildlife has begun off the island of Eday in Orkney. The environmental monitoring and measuring survey is a key part of the Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) ReDAPT (Reliable Data Acquisition Platform for Tidal) project. A team […]

  • Dong Energy Completes Wind Turbine Installation at Walney 2 (UK)

    20 October 2011

      In the night of 22 September, the last blade on the last wind turbine at Walney 2 was fastened. However, it took waiting until the installation vessel, Kraken, succeeded in finding the weather window which made it possible to install the last blade on the last wind turbine in the wind farm. Now, all […]

  • Dong Energy Completes Wind Turbine Installation at Walney 2 (UK)

    20 October 2011

      In the night of 22 September, the last blade on the last wind turbine at Walney 2 was fastened. However, it took waiting until the installation vessel, Kraken, succeeded in finding the weather window which made it possible to install the last blade on the last wind turbine in the wind farm. Now, all […]

  • NOAA Finds Remains of Lost 1800s Whaling Fleet Off Alaska

    7 January 2016

    NOAA archaeologists have discovered the battered hulls of two 1800s whaling ships nearly 144 years after they and 31 others sank off the Arctic coast of Alaska in one of the planet’s most unexplored ocean regions. The shipwrecks, and parts of other ships, that were found are most likely the remains of 33 ships trapped […]

  • IRM Best Offshore Wind Area for Subsea Companies to Dive Into

    5 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) has identified operations and maintenance (O&M) – particularly inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) activities – as the highest potential area for subsea companies to diversify into offshore wind. In a new report titled ‘Subsea Technological Challenges in Offshore Wind’, NSRI highlighted opportunities the offshore wind industry holds for UK subsea companies, […]

  • IRM Best Offshore Wind Area for Subsea Companies to Dive Into

    5 December 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    National Subsea Research Initiative (NSRI) has identified operations and maintenance (O&M) – particularly inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) activities – as the highest potential area for subsea companies to diversify into offshore wind. In a new report titled ‘Subsea Technological Challenges in Offshore Wind’, NSRI highlighted opportunities the offshore wind industry holds for UK subsea companies, […]

  • UK: Stanislav Yudin Installs First Offshore Foundation at Gwynt y Môr

    14 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The first of 160 steel foundations that will make up Gwynt y Môr, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms has been successfully installed off the north Wales coast. The achievement has been celebrated by RWE npower renewables, which is constructing the wind farm over the next two years, to generate enough energy from the […]

  • WIND FARM UPDATE

    31 August 2015

    Nordergründe The 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm reached financial closure. The project developer WPD announced that it has secured funding for the next €410m phase of the wind farm. The funding includes loans from KfW IPEX-Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) and equity from WPD. Nordergründe will have 18 Senvion turbines installed 16km off the German coast in the Weser Estatuary, in water depths varying from […]

  • UK: Seajacks Enters Contract for Largest OW Installation Vessel Ever

    10 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Seajacks International has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to build the world’s largest and most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel. The vessel has been specifically designed to meet the demands associated with working UK Round 3, Scottish territorial waters and the other North West European markets. Seajacks also has options for […]

  • UK: Stanislav Yudin Installs First Gwynt y Môr Foundation

    14 August 2012

    The first of 160 steel foundations that will make up Gwynt y Môr, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms has been successfully installed off the north Wales coast. The achievement has been celebrated by RWE npower renewables, which is constructing the wind farm over the next two years, to generate enough energy from the […]

  • UK: Seajacks Orders World’s Largest OWF Installation Vessel

    10 June 2013

    Seajacks International has entered into a contract with Samsung Heavy Industries to build the world’s largest and most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel. The vessel has been specifically designed to meet the demands associated with working UK Round 3, Scottish territorial waters and the other North West European markets. Seajacks also has options for […]

  • UK: LDD Delivers LD5000 Pile Top Reverse Circulation Drilling Rig to Birkenhead

    2 April 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    LDD, an Acteon company providing near and offshore drilling and foundation services, announced that its custom-built LD5000 pile top reverse circulation drilling rig has been delivered to Birkenhead, UK, where LDD will use it to provide critical pile relief drilling for the installation of up to 160 wind turbine foundations. The wind turbines will form […]

  • Tower to Spud Welwitschia-1 Well in 2014 Offshore Namibia

    5 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Tower Resources plc (“Tower”), the AIM listed Africa focused oil and gas exploration company, announces the following update with respect to its Licence 0010 in the Walvis Basin, Offshore Namibia. The drilling of the Welwitschia-1 well is now planned to commence in mid-February 2014 and a firm rig is in place, drilling location agreed, site […]

  • UK: Stanislav Yudin Installs First Gwynt y Môr Foundation

    14 August 2012

    The first of 160 steel foundations that will make up Gwynt y Môr, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms has been successfully installed off the north Wales coast. The achievement has been celebrated by RWE npower renewables, which is constructing the wind farm over the next two years, to generate enough energy from the […]

  • Global organizations unite to step up maritime electrification game

    25 June 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Collaboration, Green Marine, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology, Transition

    Looking to accelerate the electrification of maritime transport, four associations have formed the Global Alliance for Maritime Electrification (GAME), with an initial focus on inland, nearshore, and commercial vessels.

  • UK: Major Funding Boosts of GBP 8 Million for Subsea Firm ROVOP

    8 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    A rapidly evolving and award winning new subsea business has secured £60,000 in public sector funding to support its business growth and expansion overseas. The cash boost from Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International will help ROVOP, based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, to both explore international business growth opportunities and undertake business improvement activities. Specifically, the […]

  • UK: Major Funding Boosts of GBP 8 Million for Subsea Firm ROVOP

    8 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    A rapidly evolving and award winning new subsea business has secured £60,000 in public sector funding to support its business growth and expansion overseas. The cash boost from Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International will help ROVOP, based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, to both explore international business growth opportunities and undertake business improvement activities. Specifically, the […]

  • IOG nearly ready to resume North Sea drilling

    29 March 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    A Noble Corporation-owned jack-up rig is nearly ready to come back offshore and resume drilling for IOG next month.

  • Wirral Council Supports Osiris Projects Expansion

    18 November 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Wirral Council’s successful Regional Growth Fund (RGF) bid is being used to help a local business create a raft of new jobs in the thriving offshore renewable energy sector. The Cabinet agreed at their last meeting to support the expansion of the seabed mapping company Osiris Projects by granting them access to RGF funds with […]

  • HMS Echo, HMS Tireless Help in MH370 Search

    11 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Britain, through the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, is making a valuable contribution to the Australian-led search for the missing Malaysian airliner MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Following a request by the Malaysian authorities for support from the Royal Navy, the survey ship HMS Echo was diverted from her patrol in the […]

  • NREL’s wave energy shape-shifter gets concrete footing

    27 January 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Innovation, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development, Technology

    Rethinking traditional wave energy converter designs, the researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have started developing the next-generation cost-competitive wave energy system – a variable-geometry oscillating surge wave energy converter (OSWEC) placed on a raised foundation.

  • Subsea Firm ROVOP Receives Funding Boost (UK)

    8 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    A rapidly evolving and award winning new subsea business has secured £60,000 in public sector funding to support its business growth and expansion overseas. The cash boost from Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Development International will help ROVOP, based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, to both explore international business growth opportunities and undertake business improvement activities. Specifically, the […]