Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) has completed a 10-day maintenance program on seismic research vessels Oceanic Sirius and Oceanic Vega. For eight of those days the two 106-metre vessels were in the yard’s 250-metre drydock no.4 in a tandem arrangement, to maximise the efficient use of resources. T
3D at Depth has expanded several global office locations and launched a new portfolio of services designed to support cohesive workflow efficiencies for offshore oil field design through decommissioning. The new line includes: terrestrial dimensional control to support subsea data collection workflo
GEPS Techno’s hybrid WAVEGEM platform, combining solar and wave energy, has been inaugurated at Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, ahead of next year’s sea trials at SEM-REV site in France.
Ocean Power Technologies’ (OPT) PowerBuoy has been deployed in the Adriatic Sea by oil and gas company Eni in a project aiming to demonstrate suitability of wave energy technologies in oil and gas operations.
OPT has said that its PowerBuoy has been deployed in the Adriatic Sea to advance Eni’s R&D MaREnergy project, aiming to develop, deploy and demonstrate suitability of wave energy technologies in oil & gas operations. The OPT PowerBuoy will be used in the Adriatic Sea to advance Eni’s research and de
Aker Solutions has been awarded a front end engineering and design (FEED) contract by Vår Energi for the lifetime extension of the Jotun FPSO towards 2045 as part of the redevelopment of the Balder and Ringhorne area in the North Sea. In total, about 20 billion NOK will be invested in the redevelopm
Irish tidal energy developer GKinetic Energy has been granted patent protection in Australia for the ‘Power Generating Water Turbine Assembly.’
Eleven companies and organizations have expressed an interest in delivering a tidal lagoon for Swansea Bay, the Welsh marine body Marine Energy Wales informed.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has completed the proposed sale of its stake in the Canadian tidal energy joint venture to renewable energy developer DP Energy.
SIMEC Atlantis Energy has completed the redeployment of two 1.5MW turbines at the MeyGen tidal energy project in Scotland, bringing the array to its full installed capacity.
Equinor and Ocean Installer have signed a contract that covers the FPSO mooring installation, tow out and hook-up of the Johan Castberg FPSO in the Barents Sea. Ocean Installer’s new scope will be carried out in combination with the marine operations contract the company secured in February 2018. “T
DOF Subsea has been awarded three new contracts in the North Sea. The first of these contracts will see DOF Subsea undertake a workscope in the Norwegian North Sea involving subsea construction support and pre-commissioning operations from the Geosund during December 2018. In addition, the company h
UK company Global OTEC Resources has released images of its first design concepts for the company’s 1MW floating ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) device.
Sumitomo Electric Industries has completed the connection of NEMO high-voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector cable system between the United Kingdom and Belgium after the high voltage test. The system, which is scheduled to be in commercial operation in the first quarter of 2019, will transmi
