Nexans has completed the installation and testing of its 445 km submarine and land mass-impregnated HVDC interconnector linking the Cepagatti converter station in Pescara, Italy, to the Kotor converter station near Budva in Montenegro. In 2012, Nexans was awarded a €340-million contract by Terna, th
Esvagt and Wind Power LAB have launched WTG Blade Assessment, a new service concept said to reduce weather risks and costs related to drone inspections of offshore wind turbines.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has carried out an audit of subsea deliveries for Equinor’s Snorre expansion project in the northern part of the North Sea. The objective of the audit, performed last month, was to verify that the design engineering of the subsea production system and Christ
The first Call for Applications of the Marine Energy Alliance (MEA) opened on December 17, 2108. The aim of MEA is to progress the technical and commercial maturity level of early-stage (TRL 3 – 4) marine energy technology companies with the overall goal of reducing the risk of device failure in sub
Fistuca has won this year’s Offshore Wind Innovation Award for its Blue Wedge Connection, a new concept used for connecting offshore wind substructures.
Fistuca has won this year’s Offshore Wind Innovation Award for its Blue Wedge Connection, a new concept used for connecting offshore wind substructures.
French tidal energy company Sabella has teamed up with QOS Energy to improve the performance monitoring of its Ushant tidal energy project, located off the west coast of France.
UK energy regulator Ofgem has put forward changes to Scottish and Southern Energy Networks’ (SSEN) plan to build a 220MW high voltage link that would facilitate the transmission of clean electricity generated from tidal power from Orkney to the rest of Great Britain.
Equinor and its partners started production from the Aasta Hansteen gas field in the Norwegian Sea. Gas from the Aasta Hansteen field is available to the market for the first time and together with the Polarled pipeline the field opens a new region for gas export to Europe. “Aasta Hansteen is a pion
Subsea 7 said it has been awarded a contract by Shell for the Shearwater Fulmar Gas Line (FGL) Re-Plumb Project, located some 225 kilometers east of Aberdeen. The contract value is said to be between $50 – $150 million. The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) project works
Acacia Communications announced the first 400G single carrier DWDM transmission on the 6,600 km Marea submarine cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Bilbao, Spain. The field demonstration was conducted by Acacia in collaboration with Microsoft and Facebook, and helped to demonstrate that impro
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from December 10 – 16, 2018.
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (December 10 – December 16). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/12/13/technipfmc-delivers-2019-forecast/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/12/12/pioneering-spirit-arrives-for-nord-stream-2-job/ https://su
In a retrospective of the past year, German wave energy start-up SINN Power has looked back on wave energy milestones the company achieved in technology, project and business development in 2018.
