Greenlink has appointed engineering consultant, WSP, to its €400-million electricity interconnector linking Wales and Ireland. The 500MW 200km high voltage direct current (HVDC) link is being developed by Greenlink Interconnector Limited, a subsidiary of Element Power, and is due to start constructi
Van Oord has finished installing the first jacket foundation on the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm located 45 km southeast of the town of Lowestoft, UK. ScottishPower Renewables commissioned Van Oord to be the lead contractor responsible for transport and installation of the offshore wind turbin
Following the official opening of the Race Bank, Ørsted will own and partly own 10 operational offshore wind farms in the UK with a combined capacity of over 3,000MW.
Following umbilical installation job with Bibby Offshore, Maritime Developments (MDL) has won a flex lay project with the EPCI contractor. The recently concluded project in a North Sea gas field used the MDL RDS-400, a 400-tonne reel drive system, operated by MDL offshore personnel and supported by
On June 6, the consortium behind the NeSSIE project (short for North Sea Solutions for Innovation in Corrosion for Energy) launched a competition for delivering anti-corrosion solutions for tidal, wave and offshore wind energy sectors.
Scientists from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new control system for offshore wind farms which is said to allow power transmission to the coast in a simpler, more flexible and cheaper way than current solutions.
Equinor and partners are looking at the possibility of supplying power from land to three platforms that are currently powered by gas turbines. The transition may cut CO2 emissions from Troll C and the Sleipner area by more than 600,000 tonnes per year. The platforms that may be powered from land ar
B.offshore GmbH has completed maintenance work on the offshore substation of the Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm in Germany.
Saab Seaeye has enhanced the system for global remote control of its electric underwater robotic vehicles via satellite link and 4G networks. Remote control of its Leopard electric robotic work vehicle has now been upgraded to include control of the TMS. Such remote operations should bring savings t
Subsea 7 has been awarded a contract by Shell for the Penguins redevelopment project, located approximately 150 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands. The engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract incorporates the fabrication of two pipeline bundles containing pipe-i
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from June 4 – June 10, 2018.
Scottish marine service provider Green Marine has submerged another piece of innovative technology into Orkney’s deeps having recently installed Microsoft’s clean energy-powered datacenter.
Seismic player Polarcus has received an award for an XArray 3D marine seismic acquisition project in North-West Europe. According to the company, the project is expected to start in July 2018 and last for approximately two months. Additional details regarding the client and value of the contract hav
Umbilicals International has opened its doors to a new facility in Rosyth, Scotland, heralding the move as purposeful and optimistic during tough market recovery. The 750sqm facility will support commercial diving operations, through terminating, testing and selling stock umbilicals. The site is clo
