The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Fraunhofer IWES, among others, to conduct the preliminary assessment of soil conditions in the first bidding round for new offshore wind farm zones in the North and Baltic Sea. Fraunhofer IWES said it will conduct multichannel se
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) is making progress in the collection of resource and power generation data to evaluate the performance of tidal energy devices as part of the MET-CERTIFIED project.
Industry body Ocean Energy Europe (OEE) has made several new appointments tasking them with uniting the sector behind the strategy to build an ocean energy industry in Europe.
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from April 2 – 8, 2018.
Vroon’s subsea-support walk-to-work (W2W) vessel VOS Stone has commenced operations at the 385MW Arkona offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea.
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) has selected Fraunhofer IWES, among others, to conduct preliminary assessment of soil conditions before contracts can be awarded for new offshore wind farm clusters in the North and Baltic Sea. Researchers will compile 3D seabed models based
Aberdeen-based commercial diving and underwater intervention contractor, KD Marine, has purchased a nitrox diving system and a daughter craft system from Vertech. KD Marine said it intends to retain these assets and add them to its existing fleet of air diving capabilities. The nitrox dive system co
Hydroid, a Kongsberg company, has signed a teaming agreement with Belgian defense company OIP Sensor Systems (OIP) to work jointly and exclusively on competing for the Belgian Ministry of Defence mine counter measures (MCM) toolbox program. Senior officials from the two parties participated in a sig
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (April 02 – April 08). https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/04/03/reach-subsea-secures-work-for-three-vessels-in-north-sea/ https://subseaworldnews.com/2018/04/04/dcn-set-for-middle-east-job/ https://subse
Energinet and National Grid have selected N-Sea Survey to provide UXO survey and inspection on the Viking Link subsea power interconnector between Denmark and UK. In addition, Intertek was contracted for UXO client representative services. The services are related to UXO risk mitigation activities w
Danish Energinet and UK-based National Grid have awarded Intertek with a contract to provide unexploded ordnance (UXO) client representative services on the Viking Link interconnector project.
French tidal energy developer EEL Energy has started a new set of real sea trials on its undulating tidal membrane device at the Port of Brest in France.
The novel concept of Seaplace and Magnomatics, known as FTMC Turbine, will be put through its paces in the coming weeks at the CEHIPAR basin in Madrid, Spain.
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the plan for development and operations for the Fenja field. The approval was announced during the Minister Terje Søviknes speech at the Energy Change conference in Stjørdal. The Fenja field is located at Haltenterassen in block 6406/12, about
