Operations & Maintenance
Marine certification workshop set for Nantes
The MET-CERTIFIED project has organized a workshop on marine energy certification and standardization as a side event of the upcoming Ocean Energy Europe Conference & Exhibition.
O&M Centre of Excellence to Be Launched in the Humber Region
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult and the University of Hull have established a collaboration which will see the launch of an offshore wind Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Centre of Excellence in the Humber region, UK.
Reactive Wraps Up Six North Sea Projects
Aberdeen-based Reactive Downhole Tools said it has recently completed six North Sea installations for multiple operators on both the UK and Norwegian continental shelves, worth in excess of £500K. Reactive said it had delivered its swellable packers to incredibly tight deadlines for one of the insta
OceaNET wraps up wind and wave engineers coaching
The OceaNET project has come to an end having trained 13 young researchers in the areas of floating offshore wind and wave energies to support the emerging marine renewable energy sector.
Ampelmann and Seaqualize Developing Balanced Gangway Prototype
Ampelmann and Seaqualize have established a partnership to develop a new full scale balanced gangway prototype to be tested offshore.
GCE Subsea joins Ocean Energy Europe
Norway-based subsea industry cluster GCE Subsea has become a member of Ocean Energy Europe.
OSIL equips Seacams2 for tidal turbulence study
Ocean Scientific International (OSIL) has shipped a network of 3 data buoys to Bangor University’s School of Ocean Sciences that will be used to study tidal turbulence at the Menai Strait in Wales.
Tidal players get on Scottish Green Energy Awards shortlist
Scottish Renewables has unveiled the shortlist for this year’s Scottish Green Energy Awards which features several developers and service providers from tidal energy sector.
Oceanteam Wins Cable Handling and Storage Contract
Oceanteam Solutions has recently signed a contract regarding the supply of a 5300T turntable, a loading tower and auxiliary equipment on a barge for the storage and multiple loadouts of subsea cables in the Netherlands. Furthermore, Oceanteam will accommodate a professional cable handling crew that
ENEA sums up Italian ocean energy research activities
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has published a paper on the current state of ocean energy research and development in Italy.
Add Energy and Trendsetter Develop RWIS Lite
Add Energy and Trendsetter Engineering have teamed up to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS) Lite, designed to reduce the complexity of relief well operations, when coupled with the original RWIS product. RWIS Lite is an exact structural replica of the original RWIS, which allows for dupl
Prysmian to Connect Three French Offshore Wind Farms to Mainland
Prysmian has been awarded a contract from Réseau de Transport d’Électricité to develop submarine cable links to connect the three planned offshore wind farms to the mainland power grid in mainland France. The offshore wind farms to be connected via submarine cable are Fécamp, Calvados and Saint Naza
Innovate UK funds Instream’s floating tidal demonstrator
Instream Energy Systems and ITPEnergised have secured funding from the UK’s innovation agency Innovate UK to build and test a full-scale floating tidal stream energy device.
Statoil, Shell and Total Form CO2 Storage Pact
Statoil, Norske Shell and Total E&P Norge have signed a partnership agreement to mature the development of carbon storage on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). The project is part of the Norwegian authorities’ efforts to develop full-scale carbon capture and storage in Norway. In June, Gassnova