The northern region of Belgium called Flanders has launched a Blue Cluster – an organization dedicated to developing and promoting economic activities that are linked to the sea – including marine energy undertakings.
David Clubb reflects on the UK Government’s decision not to invest in the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon
Jan De Nul Group has completed the export cable installation works in the German North Sea in order to connect the offshore wind farms Trianel Windpark Borkum II, developed by Trianel, and Borkum Riffgrund II, developed by Ørsted, to Tennet’s German transmission grid. For both cable installation pro
Polarcus’ subsidiary has signed an agreement for the sale of its 22,130 square kilometers Capreolus 3D survey offshore Australia. The deal with an undisclosed party will be in return for a cash consideration of USD 6.5 million. According to Polarcus, the transaction will result in a non-cash gain of
Kreuz Subsea, has appointed Jerry Starling as director of diving and ROV operations. Starling, who will be based at the company’s Singapore headquarters, recently held senior diving roles at DOF Subsea and DeepOcean. Prior to this, Starling was group diving operations manager for Harkand where he wo
AKOFS Offshore (AKOFS), a company owned by Akastor, has selected Optime Subsea to support the company in delivery of recently secured contract with Equinor. Optime will support AKOFS in recently received five year light well intervention (LWI) services contract with Equinor on the Norwegian continen
Balltec has recently completed the disconnection of its MoorLOK subsea mooring connectors on behalf of EMAS Offshore on the Shell Malikai oil field off Sabah, Malaysia. The connectors, rated to 615 mT MBL, were originally supplied in 2015 to Technip MMHE Joint Venture and used for temporary mooring
United States’ Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) intends to issue a funding call to establish a hub that will work to advance water desalination methods in order to provide clean and safe water.
Nexans has been awarded a contract by Equinor to provide umbilicals with power, fiber-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the multi-phased Snøhvit development. Nexans will design, manufacture and supply a total of 42 kilometers of static infield and interfield umbilicals to control th
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has signed a contract with Premier Oil to supply its wave-harnessing PowerBuoy for the deployment in an oil and gas field in the Central North Sea.
In the first quarter of 2018, renewable electricity generation in Scotland has increased for 11% or 736 GWh from the same quarter last year, with installed renewable electricity capacity also rising by 11% or 999MW over the same period, according to government reports.
Seabed Geosolutions has been awarded a series of 4D ocean bottom node (OBN) seismic monitoring surveys over multiple oil and gas fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The surveys, with a duration of around two months, subject to final scope of work, will start in the third quarter of 2018. Stephan Mide
A consortium of SeaRenergy and N-Sea has won a contract by TenneT for modification works to the jacket foundation of the HVDC platform DolWin alpha.
SeaRenergy and N-Sea consortium has secured a project by TenneT covering modification works to the jacket structure of the HVDC platform Dolwin alpha, in the German North Sea. The project will see Hamburg-based lead partner SeaRenergy provide engineering and design services as well as the fabricatio
