Ocean Installer has been awarded a contract by Petronas to assist in decommissioning the Chinguetti field off the coast of Mauritania in West Africa. The contract follows an award from FPSO operator BW Offshore on the same field in early February. The scope of the project includes decommissioning of
The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) plans to deploy the Saab Seaeye Falcon underwater robotic vehicle to recover acoustic tracking receivers missing from deployment sites in oceans around the world. The work will be conducted in the waters of the Northwest Atlantic, the test hub of OTN and a hotspot fo
Subsea 7 has won a contract between USD 150 million and USD 300 million from Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN) for the production uplift pipeline projects (PUPP) in shallow water, offshore Nigeria. The contract scope includes engineering, construction, transportation, installation and pre-comm
Gothenburg-based tidal energy developer Minesto has applauded the multi-million funding allocation for marine energy made by Swedish Energy Agency – stating the investment is ‘fully in line with Minesto’s technology.’
The Swedish Energy Agency has invested €10.2 million (SEK 105 million) in the country’s marine energy development program whose first call for proposals is expected to be launched this May.
A rear part of a nacelle panel on one of the Adwen M5000 (AD 5-116) wind turbines installed on the Alpha Ventus wind farm in the German North Sea has broken off and fell into the sea, the operator of the wind farm reports.
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.
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) will be discussing its anchorless PowerBuoy solution at the Navy Forum next week in Maryland.
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
Tiburon Subsea has found a wreck of WWII submarine USS S-28 (SS-133) off the cost of Oahu, Hawaii. Utilizing Kongsberg Maritime’s Hugin autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and hydro acoustic technology the USS S-28 was located in 2650 meters of water . The survey expedition was part of Tiburon Sub
