Acta Marine has won a contract by Offshore Breeze Energy (OBE) to charter its newly built offshore support vessel (OSV) Acta Auriga at OBE’s Bard Offshore 1 wind farm in the German North Sea.
The University of Connecticut (UConn) Marine Sciences, has recently received an upgraded version of its R/V Connecticut, a 90-ft oceanographic research vessel. UConn selected Glosten in early 2016 to provide a contract level design of the vessel conversion and support the University throughout biddi
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Ocean Energy (ETIP Ocean) has organized a webinar to discuss tools for the optimization of ocean renewable energy projects.
Nautilus Minerals has said that the final machine of its seafloor production tools, the Bulk Cutter, is due to finish submerged trials next month. Submerged trials of the collecting machine and auxiliary cutter were completed late last year. To date the Bulk Cutter has completed commissioning of the
Dutch company Tocardo Tidal Power has tested a scaled version of a 1.5MW Universal Foundation System (UFS) at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN).
Ørsted has started offshore construction of the Hornsea Project One wind farm, located off the Yorkshire coast, UK. The first of 174 monopiles has been installed at the site, the company informed. The installation is being carried out by GeoSea’s installation vessel, Innovation. It will carry up to
The European Union has approved funding for the construction of the Biscay Gulf France-Spain electricity link as part of a larger clean energy infrastructure investment.
The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team has completed technology readiness tests of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. The test were conducted using a combined unmanned surface vessel (USV) and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) system. The goal of the XPRIZE challenge is to advance ocean technologies for rapid, u
The US Navy has called on the research vessel (RV) Petrel to survey the location of a C-2A Greyhound aircraft that crashed into the Philippine Sea en route to USS Ronald Reagan on November 22, 2017. Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) personnel on board the vessel will depart from the Philipp
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has last week paid a visit to its tidal testing site at Fall of Warness – the location of the first grid-connected tidal energy turbine in Scotland.
Scottish government has laid a Bill in Parliament which sets out proposed long-term management arrangements for Crown Estate assets.
EU member states have agreed on the Commission’s proposal to invest €873 million ($1.1 billion) in European energy infrastructure projects. The EU funding for the chosen projects comes from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the European support programme for trans-European infrastructure. Of the
UAE-based construction specialist Lamprell has loaded out the first shipment of 8 fully-assembled jackets from its Jebel Ali facility built for East Anglia One offshore wind farm project. The vessel will set sail for its client’s facility at Vlissingen in the Netherlands shortly, Lamprell noted. In
Aker Solutions has delivered Dvalin subsea template to DEA Norge on time and budget. The production of the template took 15 months at the Aker Solutions yard in Egersund. Petter Øhlckers, the Dvalin project SPS manager, said: “DEA is very pleased with the work performed by Aker Solutions, ensuring t
