Minesto has deemed the £4.5 million funding award for the Morlais tidal energy demonstration zone as very encouraging for the development of tidal energy in Wales.
French Agency for Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) has provided funding to Guinard Energies’ to further advance its tidal turbine installation system.
The results from the latest analysis by Westwood Global Energy shows that the market is starting to emerge from a cyclical downturn that has seen activity fall 36% and expenditure nearly halved. The work-class ROV (WROV) market is driven by drill-support, field construction and IRM activities offsho
US-based wave energy developer Atmocean has deployed its full-scale Waverider pump off the east coast of Canada.
Aquamarine Subsea Solutions has been awarded a contract to upgrade Diamond Offshore’s 18-¾” 15M subsea stack for the Ocean Valiant semi-submersible, currently operating in the North Sea. Aquamarine will supply engineering design, fabrication, and assembly and test to upgrade the stack to accommodate
Neptune has recently supported SMIT Salvage’s project to remove the Harita Berlian 18 wreck with the provision of survey & ROV services in the Traffic Separation Scheme area of the Singapore Straits. Neptune provided project management and a 7-man team to deliver the integrated services. Neptune’s s
Swiss project developer Nord Stream 2 AG has submitted to the competent permit authorities applications for two permits to construct the planned twin 1,200-kilometre Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines through the Baltic Sea in the Finnish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The pipeline will run 374 kil
Hawaiki Submarine Cable and TE SubCom informed that the final preparations are underway for the start of the installation of the Hawaiki submarine cable in early October 2017. According to the latest update, the 14,000 km of undersea fiber-optic cable that comprise the Hawaiki transpacific cable sys
Menter Môn, the manager of the Morlais tidal energy project, has been awarded £4.5 million of EU and Welsh government funds to further develop the scheme proposed off Anglesey in North Wales.
CGG has completed a 11,500 sq km wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area. This new survey has been acquired perpendicularly to existing WAZ data and the combined imaging of this first large-scale orthogonal WAZ data set is expected to provide significantly enhanced
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will be taking part in the study that will assess the economic feasibility of the installation of wave energy converters in the waters off Yakutat in Alaska.
Edinburgh-based engineering consultancy QED Naval has completed the factory acceptance tests on its Subhub tidal platform named Kraken.
JFD has confirmed that its new COBRA (Compact Bailout Rebreathing Apparatus) system has passed further trials rating it safe for use at depths up to 450 metre sea water (msw). Released earlier this year, COBRA is a new bailout solution designed to replace conventional SCUBA bailout methods, providin
German law firm Kapellmann und Partner Rechtsanwälte, on behalf of Gobal Tech I Offshore Wind GmbH, has invited helicopter services providers to tender for the transport of passengers and cargo to and from the 400MW offshore wind farm.
