The company that is planning to construct a tidal barrage on the River Wyre estuary says they are ready to fight gas storage company. Namely, the Wyre Tidal Energy has been established to promote and deliver the construction of a tidal barrage across the Wyre Estuary to produce renewable electricity
Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a contract valued at approximately $95 million in the UK Central North Sea with an international oil and gas operator. The contract scope includes the project management, engineering, procurement, fabrication and installation of a 7.5km pipeline bundle containing
Aibel is to carry out even more work on the Norne vessel in connection with the fast-track development of the Skuld field. Statoil has exercised several options in the contract at a total value for Aibel of around NOK 150 million. “The contract will be extended by eleven months and 100,000 man hours
Ocean Installer has successfully completed survey and intervention work at the Balder field, as contracted by ExxonMobil Exploration & Production Norway AS. The work was performed in May 2012, according to schedule and in line with Ocean Installer’s quality and HSE standards and requirements. The co
While ports such as Hull, Bremerhaven or Esbjerg might be ready to grab the most important developments, there are potential rich pickings for many other ports which are unable to win the headline projects. As the Portstrategy news portal writes, Richard Marks, business development director at Royal
Stroud based green energy company, Ecotricity, is planning to generate power from sea waves. Founder Dale Vince said to Utility Week that the company is on track to deploy the Searaser prototype by autumn. Searaser pumps seawater using a vertical piston between two buoys – one on the surface of the
The continuous use of the oceans, in particular the sound generated from seismic sources, has the potential to cause disturbance to marine mammals such as whales, dolphins, porpoises and seals. A series of guidelines have been produced by the UK based Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) in or
BOULDER has been contracted by Heerema for cargo runs and towage of their barge H 302 and Vikingbarge 3 from Flushing to South Arne Field, where Heerema’s HLV BALDER will install a new jacket and topside. The South Arne platform comprises a combined wellhead, processing and accommodation platform wi
Scottish-based FoundOcean Ltd announces that it has been awarded the contract for the foundation grouting for Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited, UK. “Gwynt y Môr is being built with an installed capacity of 576 megawatts in Liverpool Bay, around 13 kilometres off the North Wales coast; it is on
Scotland’s economic development agencies, Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, have joined forces to launch a series of research and development funding calls to attract projects with potential to drive down the cost of offshore renewable energy. R&D funding has been made availa
JDR Cable Systems has won its first ever offshore wind farm export wire supply contract. Danish developer Dong has selected the subsea inter-array specialist to manufacture a 12km medium-voltage link for the two-turbine Gunfleet Sands demonstrator. The cable is being produced in JDR’s Hartlepool fac
Centrica Renewables Energy Ltd. has confirmed that Global Marine Energy Ltd., the largest independent provider of subsea power cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services worldwide, has successfully completed its portion of the cable landing and near shore cable works related to
German military divers are working on bringing up the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber that has been on the floor of the Baltic Sea for 70 years, according to Associated Press. The Stuka wreck was first discovered in the 1990s, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the coast of the German Baltic island [&he
Antrim Energy Inc., Antrim, an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, announced it has been granted an extension for the submission of a Field Development Plan (“FDP”) for the Fyne Field in UK Central North Sea licence P077 Block 21/28a (the “F
