Danish Shipowners’ Association and The Shipowners’ Association of 2010 have published a report under the title Global Evaluation of Offshore Wind Shipping Opportunity. The report gives an insight into the supply and demand in the offshore wind industry. The report has been produced by BMT/Navigant w
All three wind turbine blades have been installed on the V164-8.0 MW prototype at the Danish national test centre in Østerild, Vestas announced. The company said that good weather conditions on the night of January 13 allowed the installation of all three 80m long blades of the offshore wind turbine
Coda Octopus Group, Inc., announces that it has established a new company in Perth, Western Australia: Coda Octopus Products Pty Limited (COPTY) and that it is in the process of operationalizing this office. This new office will be a sales, distribution and support office serving in the first year A
Mainstream Renewable Power has deployed the North Sea’s first commercial floating LiDAR wind measurement device, designed to capture wind data in the harshest conditions, to support its proposed 450MW Neart Na Gaoithe offshore wind farm. A deal has been signed with technology providers FLiDAR NV, fo
In March 2013, Norwegian Centre for Offshore Wind Energy (NORCOWE) inaugurated a measurement campaign at Sola airport outside of Stavanger, Norway. The equipment installed consisted of one scanning and one static wind LiDAR system. In addition a second static wind LiDAR was installed some 3 km furth
The House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources is holding what Oceana is calling a “dog and pony show” on seismic airgun use in the Atlantic Ocean. The hearing, titled “The Science behind Discovery: Seismic Exploration and the Future of the Atlantic Outer Cont
The investigation of a hydrocarbon leak on Oseberg A in the North Sea on 17 June 2013 has identified serious breaches of the regulations. The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has now notified operator Statoil of an order. Direct and underlying causes Wells on the Oseberg field centre began to
Chevron Corporation announced that its U.K. subsidiary, Chevron North Sea Limited, has reached a final investment decision and received approval from the U.K. government to proceed with the development of the Alder Field in the Central North Sea. The project has a planned design capacity of 110 mill
The UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool recently published a study, according to which potential energy gains from tidal power by the use of pumping process are “too optimistic”. Tidal energy is still in its emerging phase, so tidal range structures (barrages, lagoons, and offshore ti
Renewable energy can be generated by harnessing the power from the tides, which can be predicted hundreds of years in advance. But the predicted energy gains from certain schemes have been overestimated, according to a team of researchers in Liverpool. Tidal range power generation is one way of extr
Little known but very important for climate change: the greenhouse gases nitrous oxide and methane. For these substances, derived in large part from the ocean, there are still no uniform oceanic measurements worldwide. To change this and to build a global network of time series measurements in the o
China began its first saturation diving experiment near the shore of Shenzhen yesterday. The Shanghai Salvage Company announced that China has a goal to reach 300 meters under water. According to Xinhua, the preparations for the dive have already started. The experiment will begin on January 12, and
Vestas has installed the nacelle of its V164-8MW offshore wind turbine at the Danish national test centre in Østerild, the company announced on its official social media page. Vestas is now following the footsteps of Siemens, which had put its SWT-6.0-154 offshore wind turbine to test in 2012 in Øst
Vestas has installed the nacelle of its V164-8MW offshore wind turbine at the Danish national test centre in Østerild, the company announced on its official social media page. Vestas is now following the footsteps of Siemens, which had put its SWT-6.0-154 offshore wind turbine to test in 2012 in Øst
