DNV Business Assurance has received approval to begin providing SEMS audits to oil and gas drilling operators in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas of the US outer continental shelf. SEMS is the Safety and Environmental Management Systems program developed by the Center for Offshore Safety (COS) and
Aberdeen-based Hydro Group Plc launches new product, set to be a technological lead in the offshore renewable energy systems market. The group, a global design and manufacturer of underwater cables and connectors for subsea, underwater, topside and onshore applications, invested £300,000 into resear
The Polytechnic University of Marche along with the Marche Region, as a partner of the project POWERED, is organizing a conference entitled “The Development of Offshore Wind Energy in the Adriatic Sea: the Project POWERED as a Planning Tool” on May 29 in Ancona. The event will be hosted in the great
Statoil, together with partners in the Grane Unit, has made a new oil discovery in the vicinity of the Grane field in the North Sea. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in exploration well 25/11-27 in the Grane Unit. Drilled by the rig Songa Trym the well pr
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, launches its floating LiDAR, an offshore wind resource assessment buoy, May 24, at Tainan Hydraulics Laboratory. “It is the Asia No. 1 and World No.4 of Floating LiDAR applications in wind profiler measurement at sea,” said NCKU President Hwung
The Australian Greens say the Federal Government is threatening WA’s iconic Abrolhos Islands by releasing acreage for oil and gas exploration that encroaches on the area. “The Abrolhos Islands are iconic in WA, they are a unique marine environment with many threatened species and are important to WA
The British Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change has issued approval for the construction of the Galloper offshore wind farm off the south east coast of England. The wind farm has been developed in a joint venture between RWE Innogy and the British electric utility Scottish and Southern
Global oil and gas service provider AGR Petroleum Services has overhauled its industry-leading software that allows operators to maximise performance during well construction projects. Known as P1™ Version 4.0 the software, relaunched this spring has been redesigned with the actual end user, the wel
The University of Maine unveiled on Friday its buoy-based system that will measure the wind speed in the Gulf of Maine at the height of an offshore wind turbine, the Associated Press reports. Initially, the buoy will be installed off the coast of Castine, together with the UMaine’s 1/8 scale prototy
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its partners BP and NIKO announced a significant gas and condensate discovery in the KG D6 block off the eastern coast of India. The KGD6-MJ1 well was drilled in a water depth of 1,024 metres – and to a total depth of 4,509 metres – to explore the prospectivity
RenewableUK has welcomed two key announcements in the wave energy sector which will help to spur growth and maintain the UK’s global lead in this innovative and dynamic field. The Edinburgh-based company Aquamarine Power has secured full consent to build the largest commercial wave energy array in t
On May 3rd, 2012, Makani drafted specifications for a ground station from which its 30 kW airborne wind turbine could be deployed. On May 9th, 2013, after a year of mechanical design, fabrication and testing, the team completed the first-ever fully autonomous flight of a kite power system. The airbo
More than 100 Brazilian subsea companies and organizations have registered in the bi-lingual Subsea Index. The database sets a new record with close to 500 users in April 2013. Subsea Index is a bi-lingual matchmaking tool in English and Portuguese, which was updated and re-launched in September 201
In a report on the Electricity Market Reform published yesterday, the Committee on Climate Change presents new analysis showing that there are significant economic benefits from investing in a portfolio of low-carbon technologies through the 2020s rather than investing in gas-fired generation. The r
