Research & Development
Management Changes at NOC
Kevin Forshaw, Associate Director Enterprise and Research Impact, will be leaving the National Oceanography Centre on July 20. He will take up a position with the University of Plymouth, as Director of Industrial and Strategic Partnerships within the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Forshaw will
Bombora seeks engineer to power up mWave
Bombora Wave Power, an Australian wave energy developer with newly established headquarters in Wales, is looking to hire an engineer responsible for the delivery of mWave device’s electrical parts.
Floatgen Floating Turbine Arrives Home
The 2MW Floatgen floating wind turbine has been towed to the École Centrale de Nantes SEM-REV demonstration site off the Croisic, France. The Floatgen turbine left the Port of Saint-Nazaire on Sunday, 29 April and arrived at the site some 20 kilometres off the Croisic on Monday, 30 April, Centrale N
Cornwall and Wales join forces for marine energy
Cornish marine energy body, Marine Hub Cornwall, and its Welsh counterpart, Marine Energy Wales, have signed a collaboration agreement to advance marine renewable energy sector in UK.
Wellbarrier in Holistic Well Integrity Deal with VNG Norge
Wellbarrier has secured an agreement with VNG Norge to create a holistic well integrity value chain solution to safeguard oil and gas wells worldwide. The joint project, Agreement for Joint Industry Research, Development and Demonstration Project (JIP), will apply a digital solution to enhance well
Scotland Backs New Decommissioning Centre of Excellence
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has been awarded grant funding of £1.9 million from the Scottish Government’s Decommissioning Challenge Fund to invest in the recently-announced National Decommissioning Centre of Excellence in partnership with the University of Aberdeen. Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish
Tidal Sails scores over €900K for tidal demonstrator
Norwegian tidal energy developer Tidal Sails has secured government funding to support the demonstration of a 4.4MW full-scale tidal energy device.
Top news, April 23 – 29, 2018
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from April 23 – 29, 2018.
Seabased makes Sri Lanka wave energy deal
Seabased, a Swedish wave energy company, has formed partnership with Infocom Connect to provide renewable energy for commercial projects in Sri Lanka.
Atlantis to study Japanese tidal stream
Edinburgh-based renewable energy company Atlantis Resources and Nagasaki University have signed a collaboration agreement for a joint study on ocean renewables using tidal stream.
EMEC Hires Leask Marine for Tidal Foundation Tripod Removal
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has contracted Orkney-based Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal energy test site. The operation will feed into a collaborative FORESEA-funded project called Forensic Decommissioning for Tidal Energy Converters (FoDTEC)
Orkney’s tidal energy tripod set for forensic scrutiny
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has hired Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from the Fall of Warness tidal energy test site as part of an EU-backed collaborative decommissioning project.
OGTC Supports Small Pools Vision
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre is backing four subsea ‘plug and play’ projects to help unlock the 3.4 billion barrels of oil and gas in marginal fields, or ‘small pools’ on the UK Continental Shelf. Plug and play is a concept from the computing and space industries, where equipment is designed to b
BiMEP wave device composing for OPERA overhaul
The Marmok-A5 device, deployed for testing off the coast of northern Spain, will be retrieved for upgrades this summer as part of the EU-funded wave energy cost-cutting project.