The Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE) has recently welcomed five new members to its Board of Directors. The new board members include Mark Jollymore, President of Innovasea Systems Inc., Melanie Nadeau, Director, Strategic Initiatives of Emera, Aubrey Palmeter, President & CEO of
SSE Renewables has decommissioned the last remaining test turbine at the Hunterston National Offshore Turbine Test Facility in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Following six years of testing, the 6MW Siemens turbine was brought down to the ground in an operation by lead decommissioning contactors, Keltbray
A consortium of partners led by Principle Power has been awarded a USD 3.6 million grant from the U.S Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop, validate and operate DIGIFLOAT, the world’s first digital twin software tailored to floating offshore wind applic
A research project to make the island of Texel in the Netherlands sustainable through wave energy has now reached the planning stage for the installation of a wave energy farm prototype. Invented by Erwin Croughs, the Slow Mill wave pilot project aims to install five or six Slow Mills and create a w
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind LLC is launching ocean survey operations at its 183,000ha lease area off the New Jersey coast, which has the potential to generate 2.5GW of offshore wind. Survey vessel Geosea will be deployed to carry out the operations in order to inform future turbine development. Th
Irish hydrokinetic turbine developer GKinetic Energy returned to the IFREMER test facility in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France last week for a full 5 days of testing on an optimised device that was both submerged and deployed at the surface for comparative analysis. The testing is part of a much larger, ove
Kraken Robotics has announced plans to establish a joint venture with a company owned by Kraken board member, Larry Puddister, for the provision of subsea services. The joint venture will be called Ocean Discovery and will operate in Atlantic Canada. It is expected that a definitive agreement coveri
Norske Shell is launching a 10-year seabed subsidence monitoring campaign at its Ormen Lange gas field in the Norwegian Sea, using long-endurance sensors from subsea monitoring specialist Sonardyne. Norske Shell’s goal is to continuously monitor any movement of the seafloor at Ormen Lange. The data
The Aker group and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have established the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Norway (C4IR Norway), dedicated to harnessing the advances of technology to preserve the ocean and improve the environmental footprint of ocean industries. Through public-private partne
Efforts to understand the potential of tidal energy to play a role in Nova Scotia’s clean energy future have taken another step forward with the appointment of new board directors to the Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE), as well as the launch of new live site data from the Minas Passag
Cisco and Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) announced live production traffic on the AARNet portion of the INDIGO subsea cable, connecting data centers in two countries, over 9000km apart, to support research and education. The project represents a global first in interconnecting a
Polarstern icebreaker has embarked on a year-round MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition to study climate change in the Arctic. On board Polarstern is a team of scientists, supported by the EU, who will conduct pioneering research on the marine ec
Inpex has proposed to undertake pre-engineering survey activities with aim to further develop the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin off the north-west coast of Western Australia. The survey comprises of combined geotechnical and geophysical survey scopes and it should be undertaken between Q4 2019 a
The University of Maine has been awarded nearly USD 1.4 million from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to design an ultra-lightweight, corrosion-resistant, concrete floating offshore wind turbine. The floating turbine will be equipped with NASA m
