Marine planning and environmental consultancy, MarineSpace Ltd, has strengthened its team with two new appointments. Sam Strutton will be joining the Southampton office as a marine consultant and will support the team with physical processes, geophysics, data processing and GIS capabilities. Strutto
Martin & Ottaway has formed a new company, SurfWEC, that will develop wave energy converters (WECs) using patented features that are expected to increase energy recovery rates by an order of magnitude over legacy WEC systems. SurfWEC said it has broken through the barriers holding back wave energy r
Marine operator Attollo Offshore has launched Aberdeen-based Innovation Incubator. Due to create 20 jobs, the incubator will bring operational and academic minds together, within Attollo, to accelerate the digital transformation of its offshore operations using latest technology including automation
Equinor has been awarded an exploitation permit for CO2 storage on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The allocated area for storage of CO₂ is located near the Troll oil and gas field and was announced in July 2018. Equinor is currently performing front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies on sto
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The National Decommissioning Centre (NDC) is opened today by Lord Duncan, UK Government Minister for Scotland and Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Scottish Energy Minister, in Newburgh, in North-East Scotland’s Energetica Corridor. The government ministers joined industry and civic leaders to celebrate the laun
A new specialist marine services company, Seabed and Offshore Solutions (Seabed Solutions), has been established to address a gap in the seabed services market. The new business is based at OrbisEnergy in Lowestoft, the renewables hub for the East of England. The company is led by managing director
Leidos has been awarded a contract by the US Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command to develop torpedo countermeasure technologies for submarine defense. The contract has a two-year base period of performance, three one-year option years, and a potential value of approximately $36 million, if all options
Abundance has raised £7 million for Scottish tidal energy company Orbital Marine Power (Orkney). Orbital Marine Power (formerly Scotrenewables Tidal Power) will use the funds raised to build its first production model Orbital O2 2MW floating tidal turbine. Bruce Davis, co-founder and joint managing
Columbia Power Technologies (C·Power) has been selected for award negotiations to develop a new, remote, low-power wave energy converter for non-grid applications. This $3-million project, funded by the US Department of Energy, seeks to design, deliver, and test a prototype low-power WEC that lowers
Heads of state and governments, more than 120 ministers and representatives from 160 countries will gather this week to discuss how to accelerate renewable energy deployment in support of the sustainable development goals and global climate objectives. The officials will attend the ninth Assembly of
Dr. Nicklas Pisias has received the Maurice Ewing Medal, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Navy and the American Geophysical Union (AGU), for his work in the establishment of a new scientific field. Pisias, a professor emeritus at Oregon State University, accepted the award at the AGU Fall Meeting in De
Ocean Energy ERA-NET Cofund (OCEANERA-NET COFUND) has opened its second Joint Call for collaborative research and development projects in the field of ocean energy. Funding for this Joint Call is provided by seven funding organisations from four countries (Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden), three
Two new Scottish wave energy devices will take to the sea in 2020 following the award of £7.7 million from Wave Energy Scotland. Both winning firms – Edinburgh-based Mocean Energy and AWS Ocean Energy from Inverness – will use the funds to build half-scale wave energy machines and test them in real
