A revised technique for mapping the spawning sites of Atlantic herring in the UK has been developed which will ensure fish are protected during offshore wind farm construction and which could lead to a more efficient and low cost development process, the Carbon Trust said.
A first-of-its-kind acoustic telescope is under development at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), funded by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, that will permit researchers to map and study the underwater soundscape. Seawater quickly absorbs or scatters light, radio waves
A recent expedition led by Dr. Blair Thornton demonstrated how the use of autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence at sea can accelerate the exploration and study of hard to reach deep sea ecosystems, like intermittently active methane seeps. Thanks to rapid high throughput data analysis at s
Together with the North Sea Foundation and the Natuur & Milieu organisation, Van Oord and Eneco are starting a project to restore natural underwater features around wind farms: “the Rich North Sea”. A pilot project at Eneco’s Luchterduinen wind farm will investigate how nature conservation and susta
Van Oord and Eneco, together with the North Sea Foundation and the Natuur & Milieu organization, are launching the Rich North Sea project dedicated to restoring natural underwater features around offshore wind farms.
The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has secured a ten-year extension for operating its 7MW Levenmouth offshore wind demonstration turbine in Fife.
Subcon, together with its partners Recfishwest, BHP, National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) and Curtin University, has launched its Integrated Artificial Reef (IAR) in the Exmouth area. The reef integrates offshore structures into a purpose built reef through re-engineering and augmentation with
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has selected Samuel C. Harp as its first vice president for advancement and chief marketing officer. Harp has spent much of his career in academic, technology, and research institutions and will begin working at WHOI on October 1. “It is paramount that
MarineEnergy.biz has compiled the top news from marine energy industry from August 27 – September 2, 2018.
DesignPro Renewables’ hydrokinetic turbines that will be tested at the SEENEOH site in Bordeaux have been sent off from County Limerick, Ireland, and are now on their way to France.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted consent to Equinor for start-up of the Aasta Hansteen facility in the Norwegian Sea, during the course of autumn 2018. Aasta Hansteen is located approximately 320 kilometers west of Bodø in a water depth of 1270 meters. The field is developed with a SP
A new system for monitoring subsea cables in the offshore renewables sector has completed tests at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, aimed at demonstrating technical and commercial viability of the technology.
Tyne Subsea, a multi-million pound research and testing facility being developed in the North East, UK, has completed its first commercial test in one of Europe’s largest commercially available hyperbaric pressure testing chambers. The facility, which is being developed by engineering group British
Fugro has completed the geophysical acquisition portion of a 2018 Carson Basin seep hunting programme offshore eastern Canada. The workscope covers an area of 18,875 square kilometres in water depths from 300 to 3,300 metres in this frontier region offshore Newfoundland. From its deepwater survey ve
