Plans to grow the Manx economy by harnessing the Isle of Man’s natural resources to generate renewable energy have taken a significant step forwards. The Isle of Man Government has granted a survey licence to a local company to explore the possibility of developing a tidal array on an area of the se
TenneT has started investigating the soil along the export cable route of the planned wind farms in the Borssele zone off the coast of Walcheren. The condition of the soil and the identification of possible obstacles such as unexploded ordnance or shipwrecks is important in building an offshore grid
The Isle of Man government has granted a survey licence to Manx Tidal Energy to explore the possibility of developing a tidal array off the Point of Ayre. The seven-year agreement will enable Manx Tidal Energy to carry out preliminary work to determine the practicality and commercial viability of of
DEME Group’s GeoSea has concluded the trials of a jack-up vessel at Raz Blanchard, off France. According to DEME, the demonstrated utilisation of GeoSea’s jack-up platform under the extreme tidal conditions are the direct result and the practical implementation of a two year in-house study analysing
Saab Seaeye Falcon spent three days gathering vital benthic data for an impact assessment of a proposed tidal array installation at Torr Head on Northern Ireland’s rugged and dramatic coast. Undertaking the assessment project was Marine Ecological Surveys Limited for their client, Tidal Ventures Ltd
Statoil with partners Petoro and OMV have started the world’s first wet gas compression on the seabed of the North Sea Gullfaks field. The unique technology will increase recovery by 22 million barrels of oil equivalent (oe) and extend plateau production by around two years from the Gullfaks South
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has decided to conduct an investigation into an oil spill which occurred on the Statfjord field on Thursday October 08. A report was received at 08.30 on this day that oil had been observed on the sea close to the OLS B loading buoy on the field, PSA said. The [
Following the commissioning of the research vessel SONNE at the end of 2014, the renewal of the German research fleet continues to receive additional support. The Chairman of the DFG Senate Commission on Oceanography and Director of the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of B
Friends of the Supergrid (FOSG), NGO’s and industry groups from Europe’s energy sector have issued a joint letter in response to the European Commission’s public consultation on the new electricity market design. The signatories of the letter strongly agree with the European Commission that key chan
Statkraft and Grantham Research Institute have announced a three-year partnership for low-carbon economy research. According to Statkraft, the new programme of policy analysis will focus on the transition to the low-carbon economy and will contribute independent analysis to support and inform the cl
ABS Group, part of marine and offshore classification society – ABS, has issued its certification of the design basis for Ocean Resource’s innovative Sea Breeze Gravity “float-out-and-sink” offshore wind turbine foundation system. ABS Group issued its certification in accordance with the relevant st
The European Commission recently published its new vision for EU energy research and development policy, the Integrated Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan), under which the preservation of EU’s leading position in ocean energy developments is defined as a strategic priority. The document set
Suppressing harmful underwater noise in the Baltic Sea tops the agenda of the HELCOM Pressure group this week, as the practical work for creating a regional register of impulsive sounds kick-starts. The occurrence of such abrupt sounds, challenging to measure, is planned for national reporting in a
Following broad industry consensus, Standards Norway (SN) has published the fourth revision of subsea standard NORSOK – U001. According to SN, the NORSOK U-001 will be the most updated international available standard for subsea oil industry. It provides a method for design of subsea equipment to wi
