Reflecting the UK Government’s commitment to developing low-carbon energy, Ministers have reaffirmed their support for Wave Hub and to ensuring the UK secures maximum benefit from the facility in the future, Wave Hub said. Wave Hub is wholly-owned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
On 26 March, the Solitaire pipe-laying vessel started on the first stage of the Polarled installation project. The 482-kilometre long pipeline will transport gas from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to Nyhamna in western Norway. Statoil is operator during the development of the Polarle
UK Ministers have reaffirmed their support for Wave Hub, a test site that aims to accelerate and support the development of offshore renewable energy technology, Wave Hub’s press release reads. Wave Hub is owned by the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) UK. It provides shared offshor
Laminaria wave energy converter is a device that uses tilting motion to convert the energy of the waves into electricity. The Laminaria WEC is constituted from vertical surface that interacts with the incoming horizontal wave energy. As a result of the horizontal movement in the water the Laminaria
The first Turkish-made seismic survey vessel, MTA TURKUAZ, will be launched this weekend in Istanbul. The 86 meters long and 23 meters wide MTA TURKUAZ was built at the Istanbul Shipyard in Tuzla for the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute (MTA). The vessel will start oil exploration in the B
Kraken Sonar Systems has delivered a deep-sea rated Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (INSAS) system to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technology and Image Exploitation (IOSB). Under the terms of the contract, Kraken has designed, engineered and delivered a 6,000m depth
Based near Portsmouth in the UK, ASV Ltd, in partnership with nine other commercial and research organisations, has been awarded funding by Innovate UK to undertake in excess of £3 million worth of research and development for Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS). Three separate projects involving ASV
The video published by SAL Offshore shows the installation of the Voith tidal turbine at EMEC’s tidal test site at the Fall of Warness. The MV Lone vessel, Equipped with Kongsberg Dynamic Positioning II System, was required for the installation process in order to lift the tidal turbine from its tra
GROW:OffshoreWind programme has been granted a six-month extension as part of the Government’s Industrial Strategy to help more manufacturers take advantage of investment in supply chain infrastructure. Over £1m of funding has been put aside to assist more firms to overcome barriers to entry by givi
SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
SAL Heavy Lift has been subcontracted by Bilfinger to transport and install the Wikinger test piles and equipment with their DP Class 2 vessel MV Lone. In October 2014 the first phase of the pile testing campaign for the Wikinger offshore wind farm project was launched, after the site’s geotechnical
ECN specialists Masoud Asgarpour and Ashish Dewan were awarded the prize at EWEA Offshore 2015 under the category “winner in supply chain, logistics and O&M”. The award was in the context of an analysis of three innovative scenarios for the installation of an offshore wind farm: Breakwaters: in orde
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has granted its first wind energy research lease for a 12MW offshore wind test facility off Virginia. The lease has been given to Virginia’s Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy (DMME), which partnered with Dominion Resources, Inc. to develop the
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), together with the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, is offering free component testing to support the development of wave and tidal energy converters. The goal of the project is to help the industry gain better understanding of issuses regarding comp
