Royal Dirkzwager and VisSim announced that the Maritime Control Room for Remote Offshore Asset Monitoring has become operational. This Maritime Control Room, located in Maassluis, is the first independent third party Monitoring center in Europe. The dedicated 24/7 team of Dirkzwager’s Offshore & Pil
A three-year Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between HR Wallingford and the University of Exeter has been launched this month, funded through NERC’s Marine Renewable Energy Knowledge Exchange (MREKE) programme. The partnership builds on HR Wall
Within the framework of the project “Offshore Measuring Buoy” – funded by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment – Fraunhofer scientists carried out the first North Sea deployment of the floating LiDAR system. A Windcube LiDAR device made by the company Leosphere has been integrated into t
Today marks the launch of Oceana’s 2013 Mediterranean Expedition, which is bound for the Emile Baudot escarpment, a large rocky wall to the south of the Balearic archipelago, of which nothing about its ecosystem is known. A team of scientists, technicians and videographers from Oceana will spend ten
A good 21 metres long, 1.30 metre draught, a maximum speed of ten knots and full of the most up-to-date technology: on 13 August 2013 the research ship MYA II will be handed over to science at a ceremony in List on Sylt. Prof. Dr. Waltraud Wende, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister for Education and Res
Spectrum signed a contract with the Ministry of the Economy in Croatia in July 2013 for the rights to acquire Multi-Client 2D seismic data offshore Croatia. Spectrum will acquire the seismic data using Seabird and is currently mobilizing to acquire approximately 12,000 kilometres of long offset seis
An experiment of huge dimensions has started at Smøla wind farm. Several wind turbines will be painted to make them more visible to birds, thus reducing the risk of collisions. Never before has a trial of this nature been carried out with such thorough scientific follow-up. The INTACT project, which
The Strategic Scoping Report (SSR), a report on key marine activities published on August 6 2013 by the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), identifies natural resources and activities – both recreational and industrial – in the marine area, and will inform marine plans that are being developed to
A large collaboration, which aims to reduce costs of offshore wind by decreasing the amount of steel used in foundations, has emerged under the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) scheme. Led by DONG Energy, the partners working on this research project intend to find a solution to design
SeaEnergy PLC and Robert Gordon University (RGU) have jointly launched a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop an operational and economic model for life cycle cost of operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies in offshore wind farms. This KTP is supported by the Technology Strategy Board
SeaEnergy PLC and Robert Gordon University (RGU) have jointly launched a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop an operational and economic model for life cycle cost of operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies in offshore wind farms. This KTP is supported by the Technology Strategy Board
Together with the Technical University of Dresden and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Siemens has carried out research work into a highly efficient and robust medium-voltage converter for feeding electrical energy into power supply grids. The insights gained were successfully i
Norwegian scientists are exploring new ways to protect seafloor volcanic vents that are rich with new species. Loki’s Castle hydrothermal vents were discovered on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Norway and Greenland in 2008. The five seafloor vents are home for many species with 20 new found during a
HR Wallingford’s noise model within its Hydro-Acoustic Model for Mitigation and Ecological Response (HAMMER) tool has been validated using pin-piling and ambient noise data collected from a boat based hydrophone during the construction of the SeaGen tidal turbine in Strangford Lough, in Northern Ire
