A team of researchers that includes two engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is working with Vryhof Anchors on developing a new mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines. Reportedly, the system uses an integrated network of anchors and lines to hold dozens or even hundreds
The video shows the recently completed project whose aim was to investigate cost-effective methods of cable laying for tidal arrays in strong tidal flow conditions.
A new report by energy research and consulting service, Douglas-Westwood (DW), predicts a major decline in deepwater oil and gas projects spending in the next four years. Namely, DW anticipates deepwater expenditure to total $137 billion between 2016 and 2020. A rapid 35 per cent drop compared to DW
The extreme conditions modeling project (ECM) will be releasing two open-source numerical tools for use in modeling extreme conditions of wave energy converters (WECs). Researchers at Sandia National Laboratotries and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed the WEC Design Resp
A team of US-based researchers has teamed up with industry representatives in developing a new mooring system for floating offshore wind turbines that uses an integrated network of anchors and lines to hold dozens or even hundreds of turbines in place in the ocean in industrial-scale, offshore wind
Fugro has begun preliminary site investigations at the Hollandse Kust (zuid) Wind Farm Zone in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. The site characterisation specialist will perform geophysical surveys from its 54-metre multi-purpose survey vessel, Fugro Pioneer and the 40-metre Victor Hensen. Accordi
ABB has received an order, worth around $140 million, from transmission system operators Energinet.dk in Denmark and 50Hertz Transmission in Germany to design, supply and install an HVDC converter station in Bentwisch, Northern Germany. The HVDC Light “back-to-back” converter station, the first of i
Witt Ltd has launched a £750,000 equity raise through the crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, to take the WITT technology into manufacturing for its first application as the 200-Watt Marine WITT. The Marine WITT is expected to provide autonomous power for marine applications, such as large-scale survi
The first power from the Shetland Tidal Array project has been exported to the grid, Nova Innovation and ELSA announced on Wednesday. The first Nova M100 turbine of the array delivered power to the Shetland grid following a winter of operations and testing. The Shetland Tidal Array is a joint enterp
DNV GL with its industry partners Petrobras, Shell, Statoil and Woodside has kick-started a joint industry project (JIP) to standardize subsea processing systems. The JIP ‘Subsea Processing – Standardization of Subsea Pumping’ seeks to deepen industry knowledge and encourage progress in this area by
The energy produced from the first tidal turbine from the Shetland Tidal Array project has been exported to the grid. The first Nova M100 turbine of the array delivered power to the Shetland grid following a winter of operations and testing, Nova Innovation informed. The Shetland Tidal Array is a jo
Around 100 participants from 22 countries gathered in Norway for the first UNI-SET Energy Clustering Event (ECE) to discuss and stimulate cooperation for the development of innovative research and education programmes in the energy field. This was the first of five ECEs scheduled in 2016 and 2017. T
Horizon Geosciences has added Cathodic Protection (CP) surveys to its list of survey services. CP surveys are used to assess and control the integrity of metal subsea assets as environmental and time related factors can cause corrosion of important offshore and near shore infrastructure and componen
Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered up with the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) to conduct ocean demonstrations of its SCOOP monitoring system integrated into OPT’s APB350 PowerBuoy. An initial ocean demonstration will be conducted off New Jersey, with additional demonstrations to be condu
