The European Union’s plans to “complete” its single market in energy by 2014 will not be realized because of a lack of cross-border… Paul Whitehead (platts) [mappress] Source: platts , December 02, 2011; Image: BritNed
The world’s leading academics, experts and underwater archaeologists will look at ways to improve protection of underwater heritage at a meeting to be held at the Belgian Royal Library in Brussels from 13 to 14 December. The event will mark the tenth anniversary of UNESCOs Convention on the Protecti
A £47.5 billion business opportunity is opening up for companies in decommissioning the North Sea’s huge infrastructure of offshore oil and gas fields according to new research recently published by Deloitte and Douglas-Westwood. The next 30 years will see enormous demand building for the services o
DNV is launching new design software for ultimate strength and fatigue analysis of offshore wind turbine structures – Sesam GeniE Wind. Building on 40 years as a leading design tool for engineering floating and fixed offshore structures, the new Sesam module uniquely addresses the wind industry’s ne
ETPM will be hosting a free “Introduction to Dynamic Positioning Course” on December 14th, 2011 in Aberdeen. The course will provide an overview of DP Vessels and their control systems, how they function, what they are used for and some of the challenges faced when at sea. Danny Daniels will be teac
A European offshore supergrid – with interconnections between European countries and to offshore wind farms in Europe’s seas – is the vision, but there are big and significant barriers to achieving that vision. ‘We don’t have an interconnected European network today, and we don’t have an offshore gr
Oil & Gas UK has published the first two in a series of several guidelines to help well-operators better understand and achieve the goals set by the Health and Safety Executive’s regulations regarding well operations on the UKCS. The ‘Guidelines for well-operators on well examination’ and the ‘Guide
A new study of the impact of noise on the behaviour of fish and crustaceans is to inform the development of offshore wind farms around the UK. The innovative new University of Hull research project uses underwater television, high frequency sonar and playback system to replicate and monitor the effe
A position paper on “Underwater Sound in Relation to Dredging” to which ABPmer contributed has been published by the Central Dredging Association (CEDA). The purpose of the paper is to inform those parties concerned about sounds produced by dredgers. The paper was prepared by the CEDA Working Group
Connecting wind farms to national power grids is often an expensive and fairly complicated process. An R&D project is looking into the possibility of connecting wind farms to existing railway power grids instead, as a lower-cost option. Wind power is a priority for Vattenfall, and the company plans
The down-scaled 1:6 test model met full scale extreme weather and probably sank during last night’s extreme storm “Berit”. Once the turbine has been located and recovered the time to repair it will be assessed. Even though the effect of the extreme storm “Berit” would not be a problem for a full sca
The down-scaled 1:6 test model met full scale extreme weather and probably sank during last night’s extreme storm “Berit”. Once the turbine has been located and recovered the time to repair it will be assessed. Even though the effect of the extreme storm “Berit” would not be a problem for a full sca
During the EWEA conference this week in Amsterdam, Mercon and ALE will introduce a new concept for installing offshore mestmasts named EMI, for Eco Metmast Installation. Mercon and ALE have decided to team up to introduce EMI. Willem Griffioen, Managing Director at Mercon feels the two companies are
UK Continental Shelf exploration activities are set for a renaissance over the next 5 years, with investments of between £22-40 billion … SubseaUK [mappress] Source: SubseaUK , November 28, 2011; Image: hko
