Van Oord has signed a three-year agreement with ABB Turbocharging to provide fleetwide maintenance and optimization services. The agreement comes as two Van Oord vessels receive the first turbocharger upgrades of their kind in the dredger sector, saving thousands of tons in fuel and carbon emissions
Subsea Energy Solutions (SES) has completed three projects for thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) specialist Strohm, formerly Airborne Oil and Gas. For the projects, the UK-based SES provided a complete equipment package including its patented SUB-VBR Vertebrae Bend Restrictors and SUB-BALLAST-TCP B
A new project, dubbed VATTS, has been launched with the aim to demonstrate vertical axis tidal turbines coupled with battery storage technology in a demonstration planned for Strangford Lough later this year.
Deep-water installation vessel Island Victory owned by offshore vessel provider Island Offshore has set an anchor pulling world record on the Lundin-operated Solveig field in the North Sea.
Norwegian company Saga Pure ASA, formerly known as Saga Tankers, has entered into agreements to subscribe for NOK 15 million ($1.76 million) in a private placement in Bergen Carbon Solutions AS (BCS).
Kongsberg Maritime has launched the HiPAP 602 ultra deepwater SSBL positioning tool, designed specifically to provide extreme range (up to 7,000 metres) and accuracy for positioning ROVs and AUVs, and to operate as a DP reference. The HiPAP 602 shares its modular construction principles with its sis
DEME Group is participating in an innovative environmental project to make the use of clean dredged material much more efficient in the Rhine-Meuse estuary. The main goal of the project is to deliver knowledge and new techniques for sustainable sediment management. Following dredging operations, a l
Neptune Energy has recently set up four enhanced horizontal subsea tree systems (EHXT) for the Duva subsea tie-back development project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea in a standalone operation with a vessel. Being the first for Neptune Energy, the installation was carried by Solstad’s vess
The multi-purpose Powerpier solution, designed to offer protection from waves while exploiting them to produce clean power, has been installed offshore the Norwegian town of Ålesund.
Scottish tidal energy company Nova Innovation has created the first ever electric vehicle (EV) charge point in Shetland where drivers can ‘fill up’ directly from a tidal power source.
Norway-based energy storage company Corvus Energy has chosen compatriot Kitron as the manufacturing partner for the company’s battery management control systems.
MAN Energy Solutions unveiled yesterday its latest low-speed, dual-fuel engine, a MAN B&W ME-GA type, at a ceremony live-streamed from its Copenhagen Research Centre. The new engine is an Otto-cycle variant of the company’s ME-GI engine, designed for LNG/fuel-oil running. The engine manufacturer sai
The University of Edinburgh’s Policy and Innovation Group, in collaboration with Wave Energy Scotland, has published the UK Ocean Energy Review 2020 report.
Since January 1, 2020, the number of scrubber-fitted ships has nearly doubled from 2,011 ships to 3,935 by March 1, 2021, data from BIMCO shows. Scrubbers have been a very attractive solution for meeting the IMO 2020 regulation on cutting the sulphur content in marine fuel, especially for bigger ves
