Subsea vehicle specialists Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) has secured a new contract working in collaboration with a subsea cabling company. As part of the contract, SMD will supply the next-generation MD3-XT Plough. The plough is capable of trenching up to 3.3 metres with jetting, at depths of up to 1
Swiss freight trader Cargill has invested in ZeroNorth, the recent spin-off from Maersk Tankers, committing its entire operated fleet to use the Optimise software to reduce CO2 emissions through digital technology. The tie-up comes on the back of ZeroNorth’s announcement back in June that it was loo
Maritime Developments MDL has carried out transpooling of a flexible jumper for TechnipFMC in Norway. The complete scope of work consisted of project engineering and onshore execution of transpooling of a 6-inch flowline from a storage reel onto the quayside using the MDL second-generation RDS. This
London-based firm Silverstream Technologies is expanding its team by over 90% to support the increasing demand and uptake of its air lubrication technology. The company announced a flurry of new appointments to its senior leadership saying the expansion reflects the increasing demand for its technol
Installation of the world’s longest heated subsea production pipeline is underway in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Once completed, the 36-kilometre electrically trace-heated (ETH) pipe-in-pipe solution will transport oil from the Neptune Energy-operated Fenja field to the Njord A platform,
The NOC’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre has partnered with start-up company Wight Ocean on a successful proposal into the UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator’s (DASA) Map the Gap funding programme. The project will develop an amphibious bottom crawler to navigate and transit water crossings to
French marine energy developer Sabella will deploy its D10-1000 tidal turbine next week in the Fromveur Passage off Brittany’s shore and connect it to Ushant Island grid. This is a further step in the demonstration of the French turbine, which will allow the continuation of learning and knowledge ac
ASX-listed high-performance computing experts DUG Technology and Norwegian energy giant Equinor have signed a multi-year deal covering seismic processing and imaging technology. Under the deal, Equinor will replace existing third-party technology with an integrated solution using DUG McCloud, a plat
The fifth and final call for the EU-funded MaRINET2 project has opened, targeting offshore energy technology developers who are looking to test their device or components. The project offers fully-funded access to a network of testing and research infrastructures in Europe. Open until 16 October, th
Yara Marine Technologies, a Norway-based provider of exhaust gas cleaning systems, has announced its new corporate accelerator program, Yara Marine X.
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has completed a logistics operation with a drone to an offshore installation in the North Sea offshore Norway.
There are 66 projects zero-emission pilots and demonstration projects underway in shipping, according to the preliminary results of a mapping exercise carried out by the Getting to Zero Coalition. As explained, the mapping seeks to build awareness and understanding of the pilot projects currently un
Tetra Tech’s Marine Services Division has taken delivery of an Inception Class MKII Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) with a bespoke cooling system and two additional survey instrumentation pods for harbour survey projects. The first payload pod has been fitted out with an R2SONIC 2020, SBG Ekinox-D, Va
A consortium comprising GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and TNO is building a test facility for wind turbine rotors, which will be largest of its kind once built at LM Wind Power’s WMC Technology Center in Wieringerwerf, the Netherlands. The test rig, being constructed under the three-year STRETC
