Technology
VIDEO: DEME Launches ‘Living Stone’
DEME launched the world’s most advanced subsea cable installation and trenching vessel ‘Living Stone’ at the LaNaval shipyard close to Bilbao, Spain on September 18, 2016. The launching ceremony was initiated by Mrs. Sarah Tommelein, spouse of Mr. Bart Tommelein, Vice-Minister-President of the Gover
DNV GL organizes webinar on tidal turbines risks
Certification body for renewable energy services, DNV GL, has set up a webinar on risk and reliability for tidal turbines.
Foreshore Technology: Dredge Master Version 5 Released
Foreshore Technology, a UK based designer and manufacturer of dredge monitoring systems and software, has released version 5 of their DredgeMaster product range. The new version contains a whole suite of new features to help improve productivity. “New calibration routines have been added to make it
Boskalis: Positive Advice on Fleet Rationalization Plan
Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. announces that its Works Council has unanimously rendered a positive advice on the fleet rationalization plan announced early July. Part of the positive advice in an agreement to continue to crew two of the five Fairmount vessels for the time being with Dutch employee
Innovate UK sets aside £15M for innovative technologies
UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, is investing up to £15 million in emerging and enabling technology projects, including energy harvesting undertakings.
Strainstall Wins Hywind Mooring Monitoring Contract
Strainstall, a monitoring solutions developer and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the 30MW Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm being developed by Statoil off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland. The site will
Strainstall Wins Hywind Mooring Monitoring Contract
Strainstall, a monitoring solutions developer and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has been awarded a contract to provide mooring monitoring for the 30MW Hywind pilot park – the world’s first floating offshore wind farm being developed by Statoil off the coast of Peterhead, Scotland. The site will
CorPower to present its WEC technology
Swedish wave energy developer, CorPower Ocean, will present its wave energy technology today in Portugal before shipping the buoys to Sweden for testing.
DEME’s Multi Purpose Vessel ‘Living Stone’ Hits the Water
DEME Group yesterday celebrated the launch of their new multi purpose vessel ‘Living Stone’, the most advanced vessel in its class. The vessel, being built by the Spanish shipyard LaNaval near Bilbao, has been designed as an environmentally friendly vessel with ‘dual fuel’ main engines with LNG bein
Liebherr Presents New PR 716 Crawler Tractor
At GaLaBau Liebherr is presenting the new PR 716 crawler tractor, which was unveiled to the public for the first time at Bauma 2016. The successor model to the successful PR 714 has an operating weight between 13,200kg and 15,200kg and an engine power of 93kW / 126HP. The series of generation 6 craw
DEME’s Neptune shows up for duty on MeyGen
The jack-up vessel Neptune, operated by DEME Group’s subsidiary GeoSea, has arrived to Nigg Energy Park to begin with the offshore installation operations as part of MeyGen tidal array project.
WaveEL buoy faces a setback
Waves4Power, a Swedish wave energy developer, has faced a setback when a damage on its WaveEL wave energy device was discovered during a routine inspection.
International collaboration to cut ocean energy costs
A major international Oceanera-Net collaborative project, involving seven partners from across Europe and worth €1.8 million, is driving forward the development of cost effective components, specifically designed for the reliable and sustainable delivery of ocean energy.
AXYS wraps up wave sensor trials
AXYS Technologies, a Canadian environmental monitoring company, has concluded the sea trials of its TRIAXYS g3 wave sensor.