Power Ltd. has put together a proposal for the construction of a barrage which would be capable of harnessing enough tidal energy to power 72,000 homes. The barrage would be built across North Devon’s Taw Torridge estuary, reports This is Cornwall news site. The barrage, which would be 1,200 metres
Advanced Insulation, a single source provider for insulation and fire protection systems to the oil & gas industry, has recently released a video showing their topside and subsea insulation. The company specialises in the manufacture and supply of ContraFlame and ContraFlex fire protection and therm
Corac Group plc, a group of innovative UK based engineering companies, active in energy and environmental technologies, announces that its subsidiary Corac Energy Technologies (CET) has signed a Master Services Agreement with BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC (BPTT). This five year agreement provides pre-a
Just three years after gaining a foothold in the Brazilian oil and gas market, a Tyneside based firm is buying out its South American partner to take full control of the growing business. Express Engineering, which is this year celebrating 40 years in business, established a £2 million 50:50 joint v
N-Sea re-introduces the unique and revolutionary TUP Diving System® for its offshore activities. The TUP (Transfer Under Pressure) Diving System®, designed and built in house by N-Sea, has an extensive track record with over 10,000 incident free dives to date. The system, has undergone a comprehensi
The Norwegian Clean Seas Association for Operating Companies (Nofo) has reached agreement with T. Johansen Drift AS and Roald Johansen AS in Alta on constructing two depots for oil spill clean-up equipment. Located at Hasvik and Måsøy in Norway’s northernmost Finnmark county, these facilities repres
MMT announces the purchase of a new MBES Kongsberg EM2040 model – EM2040 dual TX. MMT has in cooperation with Kongsberg Maritime AS, developed a new EM2040 Multibeam model for high-resolution surveys. This new model is specially designed for mapping in high speed and will deliver higher resolution a
The South Stream Project is making good progress and enters an important next phase. Following a recent Board Meeting, South Stream Transport has initiated two tenders, one for the supply of line pipe and another one for the construction of the South Stream Offshore Pipeline through the Black Sea. C
IHC Hydrohammer, part of IHC Merwede, has announced that it will supply piling equipment for the offshore foundation installation of two European offshore wind farm projects to Ballast Nedam Offshore. The long-term rental agreement between two leading companies in the offshore wind energy market is
Global supplier of fluid transfer systems FES International has won a £2m contract to supply BG Norway with 6 Automatic DBSCs. FES will supply an array of Automatic DBSCs to contractors NOV/Subsea 7 for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel operating in the Knarr field, in the
N-Sea re-introduces the unique and revolutionary TUP Diving System® for its offshore activities. The TUP (Transfer Under Pressure) Diving System®, designed and built in house by N-Sea, has an extensive track record with over 10,000 incident free dives to date. The system, has undergone a comprehensi
In a recent tender procedure JDR Cables secured a £330,000 contract from Tidal Energy Limited (TEL) for the design, manufacture and delivery of a submarine cable connecting the DeltaStream unit to the shore. An initial 400KW full scale single turbine unit will be installed as part of the first phase
In the last two weeks the TOC ship delivery crew has prepared the trailing suction hopper dredger Pays de Loire for a ship delivery voyage. The crew started the preparations for the departure from a ‘hot lay-up’. The captain and crew took care of all the technical and nautical issues and prepared th
A novel Ocean Sentinel instrumentation buoy has been developed by NNMREC and AXYS Technologies for WEC testing. The Ocean Sentinel is a surface buoy, based on the 6-meter NOMAD (Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device) buoy design. This instrumentation buoy facilitates open-ocean, stand-a
