Cape Sharp Tidal, an OpenHydro and Emera company, has retrieved its 2MW tidal turbine from the Bay of Fundy. The operation was carried out last week and it took approximately 70 minutes. The turbine has been taken to West Bay for preliminary inspection and to prepare it for transport. It will be tak
Sif Holding has been awarded the production of all monopiles and, in joint venture with Smulders, all the transition pieces for the EnBW Albatros offshore wind park. GeoSea, a DEME Group’s subsidiary, awarded the contract. GeoSea as subcontractor of Siemens is responsible for the engineering, procur
The Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie has chosen a Saab Seaeye Falcon underwater robotic vehicle for their search, rescue and recovery operations. The Falcon will be deployed along Morocco’s 2000 km coastline and in the country’s many inland lakes. The Gendarmerie liked that in strong currents the Falcon c
Ramboll has been appointed by Huadong Engineering Corporation to design foundations for the SPIC Binhai South H3 offshore wind farm in the Yellow Sea north of Shanghai. The project involves geotechnical investigations, numerical modelling of waves, currents and tidal variations, and detailed designi
Wood Group and Amec Foster Wheeler shareholders have approved Wood Group’s recommended all-share offer for Amec Foster Wheeler. The deal remains subject to relevant clearances from competition authorities in certain countries where both companies operate. It is expected that the transaction will com
Tyneside-based subsea vehicle manufacturer, Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD), has recently given Newcastle University students insight into the offshore engineering industry as part of a special research trip. The students are members of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) which
LankoDeep fibre rope from Lankhorst Ropes has been selected for the MacGregor FibreTrac crane. The MacGregor FibreTrac crane will have a 150-tonne safe working load capacity. It has been designed and will be built to comply with the latest DNV GL lifting appliance, fibre and rope manufacturing rules
ASV Global is leading a collaborative research project called ‘Autonomous Surface and Sub-surface Survey System’ (ASSSS), which aims to deliver an integrated system to provide a means of conducting low cost, shore based, full water column marine surveys using multiple unmanned systems. The project,
BluHaptics, the software company pioneering new technology for augmented robotics, and Aberdeen-based J2 Subsea have formed a sales and distribution partnership for BluHaptics’ first commercially available product – a software solution that reportedly makes the operation of underwater manipulator ar
ABB has commissioned and handed over the DolWin2 offshore wind transmission link to the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT. DolWin2 is the third offshore wind connection project that ABB has executed for TenneT in Germany’s North Sea, following BorWin1 and DolWin1. The high voltage dir
Docomo Pacific has completed the construction and end-to-end testing of the 183-mile Atisa submarine fiber optic cable system and the system is ready for service. The cable connects Guam to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The Atisa submarine cable, which began with the signing o
DEME, a Belgian dredging, hydraulic engineering and environmental solutions group, has partnered with Airobot in its plan to involve the drones into DEME’s operations. “We are considering drones to improve the safety of our crews on our construction sites,” said Lorentz Lievens, head of the DEME sur
Ocean Infinity has purchased two unmanned surface vehicles (USV) from ASV Global. The additions will be used as auxiliary rapid response vehicles in the seabed exploration system. The USVs are being designed with a selection of sensors allowing for flexibility in differing operations, ASV noted. Oce
Underwater technologies specialist Coda Octopus Products said it has consolidated and expanded its Edinburgh facilities. The new facility should enhance the company’s product delivery and service provision by co-locating all business functions within a single, integrated location and through the ext
