UK consortium, including engineering company MAHLE Powertrain and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has launched a project to develop sustainable propulsion solutions for retrofit to high-performance marine vessels where batteries and other electrified technologies may not prove practical.
Wind propulsion systems developer Norsepower Oy has signed a contract with French ship owner and operator Socatra for the retrofit installation of two rotor sails on the medium range tanker Alcyone. The 50,000 dwt, 2022-built, French flag tanker, chartered by global energy company TotalEnergies, wil
Scotland-based Howden, a provider of mission-critical air and gas handling products, technologies, and services, has signed a contract to provide five hydrogen diaphragm compressors for Atura Power’s, a subsidiary of Ontario Power Generation, Niagara Hydrogen Centre in Ontario, Canada. The facility,
Swedish Alfa Laval has developed separators and separator upgrades that are optimized for biofuels, which are seeing an increase in demand as shipowners seek solutions to decarbonize their operations. . The separators are compatible with hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and fatty acid methyl ester (
Danish marine pump specialist Svanehøj has received an order to provide fuel pumps for eight multifueled pure car truck carriers (PCTCs).
Supergen ORE Hub and the University of Edinburgh’s Policy and Innovation Group have released a study that quantifies the potential power system benefits that the Great Britain stands to gain through wave energy and tidal stream deployments.
Dutch company SeaQurrent has conducted first tests on its TidalKite tidal energy device as it prepares for upcoming deployment offshore the Netherlands.
Swedish marine energy company Minesto and Faroese utility company SEV have renewed and expanded the collaboration agreement related to tidal energy buildout in the Faroe Islands.
Carnegie Clean Energy and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have extended their collaboration agreement and will continue to work together on innovations in the wave energy sector for another two years.
Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has revealed plans to carry out a remotely operated autonomous offshore wind farm inspection, said to be an industry first. Fugro will use its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV) equipped with the Blue Volta fully electric remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to con
The last major pieces of the contract to build the wave energy test site PacWave South have been executed, paving the way for the completion of the Oregon State University-led facility off the coast of Newport in Oregon.
Italian oilfield services provider Saipem has secured two contracts, one in Brazil and one in Norway, for a total amount of approximately $900 million. The first contract was secured with TotalEnergies in partnership with Aker Solutions do Brasil for the Lapa South-West development project, a deepwa
UK shipping company Purus Marine and German firm Nordic Hamburg have placed an order with Dutch tech supplier Value Maritime for four emissions-reducing Filtree Systems to be installed on newly built containerships.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been awarded a site-wide section 36 consent at its grid-connected Billia Croo wave test site off the west coast of Orkney in Scotland.
