U.S.-headquartered Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has partnered up with Unique Group, a UAE-headquartered innovator in subsea technologies and engineering, to take its autonomous vehicle services to the Middle East. The companies will collaborate to deploy OPT’s existing WAM-V unmanned surface vehic
Three French companies have joined forces for a project that aims to develop an innovative solution for precise seabed surveying at great depths using swarms of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for ocean floor mapping. The ongoing development for the CARMA (Mineral resources mapping by AUVs swa
Alaskan hydroelectric technologies startup Sitkana has partnered with Sandia National Laboratories on a project that aims to use idle fishing vessels during Alaskan winters for tidal energy capture.
Scottish tidal energy developer Nova Innovation and RSK have launched AuqaGen365, a joint venture (JV) set to design, build, and install floating solar power stations across the globe.
MODEC and Terra Drone Corporation have sealed a deal to enhance inspection drones for FPSOs to enable unmanned inspection.
The European project IMPACT has created an “innovative approach” for testing wave energy converter (WEC) reliability, performance, and destructivity with the dual hardware-in-the-loop (Dual HIL) platform which tests different parts of the WEC simultaneously.
SLB has secured a contract with Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor under which it is set to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for an all-electric subsea project in Norway’s waters. As part of the agreement, SLB will deliver the FEED of a 12-well, all-electric subsea production
MOL Switch, a US-based corporate venture capital firm that is part of Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), has decided to invest in REGENT Craft, a US company developing all-electric seagliders.
Danish renewable energy developer Floating Power Plant has selected a Siemens Gamesa wind turbine to be deployed at its demo project off the coast of Gran Canaria that integrates floating wind, wave energy, and hydrogen production. The 4.3 MW SWT-DD-120 turbine will be installed at the Plataforma Oc
ZeroNorth and Hapag-Lloyd teamed up to launch a new solution for digitalizing the end-to-end bunker planning and procurement process.
Amid the global energy transition, offshore survey and inspection companies are working on decarbonizing – but the industry is also going through a transition of its own. Bureau Veritas, Terradepth and Sulmara are among a number of offshore survey companies that are increasingly using autonomous or
Carnegie Clean Energy has raised $2.134 million from shareholders that are set to support the delivery of the first CETO deployment in Europe, as well as commercialization.
Norway’s Reach Subsea is collaborating with compatriot state-owned energy giant Equinor to carry out a technology qualification program for the Reach Remote uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) that aims to validate remote operations for various tasks. Reach Remote 1 and 2 have entered the final testing
Hy2gen Norge has changed its name to Hy2gen Nordic to reflect the company’s strategic expansion beyond Norway into other Nordic countries.
