Crown Estate Scotland has unveiled proposals to lease seabed to encourage a new generation of offshore wind projects in Scotland’s waters. The paper outlines the draft process and asks those interested to feed back to help shape the final approach. Projects will have to be sited in areas identified
NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) has launched one of its most challenging scientific underwater experiments this month on the Chatham Rise. Chatham Rock Phosphate said that this expedition is particularly relevant to its proposed marine phosphate recovery operation on the
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The micro-grid system (MGS) buoy that will be used for Minesto’s 500kW Deep Green tidal energy plant has hit the waters of the River Clyde and is now ready to be towed to the installation site.
Marine energy developer Minesto is looking to enter into a framework agreement for marine operations services at its tidal test site in Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.
Wave energy company Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has named Matthew May as the company’s Vice President for Global Business Development.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released an informational webinar to explain in more detail the recently announced funding opportunity to support the marine energy technologies.
DeepOcean has been awarded a long-term contract involving subsea life of field services on Equinor operated fields. The award covers onshore project management, engineering and offshore operations utilising a variety of vessels within the DeepOcean fleet. Offshore operations may include life of fiel
Neptune Energy has awarded a contract to Rosenberg WorleyParsons for the construction and installation of a Nova topside module on the Gjøa platform in the North Sea. The Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation & Commissioning (EPCIC) contract is for the topside section of the Nova deve
NKT has marked the one-year anniversary of its cable-laying vessel NKT Victoria after a busy first year at sea. The 140-meter vessel, with cable capacity of 9,000 tonnes on two turntables, has installed 335 kilometers of cables for offshore wind and interconnector projects in countries such as Denma
ION Geophysical has announced a new 2D multi-client program offshore Grand Banks in Newfoundland, Canada. In the first phase of GrandSPAN, ION will acquire approximately 10,000 kilometers of data with an expectation to sanction a second phase of approximately 5,000 kilometers of data further south i
Nova Innovation has secured an extension of its seabed lease at the Shetland Tidal Array. Crown Estate Scotland has granted an extension to Nova’s existing seabed lease at Bluemull Sound in Shetland, increasing the capacity of the site lease from 0.5MW to 2MW. The extension will also see the current
Jan De Nul has signed a contract in Taiwan for the design, procurement and installation of the wind turbine foundations for the Phase 2 of the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm. The wind farm is owned by Formosa Wind Power, a partnership of Macquarie Capital Group (50%), Ørsted (35%) and Swancor Renewabl
