Seabased, a Swedish wave energy company, has formed partnership with Infocom Connect to provide renewable energy for commercial projects in Sri Lanka.
EMS Maritime Offshore (EMO) has completed its second base in Eemshaven, the Netherlands, which will be used as the service base for the Merkur offshore wind farm.
Fugro has started hydrocarbon seeps survey for TGS offshore Brazil. Two purpose-built vessels, Fugro Brasilis and Fugro Searcher, have been deployed to acquire high-resolution multibeam echosounder and sub-bottom profiler data in the Campos and Santos Basins. The survey is designed to mirror TGS’s 2
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has launched a tender for the development of 150MW grid-connected floating solar PV power projects in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.
Edinburgh-based renewable energy company Atlantis Resources and Nagasaki University have signed a collaboration agreement for a joint study on ocean renewables using tidal stream.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has contracted Orkney-based Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from EMEC’s Fall of Warness tidal energy test site. The operation will feed into a collaborative FORESEA-funded project called Forensic Decommissioning for Tidal Energy Converters (FoDTEC)
BOA’s offshore construction vessel (OCV) BOA Sub C has begun a five-month contract with Adwen.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has hired Leask Marine to remove a tripod foundation from the Fall of Warness tidal energy test site as part of an EU-backed collaborative decommissioning project.
Offshore mooring rope specialist, Lankhorst Euronete Portugal, has supplied Lankoforce synthetic riser tethers to Dialog for the Layang field development in Malaysia. The three riser tethers use Dyneema DM 20, a high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) rope, for permanent subsea anchoring of flexible risers
The Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE) has published an environmental report for the first quarter of 2018 providing a summary of monitoring and data analysis collected in the Bay of Fundy.
The deployment of 1,600MW of offshore wind is estimated to generate a total economic impact of between USD 1.4 billion to USD 2.1 billion in Massachusetts, according to a report by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).
Ocean Floor Geophysics (OFG), in cooperation with Fukada Salvage and Marine Works (Fukada), has completed a third high resolution controlled source elctromagnetic (CSEM) survey of near surface gas hydrates in Japanese waters for the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (A
Aker Solutions has seen its profit go up by some 70 per cent as it generated net income of NOK 105 million, or NOK 0.31 in the first-quarter 2018, versus net income of NOK 62 million, or NOK 0.23 same time last year. The Norwegian services company generated revenue of NOK 5.5 billion ($688 million),
UK-based Aura, an initiative of the University of Hull, has secured a GBP 4 million funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to build the Aura Innovation Centre (AIC) and provide a support program for Humber-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the offshore wind and l