Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has inspected the integrity and barrier management of flexible risers and associated safety equipment at Statoil-operated Visund field. The objective of the activity was to follow up on issues linked to flexible risers detected, notably, during investigation o
Tidal Energy Today has compiled the top news from tidal and wave energy industry from November 13 – 19, 2017.
Marine Energy Research and Innovation Center of Chile (MERIC) and the University of Magallanes (UMAG) have presented a roadmap for the development of marine renewable energy (MRE) sector in the Magallanes region.
Premier Oil-operated Catcher project has remained on schedule for first oil during December. Following the arrival of the FPSO on October 18, the production buoy was successfully pulled into the hull, the company said. In the subsequent period the full hook-up process has been essentially finished w
Ditrel Industrial has completed the survivabiltiy trials of its electric subsea connector Konekta2 at the Biscay Marine Energy Platform (Bimep).
Polarcus has secured industry prefunding for a seismic survey offshore Australia. The prefunding is for the ‘Zenaide’ multi-client broadband 3D marine seismic project in the Bonaparte Basin, Polarcus informed. According to the activity plan given to National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environment
Rosneft as a member of Sakhalin-1 Consortium has completed drilling of the world’s longest well from Orlan platform at Chaivo field in the Sea of Okhotsk. The length of the well with horizontal completion is 15000 meters, which currently is a world record. This is a supercomplex well with DDI (Direc
The government of Canada has provided funding for the establishment of the Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) to help develop and commercialize marine renewable energy technologies.
Bombora Wave Power has raised a multimillion-dollar investment to support the construction of its first commercial-sized mWave wave energy device.
The introduction of innovations in the offshore wind operations and maintenance segment (O&M) is a constant balancing act and the companies must always have their finger on the trigger and evaluate every day when to pull it, Bent Thambo Jensen, Chief Commercial Officer of ZITON, said.
UK-based subsea engineering specialist Soil Machine Dynamics Ltd (SMD) has completed first stage testing in a pioneering project which is set to uncover valuable European mineral resources. SMD is technical lead on the VAMOS (viable alternative mine operating system) project, a 42-month internationa
Subsea Technology & Rentals (STR) has formed strategic partnership with SENSYS to boost its UXO detection services for the offshore energy sector.
International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) have opened the sixth round of funding for renewable energy projects in developing countries.
GE has said it is evaluating exit options on Baker Hughes just four months after the merger of its oil and gas business with the Houston-based oilfield services company. The merger of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes (BHGE) became effective on July 3 this year with aim to be the first and only [&helli
