Two Andritz Hydro Hammerfest (AHH) tidal turbines have generated more than 100MWh of clean energy to the UK grid in less than one week after their redeployment at MeyGen site.
Ensco has been awarded three drillship contracts offshore West Africa, representing an aggregate three years of contracted term and more than six additional years of options. ENSCO DS-4 is expected to start a two-year contract with Chevron offshore Nigeria in August 2017. The contract also includes
An export pipeline for the Maersk Oil Culzean field in the UK North Sea has been laid by Subsea 7. According to Maersk Oil’s latest update, Culzean’s export pipeline has been laid safely and on time by Seven Borealis, the 182-meter pipelay and heavy lift vessel. Subsea 7 secured the subsea, umbilica
C-Job Naval Architects has unveiled an initial design of an offshore wind Operations & Maintenance (O&M) vessel capable of servicing the needs of next generation far offshore wind farms.
Oregon State University (OSU) researchers have conducted a study into the relation of sediment and animal life on the sea floor which could simplify the development of wave and wind renewable energy sites in the Pacific Northwest.
Vroon’s offshore support vessel VOS Start has become the first vessel to feature a new motion compensated gangway launched recently by Barge Master and Bosch Rexroth.
Trendsetter Engineering has completed live well operations with its new 15,000 psi subsea hydraulic intervention system (referred to as STIM). The STIM system, which had previously been utilized for subsea hydrate remediation work, has now completed seven subsea projects in the GOM since November 20
Nord Stream 2 contractor Wasco Coatings Germany has begun concrete weight coating pipes for the project in the port of Mukran on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. Up to 90,000 pipes will be coated by the end of 2018 at the location. Currently 39,000 pipes are already at a specially prepared storage ar
Yourbrook Energy Systems has deployed its tidal energy prototype for another set of trials off Haida Gwaii in Canadian Province of British Columbia.
Although Europe has experience and knowledge in O&M of offshore wind farms, the O&M strategies employed in Europe cannot be copied one-on-one in the U.S. or Asia, a recent study carried out by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows.
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind.
The founder of Ecotricity, Dale Vince, has called the UK government to ‘resist the pressure’ to grant support for the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon stating that the proposed project is too expensive.
Briggs Marine Contractors has bought a dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS) to boost its diving division’s capacity to deliver services for the marine sector.
Burntisland-based Briggs Marine Contractors has deployed a recently purchased dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS) on an offshore renewables project.
