Researchers from five UK universities have received a GBP 4 million grant to deliver a human-robotics hybrid solution for the maintenance and operation of offshore wind farms. The consortium, the Holistic Operation and Maintenance for Energy from Offshore Wind Farms or HOME-Offshore, brings together
In the light of the upcoming deployment of a full-scale Laminaria wave energy device in the Scottish waters at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), we have talked with the CEO of the Belgian wave energy company behind the device, Steven Nauwelaerts.
Fair Head Tidal has lodged the planning application for permission to install tidal turbines and associated infrastructure on the seabed off County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
US-based wave energy developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has formed a strategic alliance with HAI Technologies to explore options in the oil & gas market.
Ezra Holdings has received a statutory demand from the solicitors of Forland Subsea for payment of a charter that is due and owing by EMAS-AMC AS for the vessel Lewek Inspector. According to Ezra who acts as the parent corporate guarantor for the charter party, a claim is for some S$4.4 million or N
University of Exeter is performing scale testing of the elastometric mooring ropes as part of the EU-funded OPERA wave energy project.
Siem Offshore Contractors has delivered the inter-array cable installation and post-lay burial campaign at the Veja Mate offshore wind farm in German North Sea ten weeks ahead of schedule. Cable installation started on October 1st 2016 and since then Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) installed 73 comp
In January 2017, Ocean Installer completed the very first permanent subsea installation at the Johan Sverdrup field, marking the kick off of the Johan Sverdrup offshore work. The offshore campaign involved the installation of a subsea template for water injection. The template weighed 290 ton and wa
Subsea World News team met with some of the industry players during Subsea Expo 2017 – Europe’s largest subsea focused exhibition and conference. On the day two of the event, held at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, we set up an interview with Sandy Harper, managing director of Aberdee
Oil company Eni Norge has resumed production from the Goliat field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. The output from the field was stopped in December after a routine inspection of the offloading hose found some damage on segments of the hose. According to the company’s spokesperson the production
Swedish wave energy developer Waves4Power is looking to redeploy its WaveEL wave energy device off Norway in April this year.
SeaRoc Group has provided what the company calls ”a unique communications and logistic data solution” for DONG Energy Wind Power, with its first deployment on the UK-based Race Bank offshore wind farm.
Solstad Offshore, Farstad Shipping and Deep Sea Supply will combine to create a new OSV company following completion of the Farstad restructuring, which has been agreed by Aker, Hemen, Ocean Yeild and Farstad’s senior lenders. Deep Sea Supply and Farstad Shipping will merge into and be established a
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (January 30– February 05). The Houston-based offshore EPCI player, Mcdermott, has reportedly struck a deal to acquire the pipelay and construction vessel Ceona Amazon, previously owned by the SURF cont
