The SeaRoc Group has completed a maintenance visit to the two Forewind meteorological masts, installed at the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm site in 2013. SeaRoc team of 9 personnel included an operations manager, rope access riggers and engineers to undertake inspections and scheduled maintenance o
Australia’s Total Marine Technology has been contracted to support the decommissioning of a Navigation Communication Control (NCC) Buoy at East Spar in the North West Shelf. TMT will provide ROV operated cutting equipment, hydraulic power equipment as well as making some custom tooling to complete t
HydroQuest, a French-based hydrokinetic turbines developer, has connected its river tidal turbine to the French electricity grid. HydroQuest’s river tidal 1.40 turbine has been deployed in the Loire river, Orleans, since the late 2014. After 10 months of operation in real conditions and measurements
The European Commission has granted the revised technical layout for the “Kriegers Flak – Combined Grid Solution” offshore interconnection, planned by the two transmission system operators Energinet.dk from Denmark and 50Hertz from Germany. The project will receive funding up to 150 million Euros fr
Nova Innovation, a UK-based tidal energy developer, has moved to the preparation and deployment of the offshore components for the Shetland Tidal Array project in Bluemull Sound, Scotland. According to Nova Innovation, all onshore works for the project have been completed in August. The assembly and
Subsea World News has put together a recap of the most interesting articles from the previous week (September 21 – September 27). Project Development International (PDi), part of Ceona, has secured more than £6 million in project awards in 2015 to date. In August 2012, Hammersmith-based SURF contrac
Tocardo Tidal Turbines, a Dutch-based tidal turbines producer, and Huisman, the designer of the turbine’s suspension structure, have completed the installation of an array consisting of 5 tidal turbines in the Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier, the Netherlands. According to Tocardo, the tidal powe
GE has reached an agreement with the UK export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) to access export financing for up to $12 Billion. This agreement will initially support both confirmed and potential orders in a number of international markets including Brazil, Ghana, India and Mozambique.As GE w
Statoil, the operator for the Johan Sverdrup development, has presented an updated capex estimate, for the first phase of the development, showing reduced capital expenditures as a result of positive market response in contracts and purchase orders. In the Plan for Development and Operations (PDO),
Jan De Nul Group and the offshore wind project Nobelwind signed the first offshore wind contract for Jan De Nul’s recently acquired offshore jack-up heavy lift vessel Vidar. It concerns the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of 51 monopile foundations for 50 wind turbines and fo
Founder and CTO of marine survey specialist MMT, Ola Oskarsson, will give a presentation on “3D visualization of subsea structures” at Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2015 on October 14 in Amsterdam. The Offshore Energy Conference is a platform for discussing key topics and solutions for the
Following completion of successful acceptance trials, the nation’s newest research vessel, the Neil Armstrong, was officially turned over by the U.S. Navy to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), which will operate the vessel as part of the national academic fleet. In May 2010, the Office
Atlantis has completed the laying of four subsea cables at the MeyGen site in northern Scotland. The four cables are housed in individual bore holes of approximately 0.5km in length each, drilled earlier this year, which run from the foreshore into the Inner Sound of the Pentland Firth and down to t
Atlantis has completed the laying of four subsea cables for the MeyGen tidal energy project located off Caithness, Scotland. The four cables are housed in individual bore holes of approximately 0.5 km each, drilled earlier this year, which run from the foreshore into the Inner Sound of the Pentland
