Sustainable Marine Energy and a team of academics headed by Dr Florent Trarieux, Lecturer in Offshore Engineering at Cranfield University have recently completed a 12 month project developing an innovative deployment platform, PLAT-O, that substantially reduces the cost and risks associated with dep
Tidal Lagoon Power Ltd (TLP) took a major step towards realising one of the UK’s most game-changing infrastructure projects: the world’s first tidal lagoon power plant. After three years of feasibility work and impact assessments, TLP submitted its application1 – which runs to 5000 pages – for a Dev
The pollutants measured in the sediments of Guánica Bay, Puerto Rico, in a new NOAA study were among the highest concentrations of PCBs, chlordane, chromium and nickel ever measured in the history of NOAA’s National Status & Trends, a nationwide contaminant monitoring program that began in 1986. Res
The Gazprom headquarters hosted a meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Matthias Warnig, Managing Director of Nord Stream AG. The parties addressed the possibility of building up capacities of the Nord Stream gas transmission system via the Baltic Sea by c
After being announced as imminent on several occasions in 2013, the construction of the floating wind turbine prototype Winflo has still not commenced. For this reason, DCNS and Nass & Wind have decided to reconsider the project. Initially, the developers were planning to deploy a small-scale demons
After being announced as imminent on several occasions in 2013, the construction of the floating wind turbine prototype Winflo has still not commenced. For this reason, DCNS and Nass & Wind have decided to reconsider the project. Initially, the developers were planning to deploy a small-scale demons
Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Ravil Maganov, First Executive Vice President of LUKOIL signed a Cooperation Agreement on prevention of and response to emergencies caused by oil and petroleum product spills in the locations of the companies’ offshore faciliti
Crowd Energy, having completed construction and successful testing of its first generation prototype of the Ocean Energy Turbine, will launch a major Kickstarter campaign in March 2014 to construct a second generation turbine and move the project to (SNMREC) Southeast National Marine Renewable Energ
Innovative employees in DONG Energy’s wind business have found a new communication tool that makes it possible to communicate on offshore sites before cables have been uncoiled, and telecommunication poles have been installed. The solution is a small portable 10-foot container containing communicati
Aberdeen-headquartered Hydro Group Plc, specialists in design, engineering and manufacturing of underwater cables and connectors for subsea, underwater, topside and onshore applications, announced securing strategic contracts worth more than £2million over the last quarter. The contracts mean the Gr
Global wind power capacity has reached a total of 318,137 MW, Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) informed in its market statistics released today. Even though this marks an increase of nearly 200,000 MW in the past five years, the annual market dropped by almost 10 GW to 35,467 MW. According to GWEC,
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “HVDC Transmission Market – Forecasts to 2018” report to their offering. The ever increasing demand of energy, with long distance between generation and consumption centers, is poised to change the nature of transmission and distribution. Ironic
TÜV SÜD PMSS will play a key role in reducing uncertainty for ornithological impact assessment in wind farm development. TÜV SÜD PMSS’s Kit Hawkins has been invited by the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) to be a member of the Steering Group for a Natural Environment Research Council (N
GE Oil & Gas has invested £4m into its subsea manufacturing facility in Aberdeen, Scotland, leading to the creation of 20 new jobs across 2014. This follows the recruitment of 30 new employees at the site last year, with the investment also expected to contribute to an increase in output, allowing t
