Forum Energy Technologies, (FET) announced today the opening of a purpose built facility specifically designed to support a wide range of remote operated vehicles and other subsea equipment. This state of the art building will be used for integration and factory acceptance testing, customer training
AGR Field Operations has developed and delivered two subsea engineering training courses for PETRONAS Management Training Sdn Bhd, the management and technical training subsidiary of Malaysia’s national oil company Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS). Held during June and July 2011, these courses a
Deepwater Wind has applied to federal authorities to build the largest proposed offshore-wind farm in the United States, a 200-turbine project in Rhode Island Sound. Energy Center, replaces a 350-megawatt, 100-turbine proposal that was put forward by the Providence-based company two years ago. Under
Three Costa de la Luz mayors have united to oppose a wind farm scheme a few kilometres offshore. By Wendy Williams (theolivepress) [mappress] Source: theolivepress, August 07, 2011
Seatronics, an Acteon company announces the addition of a full suite of quality underwater sonar survey equipment recently purchased from EdgeTech. As a world leading supplier of electronic subsea equipment to the Hydrographic, Environmental, Geophysical, Metocean, ROV and Diving industries this rec
China’s deep-diving manned submarine, the Jiaolong, has completed its five dive tests and will return to shore on Aug. 17 and Aug. 18… (peopledaily) [mappress] Source: peopledaily, August 05, 2011;
Dr. Philipp Rösler, German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, visited Statkraft. Rösler and his delegation was especially interested in Norway’s potential role as a provider of flexibile power generation to support Germany’s growth in wind- and solar power generation. Following a visit to
Universal Engineering have completed and launched their new Subsea Systems Case Study Video to highlight the increasing market development t… (subseauk) [mappress] Source: subseauk, August 05, 2011;
E.ON, RWE and WindMW today presented their plans for the construction of a base for the maintenance and operation of their offshore wind farms planned in the German North Sea. The plans provide for the development of the southern port of Helgoland to create a service and operating station. To this e
Russia has been granted exploration rights for some of the world’s most potentially lucrative gold and copper fields on the Atlantic Ocean… (themoscownews) [mappress] Source: themoscownews, August 5, 2011;
China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited,a leading wind turbine manufacturer in China, announced that it signed a strategic cooperative agreement with China Three Gorges New Energy Corp. ,a fully-owned subsidiary of China Three Gorges Corporation to foster closer cooperation in both domestic and int
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has completed its detailed site evaluation and conceptual design study of a proposed 5MW CETO commercial demonstration project in Irish waters. The conceptual design and site project study was 50% funded by the Irish Government’s Sustainable Energy
The Irish-led Venture scientific expedition aboard the national research vessel RV Celtic Explorer has discovered a previously uncharted… (sciencedaily) [mappress] Source: sciencedaily, August 5, 2011;
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has completed its detailed site evaluation and conceptual design study of a proposed 5MW CETO commercial demonstration project in Irish waters. The conceptual design and site project study was 50% funded by the Irish Government’s Sustainable Energy
