The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to publish a call for tenders for geotechnical investigations at the Nederwiek Wind Farm Zone sites II and III in March 2023. The contract will be divided into two lots. Lot 1 will comprise executing an offshore seabed campaign, including seabed cone pen
Supergen ORE Hub and the University of Edinburgh’s Policy and Innovation Group have released a study that quantifies the potential power system benefits that the Great Britain stands to gain through wave energy and tidal stream deployments.
Greensea Systems, marine robotics technology specialist, and SeeByte, a provider of software solutions to uncrewed systems, have joined forces to accelerate the adoption of subsea robotic systems in the commercial marine sphere, including the offshore energy industry.
Dutch company SeaQurrent has conducted first tests on its TidalKite tidal energy device as it prepares for upcoming deployment offshore the Netherlands.
Abu Dhabi Chemicals Derivatives Company (TA’ZIZ) has teamed up with global methanol producer Proman AG to develop the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first world-scale methanol production facility. The parties have signed a shareholders agreement to develop the facility with an anticipated annual capaci
Carnegie Clean Energy and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have extended their collaboration agreement and will continue to work together on innovations in the wave energy sector for another two years.
Swedish green electrofuel developer Liquid Wind has revealed its plan to establish the country’s third electrofuel facility for the maritime sector, following similar FlahshipONE and FlagshipTWO projects. For this purpose, Liquid Wind, in partnership with Umeå Energi, carried out a feasibility study
The world’s business and political leaders gathered this week for the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos to discuss global challenges and the way forward. The topic of the weeklong event is ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’, highlighting the need to work together to overcome the perfect
Netherlands-headquartered Fugro has revealed plans to carry out a remotely operated autonomous offshore wind farm inspection, said to be an industry first. Fugro will use its Blue Essence uncrewed surface vessel (USV) equipped with the Blue Volta fully electric remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to con
The last major pieces of the contract to build the wave energy test site PacWave South have been executed, paving the way for the completion of the Oregon State University-led facility off the coast of Newport in Oregon.
The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has been awarded a site-wide section 36 consent at its grid-connected Billia Croo wave test site off the west coast of Orkney in Scotland.
Japan’s IHI Corporation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gentari Hydrogen, a clean energy solutions entity wholly-owned by PETRONAS, to evaluate the feasibility of leveraging solar resources of Malaysia to produce and sell green ammonia derived from renewables. Under the MoU, IHI
Japanese shipping heavyweight Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K LINE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kansai Electric Power Co. (KEPCO) on the joint study of shipping liquefied CO2 in the context of developing a carbon dioxide capture and storage value chain. The two companies will st
The €10 million MAXBlade project has officially kicked off with an aim to deliver a range of innovations to improve the performance and reduce costs of Orbital Marine Power’s tidal turbines.
