UK’s technology innovation and research centre Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has appointed Alex Smith, Group financial controller, risk and insurance manager of Forth Ports, to its Board. Chairman, Colin Hood, said: “Alex brings extensive financial experience having worked in a variety of
Seabased Group and the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult will collaborate on designing a software tool to accurately simulate the performance of the Seabased system in different wave environments The tool should allow the Norwegian-based company to optimise its turnkey wave parks for particul
Oceans of Energy has doubled the capacity of its first offshore floating solar farm in the Dutch North Sea. The Dutch company, which installed its first modules in November last year to put them through the winter storms, has now set up 56 solar panels with a total capacity of 17 kilowatts. Accordin
Subsea Integration Alliance (Subsea 7 and OneSubsea) has won of an exclusive contract from Equinor for the front end engineering design (FEED) study on its Bacalhau (formerly Carcará) project, offshore Brazil. The Bacalhau field is located 185 kilometers from the coast of the State of São Paulo, in
UK-based Seiche Environmental has strengthened its team with three key appointments within the business. Amanda Hyam, formerly Marine Wildlife Advisory and Ancillary Services Manager at GeoGuide Consultants, joins the business as associate director to enhance the team’s expertise operating in the oi
Aquaterra Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oceaneering International to offer complete decommissioning and late life solution packages to the North Sea oil and gas industry. Under the MoU, the companies will offer tooling and services in four distinct areas: platform well a
SBSCL is deploying “3A”, high capacity, LOOP system 3rd generation submarine cable between Bilbao, Spain to Hong Kong. It contains four high capacity branch and nth number of local branches. Ownership structure of the cable is joint venture of Business Lab Ltd. SPARKbANGLA Technologies Ltd and Elham
Valeport has pledged its support to a campaign to protect the ‘underwater rainforest’ which is under threat off Tor Bay, on the South West Coast of the UK. The hydrographic and oceanographic instrument manufacturer will partner with a UK coastal zoo and aquarium to help protect seagrass, a plant tha
Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) has awarded seven UK companies with a total of GPB 364,000 in grant funding through its first funding competition. Cedeco, Global Energy Group, Magnomatics, and W3G Marine were successful in the call to drive cost reduction from advanced manufacturing techniqu
Marine energy developer Eco Wave Power has taken the next step towards commercialization of its wave energy technology by finalizing the assembly of the hydraulic energy conversion unit for its Jaffa Port project and entered the electrical assembly phase, to be executed by Siemens. The hydraulic con
Irish company DesignPro Renewables has completed the deployment and testing of its 60kW (DPR60) turbine at Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands, Scotland in conjunction with Leask Marine. The completely operational turbine and deployment system underwent a comprehensive series of tow testing to prove out
Damen has developed a new concept vessel – the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) 9020. According to Damen, the vessel features a stable platform with lots of accommodation, good station-keeping capability, low carbon emissions and lots of flexibility to add mission-specific tools. “We were approached by
James Fisher Marine Services (JFMS) has teamed up with Big Blue Ocean Cleanup, an international ocean conservation foundation helping to protect oceans and raises awareness about ocean pollution. The non-profit foundation coordinates an ambassador network of volunteers who proactively organise event
UK-based HTL has launched a bespoke hydraulic cutter for offshore industry market. In all industries where hazardous machinery and materials are present, safety is the optimum priority. Statistics show that 80% of errors which occur during manufacturing are due to human error. For this reason, many
