Nortek has opened a new office in Melbourne, Australia, to facilitate access to Doppler instrumentation for researchers and engineers in Australia and New Zealand. This is the company’s first office in the region, creating a strong local point of contact for sales and support, Nortek said. The Port
OceanBased has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Florida Atlantic University’s Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center (SNMREC) to assist the company to develop commercial ocean current energy project. The goal of the project, which plans to focus on an area off the southeast coast
Wood has secured a new contract with Chevron Australia to provide subsea integration and flow assurance front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Jansz-lo compression project offshore Western Australia. Effective immediately, the one-year contract will be delivered locally by Wood’s team
A new GBP 4 million cross-sector project is set to develop the world’s first fully autonomous robotic inspection and repair solution for offshore wind farms. The Innovate UK-funded MIMRee (Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environments) is a two-year project bringing in ex
China’s research vessel KEXUE has started a 20-day long survey over a series of seamounts in the south of the Mariana Trench. According to Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the vessel will explore four seamounts in the area. The vessel’s Discovery remote operated vehicle (ROV) already dived into th
ABB has won a contract from Arctic Offshore Farming to power its first-ever remote controlled submersible offshore salmon farm in the Arctic Ocean. ABB will provide a comprehensive package of its electrical, automation, instrumentation and telecom technologies. With the global market volume of salmo
The Green Maritime Methanol consortium has selected nine ships for research on the application of renewable methanol as a marine fuel. New designs, newbuildings as well as existing ships of Boskalis, Van Oord, the Royal Netherlands Navy and Wagenborg Shipping were selected. The vessel sizes vary in
Universal Foundation has begun industrialized suction bucket installation tests under a project that is part of the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP). Universal Foundation is carrying out the EUDP project in a consortium with Siemens Gamesa, Aalborg University, Fred. Ols
This October, three energy industry and research associations will come together to host “energy3, Canada’s Energy Conference.” energy3 is being developed and hosted through a partnership between Marine Renewables Canada (MRC), The Maritimes Energy Association (MEA), and the Offshore Energy Research
The ProtoAtlantic project has selected 10 international start-ups to test their maritime technologies at a number of test facilities as part of the Fast Tracked Product Development phase of the project, which is being led by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), in Orkney. The successful project
Atlantis Subsea Farming has for the first time deployed fish in its submersible pen and now the project is following the life of the fish in the deep. Atlantis Subsea Farming AS is owned by SinkabergHansen, AKVA group and Egersund Net, and in March last year the company was awarded a development lic
The expansion of Test Centre Østerild in Denmark has now reached the point when it is possible for the manufacturers to start casting the foundations on the two new test stands, according to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Last year, the Danish government decided to expand the Test Center
Aquaterra Energy has expanded its presence in the Australasia region with the opening of its first engineering office and warehouse facility in Perth, following recent regional contract wins. The office will support regional oil and gas projects to increase efficiencies and reduce costs through its
The U.S. National Offshore Wind R&D Consortium is inviting proposals to fund projects that support offshore wind innovation for the local market. This Program Opportunity Notice (PON) seeks to develop and demonstrate technology innovations that will reduce the levelized cost of electricity (LCoE) fo
