RRS Discovery is currently sailing to remote waters beyond the southeast tip of Chile. This is part of a NOC-led project to understand how the Southern Ocean takes up and stores carbon from the atmosphere. The CUSTARD (Carbon Uptake and Seasonal Traits in Remineralisation Depth) project will focus o
Chinese wind turbine maker Goldwind has launched three newly-developed smart offshore wind turbines including a model with a capacity of 8MW, and a model with the largest rotor diameter in the world.
The U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium has launched its first roadmap aimed at accelerating the development of the offshore wind industry in the United States.
McDermott has been awarded a contract for concept and engineering services by Talos Energy for the Zama field development project offshore Mexico. The contract award is for engineering services, including concept selection and follow-on pre-FEED. McDermott will execute this contract award with io oi
Offshore robotics company FORSSEA ROBOTICS has chosen GMS as main technical partner to certify its real-time visual positioning technologies. A joint laboratory will be created to develop a common offer covering camera calibration, subsea image treatment and innovative photogrammetry solutions. FORS
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE) has appointed an international lawyer and consultant Dan Slone to its advisory board.
Orbital Marine Power’s pioneering engineering work was recognized not once but twice at the Institution of Engineering and Technology annual achievements awards in London last night.
The EU-funded DTOceanPlus project has in the first six months since its launch produced three deliverables that have been openly shared with the marine energy sector.
Development agency, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has introduced a new ‘vision’ for an international, multi-use, offshore test and demonstration campus in Loch Linnhe. The move follows the closure of The Underwater Centre in Fort William, which entered administration last month. The facilit
The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) will fund the development of a lightweight, more efficient wind turbine drivetrain system that can help boost offshore wind turbine outputs to beyond 10MW.
In a talk show held as part of Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2018, Daniel Buhagiar, senior researcher in a team developing energy storage system tailored for marine renewables, spoke about the importance of patent protection for building strong collaborations within the offshore energy ind
Downhole sensing technology specialist, Well-SENSE, has launched its latest FiberLine Intervention (FLI) development, ‘Active FLI’. Active FLI builds on the capability of Well-SENSE’s new fiber optic downhole data acquisition system with the addition of a range of discrete measurement devices, the c
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has developed a ‘concept for industry’, outlining vision for the new multi-use offshore test and demonstration campus in Loch Linnhe, in west Scotland.
A new third party verification service dubbed 360 TPV – specifically aimed at the marine and offshore renewables market – has been launched by Orcades Marine Management Consultants with partners Aquatera and Dynamic Systems Analysis.
