The European Commission (EC) has announced that it will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation funding scheme. The announcement comes following the yesterday’s adoption of the new 2016-2017 Horizon 2020 Work Pro
AXYS Technologies Inc will now sell its TRIAXYS Wave Buoy directly through its new European office in Belgium and sales office in France. As part of this new European Sales Campaign, the TRIAXYS Wave Buoy has been priced so that it is now the most competitive commercial wave buoy in the market at 30
AXYS Technologies Inc will now sell its TRIAXYS Wave Buoy directly through its new European office in Belgium and sales office in France. As part of this new European Sales Campaign, the TRIAXYS Wave Buoy has been priced so that it is now the most competitive commercial wave buoy in the market at 30
James Fisher and Sons announces the launch of James Fisher Subsea Excavation, the new trading name and brand of the MFE service provider worldwide. The launch follows an exciting period of growth and development in James Fisher’s MFE business over the last 15 months that started with the combination
Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has begun the delivery of a long term scope for cable management consultancy services to Wave Hub Ltd, based in Hayle, Cornwall. Under the contract OMM is expected to deliver cable consultancy services throughout the project lifecycle, from survey and reporting throu
Amsterdam is once again the place to be for the offshore professionals to discuss the industry’s future on 13-14 October. One of the fastest growing industry meetings, Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2015, is ready for another successful year with over 14 000 international professionals and
Technocampus Ocean, a centre for research dedicated to technological innovation in marine renewable energies and shipbuilding, will open its doors on October 15, 2015. According to Pays de la Loire, this joint platform will host numerous players from the marine sector, and is expected to boost colla
UK government has announced that Cammell Laird in Birkenhead has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a £200m polar research ship. The decision follows a 12-month competitive tender process that involved bids from companies in the UK, Europe and the Far East. The winning project will secur
Plans to grow the Manx economy by harnessing the Isle of Man’s natural resources to generate renewable energy have taken a significant step forwards. The Isle of Man Government has granted a survey licence to a local company to explore the possibility of developing a tidal array on an area of the se
TenneT has started investigating the soil along the export cable route of the planned wind farms in the Borssele zone off the coast of Walcheren. The condition of the soil and the identification of possible obstacles such as unexploded ordnance or shipwrecks is important in building an offshore grid
The Isle of Man government has granted a survey licence to Manx Tidal Energy to explore the possibility of developing a tidal array off the Point of Ayre. The seven-year agreement will enable Manx Tidal Energy to carry out preliminary work to determine the practicality and commercial viability of of
DEME Group’s GeoSea has concluded the trials of a jack-up vessel at Raz Blanchard, off France. According to DEME, the demonstrated utilisation of GeoSea’s jack-up platform under the extreme tidal conditions are the direct result and the practical implementation of a two year in-house study analysing
The Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, a non-profit organisation whose members are the world’s leading electricity companies, has published a report describing a high-tech enabled global energy mix that could help nations meet climate-related CO2 reduction pledges and the expanding demand f
Birds and seals have got GPS transmitters on them, and the birds are monitored with radar in preparation for the establishment of Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm. It is a requirement for large construction projects such as ports, bridges and wind farms, that they must not affect the nature signific
