Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mrs. Laureen Harper and key government representatives gathered dockside with UVic President Jamie Cassels and Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) President Kate Moran to view firsthand the latest instrumentation that showcases Canadian science and technology in the Arctic. On
DeepFlight announced that it will introduce an entirely new type of personal submarine at the 2014 Monaco Yacht Show. The DeepFlight Dragon is the most compact, lightweight personal submarine on the market, and is so intuitive to use that clients self-pilot the craft with minimal instruction. DeepFl
Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited hosted former Japanese Prime Minister Mr Naoto Kan at its Fremantle Wave Energy Research Facility. Japan has the potential to host a significant capacity of wave power projects, with approximately 34,000km of coastline and a wave energy resource cap
Otto Marine Limited, a leading offshore marine company which owns and operates a large fleet of offshore support vessels and offers specialized offshore services, is currently exploring available strategic options to facilitate the expansion of its subsea operations business. UOB Kay Hian Holdings L
International oilfield services company, Expro, plans to open a major new base in Tananger, Norway in summer 2015. The 19,000 sqm facility will consolidate the company’s three current Stavanger area locations and house Expro’s Well Testing and Drill Stem Testing product lines currently operating in
After Japan’s 50 nuclear reactors closed following the Fukushima disaster, wind is now seen as an important alternative energy source. But in a crowded and mountainous country the search for sites must go offshore, with floating turbines the main option in the deep waters off the rugged coastline. I
It is at the southernmost tip of Japan that the Ministry of the Environment is trialling a turbine to determine the viability of floating wind turbines, in a bid to help replace the 30% of energy lost since the nuclear shut-down. Sure-footed anchorage to the seabed is vital in such a vulnerable envi
Leading energy services company Proserv announced that it will present a series of global workshops to demonstrate Proserv’s Artemis 2G (A2G), its next generation subsea electronics module for control and monitoring communications as a result of a successful event held in Houston. Workshops are to b
Marine Ecological Surveys Ltd (MESL) has been appointed to undertake regional seabed monitoring, consisting of over 2,500 samples, on behalf of eight marine aggregate operators with licensed interests in the southern North Sea through a contract being coordinated by the British Marine Aggregate Prod
A barge anchored to the seabed during the peak of a spring flood tide represents another milestone at Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy (FORCE). This is the first time a barge has been moored to the seabed at the FORCE site. The barge trials took place during peak flows of a spring tide, making
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has successfully developed and tested a 525 kilovolt (kV) extruded high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cable system to make renewable energy installations more efficient and cost-effective. The new cable offers a 64 percent increase over 320 kV,
RenewableUK is today hailing the announcement that funding has been secured to build the first phase of the world’s largest tidal energy array in the Pentland Firth region in North Scotland. The MeyGen project has a capacity of up to 398MW and will provide clean electricity for 175,000 homes and 100
A new desktop tool which will allow offshore renewable energy developers to assess the likely impacts of their projects on marine mammal populations has been developed by scientists at the University of St Andrews and SMRU Marine, a university spin-out company. The tool – known as the Interim PCOD (
Atlantis Resources, owner of the world’s largest planned tidal stream energy project, MeyGen, has agreed terms with a funding syndicate for a funding package for Phase 1A of the MeyGen project. Total project funding package, which is a combination of equity, debt and grant, will exceed £50m. Funding
