Fugro has begun a four-month marine site survey at Vattenfall’s two offshore wind developments in the UK. The results will feed into the ground model for the Norfolk Vanguard and Norfolk Boreas wind farms. The developments will have a total installed capacity of 3.6 GW, enough to power more than 3.9
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has issued a tender for the development of an integrated ground model for the 4 GW IJmuiden Ver wind farm zone. The objective of this tender is to conclude an agreement with a tenderer who is able to develop an Integrated Ground Model (IGM) and a Geotechnical
NIWA scientists are surveying seafloor in the waters around Whakaari/White Island in the Bay of Plenty. Mapped in 2005 and again in 2019, the area is known for its underwater vents and canyons. However, the eruption of Whakaari/White Island in December last year is likely to have significantly alter
Del Mar Oceanographic and RBR have partnered to provide Wirewalkers with RBR CTDs and sensors in Australia and New Zealand. The DMO Wirewalker, originally designed at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is a vertically profiling instrument platform powered by ocean waves. Attached to a free-driftin
French National Institute for Ocean Science Ifremer has selected subsea tech company iXblue to equip its new 6000-metre AUV. Specifically, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is part of Ifremer’s CORAL project. The AUV will have synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), Sams-150, a Phins C7 Inertial Navig
The increase in metal mining needed to address the transition to renewable energy is drawing increasing attention and has led to a proposal to identify critical minerals for energy security options and identify sourcing challenges. There is an elemental strain between the need to scale up ocean-base
Trelleborg Group has appointed Fredrik Nilsson as new chief financial officer. He will assume the position during the first quarter of 2021. Nilsson will succeed Ulf Berghult, who has decided to leave his position to take up work outside the group. Ulf will complete the 2020 year-end report before l
NKT has landed a €235-million contract from SSEN Transmission to deliver and install an interconnector to the Shetland HVDC Link project. The turnkey order comprises the manufacturing of approximately 2×260 kilometres of 320 kV high-voltage DC on-and-offshore power cables. It also includes installat
Energy regulator Ofgem has approved the 600MW HVDC subsea transmission link connecting Shetland to the Scottish mainland. The link, advanced by SSEN Transmission, will facilitate the connection of renewable electricity developments on Shetland. This includes SSE Renewables’ 443 MW Viking wind farm w
Ningbo Orient Cable (NBO) has completed the installation of the export cable at the China Three Gorges New Energy (CTGNE) Yangjiang Shapa Phase 1 offshore wind project. According to NBO, the installation of two 220kV export cables was finished after 14 months and now the offshore engineering team is
WFS Technologies, a provider of internet-enabled wireless devices capable of operating in deep subsea conditions, has been acquired by GKFF EnNovo, following the appointment of KPMG as its administrators. Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of KPMG were appointed joint administrators of WFS on Thursd
As it plans to merge with its compatriot Kværner, Aker Solutions also intends to spin off its wind development business as well as the carbon capture technology business. The move should see two separate companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. “Aker Solutions has developed technology and taken
Norwegian firms Aker Solutions and Kværner have entered into a merger plan to create an optimized supplier company. The consolidation will take the form of a statutory merger whereby Aker Solutions will absorb Kværner, in accordance with the Norwegian Public Limited Liability Companies Act. Kjetel D
Equinor has selected Optime’s Hydraulic Pump for its future All-Electric initiative. All-Electric solutions are attractive in subsea systems for enabling cost effective and standardised field developments. In traditional systems, hydraulic valves and equipment on the seabed is supplied and controlle
