The US Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) has awarded new research and development project funding for marine energy technologies. The selected small businesses are receiving Phase I Release 2 grants for innovations that demonstrate technical feasibility during the first phase of their research.
Scottish engineering firm Malin Group has called on the UK and Scottish governments to create “crucial connections” which will determine the commercial future of wave and tidal stream energy. The call comes after two decades in which government incentives have failed to produce commercially viable p
Teledyne has appinted CR Encapsulation as its official distributor for Teledyne Impulse-PDM. This includes Teledyne Impulse & Teledyne Impulse-PDM, products & connectors. The agreement includes electrical and optical interconnection systems & dry mateable, wet mateable and underwater mateable connec
Rovco has recently purchased a Saab Seaeye Leopard remotely operated vehicle, expanding its subsea capability and capacity. Rovco’s purchase of the Seaeye Leopard is the latest investment in its asset pool, which strategically increases the capability to serve a growing number of customers. Rovco ai
Swedish wave energy developer Waves4Power will install its WaveEL system at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in 2021. The company has secured EU Interreg Ocean Demo grant, giving it access to EMEC’s power-connected test berths for three years. The grant also allows Waves4Power to deliver and
The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) believes that the potential of eliminating paper from trade and digitising bills of lading might be sped up in the post-COVID-19 reality. As explained, despite the enormous potential in savings of time and money, the promise of an electronic bill of
The Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program will begin accepting applications for testing and expertise support on 26 May. Announced by the US DOE last year, TEAMER’s mission is to accelerate the viability of marine renewables. It provides access facilities and exper
Guardian Geomatics has secured a cable route survey contract by Sun Cable for the Australia-ASEAN Power Link. The cable will supply electricity to Darwin, Singapore and Indonesia from a solar and battery storage farm, laid out in the Northern Territory. Singapore and Indonesia will be supplied via a
Okeanus has delivered one of its all-electric umbilical winches to SEAMOR Marine. SEAMOR has utilised the winch on one of its Chinook ROV systems. The package then went to Panama for tunnel inspections of two hydroelectric projects on the Old Chiriqui River. Okeanus DT-305AEHR winch is capable of ho
The development of the zero-emission ships will require continuous technological innovation to get the industry to its ultimate objective of decarbonizing shipping. As such, the path toward a green future will not be unified as the industry would have to rethink the ways it has been building ships s
UK-based Soil Machine Dynamics (SMD) recently delivered a purpose built pre-lay plough to marine service providers Boskalis. Boskalis will utilise the plough at Ørsted’s offshore wind farm Hornsea Two to install 380 kilometres of export cables. The pre lay plough, named Megalodon by Boskalis, will b
Maritime Developments (MDL) has executed transpooling of 64 kilometres of MEG coiled tubing for subsea contractors Ocean Installer and DeepOcean. The operation consisted of transpooling MEG injection lines from 28 Tenaris transportation reels onto seven offshore installation reels. MDL project manag
NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM) and Quantum Spatial, Inc have developed a new tool that will reduce dredging impacts to essential fish habitat. The team developed a cutting-edge decision-support tool, ShoalMATE, to guide wise use and dre
Using their decades of experience in the oil and gas sector, three majors are moving forward with a project which will enable the transport of carbon dioxide captured from industrial sites in Norway and its storage in a reservoir below the seabed in the North Sea off Norway.
