Denmark-based Copenhagen Subsea has launched its new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) – Gorilla – as robust and reliable solution in challenging subsea environments. The Gorilla ROV is equipped with an intelligent dynamic positioning (DP) system and is based on Copenhagen Subsea’s rim-driven thruster
OceanGate has selected Toray Composite Materials America as the preferred provider of aerospace grade prepreg carbon fiber material for use in the manufacturing of a new carbon fiber pressure vessels for use in deep-sea manned submersibles. Toray Industries is the world’s largest supplier of carbon
By Eize de Vries Digitalization has become a key wind industry trend impacting all products and processes from design phase and manufacturing stages up to lifetime service upkeep and support. We spoke with ZF Wind Power experts in Antwerp about digitalization’s main principles and benefits for optim
Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has launched its Wind Digital Innovations Forum aimed at driving forward the digital transformation in the wind energy sector. The Forum, a joint initiative with the Digital Catapult, was launched in February and brings together owners/operators and asset man
Fife fabricators AJS Production has kicked off work on Mocean Energy’s Blue Star wave energy prototype, which is scheduled to be deployed in Orkney this autumn. The 20-metre-long device will undergo a number of sea trials before generating its first power. AJS managing director Raymond Imrie, said:
Eco Wave Power (EWPG Holding) has installed a new combined wave and solar system in the EWP grid connected wave energy power station in Gibraltar. Eco Wave Power integrated eight solar panels on the surface of its eight floaters, operational in Gibraltar. Each panel has the installed capacity of 330
Saipem and Equinor have signed a cooperation agreement to develop a floating solar panel park technological solution for near coastal applications. As reported earlier, the technology will be based on the in-house developed concept by Moss Maritime, part of Saipem’s XSIGHT division. It is a modulari
In the Romanian harbor of Galati, certain spots were in urgent need of maintenance dredging. For this dredging project, a Damen DOP dredge package was recently shipped to the site. The Port of Galati is located on the Danube river. Being the second largest port of Romania, the harbor needs regular d
After being fully assembled onshore, the scaled-down version of the BlueSATH floating wind turbine prototype has been lowered into water, Saitec Offshore Technologies said. The BlueSATH (Swinging Around Twin Hull) prototype is now ready to be transported to the installation site off Santander, Spain
Cambridge Pixel has supplied its RadarWatch and target tracking technology to an offshore wind farm in South Korea. The UK company supplied the RadarWatch coastal surveillance software, target tracking and radar recording technology to Klein Marine Systems, a subsidiary of Mitcham Industries, as par
Canada’s Northland Power has elected to permanently forego the installation of the Deutsche Bucht Mono Bucket Foundations Demonstrator Project. As reported earlier, the installation of the two turbines utilizing mono bucket foundations at the wind farm in the German North Sea was paused in the fourt
Damen Marine Components has won an order for three sets of steering and rudder systems for three dual-fueled trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHDs) currently being built at Keppel Offshore & Marine’s shipyard in Singapore for Van Oord. The vessels will be 138-meters in length and have a hopper cap
Australian company Wave Swell Energy (WSE) has said it is still on schedule to install a pilot-scale wave energy converter off the coast of King Island, Tasmania by the middle of 2020. According to the company, the main oscillating water column and the turbine for the King Island wave energy project
Global wave and tidal stream energy production has risen tenfold over the last decade, according to a report issued by Ocean Energy Systems (OES). Ocean Energy Systems (OES) annual report shows cumulative energy produced from wave and tidal stream sources surged from less than 5GWh in 2009 to 45GWh
