The second of two Damen Shoalbuster 3009 multi-purpose workboats for SMIT Amandla Marine has been named in a ceremony at Damen Shipyards Cape Town, South Africa. Named the Aogatoa, the vessel is the second of two shoalbusters 3009 ordered by SMIT Amandla Marine for the De Beers contract and built at
MeyGen project has been connected to the 33 kV Ness of Quoys distribution network following the installation of one of the longest underground 33 kV power export cables in the UK by the network operator, Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution (SHEPD).
Aker Arctic and CJSC Zavod Hydromekhanizatsii (Hydromec), a Russian company specialized in the design and construction of dredging vessels, are jointly developing an ice strengthened and winterized dredger that could be used for maintenance work in the Arctic. The companies signed a memorandum of un
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP is looking to extend the deadline for sale of Aquamarine Power’s assets by additional six months.
The proposed monitoring program for the Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE) and Cape Sharp Tidal has been approved by Nova Scotia Department of Environment.
One of the finalist teams competing for the Wave Energy Prize, Harvest Wave Energy, has performed preliminary wave tank testing of its 1:20 scale wave energy device.
The International Association of Dredging Companies’ (IADC) Seminar on Dredging and Land Reclamation will be held from Monday, 20 June, through Friday, 24 June, 2016 at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, the Netherlands. This five-day course strives to provide an understanding through lectures by experts in the fie
Norway-based engineering firm Nortek has provided Signature500 current profiling instrumentation to OpenHydro for its tidal energy projects.
Chilean Marine Energy Research and Innovation Center (MERIC) has been inaugurated last Friday, June 17, in the presence of the country’s Minister for Energy Maximo Pecho.
In preparation for the rainy season, the local government of San Fernando recently purchased an hydraulic backhoe excavator that will be used in dredging river channels surrounding the city. The equipment was inaugurated last Friday at the Mapalad Creek in Brgy. San Nicolas through the initiative of
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are developing a new wave energy conversion technology with better control of wave loads in an effort to decrease the cost of renewable energy.
Shoreline has made Balance of Plant (BoP) O&M modelling available within its MAINSYS™ tool, which includes foundations, inter array cabling, and substations. The tool allows choosing and placing BoP components and model failure, their service and associated cost, as well as defining interdependencie
Two more of the UK’s most technically advanced quay cranes were brought up the River Thames earlier this week. The cranes completed the long sea voyage from China on vessel Zhen Hua 10 via the Cape of Good Hope to arrive at DP World London Gateway Port, just 25 miles from Central London. When instal
French energy company Areva has agreed to waive existing contractual restrictions in Gamesa’s and Areva’s offshore wind joint venture, Adwen, simplifying the merger between Gamesa and Siemens, the binding agreement for which was signed on Friday, 17 June. As part of these agreements, Gamesa – in ali
