Kvaerner establishes an engineering office in Trondheim. The establishment will increase Kvaerner’s capacity and competence to meet the future activities, and it is part of the company’s jacket strategy in the oil and gas industry. Being close to the technology and research communities in the city a
BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, environmental and engineering consultancy, will showcase its portfolio of offshore support services on Stand I120 at the Oceanology International conference taking place in London this month. BMT’s knowledge and expertise provides a fully int
E.ON will host public consultations in Albourne seeking views on their proposed wind farm located 13km off the Sussex coast. Wind turbines would be installed in water depths of 19 to 50 meters, covering area of 167 square kilometers. Construction and operation of this wind farm is 100% owned by E.ON
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held its first offshore renewable energy task force meeting with the state of Hawaii yesterday. This inter-governmental task force was established to facilitate communication between BOEM and state, local, Native Hawaiian and federal stakeholders concerning rene
Amid great public attention, the new DP2 jack-up vessel ‘Neptune’ was named today at the port of Ostend by Mrs Isabel Casteleyn, partner of Federal State Secretary for Energy and the Environment Melchior Wathelet. This self-propelled jack-up vessel was built by IHC Merwede for GeoSea N.V., the offsh
Tees Valley Unlimited, the local enterprise partnership for Tees Valley has further demonstrated its commitment to the green economy with the appointment of a Low Carbon Officer. Steven Pugh joins TVU’s Business Investment Team which in the last three years alone has secured over £750 million of new
Second Wind, a leading provider of wind measurement technology, software and services, today announced the introduction of a suite of wind farm operations services based on the company’s Triton® Sonic Wind Profiler and SkyServe® Wind Data Service. Triton, a remote sensing system using sodar technolo
GMS Endeavour has installed her 22nd wind turbine while contracted to Scira Offshore Energy Limited. Last year in July, GMS has kicked off the installation at Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm. Gulf Marine Services owns and operates Self Propelled Elevated Support Barges and AHTS vessels. These as
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier AS, which is indirectly owned 50/50 by Bonheur ASA and Ganger Rolf ASA, has today declared options at Båtservice Holding AS for the construction of three crewboats for transport of service technicians to and from offshore wind turbine installations. The mentioned options are
“2011 was a difficult year, but one that was decisive for EnBW in terms of the new energy concept. With the commissioning of Germany’s first commercial offshore wind farm, the official commissioning of the new hydro-electric power station in Rheinfelden, the completion of the highest wind turbine in
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has decided to reduce the size of its Wind Energy Area by 20 percent for the purpose of decreasing possible negative impacts on important fishing grounds. That area covers around 165,000 acres of federal water between Block Island and Martha’s Vineyard. Deepwate
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around $15 million from E.ON UK, to supply the power export cables for the Humber Gateway offshore wind farm. ABB will design and supply 2×14 kilometer (km) circuits of 132 kilovolts (kV) three-core AC submarine cable, wi
Verdant Power, a private company which is going to realize its first tidal project in New York City’s East River, has raised $530,000 investment. On January 23, 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a pilot commercial license to Verdant Power’s RITE Project and it accounts for
Ocean Renewable Power Co., a Maine-based tidal energy company, is going to install its first grid-connected power unit in mid-March at a 60-acre site in Cobscook Bay, reports The Huffington Post. Chris Sauer, president and chief executive officer of the Portland-based company, explained that the fir
