Houlder’s TAS (Turbine Access System) has taken a step closer to meeting operator requirements by completing a trial period within the Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme on the Vattenfall’s Thanet Offshore Wind Farm, Kent. The system has been installed on CWind’s Coastal Knight
IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA and OCEANTEC held a demonstration on the results of the UHINDAR project, a flagship R&D initiative to create a generation system for harnessing energy from waves. The presentation on this €8.5 million project included a comprehensive demonstration on the functioning of the new w
LORC is going to hold a two-day celebration in honour of opening a facility for the world’s most advanced and realistic testing of nacelles. The event will be held on 10th and 11th of September. The first day of this event comprises VIP Conference Advanced Testing of Nacelles. Independent Reliabilit
Dorchester based, Tritex NDT have launched their new Multigauge 5700 Datalogger Metal Thickness Gauge, used for measuring metal thickness and monitoring corrosion levels in the offshore industry. The new gauge, has all the advantages of the very popular Multigauge 5600 but with the added benefit of
German offshore grid connection BorWin 1 faced several technical faults over the past months, which resulted with unplanned shutdowns of the network connection. To determine the exact cause of the issues, German transmission system operator TenneT said that it is working closely with the contractor
Most mechanical constructions that are 14 meters long, 8 meters tall and weigh 78 metric tons are not described as fast or flexible. Especially when the thing it lifts is 75 meters long and weighs 25 metric tons. Then again, the new B75 lifting yoke from the Siemens Wind Power Division is no average
Core Grouting Services, an Acteon company, has successfully commissioned a new high volume, high strength grout mixing and pumping unit. The equipment is specifically designed for mixing and pumping high strength grout with a compressive strength of >100 MPa. These grouts are used in offshore founda
Okayama University’s Shinji Hiejima is looking for industrial partners to commercialize his experimentally proven and patented concept of the Hydro-VENUS system for converting tidal energy into electrical power. Research on converting tidal energy into electricity energy has a long history with the
Nova Scotia’s Minister of Energy and Minister of Communications, Andrew Younger today visited Siemens’ SeaGen tidal energy turbine at Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. Siemens-owned Marine Current Turbines (MCT) is pushing ahead with even more ambitious innovation in Canada with the SeaGen-F float
Merseyside marine firm SeaKing Electrical is spearheading an international export drive after signing a strategic partnership with a Spanish shipyard. The Birkenhead business, which has an £11million turnover, is globally renowned for its marine electrical engineering services. SeaKing Electrical ma
Cofely Fabricom GDF SUEZ is marking its 40th anniversary by moving its headquarters to North East Lincolnshire’s flagship business park, Europarc. The company is bringing together its corporate and engineering operations under one roof to further enhance its service to clients, which include some of
Coastal Marine Eyemouth Ltd., UK and TBS Yard AB, Sweden have signed a Licence and Co-operation Agreement under which Coastal Marine will build the new CarbCAT® 25 in the United Kingdom for UK and other customers. The CarbCAT® 25 is a state-of-the-art wind farm support vessel built in carbon fibre f
After a year of engineering, constructing and testing of equipment, Surveyor Interceptor is taking form at Kystdesign AS. The Surveyor Interceptor is a specialised fast underwater survey platform, capable of 8 knots while recording highest resolution Bathymetry, Lidar and High Resolution Photo Mosai
Nautricity Ltd. and Fundy Tidal Inc. have signed an MoU to develop a 500kW tidal project in Nova Scotia, Canada’s Petit Passage. Nautricity is completing system testing of its CoRMaT and Hydro-buoy technologies at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. The proje
