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  • Saipem, Havfram to Gauge Offshore Wind Tie-Up

    30 May 2022
    Business & Finance

    Italy-headquartered offshore engineering and construction services provider, Saipem, and Norwegian offshore wind contractor Havfram will evaluate a potential collaboration in the offshore wind sector. The companies will assess the potential collaboration under a non-binding agreement signed between Saipem, Havfram Holding, and HVAS Invest Kappa, a holding company controlled by Havfram’s majority owner HitecVision. A final […]

  • Nervion Joins Dieppe Le Tréport Construction Team

    5 June 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Amper Group, through its subsidiary Nervion Naval Offshore, has been awarded a contract to construct and assemble wind turbine jacket components for the 496 MW Dieppe Le Tréport offshore wind farm in France. Nervion Naval Offshore’s scope of work involves the prefabrication of metallic components such as knots, and secondary steel, and the assembly of […]

  • Spain: ENERMAR Organises Workshop “The Ocean and the Renewable Energies”

    11 September 2012

    ENERMAR, the Working Group of Ocean Renewable Energies supported by the Spanish College and Association of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, organizes the third edition of its Technical Sessions ¨The Ocean and the Renewable Energies. The contribution of the Naval and Oceanic Engineering¨ at Barcelona (Spain), on September the 13th and 14th. The ocean renewable […]

  • LA NAVAL Shipyard: Spanish shipyard geared for future offshore wind projects

    16 October 2012

    Sestao-based LA NAVAL Shipyard has not been taken aback by the withdrawal of a newbuilding order by the financially troubled German offshore wind farm developer and shipowner BARD Engineering. It continues developing multipurpose vessels fit to assist installations of wind turbines. Relying on capacities and experience in meeting special requirements for jacking systems, huge capacity […]

  • New Floating Wind Partnership Targets Greece

    14 June 2023
    Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy

    Simply Blue Group and Archirodon, an international EPC contractor and RES developer, have established a new partnership branded ArcoBlue to explore floating offshore wind development opportunities in Greece. Simply Blue Group, an early-stage developer of floating offshore wind, currently has a pipeline of 10 GW of projects and is committed to creating new economic opportunities […]

  • Italian Shipbuilder to Take Majority Stake in STX France

    29 September 2017
    Business & Finance

    Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri will take over STX France, after Italian and French governments agreed on a shared ownership agreement on Wednesday, 27 September. 

  • C-Job and Glosten Sign MoU in US

    19 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    The Dutch C-Job Naval Architects and Seattle-based Glosten have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the United States with an aim of contributing to the offshore wind market.

  • UK: QinetiQ Works on Marine Platform Development

    4 January 2013

    QinetiQ GRC naval architects in combination with their Paramarine software are working with QED Naval Ltd in the development of a marine platform (Subhub) that can transport, install, anchor and maintain wave and tidal turbines through life. This will bring major cost and time advantages to tidal turbine field installations on the sea bed. QED […]

  • Perspectives from a graduate trainee

    21 August 2013

    Newcastle, Strathclyde and Southampton are Britain’s top three universities to study naval architecture and Maria Dragoumerli has gained both a bachelor and masters degree in this discipline from Newcastle University. At university she became interested in the emerging and growing renewables sector of offshore engineering. As well as being clean and green, the sector has […]

  • QED Naval Appoints Wave and Tidal Energy Expert as New Chairman

    10 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    QED Naval has appointed a new Chairman, Allan Thomson, with the approval from the investors Kelvin Capital and the Scottish Investment Bank. This brings a new focus to the company’s business and it is looking forward to utilising Allan’s experience of two decades within the wave and tidal sector. Mr Thomson has previously founded Wavegen, which was sold onto […]

  • Wave Hub Appoints New Commercial Director (UK)

    1 October 2013
    Business & Finance

    Wave Hub, the offshore renewable energy test facility in Cornwall, has recruited one of the industry’s leading commercial managers to help spearhead its future growth. Stuart Herbert has been appointed as Wave Hub’s commercial director to lead negotiations with companies planning to use the test site and identify new business opportunities. Stuart is joining Wave […]

  • Gazelle Wind Power Acquires Spanish Naval Engineering Firm to Speed Up Technical Development of Its Floating Wind Platform

    10 May 2023
    Business & Finance, Business development, Technology

    Gazelle Wind Power, the developer of a hybrid modular floating offshore wind platform based in Ireland, has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Spanish naval engineering and marine consulting firm Faustino Carceller, S.L. (F. Carceller). Gazelle says the acquisition will help accelerate the technical development of its floating wind technology. According to the floating […]

  • Australian Department of Defence Hands Over Onshore Wave Energy Site

    18 June 2013

    Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited announced that it has formally taken over control of the onshore development site at HMAS Stirling on Garden Island, following site handover from the Australian Department of Defence. On Friday 14 June 2013, the onshore site for the Perth Wave Energy Project, located at Garden Island, HMAS Stirling, […]

  • Offshore Wind to Be Discussed at Western Washington University

    18 November 2014
    Training & Education

    William Hurley, naval architect from The Glosten Associates and PelaStar, will discuss the introduction of offshore wind energy in Europe as part of Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20 in Communications Facility 120 on the Western Washington University campus. The presentation is free and […]

  • Subhub Takes a Plunge

    11 August 2015
    Technology

    QED Naval has launched the Subhub Operational model last week at Forth Estuary Engineering’s (FEE) dock in Leith. Within the last few weeks the company completed the setup of the ballast systems, instrumentation, and the dock access and testing arrangements. FEE have provided support during the preparation and will continue to do so through the testing […]

  • USA: MCBH to Host Navy Renewable Ocean Energy Conference

    9 March 2012

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Engineering Service Center (ESC) and NAVFAC Pacific will host the Renewable Ocean Energy Conference on two separate days, March 26 and March 28, at the Koa Malina Officers Club at Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), Kaneohe Bay. The conference will provide information to companies interested in developing new energy […]

  • DEME’s Living Stone Hits the Water (Gallery)

    19 September 2016
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s new multi-purpose vessel Living Stone was launched yesterday at the LaNaval shipyard in Spain by Sarah Tommelein, wife of Bart Tommelein, Vice-Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister for Energy. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2017 and will head to its first project at the Merkur offshore wind farm […]

  • UNO Gets USD 121,000 to Develop Motion Control for Ocean Current Turbines

    25 September 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The University of New Orleans (UNO) School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering has received a $121,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ocean current turbines that will be able to convert the energy of the sea into electricity. The project, “Collaborative Research: Optimized Harvesting of Hydrokinetic Power by Ocean Current Turbine Farms […]

  • DLBA Naval Architects Designs SATV for US Offshore Wind Market

    22 June 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Virginia-based DLBA Naval Architects has developed a concept Service Accommodation and Transfer Vessel (SATV) for the US offshore wind market. The 120’ SATV is conceived as a possible alternative to traditional North Sea crew transfer vessel (CTV) designs, specifically developed for the US market and concept of operations. According to DLBA Naval Architects, the US […]

  • BMT Nigel Gee Opens Southampton Offices

    31 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    BMT Nigel Gee (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has completed its new offices in Southampton, which will help the company to meet a large increase in design work. Current contracts equate to a total vessel length of nearly 2600m, with projects spreading across 13 countries, over three continents. With seven commercial vessels, 23 offshore energy, […]

  • U.S. Navy Backs Washington University’s Wave, Tidal Energy R&D with USD 8 Mln

    27 October 2014
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The U.S. Navy has committed to get half of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020. One element of that strategy will be looking to extract energy from tides, currents and waves. The University of Washington is helping to reach that goal with an $8 million, four-year contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering […]

  • BMT Nigel Gee Gets New Business Development Manager

    14 January 2015
    Business & Finance

    BMT Nigel Gee (BMT) has appointed Jason Steward as Business Development Manager. Jason’s new role at BMT will see him support the continued expansion of the business in both new and existing markets delivering design and engineering services within the Commercial, Offshore Energy, Defence and Yacht Sectors. A University of New South Wales graduate in […]

  • New Subsea Cable Partnership Announced

    5 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    UK based offshore handling systems company, Caley Ocean Systems, and umbilical and cable maker Umbilicals International, based in the US, have joined forces to offer operators and offshore contractors integrated solutions for the deployment of subsea packages and well intervention systems. Caley Ocean Systems specializes in the design and manufacture of offshore handling systems for […]

  • New Website to Back Hawaii’s Renewables

    5 November 2014

    A new website has been launched to highlight alternative energy efforts sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Hawaii, which is fast becoming ground zero for the Navy’s push to develop “green” technologies, officials announced Oct. 30. The Asia-Pacific Technology and Education Partnership (APTEP), now online at www.aptep.net, focuses its multifaceted approach to […]

  • Ireland Opens ‘The Entrepreneur Ship’

    6 October 2015
    Business & Finance

    Irish Minister for Agriculture, Food, the Marine and Defence Simon Coveney, TD, launched The Entrepreneur Ship yesterday, a new centre that seeks to optimise the well documented opportunities of the blue economy for Ireland, and accelerate job creation in this sector. Speaking at the opening of The Entrepreneur Ship, Minister Simon Coveney, TD said: “The government has ambitious […]

  • France: Navalu Gets Order from Enviroserve to Build Two Wind Farm Catamarans

    24 February 2012
    R&D

    UK wind farm service provider Enviroserve Ltd announces that it has ordered two 24 metre wind farm catamarans, from French work boat builder Navalu. The first boat will be named Sea Fox in keeping with the theme on Enviroserve’s other vessels. The first vessel is to be launched in January 2013. Working in close collaboration […]