Reflex Marine, a company specialized in safe marine transfer solutions to the offshore, marine and renewable industry, launched its newly developed FROG-XT4 on February 12. The company’s clients work in the most demanding conditions and have a duty of care to transfer their personnel safely, to and
DONG Energy: “The previous method using pen and paper, while also documenting using a digital camera, was rather time consuming as the information subsequently had to be manually typed in.” A few weeks ago, technology giant Apple released a TV commercial for its iPad Air, which features Danish Anhol
Carnegie Wave Energy has awarded a contract to Subsea Riser Products (SRP) for the supply of subsea foundation connectors, articulating bearings and tether assemblies for Perth Wave Energy Project. SRP, an Acteon company, will provide three Rocksteady™ mooring or foundation connectors, with a breaki
DeepOcean today announced that it had bought a geotechnical drilling rig and had established a strategic alliance with Geoquip Marine, in order to enter the offshore geotechnical services market. The new rig is a heave compensated, offshore geotechnical deepwater drilling rig built and commissioned
Lockheed Martin announced yesterday that it has signed a contract with Victorian Wave Partners Ltd. for the development of a 62.5MW peak power wave energy project off the coast of Victoria, Australia. The project will feature the PowerBuoy® wave energy converter technology developed by Ocean Power T
Bladt Industries has commissioned L-3 SAM Electronics to outfit transition pieces for the EnBW Baltic 2 wind farm, which is scheduled to become operational this year. L-3 will supply and install low-voltage switchgear and transformers and all lighting, in addition to providing and installing ventila
CWind has announced that it has won a contract to support CT Offshore in the installation of 63 of the 161 inter-array cables at the 576MW Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm off the North Wales coast. CWind’s role involves sending a team to the Netherlands to perform both an OTDR fibre and an insulation
Alstom will introduce its latest technologies and wind power solutions, which aim to lower the cost of wind energy, during European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) annual event to be held on 10-13 March 2014 in Barcelona (Hall 6). Onshore technologies: POWEROF3™ In onshore wind technologies, Alstom w
On December 22, scientific research vessel “Huajiachi”, the first Chinese floating marine test platform was delivered after acceptance check. A variety of ocean engineering research work can be done on the platform, including the determination of storm flow, installation and testing of subsea produc
Alstom yesterday signed its first export contract with Deepwater Wind, the U.S. offshore wind developer. Under the contract, Alstom will provide five Haliade™ 150-6 MW wind turbines for the Block Island offshore wind farm. The contract also includes 15 years of operation and maintenance support for
The Fraunhofer IWES is building an oil sensor test stand in Bremerhaven, in order to better suit oil sensors to requirements of wind farm operators. Wind turbines are being increasingly equipped with oil sensors, which monitor the condition of the gearboxes. So called oil condition monitoring is bas
Principle Power’s WindFloat Pacific (WFP) floating wind project cleared its first major hurdle last week by getting approval from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and by that automatically gained more attention from the public and media. One of the raised questions is the final use o
Mark Shorrock, Chief Executive of Tidal Lagoon Power, wrote a message to the public, after the company submitted an application for a Development Consent Order (DCO) for its Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon energy project: It’s been three years since we first began work on the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lag
Sustainable Marine Energy and a team of academics headed by Dr Florent Trarieux, Lecturer in Offshore Engineering at Cranfield University have recently completed a 12 month project developing an innovative deployment platform, PLAT-O, that substantially reduces the cost and risks associated with dep
