Offshore Renewables

Funding to the tune of £7.9m has been announced by the Scottish Government for five marine energy developers, intended to further the development and testing of new wave and tidal prototypes in…

The most powerful heavy lift jack-up vessel, Innovation, was named in Bremerhaven in September by Mrs Geertrui Van Rompuy-Windels, Europes First Lady and spouse of Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European…

When Koden distributor Mantsbrite was approached by an established client to fit out new vessels with the latest electronic navigation equipment, a year long process was put in place.

Tata Steel inaugurated its new £2m offshore processing centre (OPC) on Tuesday at an event in Hartlepool attended by more than 40 leading business figures from the European renewable energy sector.

Gravitas Offshore Ltd has been awarded £556,250 by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, and the Technology Strategy Board to develop and demonstrate benefits of its innovative concrete turbine foundation…

Acta Marine vessels continue their extensive activities on the Dutch Wadden Sea.

The Stemat Spirit completed work laying and burying the third export cable at London Array wind farm.

While many companies and traditional industries have struggled, Scotland’s renewable electricity industry has delivered capital investment of some £2.8bn since the beginning of 2009, according to new figures from Scottish Renewables.

Siemens has produced the worlds longest rotor blades for wind turbines.

The Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters around the North of Scotland are home to some of the world’s best wave and tidal energy resources and are already the location of choice for…

Strainstall has provided specialist load measurement technology to support upcoming operations, following the commissioning and initial testing of the 100’ high 1MW Hammerfest Strom HS1000 tidal stream generator.

Offshore Energy 2012, claiming to be the fastest growing offshore oil & gas and energy event in Europe, returns to Amsterdam’s RAI exhibition centre on 23 and 24 October.

Germany is moving towards a nuclear free future, but pessimism regarding the cost and reliability of renewable energy resources implies that smart grid technologies will be vital in order to keep the…

Just a week after Seajack’s newbuilding Seajacks Zaratan arrived in Europe from its builder Lamprell in Dubai, the two companies announced an order for another GustoMSC designed jack-up.