Some 20 per cent of the UK’s present demand for electricity could be met by tidal energy. Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre and the University of Liverpool have developed a tidal model to examine the scope for reliable and predictable electricity generation from UK coastal waters. Details of this model were published in the [...]
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The Royal Society published a report on tidal energy in the UK saying that this source is more consistent than wind and that it could produce over 20% of the country’s power needs. The report shows confidence that tidal energy can be harnessed in the near future using both the tidal barrages and underwater turbines. [...]
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Canadian firm Nautilus Minerals has been awarded a 20-year licence by Papua New Guinea’s Government to begin deep sea mining within the Solwara 1 project. As The Guardian reports, Nautilus will mine an area of 1.6km beneath the Bismarck Sea, 50km off the coast of the PNG island of New Britain. The locals are most [...]
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BMT Scientific Marine Services is celebrating 20 years in business, commemorating the anniversary of the company’s formation in 1992. Scientific Marine Services started as a sole proprietorship, focusing on naval architecture consulting and shipping projects. The company became a corporation in 1992 and won its first major contract to provide Structural Monitoring Systems for (then) [...]
The WOC and the Australian Association for Maritime Affairs (AAMA) are collaborating to ensure that ocean industries have the opportunity to provide input to “Rio + 20”– the decadal UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio de Janeiro, 20-22 June 2012) for which oceans are a thematic priority. The WOC/AAMA Workshop on “Oceans, Industry and Rio [...]
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Tidal energy could be used to power homes in Jersey, Guernsey and Sark in the next 20 years. BBC Source: BBC , December 25, 2011
C-Tecnics introduces the Mantis 20 HD Camera, world’s first underwater inspection camera with a 20x zoom capability. The MANTIS 20 is a compact, full high definition (HD) colour focus and zoom camera. The 1/3‐inch CMOS sensor provides exceptional picture quality with full HD levels of resolution and it incorporates a 20:1 optical zoom lens, the [...]
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Dominion announces that it has agreed to farm-out a 20% working interest in Block 7, deepwater Tanzania to a subsidiary of Mubadala Oil & Gas (“Mubadala”). Following the completion of the transaction Dominion will hold an 80% working interest and operatorship in the Block. Under the terms of the agreement Mubadala will pay Dominion [...]
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Since 1989, offshore installations in the English sector of the North Sea have been required by law to install Emergency Shutdown (ESD) valves to isolate the installations from oil and gas pipelines. A Bettis™ valve actuator − specially designed by Emerson Process Management − installed at that time has just been decommissioned after 20 [...]
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth about $20 million from EMAS AMC, the deepwater services arm of Ezra Holdings Limited, to supply power cables for Statoil’s Gudrun North Sea oil and gas field, located off the coast of Norway. ABB will deliver 55 kilometers of 52 kilovolts (kV), [...]
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