Spectrum has commenced the next phase of its 2D campaign in Brazil to acquire an additional 6,000 km over the Foz do Amazonas basin. The program immediately follows on from the phase 1 survey of 15,000 km, which was completed successfully and ahead of time. The phase 2 survey will be completed in the fourth [...]
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The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), will embark on her next mission, IODP Expedition 338: The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) Stage 3 - from 3 October to 13 January 2014, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment is a [...]
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The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is delighted to announce the appointment of Commodore Tom Karsten RN as the next UK National Hydrographer, Deputy Chief Executive (Hydrography), based in Taunton, Somerset. Tom will be promoted to Rear Admiral on appointment and will take over from Rear Admiral Nick Lambert on December 17 this year. Tom [...]
Professor Mark Patterson of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science will next week team with National Geographic’s Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earle on what could be the last expedition to NOAA’s Aquarius Undersea Laboratory, the world’s only underwater research station. Their weeklong mission is a celebration of 50 years of human habitation of the ocean [...]
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Ocean Power Technologies, Inc., a leading wave energy technology company, announced the successful completion of extensive factory acceptance testing of the first of its next generation power take-off (“PTO”) units for the Company’s utility-scale PowerBuoy®, the PB150. The PTO has now been shipped from OPT’s facility in Pennington, New Jersey to Oregon Iron Works, where [...]
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The subsea hardware market is expected to recover this year, following the global economic crisis and the repercussions of the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. Douglas-Westwood (DW) forecast that the subsea sector will continue its growth trend, reaching an annual total of $32 billion in expenditure by 2016. DW’s first edition of The World Subsea [...]
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The UK Government announced allocation of £20m to engineering and environmental companies for projects aimed at development of tidal and wind energy, EDP 24 published. Apart from mere production of power, these include projects targeted at design and manufacture of indispensable technology in addition to conducting various types of research, necessary to boost the [...]
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Gwynt y Môr Offshore Wind Farm Limited has secured a major contract to begin the next stage of offshore construction off the North Wales coast. In a £multi-million deal with Seaway Heavy Lifting Limited of Cyprus, the heavy lift vessel, ‘Stanislav Yudin’ will operate in Liverpool Bay between April and December, 2012, to install major [...]
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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
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it is taking the next steps in the review for a potential Mid-Atlantic Wind Energy Transmission Line. Atlantic Grid Holdings LLC has requested a right-of-way grant to develop the Atlantic Wind Connection, a proposed high-voltage direct current transmission line that would collect power generated by offshore wind [...]
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