Scotland’s ability to meet its renewable energy targets will be significantly boosted by the creation of a new Marine Renewables Test Centre at the University of Dundee. The Centre will become a leading facility for the development, design and testing of marine renewable construction materials and prototype foundations. ‘Scotland is well placed to deliver offshore […]
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The long term drill stem test on the Diega accumulation in Block I, Equatorial Guinea (PA Resources 5.7%) is now complete and the Atwood Hunter rig has been released. An initial pilot well, I-8, encountered 12 m vertical thickness of good quality oil pay with no water and so established the deepest known oil on […]
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Delegates from the French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea (Ifremer) visited the Kongsberg Maritime Subsea headquarters in Horten, Norway late December 2013 for the successful Factory Acceptance Test of their second Simrad ME70 scientific multibeam echosounder. Ifremer is assigned the task of contributing to the knowledge of oceans and their resources, the monitoring […]
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Nord Stream has successfully completed the final 30-day test of the pipeline system as of 6:00 CET today. The industry-standard test confirms the safety and reliability of the integrated twin-pipeline gas transportation system. The completion of the NEL-Pipeline in early November allowed for a test phase involving the connected pipelines. Since the start of operations […]
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DP Energy plans to submit an application to use a Bay of Fundy testing site in Nova Scotia for its tidal energy device. During the Marine Renewables Canada annual marine energy conference, Managing Director of the company Simon de Pietro said that funding large-scale wave and tidal projects will not be easy, the Irish Independent […]
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Fundy Tidal Inc. and Clean Current Power Systems Inc. entered into an agreement to test and demonstrate a 3.5m diameter Clean Current tidal turbine as part of a Tidal Power System (TPS), including energy storage and system controls that enable balancing of power production with community load (TPS project). The TPS project is expected to […]
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Petrobras announces it has completed a formation test on well 3-BRSA-1178D-SES (3-SES-176D), informally known as Farfan 1, the first to evaluate the production capacity of the accumulation located in the BM-SEAL-11concession area, block SEAL-M-426, in the ultra-deep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin. The test evaluated 30 meters of turbidite sandstones formation and confirmed good reservoir […]
AOE Accumulated Ocean Energy’s (AOE) 1/8 scale prototype captured ocean energy in the Sooke Basin last week. With founders and potential investors looking on; Jim Matei, COO of AOE pulled the test buoy out into a calm ocean, secured it to the anchoring system and with mechanically generated waves began compressing air. Gauges on the […]
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Ithaca Energy Inc. announces completion of a highly successful flow test on the first development well drilled on the Stella field and provides a progress update on the Greater Stella Area development activities. Highlights - The first Stella field development well, “A1″, flowed at a maximum rate of 10,835 barrels of oil equivalent per day […]
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An NOC underwater glider has completed a 58-day mission in the Irish Sea zigzagging a total of 1685 miles – while avoiding hazards such as fishing vessels and shipping lanes. The mission has provided over 10,000 profiles of the water column from the near surface to 100metres deep. Gliders are propelled forwards as they dive […]
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