MARINE POLLUTION: A waste cleanup team formed by the Taoyuan City Government hopes to change the public’s behavior and reduce production of waste at the source By Cheng Shu-ting and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer A marine waste cleanup team established last year by the Taoyuan City Government hopes to inspire change in […]
New grant funded research into the sustainable protection of vulnerable coastal areas aims at using seagrasses for their boosts to biodiversity and wave dampening. The presence of seagrass is decreasing worldwide due to poor water quality, plant diseases, climate change and coastal erosion. With the innovation project ‘PLANT ME’, the research team wants to enable […]
As wind turbines grow in size, they become more expensive to manufacture, but larger and larger units continue to drive down the cost of electricity from offshore wind. 2020 has seen leading manufacturers of offshore wind turbines unveil new, larger, higher capacity units. Siemens Gamesa’s 14-MW offshore wind turbine (which is expected to be capable of 15 MW in due course) is set to become commercially available from […]
The wind turbines at the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm in the UK do not feature the usual setup including boat landing structures and ladders, as its developer Ørsted purchased a novel lifting system. The 1.4 GW project is the first-ever offshore wind farm to deploy the Get Up Safe (GUS) motion-compensated lifting system from […]
This past decade has been the Atlantic Ocean’s warmest in three thousand years, according Massachusetts Amherst University and Quebec University. Ocean temperatures are known to rise and fall, but this recent spike falls outside of scope of natural patterns. Their work shows there had been an unprecedented increase in the speed at which the ocean […]
CWind Taiwan has been awarded a balance of plant (BOP) contract for the Formosa 1 offshore wind farm. The company is providing inspection and maintenance services to the 22 turbines at Formosa 1 Phase 1 and Formosa 1 Phase 2 sites, including internal and external inspections and painting. Under the contract, signed with Formosa 1 […]
Danish offshore vessel specialist Maersk Supply Service and its compatriot offshore wind developer Ørsted have teamed up to test a prototype offshore charging buoy. The buoy will act as a safe mooring point and a charging station for vessels, potentially displacing a significant amount of marine fuel with “green” electricity. The prototype buoy has been […]
UK-based ROV services provider ROVOP has said it has delivered its first remote platform-based inspection, repair, and maintenance workscope, “effectively reducing the number of personnel required offshore,” on Premier Oil’s Balmoral floating production vessel in the UK North Sea. The ROV company carried out remote visual and NDT inspections of hull sections, flowlines, umbilicals, and […]
40 tons shipped from Saudi Arabia to Japan for zero-carbon power generation Saudi Aramco said it has shipped 40 tons of “blue” ammonia from Saudi Arabia to Japan for use in zero-carbon power generation. The announcement comes amid growing appreciation of the role hydrogen will play in the global energy system. Ammonia, a compound consisting […]
by Martyn Wingrove Shipping companies will be able to access cloud-based solutions for fleet management worldwide following investments by Microsoft and SE. SES has become Microsoft’s new multi-orbit satellite connectivity partner as part of the Azure Orbital drive. Both companies will jointly invest in Azure Orbital ground stations that SES will deploy and manage to support […]
