Environment News – Page 96
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Gazprom considers Baltic LNG plant
Russia’s Gazprom is looking at building a small plant on the Baltic Sea to produce LNG as a shipping fuel, local media reports.
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NewsEMEC expands its international influence
An international collaboration agreement has been signed between the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) based in Orkney, Scotland, and the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), Singapore, to support further development of the marine renewable energy industry in Southeast Asia.
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NewsGreen light for wind demonstration site
The development of the UK’s largest offshore wind demonstration site, regarded as a pivotal strand in helping to lower the costs associated with Round 3 offshore wind farms, has received a boost with dual planning consents being given to the construction of the site and the onshore substation.
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Europe’s largest wave monitoring network
Fugro EMU has been appointed to manage a network of wave buoys which has the potential to become Europe’s largest wave monitoring network, surpassing the UK Coastal Observatories Network, also managed by Fugro EMU.
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NewsWindfarm O&M decision for Great Yarmouth
Dudgeon Offshore Wind Ltd has decided to go further with Great Yarmouth as the preferred harbour location for the operation and maintenance activities for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm.
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NewsMLC certification at Europort for OWS
Offshore Wind Services BV is in the process of certifying all its vessels under the MLC 2006 certificate, Offshore Phantom being the first.
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NewsRWE stops Atlantic Array development
German windfarm developer RWE Innogy has announced it has stopped development of its proposed Atlantic Array offshore windfarm in the Bristol Channel Zone, part of the UK’s Round 3 plans.
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Scour protection completed at Amrumbank
Denmark based Peter Madsen Rederi A/S has completed a major contract to place scour prevention sand bags for the Amrumbank West Offshore Wind Farm in the North Sea.
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GIS maps shoreline sensitivity to oil spills
CSA GeoSpatial Services (GS) business line is using remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to map shoreline sensitivity to oil spills in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
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NewsDiscovery of offshore carbon capture site
Drilling in the North Sea has discovered a site that is considered suitable as a permanent home for the storage of carbon dioxide.
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NewsOn board testing cleans up workboats
As increasingly strict government and international maritime regulations are phased in to reduce harmful emissions produced by work boats, tugs and large tonnage ships, the need for on board, in-use testing services has arisen.
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NewsTidal kite powers up in Northern Ireland
A kite systems that ‘flies’ underwater is now generating electric power in the waters of Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland.
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NewsArklow launches third wind farm vessel
Ireland based Arklow Marine Services has launched Guardian 18, a new wind farm service vessel which is the largest of this type to come from the yard.
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Newbuild order to meet windfarm demand
Charter demand for the latest generation of offshore wind farm Personnel Transport Vessels [PTVs] from Tidal Transit Limited has enabled the company to commission the construction of a fourth vessel with Spanish boat builder Mercurio Plastics.
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NewsSamson B gives strong support for windfarms
Windwave Workboats has signed an agreement with Siemens Wind Power Service until the end of 2013 to support the Major Projects team and have assigned its 17.5m MCA Cat 2 vessel Samson B to this project.
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NewsNetworked radar for windfarm jack-up
Nordic Yards in Wismar, Germany, has awarded Kongsberg Maritime a contract to deliver an Integrated Vessel Control System for a new build 80m wind turbine service jack-up vessel owned by Danish offshore services specialist, DBB Jack-Up.
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French yard launches first SeaFox
NAVALU shipyard has recently launched the offshore windfarm catamaran SeaFox, the first aluminium Offshore Wind Farm Service Vessel built in France with Bureau Veritas approval.
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NewsOffshore wind drives soil testing growth
Fugro has opened an expanded soils testing laboratory at the Group’s UK headquarters in Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
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NewsRules hat trick for ‘CWind Challenger’
Essex UK based workboat builder CTruk scored a hat trick with the delivery of its 12th 20T multi-purpose catamaran, CWind Challenger.
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NewsDemand surge for Twin Axe windfarm boats
Marineco UK has placed another order for two more FCS 2610 Twin Axe vessels to serve its offshore wind activities.
