Dutch system integrator RH Marine has reached the first milestone in the Safer Autonomous Systems (SAS) project, a European research project in which the safety of various autonomous systems is being researched.

A new group has been set up to make sure Scotland’s energy supply chain companies benefit from new floating offshore wind projects in Scotland and the UK. The announcement this week from Prime Minister, Boris Johnston, that the UK now has a 1GW floating target by 2030 further cements the role of floating offshore wind in the UK’s drive to become the “Saudi Arabia of offshore wind power” and is tremendous news for the supply chain.

Torqeedo has released an interview in which Dr. Michael Rummel, managing director of Torqeedo GmbH, discussed the global trends which are shaping Torqeedo's growth strategies.

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration (OER) has released the NOAA OER Deepwater Exploration Mapping Procedures Manual to describe the office’s approach to deepwater ocean exploration acoustic mapping. OER is sharing this manual as a contribution to broader cross-agency efforts to develop standard ocean mapping protocols and to serve as a guide for other interested public and private entities conducting deepwater mapping and exploration.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has secured an order to provide cargo handling cranes for four 62,000 dwt general cargo ships to be built in Asia. The order is booked into Cargotec's third quarter 2020 order intake, with deliveries planned to commence during the third quarter of 2021 and completed during the first quarter of 2022.

Leading controls technology company Proserv Controls has penned a strategic alliance with power system monitoring leader Synaptec to develop a cutting-edge integrated holistic cable monitoring system, which will reduce downtime, improve safety and lower operating costs at offshore wind farms.

Sea energy is the greatest renewable energy source in the world: the estimated global wave power generation along terrestrial coastlines is 2 TeraWatt, around 18 thousand billion kilowatt hours per year - that is almost the annual power requirement of the planet. Furthermore, wave energy is predictable, constant and more flexible than other renewable sources.

Drilling the well on a simulator before its drilling project in the Norwegian North Sea has proved so successful for oil and gas exploration company, Wellesley Petroleum, it is now looking to roll out the initiative across other well projects.

ABPmer recently supported a study by Offshore Wind Innovation Hub (OWIH) into potential operation and maintenance (O&M) costs for floating offshore wind. As part of their Industry Insight Series, the Hub’s new report ‘Floating wind: Cost modelling of major repair strategies’, looks at options for these repairs, estimated at 23% of annual O&M costs.

ICR Integrity (ICR), a leading global provider of integrated maintenance and integrity solutions to the oil and gas, power, chemical and nuclear industries, has been awarded two significant contracts with major North Sea operators extending their commitment and building on well-established long-term relationships. The contacts total a seven-figure sum for the provision of chemical injection rental equipment and the ongoing maintenance of online in-service equipment.

Total becomes a 20% shareholder in the Eolmed floating wind farm pilot project, located in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Gruissan and near Port-La-Nouvelle (Occitan region).

RBR, designer and manufacturer of oceanographic instruments in Ottawa, Canada, has moved into new headquarters.

Ørsted, the world's leading offshore wind developer, and Yara, the world's leading fertilizer company, have joined forces in developing a pioneering project aiming at replacing fossil hydrogen with renewable hydrogen in the production of ammonia with the potential to abate more than 100,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year, equivalent to taking 50,000 conventional cars off the road.

Proteus, the cloud-based operating system that transforms the way in which businesses source and use talent to deliver projects, has signed up five global partners to its new Partner Program.

Equinor is the operator of 20 projects under development on the Norwegian continental shelf, or at Norwegian onshore plants. The Covid-19 pandemic and weakened Norwegian krone have negatively impacted some of the projects, but the combined project portfolio is still very resilient.

Global subsea controls company J+S Subsea, has appointed Phil Reid as its first managing director and broadened its leadership team with industry stalwart Doug Sedge joining its board as a non-executive director.