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JUNE 10, 2013 — Great Yarmouth, U.K., headquartered Seajacks International has entered into a contract with South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries to build what it says will be "the world's largest and most advanced offshore wind farm installation vessel." The vessel has been specifically designed to meet the demands assoc ...

APRIL 30, 2013 — Norway's Siem Offshore has entered into a shipbuilding contract with Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A., Poland. It covers the construction of a dynamically positioned cable lay vessel ("CLV") scheduled for delivery in April 2015. The associated gross project cost for the vessel, ready for operation, is about $85 million. ...

MARCH 14, 2013 — ABB has led a $12 million investment in Scotrenewables Tidal Power, a provider of tidal turbine systems, to support the roll out of a new hydrokinetic device and to expand ABB's renewable energy assets. 60 MW multi-turbine tidal energy farm ABB's participation was made th ...

FEBRUARY 12, 2013 — Classification society DNV and Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (PSE), a specialist in process modeling technology, have released the results of the maritime CCS (carbon capture and storage) research and development project. The project has developed a concept design for on-board chemical CO2 captur ...

FEBRUARY 12, 2013—A remote Alaskan community moved one step closer to a sustainable energy future, following the approval of a preliminary permit by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to study a wave energy project in Yakutat, Alaska. The permit was granted to privately held Resolute Marine ...

FEBRUARY 10, 2013—Google-backed Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC), Princeton, NJ, has picked Bechtel as its Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contractor and Alstom as its HVDC technical advisor for the first phase of its New Jersey Energy Link, an electricity transmission system proposed for off of the New Jer ...

OCTOBER 23, 2012 — Wave energy technology specialist Ocean Power Technologies (Nasdaq: OPTT), Inc. is benefiting from a Japanese Government decision to place far more emphasis on renewable energy following the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. Ocean Power has received a ¥70 million (approximately US $900,000) contract fro ...

OCTOBER 23, 2012 – BMT Nigel Gee Ltd. reports that the first 26 m XSS offshore wind farm support vessel for Turbine Transfers has been launched at the Sepers B.V shipyard in Holland. BMT Nigel Gee says its XSS (Extreme Semi-SWATH) designs offers significant improvements in motion levels over con ...