A new report detailing the impact of the £9 million Technology, Innovation and Green Growth for Offshore Renewables (TIGGOR) programme across the North Tyne region over the past six years has been published by the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult.

Offshore floating solar company SolarDuck and the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) have announced they have been awarded a €3.2 million subsidy from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for the Steady Seas research programme. The project will advance the foundational design of SolarDuck’s Offshore Floating Power & Utility Hub (OFPH), a single-platform offshore solar solution developed to provide reliable power, communications and other utilities to remote offshore and subsea assets.

Offshore floating solar company SolarDuck and the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) have announced they have been awarded a €3.2 million subsidy from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for the Steady Seas research programme. The project will advance the foundational design of SolarDuck’s Offshore Floating Power & Utility Hub (OFPH), a single-platform offshore solar solution developed to provide reliable power, communications and other utilities to remote offshore and subsea assets.

EnerMech has announced it has successfully completed a pipeline flushing and cleaning workscope for Subsea7 as part of an offshore field decommissioning program in the Gulf of Mexico.

The SQUID system designed by Encomara and manufactured by Aurora Energy Services (AES) which will reportedly fundamentally improve how floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are installed, has received product design assessment (PDA) from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS).

Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore has announced it has contracted Norway-based TMC Compressors (TMC) to deliver the marine compressed air system to two innovative subsea rock installation vessels that are being built for international marine contractor Van Oord.