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Shell Ready to Drill for Oil

By The Maritime Executive

August 12, 2015

Shell said on Tuesday that it has told the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement it is ready to drill for oil now in the Chukchi Sea. The Guardian reports that a spokeswoman for the c...

Biggest Wind Energy Converter Platform Installed

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2015

ABB has installed DolWin beta, the world’s most powerful offshore wind converter station, in the North Sea. The 320-kilovolt converter station, housed on an offshore platform, has a 916 megawatts...

Fisherman Catches $10 Million Drug Package

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2015

An off-duty police officer in the U.S. was fishing off Florida when he hooked a parcel of cocaine with a street value of $10-12 million on Wednesday. "While out fishing yesterday evening, one of ou...

U.S. Wind Farm Set for 2016

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2015

The Department of Energy announced that U.S. windfarm capacity has grown by eight percent since 2014 bringing the total capacity to 66 gigawatts. Today, about five percent of U.S. households are power...

Modular Offshore Wind Turbine Ready to Test

By The Maritime Executive

August 11, 2015

Blade Dynamics is shipping a 78-meter (255-foot) offshore wind turbine blade from its NASA-based facility in the U.S. to the U.K for testing. The D78 blade is the only modular offshore blade in the...

Mexico's Offshore Future Looking Doubtful

By The Maritime Executive

August 10, 2015

By Iva Brkic, Douglas-Westwood London After almost eight decades of Pemex monopoly, the Mexican energy sector is entering a new era of foreign oil company participation. A decade of steady decline...

North Sea Windfarms Scrapped

By The Maritime Executive

August 10, 2015

Just days after Forewind announced that it had gained planning approval for its Teesside A&B Dogger Bank windfarms, the company said that it is scrapping plans for its C and D extensions. Forewind, wh...

Tidal Energy for the UK

By The Maritime Executive

August 10, 2015

Tidal energy production is beginning to grow and become another source of consumable clean energy. The amount of power produced so far has been very limited and there are just a few commercial-sized t...

Simulating Marine Collisions for a Safer Future

By The Maritime Executive

August 10, 2015

Collisions at sea have always been a major risk for seafarers and while the exact numbers of incidents that take place across the globe each year are hard to quantify, the number is significant. The M...

Alaska's First Ocean-Going Electric Vessel

By Wendy Laursen

August 8, 2015

The U.S. Coast Guard has approved the structural design for the nation’s first ocean-going pure electric vessel. The Tongass Rain, a 50-foot, 47-passenger catamaran, is scheduled to be launched ne...

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