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Baltic Windfarm Opens

The largest offshore windfarm for Germany is now operational and providing power to more than 340,000 households. The 288 megawatt “Baltic 2” windfarm is owned by German utility company EnBW and was c...

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Merchant Ships Providing Aid in Migrant Crisis

In October last year, bulk carrier CS Caprice was shipping a cargo of barley across the Mediterranean when it answered a call to help about 500 people who were drifting north of Libya without a skippe...

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Underwater Fin Could Break Speed Record

By Juliette Aplin, The Futures Centre Animal Dynamics, a company formed of biomechanics from the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology, is looking to break the human-powered water speed reco...

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First X-Stern Fitted

The world’s first X-Stern to be fitted to a vessel is currently being mounted on the first of two offshore wind service vessels.  The X-Stern is a sloping and higher stern, allowing for a sharp ste...

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Survival Suit is Thermally Protected Personal Life Raft

Hypothermia is a major cause of death at sea, resulting in about 800 casualties annually, most of which are reported as drownings.  With the increase of trading routes in Arctic territories, this n...

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Carbon Pricing Schemes Not Effective Enough

The number of carbon pricing schemes worldwide has almost doubled since 2012, but most taxes or markets have prices too low to prevent damaging global warming, the World Bank said on Sunday. Carbon...

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Bankruptcy Plagues Offshore Drilling Market

The most significant bankruptcy of the current oil downturn has shone a spotlight on what is perhaps the most oversupplied corner of the energy world: the market for offshore rig services. Samson R...

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Renewable Energy Approved for Carolinas

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) has approved an offshore wind energy leasing project off the North Carolina coast. The approval comes after the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) identifie...

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The Well Control Rule: Safer or Just More Costly?

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources has been told that the Obama administration’s new well control regulations will result in a virtual moratorium on Gulf of Mexico offshore energy developme...

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Forecasting Impact of Panama Canal Expansion

  There have been numerous projections regarding the Panama Canal expansion’s impact on the shipping industry. The rosiest projections envision substantially greater volumes of container cargo ente...