Sewage Contaminates British Waters
, Europe's largest offshore mussel farm was built by the Holmyard family in Lyme Bay, where they believed it would be free of the millions of gallons of sewage pumped into UK waters each year.But even this far offshore, harmful bacteria such as E.coli can pollute the water, blocking exports to continental Europe for weeks and damaging the prospects of a business producing sustainable food."It's criminal that they're allowed to dump what they dump in the seas and get away with it," sales manager Sarah Holmyard said during a visit to the farm. "It's affecting all sorts of businesses
Cyprus: Subsea Power Cable Project to Move Forward
A project on a subsea power cable to link continental Europe to the East Mediterranean will materialize, Greek foreign minister said on Thursday after meeting his Israeli and Cypriot counterparts.Media reports earlier this week suggested that the project had stalled over territorial differences.Greek power grid operator IPTO ADMr.AT is building the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) cable, which will link transmission networks of Europe to Cyprus. It will later stretch to Israel through the Mediterranean Sea.(Reuters)
Baltic States Switch from Russian to European Power Grid
invasion of Ukraine, but have relied on the Russian grid to control frequencies and stabilise networks to avoid outages.Analysts say that maintaining a constant power supply requires a stable grid frequency, which can more easily be obtained over time in a large synchronised area such as Russia or continental Europe, compared to what the Baltics can do on their own.For Russia, the decoupling means its Kaliningrad exclave, located between Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea, is cut off from Russia's main grid, leaving it to maintain its power system alone.The Kremlin said it has taken all necessary
Greece and Cyprus to Install 'World's Longest' Subsea Power Cable
Greece and Cyprus have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to press ahead with a subsea electric cable linking continental Europe to the East Mediterranean, the energy ministries of the two countries said on Saturday.The Great Sea Interconnector (GSI) cable will link transmission networks of Europe to Cyprus in a project costing 1.9 billion euros ($2.12 billion), and later stretch to Israel.On completion, project promoters say it would be "the world's longest" such high-voltage cable at 1,240 km (770.5 miles) and also the deepest at 3,000 meters.Based on the MoU signed on Friday
TechnipFMC's Subsea Production System for Equinor's Irpa Project
at a depth of 1350 meters, is located 340 kilometers west of Bodø. The gas from the field will be phased into the existing Aasta Hansteen platform and transported to the Nyhamna gas processing plant through the Polarled pipeline. From there, Equinor's customers in the UK and continental Europe will get gas through the Langeled pipeline system. Irpa will extend the life of Aasta Hansteen by seven years, from 2032 to 2039. Aasta Hansteen came on stream in December 2018.Equinor says that Irpa's expected recoverable gas resources are around 20 billion standard cubic meters, which
Ørsted, Repsol Eye Floating Wind Turbine Deployment Offshore Spain
be relevant in the future development of the floating technology, with which we already have experience thanks to our involvement in the Windfloat Atlantic project off the coast of Portugal.”World’s First Semi-submersible Floating Wind Farm Now OnlineRasmus Errboe, Head of Region Continental Europe at Ørsted, says: “Spain has one of the world’s largest fleets of onshore wind and solar PV farms, and by the end of this decade Spain will also be producing green energy at scale from floating offshore wind farms. We look very much forward to working with Repsol, the country&rsquo
Shell Taps OCTIO for Geophysical Monitoring at Ormen Lange Field
AS.Ormen Lange has been described as "a fully subsea-to-beach gas field," located 120 km from the onshore processing and export facility at Nyhamna.The gas is exported through Langeled, a 1200 km pipeline from Nyhamna to Easington, UK, and linked to the Norwegian gas export system to continental Europe.Shell Gets Approval to Drill at Ormen Lange FieldShell Sanctions Ormen Lange Subsea Compression ProjectSubsea 7 to Deliver Subsea Flowline System for Shell's Ormen Lange Projec
Balmoral's System Prevents Offshore Wind Cable Damage
wind farms in Europe.Investigations into the extent of the issue are ongoing, Chief Financial Officer Marianne Wiinholt told a media briefing in April, but added the problem was limited to ten offshore wind farms at most, Reuters reported. The affected wind farms are in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe and equipped with a cable protection system Orsted no longer uses
Offshore Wind: Orsted Earnings, Shares Dented by Lower Wind Speeds, Cable Problems
after it discovered cable problems at its offshore wind farms in Europe.Investigations into the extent of the issue are ongoing, Chief Financial Officer Marianne Wiinholt told a media briefing, but added the problem was limited to ten offshore wind farms at most. They are in the United Kingdom and Continental Europe and equipped with a cable protection system Orsted no longer uses.Orsted estimated fixing the problems could cost 3 billion crowns in total between 2021 and 2023.Sydbank analyst Per Fogh described the issue as a "significant expense", but said Orsted's underlying business was
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