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Hull Cleaning Robotics: Army Beats Navy – the Hegseth Way!

after we had secured all necessary safety protocols and logistics. That's when American grit and determination turned the tide. An urgent Friday afternoon outreach to Greensea IQ proved decisive: The company immediately mobilized, funding its own travel, shipping its EverClean robots from the East Coast to Hawaii, and arriving ready to tackle a fouled hull—all in under 4 days.This swift response aligns perfectly with the sweeping acquisition reforms unveiled by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in a recent speech. Secretary Hegseth emphasized that defense industry partners must invest their

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Fugro Wraps Up Survey at Dogger Bank South Offshore Wind Farm

- DBS East and DBS West - with an estimated combined capacity of 3 GW.RWE leads both DBS projects, overseeing development, construction, and operations on behalf of partners RWE and Abu Dhabi's Masdar.The projects are located on Dogger Bank, a shallow area of the North Sea over 100km off the North East coast of England.In July 2025, the U.K. Planning Inspectorate has concluded its six-month Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) examination period for the DBS offshore wind farms, with the consent decision expected soon.Masdar, RWE Get Closer to Official Go-Ahead for 3GW UK Offshore Wind Farm

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Sonardyne Takes Charge of Passive Seismic Monitoring for UK’s First CCS Site

and operate advanced ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) manufactured by Germany’s KUM. The units will be installed on the seabed above the Endurance reservoir, about 75 km off the Yorkshire coast.NEP will transport CO2 captured from emitters in Teesside and the Humber, known collectively as the East Coast Cluster, to Endurance and neighboring sites. The initial phase of the project envisages storing up to 100 million tonnes of CO₂ over 25 years, contributing to decarbonization in one of the UK’s most emissions-intensive industrial regions.“NEP is continuing to lead the UK's journey

First export cable pull-in - Enshore Subsea’s CMOS Installer at Inch Cape’s offshore substation platform (Credit: Inch Cape Offshore)

First Export Cable Laid at Scotland’s 1.1GW Offshore Wind Farm

Enshore Subsea has installed the first of two offshore export cables at Inch Cape offshore wind farm, using the CMOS Installer cable laying vessel.Operating from the Port of Blyth, the vessel installed the first of two 85-kilometre export cables for the 1.1 GW offshore wind farm, being built off the east coast of Scotland.The 220 kV, three-phase export cable was installed in three 28-kilometre sections.Once operational, the cable will transmit power from the offshore wind farm to the project’s new onshore substation under construction at Cockenzie, East LothianThe cable required two offshore joints

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Seismometers Retrieved for Slow-Slip Earthquake Study

A major three-year international scientific experiment to monitor slow slip earthquake activity at the Hikurangi subduction zone off the East Coast of New Zealand has concluded, with the retrieval of 52 ocean bottom seismometers using New Zealand’s Research Vessel Tangaroa.Subduction zones are where one tectonic plate “dives” or subducts beneath another. These dangerous fault lines produce the world’s largest earthquakes and tsunamis, such as the 8.8 magnitude earthquake offshore Kamchatka earlier this year.Beginning in late 2022, an international group of scientists from New

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Greensea IQ’s Hull Cleaning Service Expands to Port of New York and New Jersey

Greensea IQ announced the expansion of its EverClean hull cleaning service to the Port of New York and New Jersey, the largest port complex on the U.S. East Coast and the second-busiest container port in the country. With operations now based in Monroe Township, NJ, EverClean is well positioned to serve the region’s extensive container shipping fleet with proactive, in-water hull grooming.EverClean’s robotic service removes microfouling before it becomes a problem, optimizing vessel performance, reducing fuel consumption, and lowering emissions. Unlike traditional in-water cleaning

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Aquaterra Energy to Deliver Well Services Work for North Sea CCS Project

Offshore engineering solutions provider Aquaterra Energy has secured two major contracts to support the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), the CO2 transportation and storage provider for the East Coast Cluster.The project, which will initially serve three carbon capture projects in the Teesside region is the first offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the U.K. to receive a carbon storage permit.The contracts were awarded following successful commercial and technical evaluations. The first will address the challenge of safely re-abandoning two legacy wells - a critical step in securing

Rosette water sampler prepped for deployment during Gradients Cruise onboard the R/V Kilo Moana. Credit: Ryan Tabata.

An Unintentional Iron Fertilization Experiment

beyond 42 north, but we expect that impacts would reach up to Alaska.”There are likely key areas of anthropogenic iron release in South America and Southern Africa that will grow over time, he says. It’s also likely that there were significant emissions during industrialization of the US east coast and throughout western Europe that would have added iron to the North Atlantic. These would have been most intense during the 20th century, and the impacts on the Atlantic resulting from this have probably come and gone.“Our results indicate that a widespread unintentional iron fertilization

Illustration of a seabed monitoring lander (Credit: Sonardyne)

Sonardyne to Deliver Seabed Monitoring Kit for North Sea CCS Project

145km off the coast of Teesside where captured CO2 will be stored.Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) is the developer of the onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber – collectively known as the East Coast Cluster - to secure storage under the North Sea.BP provides operatorship services to NEP, with project partners Equinor and TotalEnergies.BP Lines Up Noble Rig for North Sea CCS Drilling JobPermits and Funding in Place for UK’s First Offshore CCS ProjectMonitoring of the site will begin in

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