Tau Tech Raises $34.4m for Sustainable Seabed-Harvesting Tech
that reportedly enables sustainable seafood harvesting from the seabed, as the practice of dredging the seabed for bottom-dwelling species is controversial globally and banned in Norway. Tau Tech raised $34.4m from impact investor Norselab, Hofseth International and industrial profiles in Western Norway to start harvesting Arctic scallops on a commercial scale, using the new technology.The most widespread catching method for shellfish globally, dredging, is controversial for the potential damages if can cause to the ocean ecosystem, including the release of large amounts of naturally stored
PSW Takes Over EMAS Spoolbase In Norway
Norway's PSW Group has taken over the operation of the former EMAS spoolbase located in Gulen Industrial Harbor, Western Norway. In a statement on Wednesday, PSW Group said the agreement to take over the spoolbase covered all activities related to the production and spooling of pipelines for offshore use. The spoolbase will be named "PSW Spoolbase".The spoolbase capable of handling a wide range of subsea and offshore piping projects in Northern Europe has a 3700m2 fabrication facility including an integrated indoor tie-in area. It was constructed in 2014 to optimize logistics and
Equinor Awards Hywind Tampen Contracts
, tow-out and installation of completed wind turbines. The project will involve several Norwegian engineering communities.Fabrication of the wind turbines has been awarded to Siemens Gamesa,and will be carried out at several locations in Europe before they are transported to Wergeland Base in Gulen in western Norway for assembly.The electrical cables will be delivered by JDR Cable System Ltd and fabricated in Hartlepool in the UK. Subsea 7 Norway AS will be responsible for installation of electrical cables and connection to the Snorre and Gullfaks platforms.Equinor will as operator be responsible for operation
Ocean Autonomy: Norway to the Fore
. “We can use a satellite, send out a drone, working with unmanned ships, for joint operations.”Norway is becoming a testing ground for these technologies, with a number of areas designated as test beds, including Trondheimsfjord in Northern Norway, Storfjord in the northernmost part of western Norway, an area with several ferry crossings deemed suitable for testing and developing sensor technology and management systems, and Horten on the Oslo fjord in southern Norway.Indeed, Kongsberg, which is working heavily in autonomous shipping, including an “autonomous and all-electric&rdquo
Norway's Heavyweights & Entrepreneurs
all out in plain, detailed view: projects, portfolios, campaigns, business. Avito shows “your current state” and “your desired state” … A bit like Google Maps, it says, by showing where you are and where you need to go. For aging installations in mature areas, Western Norway newbie, Connector Subsea Solutions, has developed a technique to remotely do pipe repairs in deep water, and contracts with BP and Shell are already bringing in some earnings. While clamping a repair on a horizontal pipe is hard enough, Connector, or CSS, has managed to get its tool to remove
First Subsea Gas Compression Plant On Line
(PDO) was approved in 2012. An estimated 11 million man-hours have been spent from the start until completion, with more than 40 new technologies developed and employed after prior testing and verification. Some of this work has taken place at Statoil’s Kårstø laboratory in Western Norway. Overall, project cost were just above NOK 19 billion. Many small and big suppliers have helped to develop the sophisticated underwater compressor system. Establishing the necessary support functions onshore has been an important and substantial part of the project. A spare compression
Dive into Norway's Subsea Valley
autonomous vehicles have earned it accolades as a Norwegian Centre of Excellence (NCE) in Systems Engineering. Speaking to journalists, NCE director, Torkil Bjornson, links “regional cooperation” with bringing in talent. It becomes apparent Oslo-Kongsberg is competing for skills with Western Norway, home of Norway’s offshore shipping cluster and Stavanger, the oilfield services hub. Bjornson announces a new Norwegian Systems Engineering master’s degree, although it isn’t clear whether he means the “collegial” British fast-track, the “Stanford” type
Statoil: Subsea Wet Gas Compressor Coming to Gullfaks
on the Gullfaks field,” says Bjørn Birkeland, project manager for the Gullfaks subsea project. The compressor is developed in cooperation with One Subsea (formerly Framo Engineering), and large parts of the compressor station have been built by suppliers and sub-suppliers in western Norway and in the Bergen region. The delivery from One Subsea consists of a 420-tonne protective structure, a compressor station with two compressors totalling 650 tonnes, and all necessary topsides equipment for power supply and control of the plant. This type of subsea installation attracts a great
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