Arnstein Eknes Business/Segment Director - Special Ships
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The vessel was the largest, most powerful of its class when delivered in 2011. After installing a hybrid power system that greatly improves operational efficiency and reliability, North Sea Giant is ‘back in the front seat’, say her owners.
The offshore wind market is growing in size and power output. The slideshow provides an overview of numbers related to the development of offshore wind park projects worldwide and how the size of wind turbines may grow in the future, which also affects the needed capabilities of wind turbine installation vessels.
The world’s deepest-diving operational submersible, Limiting Factor, not only set new records in manned deep-diving; the project team also set new benchmarks in safety and design standards.
Good news for carbon reduction: the cost of batteries, a major hurdle for adoption in the past, keeps dropping while new, even more economical technologies are being developed. Narve Mjøs, Director Battery Services & Projects at DNV GL, shares insights in our interview.
Reduced environmental footprint, improved profit and better data quality are just some of the benefits of controlling unwanted underwater noise. SILENT class notations from DNV GL are designed to address growing levels of noise from human operations at sea, to the benefit of operators and marine wildlife alike.
In the NEXUS consortium, key players in the offshore wind energy market are jointly developing concepts for future crew transfer and service operation vessels that will cut maintenance costs and emissions to air.