Offshore Technology
Offshore Technology explores the systems, engineering practices, innovations and challenges, driving offshore operations across energy and marine sectors. Topics you can expect include subsea engineering, floating production systems, offshore wind technologies, digital monitoring and control systems, and asset integrity management.
Delve into analysis, and insights on emerging technologies improving safety, efficiency, and performance in increasingly harsher offshore environments in the journey to cleaner sustainable energy sources.
Shaping design around battery integration
Ferries & Fast Craft (Newsletter)
The world's first fully electric battery car ferry, the MF Ampere (image: Corvus Energy).
Battery specialist Corvus Energy discusses how it is working on large-scale battery integration projects that reshape weight distribution and stability design in high capacity ferries and fast craft.
Energy islands: Europe's new frontier
Offshore Technology (Newsletter)
Energy Islands will bring together a number of offshore technologies into a single place (image: Elia)
A new era in offshore power has seen the development of the first Energy Islands off European coasts. The first will be the six-hectare Princess Elisabeth Island, which is under construction 45km off the coast of Belgium and is due to be completed in 2028.
Retire or repower wind farms?
Offshore Technology (Newsletter)
A debate rages over whether to leave turbine monopiles in-situ after turbines are decommissioned (image: Institute of Civil Engineers)
The first wind turbines to be deployed are reaching the end of their operational life. The question is, should the sites be re-used or retired?
Press release: Seawork 9-11 June 2026 Southampton
Seawork is held at Mayflower Park, Southampton
Seawork brings maritime expertise and careers focus to Southampton. The annual event combines international exhibitors with strong Solent connections.
The underwater arms race
The UK's BAE Systems is building Astute-class and Dreadnought-class submarines (image: BAE Systems)
The global undersea arms race is transforming not just navies but the engineering profession behind them. Workforce, digital capability and nuclear stewardship are now as strategically important as the platforms themselves.
Polar planning
Ice tank testing is essential to design for a changing Arctic (image: Getty images/Canadian Coast Guard)
As the climate warms, there’s growing interest in transiting once unnavigable seas. Amy McLellan explores ways to support increased shipping in ice-affected waters.
On the rocks in Canada
Dublin serves as a staging platform for personnel and cargo of the grounded Baltic III (image: Canadian Coast Guard)
More than a year after the containership Baltic III grounded on the remote Newfoundland coast during a severe storm, a wreck removal plan is finally in place, but the complex and challenging operation still has years to run, and important questions remain.
My focus as President
Annabelle Ransome-Williams FRINA is the new president of Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Welcome to the latest issue of The Naval Architect. I am honoured to have been elected President of RINA, and I would like to thank members for the confidence and trust you have placed in me.
MIT lab improves human and AUV interactions
The project seeks to combine the strengths of humans and robots - cropped (image: MIT)
Researchers address capability gaps in underwater navigation and perception.
We are on the right path
Catriona Savage: Broadening the language around engineering, for teachers, parents and young people alike, is essential.
Catriona Savage on the pace of change in her time as RINA president.
Success on a plate
Solar panels on the ferry's roof would supply 11% of the vessel's auxiliary electricity demand (image: Universitas Indonesia)
Team Nagapasa’s flat-bottomed catamaran ferry won the WFSA’s Maritime Student Design Competition, meeting the constraints of a shallow, hazard-prone river route with a design built for affordability and local construction.
Baltic first for carbon capture and storage
The planned CO₂ transshipment terminal in Klaipėda is expected to have a capacity of approximately 2.8 million tonnes of CO₂ per year (image: KN Energies)
Aker wins contract for CO2 terminal in Lithuania; and First battery-methanol-powered tug set to sail.
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