Equinor : Low carbon hat-trick in the UK
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All three of Equinors projects to deliver deep cuts in emissions from industries and support clean growth in the north-east of England have received public funding from UK authorities. With a combination of private and public funding, Equinor and its partners will now progress these projects in order to create the worlds first net zero industrial cluster by 2040.
On 17 March 2021 the UK Government announced the funding awards under the UKs Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) to three project consortia in which Equinor is directly involved:
UK: Scotland’s net zero infrastructure receives major boost
17 Mar 2021
Scotland has taken a step closer to its net zero carbon goals with the announcement of over £30m of UK Government funding for a suite of initiatives linked to the
Acorn carbon capture and storage (CCS) project.
The industry match funded initiative, called
Scotland’s Net Zero Infrastructure (SNZI) programme, brings together academic and industrial partners to develop a major package of work designed to progress a national low carbon infrastructure.
Source: Pale Blue Dot
They include:
The detailed engineering required to move the Acorn CCS and Hydrogen projects to a final investment decision
Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.
(File image: Ocean Infinity)
U.S.-based seabed survey company Ocean Infinity, is, together with the University of Portsmouth, Airborne Robotics, and Bentley Telecom, working to develop an autonomous offshore wind farm inspection capability utilizing aerial drone swarms deployed from an uncrewed marine robotic vessel.
Using 5G and satellite connectivity, the project will see a swarm of drones autonomously inspect wind turbines subsequently removing the need for manual, human inspection, Ocean Infinity, a company that
As part of the project, a 36 meter Armada uncrewed robotic vessel will act as the host vessel for the aerial drones, facilitating launch and recovery, recharge, data download and transmission to shore via satellite.
Teesside s world-leading clean energy scheme moves step closer with £52m investment
Net Zero Teesside, the world s first carbon capture and storage project of its kind, will support nearly 6,000 jobs
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FEATURE: Autonomous marine robots sent out to explore and maintain equipment 17 Mar 2021
The world-famous Boaty McBoatface autonomous underwater vehicle It’s often been said that we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do of our own seabed.
The reason being that, the further down we go into the ocean, the more inhospitable it becomes, presenting key challenges for any technologies developed to explore it. It’s a GPS-denied environment, there is tremendous pressure and with the ocean being so vast it can take a long time to get there.
Aidan Thorn, business manager of the National Oceanography Centre’s Marine Robotics Innovation Centre, recalls: “When I first started at the NOC as an apprentice over 20 years ago we had just one autonomous underwater vehicle, Autosub. That vehicle didn’t have a very long range and so was heavily reliant on a ship to get it anywhere with deep water to explore. We now have 50 vehicles and we’re increasi