We supply comprehensive packages to establish water depth and sediment / bedrock characteristics for Offshore Wind Farm and Marine Pipeline / Cable Route construction. Please refer to the techniques below for further details.
Seabed Profiling
- Digital echo sounder in conjunction with differential global positioning surveying used to carry out bathymetric surveys in both shallow marine, river and lake environments.
- Processing of data to produce bathymetry track plots and contour plots all to a specified datum.
Marine Geotechnical Investigations
- Boreholes and sampling carried out from floating platform or jack up barge.
- Geophysical sub-bottom profiling carried out using boomer or sparker array to determine thickness of sediment overlying rock.
- Geophysical side-scan sonar and magnetometer surveys to analyse sea bed cover and locate cables, pipes and wrecks.
Marine Pipeline Routes:
- Long linear corridors, as required for pipeline and cable routes lend themselves to geophysical surveying. Fast, efficient and repeatable results are achievable using marine geophysics.
- Sediment thickness, presence of gravel and location of rock can be mapped along a series of linear profiles.
- Surface and buried debris can be recorded by the use of electromagnetic and side scan sonar methods.
- All data can be presented as a series of scaled plates along the route of the proposed scheme.
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High-end vs low cost thin film, which will be the winning approach?
img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/assets/logos/first-conferences.jpg" / The industry will be segmented in two main markets by 2015: low cost and high quality thin film. In the run-up to the 2nd Thin Film Solar Summit Europe, Cristian Cavazzuti, General Manger at Pramac Swiss and Lynn Sha, General Manager at QS solar have shared their views on the future of this technology
03/09/2010 05:00 AM
Solar Industry To Hit US $77B in 2015
img hspace="10" vspace="5" align="left" width="110" src="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com//assets/images/story/2010/3/9/1332-solar-industry-to-hit-us-77b-in-2015.jpg" / As the books close on what was a turbulent 2009 for the solar industry, Lux Research said that the solar market will soon see the lopsided supply and demand that characterized much of the last year return to equilibrium. According to the new report Solar's Shakeout: Europe Loses Leadership as China Rises," strong demand growth in Asia and the U.S. will push the market to 9.3 GW in 2010, hitting a dollar value of US $39 billion. Building from there, continuing price reductions for all types of solar technology are expected to open new markets and help the solar industry reach $77 billion in revenue and 26.4 GW in capacity by 2015.
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