Contents | 1st QUARtER 2008
3 Editorial comment
Editor Cheryl Saponia
Offshore wind farms: breaking through the
Editorial Assistant Clare Nicholls
bureaucratic barriers
Design/Production Manager Sandy Defraine
Group Sales Director Debbi Bonner
4-8 News
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4-5 News
Marketing Manager Adelaide Proctor
6-8 Equipment News
Publisher Mark J Staunton-Lambert
9 In-depth
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Feature 1 Repair and conversion
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Feature 3 Environment and renewable energy
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18 Windmills for offshore Europe
20 Government go-ahead for Wave Hub
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this wind energy
Shell’s Perdido spar is concept.
being constructed by
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Technip.
Repairs were recently carried
out on this vessel.
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