It has agreed that the sea-bed and its oil riches should be divided up into national sectors.
The device is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed which uses wave power to deliver high-pressure water to an onshore turbine.
It also stated that nearly 13% of sea-bed residue samples from fish farms were higher than the environmental standard allowed.
However, most of the concrete problems between the two countries, such as disagreements over sea-bed exploration rights and air space, remain unresolved.
The tide had completely gone out for about 100 meters or more and most parts of the sea-bed near the coast were visible.
Above sea level, the offshore structure has been bolted together with a conventional offshore turbine of the sort used for near-shore wind farms that are bolted to the sea-bed.
Moreover, onshore production of floating turbines that are then towed offshore to be anchored in place should prove cheaper than the weather-restricted and costly off-shore construction of sea-bed turbines.
Instead, massive floating platforms are anchored to the sea-bed.
But the equipment needed to operate each well is too heavy to put on a floating platform, so it has to be installed on the sea-bed and run and maintained by remote-controlled submarines.
Without these firms, hydrocarbons would largely stay in the ground or locked in the sea-bed, heavy manufacturing would be difficult to impossible, electricity and communications would be more episodic and primitive, and the list goes on.
The profit margins in shipping being as slim as they are, pilots often have to deal with ships so laden (mostly with West African bauxite for the local aluminium smelter) that they have barely a one-foot clearance from the sea-bed.
For the purposes of floating wind farms, such turbines are not light enough, they are too tall and the rotor blades are too small, according to Mr Bratland's early assessments, made even before the 2.3 megawatt turbine has started delivering electricity through the sea-bed cable that connects it to the Norwegian national grid.
Details of the revised competition to advance carbon capture and storage (CCS) - which is where power station emissions are caught and buried under the sea bed - will be announced later in the spring.
''We locate objects on the sea bed with a side-scan sonar device which we tow along behind our salvage ship, '' she explained.
Seagrass bed: area of the offshore sea-bottom colonized by seagrasses.
And environmental activists also question the project's impact on the sea bed, marine ecology and livelihood of fishermen - the oldest residents of this island city.
New sea bed is constantly being created in the middles of the oceans - flowing out as hot lava, and rapidly cooling on contact with cold deep sea water.
Some of the food, together with large amounts of ammonium-rich salmon excreta, drops through the cages on to the sea bed.
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Tiffany (nyse: TIF - news - people )-blue sea, never swerving into the 3, 300 square feet of bed and bath.
Leave the door open and let the sea breeze follow you inside as you enjoy a siesta on your soft, king-sized bed.
In the 1970s, a hugely expensive and complicated 15-year programme to reclaim 22 hectares of land by damming and backfilling the sea bed began.
The islands are in fact the peaks of a sub-Atlantic mountain range that rises more than 4, 000 feet from the sea bed, forming sheer cliffs and often impassable terrain.
That's a relief, because you certainly wouldn't want them haunting your cathedral-ceilinged bedroom, with its immense bed and wraparound folding doors, which open to a 270-degree vista of the sea.
Settling into my four-poster bed, I'm lulled by the sound of the wind spiralling up off the sea, joined by the faint creak of a rocking chair and, just perhaps, the slightest click of a key turning in a lock.
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