Top News of the Week, 15 – 21 August 2016

BREAKING: USA Just Got Its First Offshore Wind Farm

“The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media.

Timelapse: Dudgeon OSS Topside Lowered into Place

Statoil has shared a timelapse video of a heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov installing a 1,700-tonne topside onto a jacket on Dudgeon bank off Norfolk, UK.

Wikinger Substation Heads to the Baltic Sea (Photos)

The 4,550-tonne offshore substation built for the 350MW Wikinger wind farm departed last weekend from Cadiz in Southern Spain and is now en route to the installation site in the German part of the Baltic Sea.

DONG Gets Development Consent for 1.8GW Hornsea Project Two

DONG Energy has received development consent from UK’s Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark for the 1.8GW Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm project.

E.ON Has a Blast at Rampion (VIDEO)

Two controlled explosions took place at the Rampion offshore wind site at the beginning of this month as two explosive devices detected within the area this March were removed.