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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Acteon Geo-services brands, TerraSond and Benthic, have been awarded a combined geophysical and geotechnical survey by the BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership for its Bellrock and Broadshore offshore wind farms, located northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland. The geophysical scope will involve using the Ocean Fortune, a survey vessel designed specifically for year-round North Sea operations, which […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
The BlueFloat Energy and Renantis partnership has signed exclusivity agreements with Crown Estate Scotland to develop its Sinclair and Scaraben innovation projects which will now be part of a phased delivery of the partnership’s Broadshore project. The two 99.5 MW floating offshore wind farms will now be developed as part of a phased delivery of […]
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Spanish company Eolos Floating LiDAR Solutions is preparing to deploy two of its FLS200 floating LiDAR buoys at two sites offshore Scotland, where partners Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy plan to build floating wind farms. The LiDAR buoys will be installed this month out of the Peterhead port, where Eolos has engaged ASCO to provide […]
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The impending shortage of specialised vessels in offshore wind is not limited to the installation phase and could hit areas of project development such as seabed mapping and UXO surveys, according to a US company that recently introduced a solution to this issue in the form of a portable autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). At the […]
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During the 30th German Logistics Congress, BLG WindEnergy Logistics, together with another company, received the German Logistics Award. For the first time in the history of this award, the applications were rated so close together that two projects were presented at the industry meeting from 23rd to 25th of October in Berlin. Andrew Wellbrock from […]
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Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy have signed option agreements for their two joint projects selected in the ScotWind offshore leasing round, and another option agreement for a third project for which the partnership secured a lease in a consortium with Ørsted. The two leases secured by Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy are located east of […]
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Oilfield service company Petrofac passed a decision on appointing director of Offshore Projects & Operations (OPO) business by naming Jonathan Duffy to the office, reNews informs. “Jonathan joins us at an exciting time as we are working on our first offshore wind maintenance contract in Germany. We look forward to working with him to further […]
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The Netherlands-based SPT Offshore has completed the preliminary design of a three-legged jacket, including the suction pile foundation, for an offshore wind farm project at the east coast of Scotland.
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Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, Vessels
Ørsted UK, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have expressed their support for the bid to give Scottish Green Freeport status to the Cromarty Firth. The three companies, which have secured seabed leases in the recent ScotWind round, have become members of Opportunity Cromarty Firth (OCF), the partnership of private, public, and academic sector bodies committed […]
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A jack up vessel has been based in River Deben collecting riverbed samples ahead of East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm construction. The materials would be used to analyse the type of bedrock and soil composition, according to Ipswich Star. The next phase of survey activity will include digging trenches along parts of the proposed […]
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Ørsted has awarded Taylor Hopkinson with a framework agreement to supply contract personnel for its Gode Wind 3 and Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. Under the deal, Taylor Hopkinson will provide personnel across a broad range of roles within the allocated lots, from construction, engineering and O&M to project management and commissioning. […]
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Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) has completed the identification of geohazards in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea that offshore wind developers should address when planning projects. According to OWC, Poland’s Baltic Sea is covered by various kinds of sediments, ranging from loam through fine‐grained sand and coarse sands, to gravel and stones, with sediment […]
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) is launching its first commercial offshore wind turbine in Choshi, Japan, on 1 January 2019.
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Ventnor residents have raised concern regarding the announced tidal energy development in the area. The proposed Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC) would be located around 2.5km south of St Catherine’s Point, near Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. ”The site in St Catherine’s Deep is on the brown crab migratory route that runs from the […]
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Ramboll has won the detailed design of the offshore substation for DONG Energy’s Westermost Rough Offshore Wind Farm in the UK, which is estimated to make a significant contribution to the UK government goal of installing 33GW of wind production by 2020. The contract with DONG Energy includes the conceptual and detailed design of […]
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The RWE-led Awel y Môr offshore wind farm has completed its first offshore geophysical exploratory works with Fugro GB Marine Ltd taking the helm. As part of the development of the Awel y Môr wind farm offshore Wales, studies of the seafloor have to be carried out. These in turn will help inform the final […]
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Recognising the critical role that substructures play on the Levellised Cost of Energy, a dedicated session was held on Tuesday 10th March at EWEA Offshore that discussed various foundation solutions. One of the session speakers was Dr. Azadeh Attari from engineering consultants, Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions (GDG), who presented preliminary results from the European Commission […]
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) has begun a seabed survey off the coast of Chiba Prefecture, Japan, to ascertain the bedrock structure of the seabed for a possible offshore wind farm.
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The annual International Conference on Offshore Wind Substructures was held in Edinburgh last week, where the latest trends in foundation design and innovations in substructure technology were discussed. This two day event facilitated lively discussion among attendees from across the supply chain regarding how foundation engineering may contribute to reducing the levellised cost of energy. […]
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Bauer Spezialtiefbau has tested onshore piles at the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind project in France to gather data for the design of foundations. Bauer Spezialtiefbau designed, installed and tested a total of 14 drilled and grouted piles at the Routin Quarry near Cap Fréhel, Brittany, under a contract signed with project developer Ailes Marines last year. “The aim was […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance
BLG and EUROGATE have jointly with AREVA Wind developed a logistics concept for handling, storage and assembly of rotor stars for the Global Tech I offshore wind park approximately 110 km off Germany’s North Sea coast. Overall responsibility for this project lies with BLG, which today signed the contract with AREVA Wind. In the search […]
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) is mulling a 1,000MW project in Japan that could be built off Choshi in Chiba Prefecture, The Japan News (The Yomiuri Shimbun) reports. TEPCO plans to set up an offshore wind farm comprising 200 5MW wind turbines, installed on fixed-bottom foundations, according to The Japan News, which further writes that the Japanese […]
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The Crown Estate has published a study by the British Geological Survey (BGS) summarising the geological conditions of the Irish Sea, thus providing a valuable resource for the development of offshore infrastructure in the region. The study follows the Crown Estate’s publication of a wide range of data collected for the discontinued Celtic Array offshore wind […]
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Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update
Human remains dating back to the 11th century were found during excavation work on the South Downs for the Rampion offshore wind farm, with the body showing signs of a traumatic death, E.ON said. Archaeologists from Archaeology South East, UCL, working on behalf of the Rampion project, uncovered the well-preserved remains of the adult male […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Heerema Marine Contractors is modifying cranes onboard Thialf to enable this world’s second-largest semi-submersible crane vessel to enter the Baltic Sea and work on the Arcadis Ost I offshore wind farm. Heerema Fabrication Group is fabricating the structures needed for the modification of Thialf’s cranes capable of lifting 14,200 metric tons. Thialf is second in […]
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Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource have started constructing a manufacturing facility for offshore wind foundation components at ProvPort in Rhode Island, United States. Once complete, the new facility will be used to support the construction of advanced foundation components integral to foundations for Ørsted and Eversource’s portfolio of offshore wind farms serving Rhode Island, […]
