22 results found for 'Charybdis'

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  • 4 February 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    On 3 February, Dominion Energy announced that the estimated total costs for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project have increased by nine per cent. In addition, the developer said that the 2.6 GW wind farm is now approximately 50 per cent complete and remains on track for on-time completion at the end of 2026. […]

  • 16 April 2024
    Project Updates, Vessels

    The United States’ first Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Charybdis, has been launched to water at Seatrium AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, Texas. The vessel, which will be operated by Dominion Energy’s subsidiary Blue Ocean Energy Marine, was launched after the welding of the hull and the commissioning of the vessel’s four legs and related […]

  • 16 April 2024
    Authorities, Fixed-Bottom, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project has received an air quality permit from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – the final federal permit required to begin offshore construction. The installation of monopiles at the project site off the coast of Virginia Beach is scheduled to begin in May. Belgian offshore […]

  • 24 February 2023
    Vessels

    Stars have aligned today, 24 February, for the first wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) being built in the US as Huisman loaded the vessel’s crane onboard BigLift Shipping’s Happy Star and sent it off to the Lone Star State. In Texas, Huisman’s US team will commission the crane at the Keppel AmFELS shipyard, which is […]

  • 9 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels

    The first US-built and Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Charybdis, will be completed in late 2024 or early 2025, Dominion Energy said in its financial report for the third quarter of 2023, confirming the information that surfaced after the company’s second quarter report in August. Construction of the first US WTIV started […]

  • 24 February 2021
    Vessels

    The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) will class the first Jones Act compliant wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) that will service the U.S. offshore wind sector. The 472-foot Charybdis, designed by GustoMSC, is being constructed by Keppel AmFELS at its Brownsville shipyard in Texas. The vessel will be equipped to handle all current turbine technologies, […]

  • 23 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Huisman has signed a contract with Keppel AmFELS to deliver a Leg Encircling Crane (LEC) for Dominion Energy’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Charybdis. The crane will be able to lift 2,200 tons, will have a 130m long boom, and will allow the installation of the new generation of offshore wind turbines, Huisman said. It […]

  • 1 June 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    US energy company Dominion Energy, Ørsted and Eversource have agreed for Ørsted and Eversource to charter Dominion Energy’s Charybdis, the first Jones Act-qualified offshore wind farm installation vessel in the United States, for the construction of two offshore wind farms in the US Northeast. Charybdis, which is expected to be sea-ready by late 2023, will […]

  • 17 February 2016
    Vessels

    Seajacks has confirmed that Seajacks Scylla’s voyage recommenced. The vessel is scheduled to arrive in Great Yarmouth Port in time for her naming ceremony on Thursday, 3 March. In early December, Seajacks Scylla started her journey from a Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea to the Port of Rotterdam on-board the heavy load carrier vessel […]

  • 22 December 2021
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa has chartered ​the Jones Act-compliant Walk-to-Work vessel (W2W) Paul Candies. Owned and operated by US Otto Candies, LLC, Paul Candies will assist in the installation of 89 turbines across the South Fork and Revolution Wind offshore wind farms in the United States, Siemens Gamesa said. The projects are one of the largest programs […]

  • 30 November 2021
    Business & Finance

    Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine, has signed a global framework agreement with Ørsted to potentially undertake future offshore substation (OSS) projects. The agreement follows Keppel Offshore & Marine’s completion of its first project for Ørsted in Singapore in September, when the company finished construction of two offshore substations for […]

  • 26 May 2023
    Grid Connection, Industry, Infrastructure, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and Eversource have marked the sail away of the first American-built offshore wind substation, which departed a Texas fabrication facility and is en route to the US East Coast. The substation is transiting across the Gulf of Mexico and then up the East Coast for installation at the South Fork Wind project site in […]

  • 24 September 2021
    Vessels

    NED-Project, a Poland-headquartered naval architecture and ship design company with an office in the US, has developed a new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), which features a hydrogen-ready set-up and has the capability to install 15-20 MW wind turbines as well as to load and transport monopiles vertically. The vessel design, NP20000X ULAM, which is […]

  • 26 April 2021
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    Dutch provider of step-changing technical solutions Huisman has developed a Motion Compensated Platform to transfer wind turbine components from a feeder vessel. Since using internationally-flagged wind turbine installation vessels is restricted in the U.S. under the Jones Act, a feeder vessel with a Motion Compensated Platform offers a reliable and efficient solution for the transportation […]

  • 6 March 2023
    Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    The Connecticut Port Authority has revealed that the Northeast Bulkhead, also known as the “delivery berth”, was completed at New London’s State Pier in the US. The 40-acre New London State Pier Terminal will be used to assemble and deliver offshore wind turbines for the Ørsted and Eversource joint venture’s South Fork Wind project this […]

  • 26 January 2022
    Ports & Logistics, R&D, Technology, Vessels

    American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to a coordinated design for a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) in conjunction with the BargeRack feeder barge system by Friede and Goldman (F&G). The design is said to enable the Jones Act-compliant barge in a lifting system that F&G says reduces motion and […]

  • 13 January 2022
    Vessels

    A Jones Act-compliant Subsea Rock Installation Vessel, the first such ship to enter the US market, is to be built to ABS Class by Philly Shipyard, Inc. for the Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC. The vessel will transport and strategically deposit loads of up to 20,000 MT of rock on the seabed, laying […]

  • 27 September 2022
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, R&D

    A consortium led by Germany-based ONP Management and US-based Renewable Resources International has developed a Jones Act-compliant transport and installation vessel solution, named Feederdock, dedicated to addressing the US market. The Feederdock, which is based around a U-shaped crane vessel that can dock Jones Act Articulated Tug Barges (ATBs) before jacking up, features a 3,000-tonne […]

  • 5 May 2023
    Industry, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    The American Clean Power Association (ACP) has released a report on the US offshore wind market, outlining a rapidly growing pipeline of projects across 32 leases totaling 51,377 MW of expected capacity which is enough to power the equivalent of more than 20 million homes. Altough the US currently lags behind China and the UK […]

  • 3 December 2021
    Vessels

    Volvo Penta has signed a contract to provide its quad IPS propulsion systems for the four new offshore wind farm crew transfer vessels (CTVs) that Rhode Island-based Blount Boats will build to ABS Class for American Offshore Services (A-O-S), a newly established company between Sweden’s Northern Offshore Services (N-O-S) and the US SEA.O.G Offshore. The […]

  • 5 April 2023
    Vessels

    Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) has marked the 50-per cent completion milestone on ECO Edison, the first-ever US-flagged, Jones Act-compliant offshore wind service operations vessel (SOV), chartered by Ørsted and Eversource for their South Fork Wind, Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects. The construction of the SOV, being built by ECO’s in-house shipyards in Louisiana, Mississippi, and […]

  • 30 June 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Industry, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted and Eversource are working with Boskalis for the foundation and offshore substations transportation and installation work for the joint venture’s South Fork Wind and Revolution Wind projects, as well as scour protection installation contracts for its Revolution Wind and Sunrise Wind projects. The contract for this work was finalized in late 2021. The more […]