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  • OO-STAR Floating Wind Foundation Gets Nod from ABS

    25 September 2024
    Floating Wind, Foundations, R&D, Supply Chain

    The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has issued Approval in Principle (AiP) to the OO-STAR concrete semi-submersible floater from Bouygues Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of Bouygues Construction. The foundation can support wind turbines of more than 20 MW in harsh offshore environments, Bouygues Construction said. This achievement is said to be the first step in […]

  • Bouygues Travaux Buys OO-STAR Floating Offshore Wind Foundation Technology

    13 September 2022
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    France’s Bouygues Travaux Publics is expanding its range of infrastructure solutions for offshore wind farms with the exclusive acquisition of the OO-STAR floating foundation technology, owned by Floating Wind Solutions. Bouygues Travaux Publics, which already owns the gravity-based foundation technology with the Fécamp offshore wind farm project, is exclusively acquiring this floating base technology. OO-STAR […]

  • 10+ MW Floating Wind Turbine Project Kicks Off

    30 September 2020
    R&D, Technology

    The Iberdrola-led international consortium has launched the FLAGSHIP project to develop and fabricate the first 10+ MW floating offshore wind turbine. The turbine will be supported by a floating semi‐submersible concrete structure based on Olav Olsen’s OO-Star Wind Floater concept. The prototype is scheduled to be installed and commissioned at Metcentre outside Karmøy, Norway, by […]

  • Ørsted to Bid for Floating Wind Farms Off Scotland

    8 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Ørsted, Falck Renewables, and BlueFloat Energy have established a consortium to jointly apply for seabed leases in sites suitable for building large-scale floating wind farms in Scotland’s upcoming ScotWind leasing round. The news comes less than a month after Ørsted revealed its strategic decision to pursue floating wind opportunities as part of its entering into […]

  • BlueFloat, Falck and Ørsted Seal ScotWind Leases

    12 April 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    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 […]

  • Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy Form ScotWind Partnership

    7 January 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Technology

    Falck Renewables and BlueFloat Energy plan to jointly apply for one or more seabed leases in the Crown Estate Scotland’s ScotWind leasing round for offshore wind projects. The two companies will look to develop floating wind projects if successful in obtaining the leases. “We have over 15 years of experience of working closely with local […]

  • Iberdrola Ramps Up Floating Wind Game

    30 March 2020
    Technology

    Iberdrola will lead an international consortium aiming to install a floating wind turbine of more than 10MW in Norway and will soon join another floating wind demonstration project in Spain.

  • Two OOS Offshore Wind-Friendly SSCVs Under Construction

    25 May 2018
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    China Merchants Heavy Industry started building OOS International’s new semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) OOS Walcheren on 24 May at its Jiangsu yard, while the first of the two ordered SSCVs, OOS Serooskerke, is already under construction in Haimen and due for delivery in mid-2019.

  • CMHI to Build OOS Energy’s New Jack-Ups

    28 May 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    China Merchants Heavy Industry will start building OOS Energy’s two newly designed jack-up vessels later this year. The new multi-activity units (MAUs) will be capable of handling offshore wind installation and oil & gas decommissioning operations.

  • Scotland’s New Floating Wind Projects – What We Know So Far

    18 January 2022
    Authorities, Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Scotland made headlines yesterday (17 January) by awarding seabed lease rights to 17 offshore wind projects totalling almost 25 GW in capacity, well beyond the expected 10 GW, and by the fact that more than half of this massive capacity is coming from floating wind farms. With many details about the selected proposals yet to […]

  • OOS New SSCVs Undergoing Final Touches

    10 August 2020
    Vessels

    The two offshore mast cranes on board OOS International’s semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) OSS Walcheren have been installed and load-tested, while the company’s SSCV OOS Serooskerke is now being prepared for sea trials. OOS International ordered the construction of two vessels from China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) in August 2016, announcing they would be used for offshore […]

  • OOS Serooskerke Starts Sea Trials

    21 October 2020
    Vessels

    The OOS Serooskerke semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) was towed out of the China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) shipyard in Jiangsu on 9 October for thruster installation and to undergo sea trials in the waters around the Zhoushan archipelago. The total length of the vessel is 137.75 metres, the molded width 81.0 metres, and the molded […]