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  • Rix Does Swell Job for Beatrice

    13 June 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore crew transfer specialist Rix Sea Shuttle has doubled the passenger capacity of one of its vessels to fulfil a contract at Scotland’s largest wind farm.

  • UK: SMart Supergrid Programme Third Year Kicks Off

    1 October 2012

    At the National STEM Centre in York, SMart Wind and HETA (Humberside Engineering Training Association) launched the next evolution of their awardwinning  SMart Futures community schools engagement programme to name the separate wind farms within the Hornsea Zone. Building on two successful years of collaboration, “SMart Futures Supergrid” will not only include technical classroom workshops […]

  • Triton-DeepOcean Transaction Completed

    3 January 2017
    Business & Finance

    Triton, a private equity investment company, is now the largest shareholder of DeepOcean, after the investment announced at the end of November 2016 was completed on 31 December 2016. “Through the substantial equity raise and the future support of Triton, DeepOcean is well positioned to weather the downturn in oil & gas markets and also to take advantage […]

  • Siem Offshore Gearing Up for 3 OWF Inter-Array Gigs

    23 February 2017
    Business & Finance

    Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) is preparing for work on three upcoming offshore wind projects, for which the company signed contracts last year, while also nearing completion for several projects currently underway.

  • RES Offshore Goes to Seawork

    29 May 2014

    RES Offshore will exhibit at Seawork 2014, on the Team Humber Marine Alliance stand (B83). RES Offshore is a provider of integrated development, engineering, construction and Administration, Operations, & Maintenance (AO&M) services for utility-scale offshore renewable energy projects. Its in-house expertise includes resource measurement and prediction, performance optimisation, environmental and consenting capabilities, front-end engineering design, equipment procurement, construction […]

  • Edda Mistral Heads Out for Sea Trials

    17 August 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Service Operation Vessel (SOV) Edda Mistral has left the Ria del Eo, Spain, to head towards the Port of Gijón where the vessel will complete her sea trials over the next weeks. 

  • Boskalis Inks Hornsea Two Cable Deal

    29 April 2019
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    Boskalis has won a contract for the offshore export cable installation at Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm in the UK. Under the contract worth more than EUR 100 million, Boskalis will install three export cable circuits with a total length of approximately 380km. The project scope includes the preparation of the offshore export cable route, […]

  • BVG Associates: Who Could Win Next CfD Auction in UK?

    7 January 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    Following the UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd’s announcement that the government will hold three Contract for Difference (CfD) auctions before 2020, the first of which will kick off this year, Chris Willow, Senior Associate at BVG Associates, has selected front runners in the race to win the first auction. In terms of projects that could win the auction, […]

  • Farm-Downs Lift Ørsted’s Numbers

    3 November 2022
    Business & Finance

    Leading offshore wind developer Ørsted has recorded an operating profit (EBITDA) of DKK 25.4 billion (EUR 3.41 billion) for the first nine months of the year, of which DKK 10.9 billion related to the 50 per cent farm-downs of the Hornsea 2 and the Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farms. EBITDA excluding new partnerships increased […]

  • Mainstream Renewable Power-Siemens FS Consortium One of ScotWind Bidders

    30 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    A consortium between Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Financial Services (SFS) is one of the bidders in the ScotWind offshore wind leasing round, the companies revealed on 30 July. The bid is supported by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and Siemens Energy, which will work with Mainstream and SFS as Tier One suppliers, if the bid […]

  • World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Passes into History

    15 March 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has started dismantling the world’s first offshore wind farm, the 4.95MW Vindeby located in the Danish Baltic Sea near the island of Lolland.

  • UK: Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator to Reduce Costs

    6 July 2011
    R&D, Technology

      The Carbon Trust Offshore Wind Accelerator is a £40m collaborative RD&D project to reduce the costs of offshore wind by 10%. Run in partnership with 8 developers that have 30GW of licensed development capacity in the UK the team is working across four key areas; foundations, access, electrical systems and array design. The team […]

  • Gondan Shipyard Lays Keel for Race Bank SOV

    19 September 2016
    Vessels

    Gondan Shipyard has laid the keel for the Service Operation Vessel (SOV) that will serve as a mother ship for wind turbine technicians at DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The keel laying ceremony marked the start of the assembly of the hull in the slipway at Gondan’s facilities in Figueras, where the […]

  • Top News of 2016 – Editors’ Picks

    2 January 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The editorial team at Offshore WIND have compiled a list of what we thought were the most important developments within the offshore wind industry in 2016. Vattenfall Wins Kriegers Flak Tender with EUR 49.9 per MWh Bid Swedish energy company Vattenfall has won the tender to build the 600MW Kriegers Flak offshore wind farm in the Danish part […]

  • Babcock to Build Beatrice Offshore Transformer Modules

    12 September 2016

    Babcock, a UK engineering company, has won a contract from Siemens to build two Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) for the Beatrice offshore wind farm.  This follows the award of a contract from DONG Energy in May, when Babcock has been hired to build the world’s first offshore reactive compensation station for the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind […]

  • Highlights of the Month: February 2016

    4 March 2016

    Sea Worker Capsizes off Denmark Due to harsh weather, the offshore installation vessel Sea Worker has capsized during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday… VIDEO: How Big is Hornsea Project One? After reaching the Final Investment Decision for the 1.2 GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm, Dong Energy has published this short video to […]

  • Siemens Launches Round 3 Website in London, UK

    15 June 2012

    Siemens has launched its new Round 3 website at the Global Offshore Conference at ExCel, London (13-14 June).  Siemens, a leading provider of global wind power solutions, unveiled its vision for Round 3, the largest offshore wind programme to date, with the launch of a new dedicated website.  Focused on informing external audiences about the […]

  • Chevalier Floatels Springs Into Action in Vlissingen

    24 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    DEME Group has contracted Chevalier Floatels to provide a floating hotel for the crew working on the cable laying vessel Living Stone in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

  • Siemens Gamesa Commissions Half of European OW Turbines in H1 2019

    1 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa supplied nearly half of the connected offshore wind turbines in Europe in the first six months of 2019, according to WindEurope. WindEurope reported that 133 Siemens Gamesa turbines were connected to the grid in the first half of the year, producing 931MW of energy and taking 48% of the market. MHI Vestas follows […]

  • Living Stone Arrives in Vlissingen for Final Outfitting

    17 April 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    DEME Group’s advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone has arrived from Santurtzi in Spain to Vlissingen, the Netherlands, where the vessel will undergo final outfittings before completion, DEME’s spokesperson told Offshore WIND.

  • Boskalis’ Revamped Vessel Coming Up in 2018 (VIDEO)

    16 January 2017
    Vessels

    As of 2018, Boskalis will add a new self-propelled DP-2 crane vessel to its fleet, as the company has put one of its semi-submersible heavy lift vessels up for a conversion this year.

  • Offshore Wind Keeps MCC Busy

    26 March 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    M.C. Construction (Cleveland) Limited (MCC) has won a contract to fabricate and mobilize approximately 250 tons of steelwork that will be used during an offshore wind turbine blade upgrade campaign.

  • Mainstream Raises EUR 60 Mln in New Corporate Debt Facility

    22 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    Mainstream Renewable Power has successfully closed a new €60 million corporate debt facility. The four year facility was arranged through BlueBay Ireland Corporate Credit, a vehicle established by one of Europe’s leading asset managers BlueBay Asset Management, with substantial investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund of Ireland, and through Cantor Fitzgerald Ireland from Irish […]

  • Ørsted Launches Third Round of East Coast Skills Fund

    25 April 2019
    Business & Finance

    Ørsted has opened the third round of its East Coast Skills Fund for applications, with GBP 55,000 available for coastal areas of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and North Norfolk. The grants will be available to organizations that can develop and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) related training or education courses, a one-off event, or a program of […]

  • Race Bank SOV Begins Sea Trials

    20 February 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Edda Passat, the first Service Operation Vessel (SOV) built in Spain, commenced sea trials earlier this month, after which the vessel will head to Ørsted’s Race Bank offshore wind farm in the UK. 

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: Flexibility Key for Boskalis (VBMS)

    17 August 2017
    Vessels

    While there is a downturn in the oil and gas market, Boskalis – which serves the offshore energy sector – can count on its flexibility, as it can tap into offshore wind with its large range of vessels and skilled personnel, according to Pieter Wijnmaalen, Commercial Manager at VBMS, Boskalis’ daughter company working in the offshore wind market.