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  • Siemens’ First Service Operation Vessel Sailing to Norway

    12 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    The hull of one of Siemens’ new service operation vessels (SOVs) is on its way towards Norwegian Havyard shipyard, where it is supposed to arrive any day now. On July 19, 2014, the hull was launched at the Cemre shipyard in Turkey, reported Ingo Bischof, Siemens’ Project Manager for Offshore Service Germany in charge of […]

  • 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 […]

  • Vattenfall Recruiting for Sandbank Project

    30 October 2015

    Vattenfall is seeking specialists for quality control and site representation for the Sandbank offshore wind farm construction. According to the developer, the contract shall comprise pre-assembly, installation and commissioning phase. The Port of Esbjerg will serve as the pre-assembly site while the wind turbines will be installed 90 kilometres off the coast of Sylt in […]

  • Vattenfall Seeks Inter-Array Cable Repair and Jointing Contractors

    21 September 2021
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall has issued a tender for inter-array cable repairs and jointing work in Sweden and Germany, expected to start in the summer of 2022. The developer is looking to award five-year framework agreements to a maximum of five contractors per lot, with one lot being dedicated to the work to be performed in Sweden and […]

  • Top News of the Week Nov 02 – 08, 2015

    8 November 2015

    Fire Breaks Out on WFSV at Borkum Riffgrund 1 One of the engine rooms of the Beaumaris Bay wind farm service vessel, deployed at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, caught fire on Saturday, 31 October. Scotland Greenlights World’s Largest Floating Wind Project The Scottish Government has granted a marine licence to Statoil for […]

  • Vattenfall Ready for German Offshore Wind Tender with 3 Projects

    31 January 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Vattenfall is expected to participate in the first competitive offshore wind tender in Germany with three projects.

  • VIDEO: Bilfinger Getting Busy at Sandbank

    16 February 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The last of the 72 foundations for the 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm was installed last Friday with the help of Bilfinger Marine & Offshore Systems, the company which was in charge of transporting and installing the monopile foundations and transition pieces. The foundation installation works started in summer of 2015 off the German North Sea coastline, in a […]

  • Vattenfall Seeking CTVs for Two Offshore Wind Farms in Germany

    21 July 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Vattenfall has issued a call for tenders for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for its DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany from next year and until 2025. The tender has been divided into two lots, with Lot 1 seeking two CTVs to support scheduled maintenance two times per year from 2022 […]

  • Germany: ABB to Connect Sandbank to SylWin Alpha

    21 October 2013
    Grid Connection

    ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won a significant order from the Dutch-German transmission system operator TenneT to supply an AC (alternating current) power transmission link connecting Sandbank, an offshore wind farm in the German North Sea, to the HVDC (high-voltage direct current) converter station SylWin alpha. The link will have the […]

  • CBED and Wind Innovation Stay Offshore Germany

    14 September 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Offshore wind service provider CBED has secured a new contract with the owner of the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in the German North Sea which will see the company’s walk-to-work (W2W) service operation vessel (SOV), Wind Innovation, deployed at the two wind farms throughout 2023. Wind Innovation is already working on the two […]

  • Bladt Inks Another Major Sandbank OWF Contract

    22 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Bladt Industries will manufacture an offshore substation (OSS) for the Sandbank offshore wind farm in close cooperation with their long term partners on the fabrication of substations – Semco Maritime and ISC. Bladt Industries has signed an EPCI contract for the fabrication of the OSS for the upcoming Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm. The contract is signed with the […]

  • Vattenfall Looking For DanTysk and Sandbank SOV

    23 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Vattenfall has issued a call for competition seeking a service operation vessel (SOV) for the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. The selected party will provide an SOV to allow accommodation and transfer of technicians via suitable gangway solutions to turbines for scheduled maintenance during the spring and summer campaign of 2021. The […]

  • Top News of the Week Feb 1 – 7, 2016

    7 February 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 earlier today, Dong Energy has published this short […]

  • Photo of the Day: SylWin Alpha Glowing in the Night

    2 December 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: SylWin alpha platform caught on camera during nighttime, showing all of its colors. The platform is part of the SylWin1 grid connection, which transports electricity from the three wind parks: Butendiek, Dan Tysk and Sandbank to the mainland. The photo was published this morning by Siemens as its Picture of […]

  • WIKING Helikopter to Continue Supporting Sandbank and DanTysk OWFs

    1 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance

    WIKING Helikopter Service and Vattenfal have signed a contract extension for 24/7 Helicopter Emergency Rescue Service for the Sandbank and DanTysk offshore wind farms in Germany. Operating from its Base in Wilhelmshaven, WIKING Helikopter will continue using its high performance (Performance class 1) AW139 LEONARDO helicopter for these operations. The 288 MW DanTysk offshore wind […]

  • Island Diligence Reports for Duty at Sandbank and DanTysk OWFs

    7 May 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    The walk-to-work (W2W) vessel Island Diligence has started working at the DanTysk and Sandbank offshore wind farms in Germany. Under a contract Island Offshore recently signed with a joint venture company owned by Stadtwerke München and Vattenfall, Island Diligence is providing accommodation and transfer of technicians to the wind turbines at the two offshore wind […]

  • Germanischer Lloyd, TÜV SÜD to Certify Sandbank Offshore Wind Farm

    3 October 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH has awarded Germanischer Lloyd Industrial Services and TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH a contract for the certification of the Sandbank offshore wind farm. In the first construction phase it is planned to build 72 wind turbines with a total output of 288 MW, inter array cables and an offshore substation. The project is located in the […]

  • Top News of the Week Jan 19 – 25, 2015

    25 January 2015

    DEME’s order of the Living Stone, a new multi-purpose vessel to be delivered in 2017, was the most read news on Offshore WIND this week. Check out this and other popular news in our weekly review:  DEME Orders New Multi-Purpose Vessel DEME has ordered another vessel serving the offshore energy market. Vattenfall Seeking Personnel for Sandbank Marine […]

  • Top News of the Week May 30 – Jun 5, 2016

    5 June 2016

    Timelapse: Dudgeon Foundation Eased Into Place Statoil has shared a timelapse video of one of 67 foundations for the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm being installed in the UK part of the North Sea. Sandbank Partners Streamlining Turbine Installation Process Vattenfall and Stadtwerke München (SWM), together with project partner Siemens, have developed an optimised concept […]

  • DanTysk Officially Opened

    30 April 2015
    Wind Farm Update

    Vattenfall and SWM officially opened the 288MW DanTysk offshore wind farm today. The ceremony, held in Hamburg, was attended by German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Sigmar Gabriel, Swedish Minister for Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg, Hamburg Mayor Olaf Scholz and Torsten Albig, Prime Minister of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, joined Magnus Hall, President and CEO of […]

  • VBMS Wraps Up Sandbank OWF Wiring

    17 June 2016
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    VBMS has completed cable installation and post-lay burial work at Vattenfall’s 288MW Sandbank offshore wind farm, situated in the German Bight. The company installed a total of 76 inter-array cables within approximately two and a half months. VBMS deployed its multipurpose vessels Ndurance and Ndeavor in order to simultaneously perform cable installation and placement of messenger wires, cable burial, […]

  • RWE Building ‘World’s First’ Amphibious Vessel for Shallow Water Offshore Wind Farms

    3 March 2022
    Vessels

    German renewable energy company RWE has joined forces with Commercial Rib Charters (CRC) to build an amphibious crew transfer vessel (CTV) for reaching offshore wind farms in shallow waters, for which RWE said was a world-first. The vessel, currently being built by Diverse Marine and set to be operated by CRC for RWE under a […]

  • Offshore Wind Vessel on Wheels Completes Land and Sea Trials – Video

    2 February 2023

    CRC Walrus, a 12-metre amphibious crew transfer vessel (CTV) has completed land and sea trials and is ready to start servicing the 60 MW Scroby Sands wind farm offshore the UK. RWE, the owner and operator of the Scroby Sands wind farm, will deploy CRC Walrus at the end of this week, Commercial Rib Charter […]

  • Top News of the Week Oct 21 – 27, 2013

    27 October 2013

    UK: World’s Largest Wind Turbine Construction Complete  The world’s largest and most powerful offshore wind turbine is now standing at Energy Park Fife. GL Garrad Hassan Reviews Offshore Wind Over Last 10 Years  GL Garrad Hassan, the world’s largest renewable energy advisory organisation and part of the recently merged DNV GL Group today published a […]

  • Top News of the Week, 27 February – 5 March 2017

    5 March 2017

    GeoSea to Build Large Offshore Wind Farms with New Next-Gen Vessel As of 2019, GeoSea will use a next generation vessel – named Orion – for the construction of the large offshore wind farms, after its mother company DEME placed an order for the 216.5m DP3 installation vessel with COSCO shipyard in China. TenneT Consulting […]

  • Bilfinger to Install Foundations for Sandbank OWF

    14 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The engineering and services group Bilfinger has won an order for the installation of a total of 72 foundations for the new Sandbank Offshore Windpark. The foundation elements will be installed in the seabed with the help of an installation ship in waters that are up to 34 meters deep and 90 kilometers west of […]