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OffshoreWIND.biz brings you the ten most-read articles on the site for the month of September 2020. Orion’s Crane Repair Starts Liebherr has started preparations for the recovery of its HLC 295000 offshore crane on board the Orion vessel, whose hook broke this May, leaving several people injured and damaging the crane and the vessel’s deck. Crane Ordered for First Jones […]
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Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
The first shipment of wind turbine blades for the Windpark Fryslân project has been unloaded at the TMA Terminal in the Port of Amsterdam, TMA Logistics said. Located in the IJsselmeer Lake and some six kilometres off the Frisian coast, the 382.7MW Windpark Fryslân will comprise 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines. Siemens Gamesa selected TMA […]
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Aarsleff BIZ, a Per Aarsleff company, has loaded out the first batch of concrete work platforms (CWPs) for the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the Netherlands at its factory in Swinoujscie, Poland. The CWPs, each weighing 76 tonnes, will be mounted on the project’s monopiles, which are currently being installed at the project site in the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a tender for the replacement of defective inter-array cables at the Trianel Windpark Borkum offshore wind farm in Germany. The subject of the contract is the replacement of defective inter-array cables between turbines and/or the offshore substation, including the provision of required vessels, equipment, personnel and project execution documentation. Furthermore, the deal […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update
Navantia-Windar, a Spanish joint venture partnership, has won a contract to assemble and deliver five floating foundations for the Kincardine wind farm in Scotland. The assembly and delivery of the floating foundations will be carried out at the Navantia Fene yard in Spain, where the construction of one similar unit for Windfloat Atlantic is being […]
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All 40 wind turbines of the first phase of Trianel Windpark Borkum (formerly known as Borkum West II) offshore wind farm are now installed. MPI Adventure jack-up vessel has been working for eleven months to install forty Areva M5000-116 wind turbines, with a total capacity of 200 MW. “Now, the only thing missing is the […]
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Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
The Orange Blue Terminal in Eemshaven and the wind turbine manufacturer Senvion have signed an agreement for services related to the Trianel Windpark Borkum II offshore wind project.
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Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics
Harlingen-based Kraanverhuur Transport Friesland (KTF) has been awarded a contract for the storage and transshipment of 89 concrete platforms for the Windpark Fryslân wind turbines. The platforms, manufactured by Per Aarsleff in Poland, will be delivered to and stored in Harlingen, from where they will then be loaded onto inland pontoons and transported to IJsselmeer. […]
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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 […]
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Two jacket foundations for the offshore substations to be installed at the Gemini wind farm site are on their way, the developer reported via social media. A joint venture between Cofely Fabricom, CG and Iemants, is in charge of the two offshore substations and one onshore station for the project. Each offshore station will be linked to the onshore one by a […]
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Seaway Heavy Lifting Contracting Ltd (SHL) is being awarded the Foundation installation contract for the Offshore Windpark RIFFGAT project by Offshore-Windpark RIFFGAT GmbH & Co. Offshore Windpark Riffgat is planned with 30 turbines (3.6 MW each) and one substation, covering an area of 5 x 1.2 km² and located 15 km North West of the […]
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Siemens Gamesa has contracted Nexans to supply Windlink cables for its offshore and onshore wind turbines across the world. Under the two-year contract, Nexans will provide ready-to-install medium voltage (MV) cable kits, including 72kV cable kits to meet the demand for offshore wind farms to operate at higher voltages. The company will also supply a […]
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Van Oord has reached a halfway point on the installation of monopiles at the Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm in the IJsselmeer Lake, the Netherlands. In total, the 382.7 MW Windpark Fryslân will comprise 89 Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW wind turbines installed on monopile foundations and scheduled for commissioning in 2021. Van Oord installed the first monopile […]
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Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update
The first wind turbine nacelles built by Senvion for the Trianel Windpark Borkum II wind farm have started their journey to the Buss Terminal Eemshaven in the Netherlands. The first of the 32 Senvion 6.2M152 wind turbines are expected to be installed at the site some 40 kilometres north of the island of Borkum in the German North Sea […]
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Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology
Navantia has delivered the first jacket foundations to Iberdrola for its Wikinger offshore wind farm located in the German part of the Baltic Sea.
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Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology
The Carbon Trust has selected Windar Photonics to supply LiDARs for a new project launched as part of the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) programme.
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Following today’s media reports on Navantia and Windar Renovables being awarded foundations construction contract for the 714MW East Anglia ONE project in the UK, Navantia issued a press release this evening, revealing the contract value of more than EUR 120 million and the number of foundations that it will supply for the project, together with its […]
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In the presence of Cornelia Yzer, Senator of Berlin for Economic affairs, Alstom Grid GmbH has opened in the Berlin district of Neukölln an Offshore-Project office to handle all activities connecting offshore windparks to the mainlandgrid. The company has been recently awarded the DolWin 3 offshore project. This project, with an investment volume of more […]
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The last wind turbine has been installed at the Dutch Windpark Fryslân nearshore wind farm, the world’s largest wind farm built in a body of fresh water. Now that the 89th and final Siemens Gamesa 4.3 MW turbine is in place, the installation platforms Sarens Soccer Pitch and Tom-Wim will leave the IJsselmeer Lake in […]
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Chevalier Floatels, together with Holland Shipyards and Atlas Ship Delivery, has recently engaged in the development of a new concept for accommodation in offshore windparks. Chevalier Floatels already has considerable experience in the offshore accommodation market, and therefore knows what the clientele is looking for. Two identical floatels are currently being developed. The vessels […]
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Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum has issued a tender for subsea works on the cable protection systems (CPS) and bolt exchanges at diffusor plates at the Trianel Windpark Borkum project in Germany. The selected company will be in charge of installing 20 preventive CPS retrofits, four corrective CPS retrofits, as well as bolt exchange at six steel […]
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Vessels, Wind Farm Update
Eight out of 32 monopile foundations have been installed on the Trianel Windpark Borkum II in the German North Sea, the project’s developers said.
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Danish technology group Windar Photonics plc has received a new order for 15 of its WindEYE LiDAR units from a newly appointed regional distributor focused on potential specific IPP customers in China.
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Operations & Maintenance, Vessels
Trianel Windkraftwerk Borkum GmbH & Co. KG, the operator of the Trianel Windpark Borkum offshore wind farm, has awarded a new crew transfer contract to EMS Maritime Offshore GmbH (EMO), thus extending the cooperation for another year. The one-year contract covers crew transfer services during the O&M phase. The vessel operating at the offshore wind […]
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Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update
The Council of the Dutch Province of Friesland has approved the proposed EUR 127 million investment in the 320MW Friesland offshore wind farm (Windpark Fryslân), according to local media.
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Only four months after introduction of the new bulk supplied offshore grout MasterFlow 9800 from BASF, the material is being used during the installation of the offshore foundations at the 600 MW Gemini Offshore Windpark. The specialized grouting equipment of FoundOcean and BASF’s MasterFlow 9800 was mobilized at the harbor of Eemshaven. After installation of the […]
