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  • Business Focus: IBG Companies in the News

    2 November 2016
    Business & Finance

    With Offshore WIND heading towards the launch of its International Business Guide (IBG) 2017, the Business Focus articles will update you on the companies listed in our IBG that appeared in the news over the past few weeks.  Bladt Industries The final six transition pieces for the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm were delivered to Offshore Windforce M […]

  • Bladt Industries: Uniform Jacket Foundation Design Would Save Money (Interview)

    31 October 2016

    A standardised design of jacket foundations would greatly contribute to offshore wind cost reduction, according to Jan Kjærsgaard, CEO of Bladt Industries, a company whose foundations are supporting numerous turbines installed in European waters. With the offshore wind industry being massively focused on minimising the costs and Bladt having done both three-legged and four-legged jacket […]

  • GERMANY UPDATE

    11 November 2016

    Since the last time we looked at the status of Germany’s offshore wind industry only two years ago in July 2014, the number of operational offshore wind turbines has jumped from just 141 capable of producing 616MW to 835 grid connected turbines capable of 3,552MW in July 2016 and another 54 installed turbines not yet […]

  • Business Focus: IBG Companies in the News

    21 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    With Offshore WIND heading towards the launch of its International Business Guide 2017, the new Business Focus articles will update you on the companies that appeared in the news every two weeks. A2SEA A2SEA’s vessel Sea Installer has installed the first of 32 MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines at the Burbo Bank Extension offshore wind […]

  • C-Ventus Opens UK Office, Readies for New Projects Across Europe (Interview)

    12 February 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Netherlands-headquartered offshore wind O&M and IRM specialist, C-Ventus, opened an office in the OrbisEnergy building in Lowestoft, UK, in January. Following the announcement, Offshore WIND spoke with the company’s Managing Director Hans Reinigert, Peter van Veen Commercial Manager in the Netherlands, and Jeremy Hardin, who has been appointed as the Commercial Manager at C-Ventus UK.

  • CRANES: Huisman delivers world’s largest Leg Encircling Crane

    8 December 2015

    Huisman recently delivered the cranes for the Seajacks Scylla, the new build wind turbine installation vessel for Seajacks UK Ltd. This jack up vessel is currently nearing completion at the yard of Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The Seajacks Scylla, based on the Gusto MSC NG14000X design, has been specifically designed to meet the […]

  • Mercom Issues Wind Energy Funding and M&A Report

    22 January 2015
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the wind sector for 2014. Global venture capital (VC) funding in the wind sector decreased to $311 million in 2014 compared to $455 million in 2013. Total funding into the wind […]

  • Making Full Use of Deck Space

    5 February 2017

    The free deck area on board a wind farm installation vessel is, of course, a finite space which is defined by the length and beam of the vessel when it was built. The area that is accessible to the vessel’s cranes installed in the shipyard is also finite, defined by the position of the crane […]

  • The Netherlands: Veka-Group Builds Catamaran for Offshore Industry

    6 August 2012

    Veka-Group builds a series of catamarans for the offshore industry. The vessel has been specially developed for crew tendering and offers also enough deck space for transporting three 10 ft containers. The first vessel, destined for an operator of a wind farm, will be delivered mid September.  Stable, fast and economical ‘A monohull built without […]

  • Cadeler to Open Office in Vejle

    25 December 2020
    Vessels

    Cadeler A/S, formerly Swire Blue Ocean, will open an office in Vejle, Denmark, in order to be closer to key customers and suppliers in the offshore wind industry. Many of the largest and most influential companies within the offshore wind industry are headquartered along Jutland’s eastern coast – including original equipment manufacturers, wind farm developers, […]

  • Asia Pacific’s Offshore Wind Developer Plans 2 GW Project in Australia

    20 October 2022
    Wind Farm Update

    Singapore-based renewable energy developer, Vena Energy, has unveiled plans for a 2 GW offshore wind project in Australia. The offshore wind farm, named Blue Marlin, is planned to be built off the Victorian Coast in the Gippsland Basin. The wind farm would be built across four 500 MW phases, each comprising up to 35 wind […]

  • MET Marine to Promote Crane for Offshore Wind Sector at Seawork 2013 (UK)

    6 September 2012

    MET Marine offers high quality marine equipment including Pellegrini and Amco Veba cranes for onshore or offshore use. Keith Hutchinson is already making plans for the company’s much larger stand in 2013: “After enjoying such a positive and rewarding response to our stand at Seawork 2012, we quickly decided we had to follow up this […]

  • Germany: Order for Second Jack-Up Vessel Cannot Currently Be Filled

    12 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    In June 2012 the creditors’ committee voted in favour of an offer by the VeKa Group of the Netherlands to take over the Sietas shipyard. Despite six months of intensive negotiations, it was not possible to complete the deal. The reason is that the Sietas shipyard currently has only one order for a new construction, […]

  • Applied Acoustics Showcases S-Boom in Vegas, USA

    7 November 2012

    The latest Applied Acoustics’ S-Boom sub-bottom profiling system is making quite an impact at the SEG show in Las Vegas. Its novel design, three boomer plates connected in series on a single catamaran, has already proved hugely successful in Northern European waters so it’s now being introduced to US companies as an ideal tool for […]

  • DEME, Shell, Quadran to Jointly Bid for Dunkirk OWF

    22 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    DEME Group, Shell and Quadran Energies Marines are entering an industrial partnership that will build the Dunkirk offshore wind farm in France if their offer at the recently announced tender is selected as the winning one.

  • UK: New Sector Lights Pave Way for Aberdeen Harbour’s Key Role in Offshore Wind

    6 December 2012

    A Vega VLS-46 sector light, supplied to Aberdeen Harbour by Hydrosphere, has played a major part in facilitating the successful completion of the harbour’s £5.2m dredging operation, paving the way for the harbour to play a key role in offshore wind developments. The harbour is already the centre of activity for the energy industry’s marine […]

  • Wind farm support vessels

    12 June 2013

    Since April 2012 the wind farm support vessel industry has experienced success and failure, both large and small. 2012 will be remembered for the number of new vessels built and delivered to operators, but predominantly it will be the collapse of South Boats Special Projects in the autumn that shook this sector of the industry […]

  • Ince & Co Hires Ex-Siemens Man

    16 October 2014

    Martin Sandgren joins the renewables team in Ince & Co’s London office bringing considerable international transactional, project and dispute resolution experience developed both in private practice and latterly with a leading industry provider of on- and off-shore wind energy solutions. After five years in-house as Co-Head of Legal with Siemens Wind Power A/S, Martin joins […]

  • UK: E.ON to Use Port of Sunderland as Storage Base

    29 October 2013
    Ports & Logistics

    Port of Sunderland is celebrating after signing a significant storage and offshore cable base contract with one of the world’s most profitable energy companies, E.ON. The port is due to take delivery of two 600 tonne substations in November as part a Humber Gateway Windfarm project, after a raft of developments designed to make the […]

  • The Netherlands: First Service Vessels for Offshore Wind Farms on Drawing Board

    12 December 2010
    Technology

    Responding to demand from the rapidly expanding European wind energy market, the shipping entrepreneurs J.R. Arends and S. Schakelaar decided to establish SeaZip Offshore Service BV. Started in December 2010, the company focuses on the development and operation of specialised service vessels, mainly for the transfer of personnel and goods to and from offshore wind […]

  • Siemens Invests EUR 150 Million in Expansion of Wind Business (Denmark)

    15 June 2011

    Over the next two years Siemens is to invest over EUR150 million in further expansion of its wind business. Two new Research and Development (R&D) Centers are to be set up in the Danish towns of Brande and Aalborg. In addition, Siemens will match the capacity of its Danish production plants to the growing demand […]

  • International Marine Energy Experts Head for Orkney, UK

    10 October 2013

    Final preparations are underway for a major international ocean energy conference, set to take place in Orkney next week. The two-day Global Ocean Energy symposium – part of a programme of events aimed at celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Orkney based European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) – will see wave and tidal power experts […]

  • Siemens-Gamesa Merger Moves Ahead, Areva Waives Adwen Contractual Restrictions

    17 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    French energy company Areva has agreed to waive existing contractual restrictions in Gamesa’s and Areva’s offshore wind joint venture, Adwen, simplifying the merger between Gamesa and Siemens, the binding agreement for which was signed on Friday, 17 June. As part of these agreements, Gamesa – in alignment with Siemens- grants Areva a put option for Areva’s 50 […]

  • US Wind Gathers Momentum in Maryland

    4 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Baltimore-headquartered offshore wind developer US Wind has initiated a number of steps in the development of offshore wind energy for the US State of Maryland. These include major labor agreements to support US Wind’s first offshore wind project for Maryland, the 22-turbine MarWin project, and all other future projects; a new port facility agreement with […]

  • Giant Wind Farm Proposed Offshore Vietnam

    11 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    UK offshore wind developer Enterprize Energy has revealed plans to build the 3.4GW Ke Ga offshore wind farm in Vietnam.

  • Fluor Extends Hydrosphere’s Greater Gabbard Contract (UK)

    1 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Hydrosphere UK Ltd’s contract for the rental of six Cardinal buoys to mark Britain’s largest wind farm, Greater Gabbard, has been extended by Fluor Limited. Fluor – the principal contractor for the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm project – originally approached Hydrosphere in 2009 for the supply of temporary navigation lights to mark the site in its […]