Search results for: wind orca

243 results

A list of search results

  • Swire Blue Ocean to Work Alongside Van Oord on Gemini OWF

    19 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean A/S has signed a key contract with an EPCI contractor, Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects bv and will provide a wind farm installation vessel to work together with Van Oord’s own wind farm transport and installation vessel Aeolus on the installation of the 150 foundations and wind turbine generators on the Gemini […]

  • SgurrEnergy to Deploy Asia’s First Lidar Device for Offshore Wind Monitoring (China)

    18 April 2011
    R&D, Technology

    International renewable energy consultancy SgurrEnergy has been commissioned by Hong Kong Electric Company, to deploy Asia’s first Lidar device for capturing wind speed and directional data in an offshore environment. This large scale project represents Asia’s first Offshore Risk Quantification Analysis deployment (ORQA). ORQA is the latest technology data monitoring equipment designed specifically to capture […]

  • Beatrice Site Getting Busier, DP Gezina Joins the Vessel Party

    10 July 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The walk-to-work vessel Stril Server, together with the crew transfer vessel Marieco Mariah, is currently working on cable commissioning works on wind turbine foundations at the Beatrice project site, in preparation for the installation of wind turbines.

  • Remedial Works Underway at London Array

    30 September 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Construction works at London Array Offshore Wind Farm are complete and the wind farm is operational. However, some remedial construction works are required. Due to the long term essential maintenance, the wind turbine D20, located on the west side of the wind farm, has a 500m safety exclusion zone in place from the 8th September […]

  • 40 Wind Turbines Up at Beatrice OWF

    18 December 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Forty wind turbines have been installed at the Beatrice offshore wind farm and the project is now two turbines away from reaching a halfway mark. 

  • ERCA postpones studies on the impact of offshore wind turbines (Canada)

    21 May 2010
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The Essex Region Conservation Authority has studies on the impact of offshore wind turbines any studies on the impact of offshore wind… [mappress] Source: windsorstar, May 20, 2010;

  • Swire Blue Ocean to Rebrand Ahead of Stock Exchange Debut

    8 October 2020
    Business & Finance

    Swire Pacific Offshore is planning to list its subsidiary Swire Blue Ocean (SBO) on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The proposal to take Swire Blue Ocean public comes after the announcement of expansion plans, the company said. The subsidiary is also undergoing full rebranding and will be renamed Cadeler. The new name was selected to reflect […]

  • Blue Water Backs UK’s Offshore Wind Projects

    2 April 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    During the first quarter of 2014, Blue Water has supported Swire Blue Ocean with port services for the Windfarm Installation Vessel (WIV) “Pacific Osprey” in the Port of Liverpool. The vessel has been working at wind farms Walney, Burbo Bank and Rhyl flats in the Irish Sea and Blue Water has had a chance to […]

  • Bold Tern Joins Galloper Turbine Installation Team

    4 September 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has been awarded a contract with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) for the transport and installation of wind turbines on the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm off Suffolk, UK.

  • SgurrEnergy Puts in Operation First ORQA Platform in Hong Kong

    12 April 2012
    R&D

    As informed by the North American Clean Energy, SgurrEnergy, engineering consultancy specialising in worldwide renewable energy projects, put into operation the first Offshore Risk Quantification Analysis (ORQA) platform this month in Hong Kong. The platform installation was commissioned by Hong Kong Electric Company (HEC) within the framework of a one year long measurement campaign in the […]

  • Baker Consultants Welcome Borkum Riffgrund 1 Opening

    12 October 2015

    Last week saw the inaugural opening ceremony of Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm, for which Baker Consultants provided noise and marine mammal monitoring services. “This is a fantastic achievement for all involved and we are proud of Baker Consultants’ role in this,” Baker Consultants said. In August 2013, the construction of the wind farm started with the […]

  • BODL to Listen Out For Small Cetaceans off Blyth

    12 May 2016
    Environment, R&D, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Ltd (BODL) will be deploying 11 hydrophones in order to monitor the presence and activity of small cetaceans in and around the proposed 99.9MW Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstration project, Kis-Orca reports. The hydrophones are passive devices consisting of a buoyant plastic tube 67cm in length and 10cm in diameter attached to a weight by […]

  • First Galloper Turbine In Place

    17 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens team onboard the wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Pacific Orca has installed the first of the fifty-six 6MW Siemens turbines on the 336MW Galloper wind farm off Suffolk.

  • Last EOWDC Turbine Installed, Inter-Array Cabling Nearing Completion

    28 May 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    The eleventh and final MHI Vestas turbine was erected on 26 May at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), where the inter-array cable installation works are also coming to an end, thus moving the project to the final commissioning phase before it generates its first power later this summer. 

  • Corvus Energy Storage System for Taiwanese SOV

    2 October 2020
    Vessels

    Vard Electro has selected Corvus Energy to supply lithium-ion battery-based Energy Storage System (ESS) for the service operations vessel (SOV) being built for Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 1 and 2a wind farms in Taiwan. The SOV is of VARD 4 19 design developed for the complicated and harsh environment in the Taiwan Strait. Currently under construction […]

  • First Monopile Installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1

    22 January 2014

    The first of 77 foundations has been installed at Borkum Riffgrund 1 in Germany representing 277 MW when complete. With the beginning of the year 2014 the construction work continued at the offshore wind farm Borkum Riffgrund 1 in the German North Sea, after installation of the offshore substation in the summer 2013. Around 37 […]

  • Seaway Moxie to Support O&M Ops at Beatrice OWF

    18 January 2021
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Seaway Moxie is set to be deployed on the Beatrice offshore wind farm at the end of January for walk-to-work operations during an operations & maintenance (O&M) campaign at the wind farm, located some 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in Scotland. According to the wind farm’s latest Notice to Mariners, work will commence […]

  • Rampion Set For Flurry of Offshore Works

    2 September 2016
    Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro’s multi-purpose offshore vessel Saltire is expected to start burying inter-array cables at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm on Sunday, 4 September. The Saltire will use a Q1400 trenching system to bury the 122 cables. Another Fugro vessel, the offshore support vessel Symphony, has been installing the inter-array cables at the site some 13km off the […]

  • West of Duddon Sands Marks Its Official Opening with Full Power Output

    30 October 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    Full power output has been achieved more than two months ahead of schedule from West of Duddon Sands Offshore Windfarm, a major renewable energy project which has been developed by ScottishPower Renewables and DONG Energy in the Irish Sea. The news came on the day that the 389 megawatt (MW) windfarm was officially opened by […]

  • New Welding Method Aims to Cut Construction Costs and Times

    12 January 2023
    Industry, R&D, Technology

    New research, investigating single-sided welding for offshore wind foundations, could cut the cost of wind turbine fabrication and help ease bottlenecks in delivering the countries’ renewable energy targets which are often stalled by construction times, the Carbon Trust said. The Fatigue Assessment of Single-Sided Welds in Tubular Joints for Offshore Wind Foundations (ASSISI) project is […]

  • Germany: GL Can Successfully Address Complexities Posed by WTIS’

    4 September 2012

    In Europe, many offshore projects are planned for deeper waters further from the shore, which requires sailing speeds of up to 13 knots and jacking capabilities for water depths of up to 60 m. Most of the specialised vessels now in operation are classed by GL. GL has accumulated an unrivaled pool of knowledge as […]

  • Final Rampion Foundation Piled into Seabed

    10 November 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Jack-up vessels MPI Discovery and Pacific Orca have completed the installation of 116 turbine foundations at the 400MW Rampion wind farm off Sussex, E.ON reports. The installation has been completed on schedule, E.ON said. Work to install the first foundations began in early February and was put on hold, as planned, during the Black Bream spawning […]

  • Innogy Unbridles Galloper

    28 September 2018
    Wind Farm Update

    Innogy SE officially inaugurated the Galloper offshore wind farm in the UK today, 28 September.

  • Piling Continues at Rampion

    6 July 2016
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Piling work to install wind turbine foundations at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm has recommenced this week, following the black bream spawning season coming to a close, E.ON said. 20 monopile foundations, each weighing between 500 and 800 tonnes depending on water depth, have already been installed and over the next four to five months […]

  • West of Duddon Sands Team Celebrates End of Turbine Installation

    19 June 2014
    Wind Farm Update

    The team behind the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm is celebrating the successful installation of the final turbine at the 389MW project. The 108th turbine was recently hoisted into position by the Sea Installer. John Hill, Project Director for West of Duddon Sands at DONG Energy said: “We’re delighted to have reached this huge […]

  • Jee Analyses Offshore Wind Subsea Cables at Centrica’s Site

    3 November 2014
    R&D

    Jee Ltd has completed a Centrica Renewable Energy Ltd contract, which saw the subsea engineering and training firm successfully perform a subsea power cable analysis that will potentially reduce future operation and maintenance costs on an offshore wind project. Centrica Renewable Energy commissioned Jee to identify scenarios that could lead to premature failure of the […]