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  • Highlights of the Month: September 2014

    7 October 2014

    Technip to Close Offshore Wind Business, 190 People to Lose Jobs Technip has decided to shut down its offshore wind division based in Westhill, Aberdeenshire, after all undergoing projects are completed. Suction Bucket Installation (VIDEO) Suitable for water depths of 30-60m with a height of 57m and weighing roughly 850 tonnes. The suction bucket jacket […]

  • Louis Dreyfus Orders TTS Equipment for Hornsea Two SOV

    19 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has contracted TTS Group to provide an equipment package for its second service operations vessel (SOV) destined to operate for Ørsted.

  • Salt Ship Enters Offshore Wind Market with DONG’s New SOV

    8 February 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) has ordered a new Service Operation Vessel (SOV) based on a design from Salt Ship Design. The new vessel will be built by Cemre Shipyard in Turkey and will be operating for DONG Energy after it is delivered in Q4 2018.

  • The Netherlands: TenneT Converter Platform Connected at Dockyard Zwijndrecht

    10 April 2012
    Grid Connection

    At Easter Sunday two separate decks of TenneT’s 80 metres high offshore converter platform were successfully mounted on each other in the yard of Heerema Factory Group in Zwijndrecht. The platform of Dolwin1 is currently being built by Heerema Factory Group, subcontractor of TenneT’s main contractor ABB. The HVDC Light converter platform will be installed […]

  • Ørsted Charts Hornsea Two Course for Latest SOV

    16 April 2018
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Louis Dreyfus Armateurs’ (LDA) new service operations vessel (SOV) will service Ørsted’s Hornsea Project Two offshore wind farm once delivered in 2021.

  • Baker Consultants to Monitor Marine Noise at Wikinger OWF

    11 January 2016
    Business & Finance, Environment, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Baker Consultants has won a contract with Iberdrola to provide an underwater noise and marine mammal activity monitoring service during the construction phase of the Wikinger offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. Baker Consultants will monitor underwater noise emissions as well as the activity of harbour porpoises that may be present within and around […]

  • GeoSea, IHC Quietly Install Gode Wind 2 Foundations

    3 July 2015

    The first part of the foundation installation for the Gode Wind Offshore Wind Farm in the German North Sea is completed. Just two months after the first pile, GeoSea has installed all 42 positions for Gode Wind 2 and already 6 monopiles for Gode Wind 1. Using a combination of the IHC IQIP Hydrohammer S-3000 […]

  • Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven Scores Hohe See and Albatros Contract

    18 April 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The Buss Orange Blue Terminal Eemshaven has signed a contract with GeoSea for port logistics services of 87 monopiles and transition pieces for the 497MW Hohe See and the 112MW Albatros offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.

  • RWE Subcontracts Semco for Nordsee Ost Substation Project (Germany)

    19 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    German energy group RWE has chosen Semco Maritime as subcontractor for design and installation of German utility provider RWE’s substation platform at the offshore wind farm Nordsee Ost in the German North Sea region. The project includes offshore commissioning of the electrical and technical systems at the substation. The contract was won in close cooperation […]

  • DONG Orders Siemens Gamesa Turbines for Dutch Offshore Wind Farm

    6 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    Siemens Gamesa and DONG Energy have signed an agreement for the supply and maintenance of 94 8MW turbines at the 752MW Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farms being developed in Dutch waters.

  • Jan De Nul Fixes DolWin Alpha Cable

    19 May 2021
    Grid Connection

    Jan De Nul has repaired TenneT’s AC108 cable connecting the Trianel Borkum offshore substation with Tennet’s DolWin alpha converter station in the German North Sea. The repair job is part of the Service Level Agreement for cable repairs that Jan De Nul and TenneT entered into in 2019. TenneT engaged Jan De Nul for the […]

  • Swire to Provide Installation Vessel for Sandbank OWF Foundation Works

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    Swire Blue Ocean A/S has signed a key contract with engineering and services group Bilfinger for the provision of an installation vessel to support the installation of 72 foundations on the Sandbank Offshore Windpark.  Seventy-two foundations will be installed in the seabed with Swire Blue Ocean’s installation vessel in waters that are up to 34 […]

  • TTS and Ulstein Secure First Colibri Crane Order

    31 May 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology, Vessels

    TTS Group and Ulstein have received the first order for the jointly developed TTS Colibri crane which will be installed on a wind service operation vessel (WSOV) currently under construction in Turkey for Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA).

  • ABB to Provide Energy Storage Solution for DONG Energy’s SOV

    22 August 2017
    Technology, Vessels

    ABB will install Onboard DC Grid power distribution onboard Louis Dreyfus Armateurs’ (LDA) wind farm Service Operation Vessel (SOV) to enable the cost-efficient integration of batteries.

  • Siemens’ New 6MW Wind Turbines Enter German Offshore Market

    21 November 2013
    Technology

    Siemens will supply 97 wind turbines, each with a rating of six megawatts (MW) and a rotor diameter of 154 meters, to the Danish energy provider DONG Energy. This will mark the first time that Siemens will be supplying its new six-megawatt wind turbines for offshore in Germany. The Gode Wind 1 (252 MW) and […]

  • Bladt, Semco to Build Belwind 2 Substation

    19 June 2015

    Belgian wind farm developer Nobelwind has awarded Bladt Industries and Semco Maritime a new EPCI contract for the manufacturing of the Offshore Substation (OSS) for the upcoming Belwind 2 Offshore Wind Farm. The substation is to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2016 – only 16 months after the signing of the contract. Bladt […]

  • DONG Energy Takes Over Three Dutch Offshore Wind Projects

    20 December 2013
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has acquired the remaining 50% interest in three Dutch offshore wind development projects from its joint venture partner SSE. The projects, Den Helder 1, Breeveertien II and West-Rijn, have a total consented capacity of up to 1,050 megawatt and are located in the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands. The purchase […]

  • Orange Blue Terminal to Handle Riffgrund 1 Foundations

    3 February 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    The Orange Blue Terminal (OBT) in Eemshaven, Netherlands will handle and store 77 foundation structures required for the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm. The onshore project coordination, project engineering and execution are in the hands of OBT, operated by the Hamburg port service provider, Buss Port Logistics in conjunction with their Dutch partner, Uniteam […]

  • Windfarm update: French OWF Projects, Wikinger, Borkum Riffgrund 2, Butendiek, Galloper

    24 November 2015

    French offshore wind projects French transmission system operator RTE France has awarded ABB with a $25m contract to supply nine 400MVA booster transformers and accompanying services, which will help regulate the voltage of power transmitted from four large-scale offshore wind projects. ABB will deliver the transformers in 2017 and 2020. The four French offshore wind […]

  • DONG Energy Acquires German Gode Wind 1, 2, and 3

    14 August 2012
    Business & Finance

    DONG Energy has acquired 100% ownership interest in three offshore wind development projects in Germany, Gode Wind 1, 2, and 3, from PNE Wind AG. The three projects have a total capacity of up to 900 megawatt and are located in the German North Sea approx. 30 km northwest of the island of Norderney. The […]

  • Dong Closes Onshore Activities to Focus on Offshore

    23 December 2014
    Business & Finance

    DONG Energy has today agreed to divest its shareholding in the Swedish onshore wind farm Storrun and Thursday last week the company divested its shareholding in the Norwegian onshore development company Zephyr. This marks the divestment of DONG Energy’s last onshore wind activities. As regards the 30MW onshore wind farm Storrun in Sweden, which has […]

  • DONG Gets GBP 6 Mln for Suction Bucket Jacket

    28 January 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Through its Offshore Wind Accelerator programme (OWA ), the Carbon Trust has awarded DONG Energy GBP 6 million (DKK 54 million) to co-fund full scale demonstration of a new offshore wind turbine foundation called the Suction Bucket Jacket. If the demonstration is successful, it could be implemented in future commercial projects from 2017 – including […]

  • Highlights of the Month – April 2020

    1 May 2020

    Three Injured after CTV Hits Turbine at German Offshore Wind Farm Three persons were injured, one seriously, after a crew transfer vessel (CTV) allided with a wind turbine at the Borkum Riffgrund 1 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Vestas to Lay Off 400 People, Close Temporary Offshore Wind Facility Vestas will stop […]

  • DONG Energy Leading European Offshore Wind Market, Targets 6.5 GW by 2020

    12 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    The European Wind Energy Association, EWEA, has just published its half-yearly offshore statistics, showing a total of 277 offshore turbines installed in the first six months of this year, compared to the 132 turbines installed in the first six months of 2012. A total of 1,045 MW has been installed offshore. “The offshore wind market […]

  • DONG Sells Half of Burbo Bank Extension to PKA, LEGO

    11 February 2016
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has signed an agreement to divest 50% of the Burbo Bank Extension project to Danish pension provider PKA and KIRKBI A/S, parent company of the LEGO Group. Each investor will obtain a 25% ownership interest in the project, and the total purchase price amounts to approximately GPB 660 million (DKK 6.6 billion) to […]

  • DONG Energy to Build Gode Wind 1, 2 Offshore Wind Farms (Germany)

    18 November 2013
    Wind Farm Update

    DONG Energy has decided to build the offshore wind farms Gode Wind 1 and 2 in the German part of the North Sea. The construction will represent a total investment of approximately EUR 2.2 billion [DKK 16.4 billion]. Gode Wind 1 (330 MW) and 2 (252 MW) will consist of 97 turbines from Siemens Wind […]