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  • UK: A&P Tyne Ship Repair Yard Marks Better Start of 2012

    21 March 2012

    A&P Tyne ship repair yard has made a good start to 2012 with a multi-million pound order book for the first quarter of the year. The Hebburn yard, which suffered a disappointing end to 2011 with the unexpected loss of an aircraft carrier contract, has bounced back and is now bustling with activity as work […]

  • SeaRoc Shortlisted for RenewableUK Health & Safety Awards

    27 January 2014
    Technology

    SeaRoc have been shortlisted for the 2014 renewableUK Health & Safety Awards for their innovation and delivery of a ‘minimal human intervention’ lattice tower installation methodology, recently deployed at Dogger Bank. SeaRoc, working on behalf of contracting company Fred. Olsen United (FOU) designed and implemented the concept of removing riggers who previously had to be […]

  • 7MW Offshore Wind Turbine Nearing Completion in Fife, UK

    8 October 2013

     The operation to install the huge two-piece steel structure has been taking place over recent days 50m offshore from Methil’s Energy Park Fife. Once fully assembled and operational, the three blade, 7MW prototype turbine will be the world’s largest and most powerful installed turbine, with the tip of its blades 196m above sea level and […]

  • Mabey Bridge Makes Senior Sales Appointment to Strengthen Its Offshore Renewables Sector (UK)

    30 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Mabey Bridge – the UK leading wind turbine tower manufacturer and international bridge builder – has appointed Gerry Voller as Sales Director – Tubular Products. The company – which employs 600 people in the UK and internationally with a turnover exceeding £80m per annum – is expanding and investing in sales leadership as it widens […]

  • Constitution Wind Submits Connecticut Offshore Wind Bid

    1 October 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    Joint venture partners Eversource and Ørsted have submitted their Constitution Wind project bid in response to Connecticut’s Request for Proposals (RFP) for offshore wind energy generation. Constitution Wind included several project proposals that offer Connecticut flexibility in selecting its next offshore wind project, the developers said. The project, located 65 miles off the coast of […]

  • BP and EnBW’s EUR 11.65 Billion Scottish Plan Includes 2.9 GW of Offshore Wind, Green Hydrogen

    19 July 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    After announcing their intention to bid in the ScotWind seabed leasing this May, British oil & gas major BP and German offshore wind developer EnBW have now detailed on their plan in Scotland, which encompasses more than offshore wind. With an investment of GBP 10 billion (around EUR 11.65 billion), the two partners want to […]

  • NorSea Group Opens Offshore Wind Company in Esbjerg

    30 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    NorSea Group has set up an offshore wind company, NSG Wind A/S, in Esbjerg, Denmark, which has been set up to deliver the full range of offshore wind industry services to wind farm operators, wind turbine manufacturers and sub-suppliers, among others. “European offshore wind markets continue to grow and the markets in Asia and North America are mushrooming. […]

  • RWE, Masdar Award Geophysical Surveys Contract for DBS West Offshore Wind Farm

    16 May 2024
    Business development, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Research & Development, Wind Farm Update

    RWE and Masdar have signed a contract with marine technology and data acquisition company, Ocean Infinity, for 3D ultra high-resolution seismic (UHRS) geophysical surveys at the Dogger Bank South (DBS) West offshore wind farm in the UK. Located over 100 kilometres off the northeastern coast of England, DBS will be split across two sites, DBS East […]

  • SCHRAMM Group Completes Offshore Logistic for Thornton Bank, Belgium

    10 July 2012

    The engineering company NavConsult AWSS GmbH & Co. KG from Brunsbüttel/Germany, completed a comprehensive transport project for offshore wind turbines.   Since the foundation in 2006, the planning, consulting and engineering company NavConsult offers high specialized, individual advices for the maritime industry. The main focus is on the development of tug boats, pontoons and specialized vessels […]

  • All Eyes on EU as It Presents Clean Industrial Deal to Future-Proof Energy Sector

    28 February 2025
    Authorities, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Planning & Permitting, Transition

    The European Union has unveiled the Clean Industrial Deal, a transformational business plan outlining concrete actions to turn decarbonisation into ‘a driver of growth‘ for European industries by supporting renewable energy sources. Specifically, the plan aims to lower energy prices, create ‘quality’ jobs and the ‘right’ conditions for companies to thrive, accelerating decarbonisation while at […]

  • Critical Group and Floating Power Plant Working on Poseidon (Denmark)

    16 November 2011

    Critical Software Technologies (UK), Critical Software (PT) and Critical Materials (PT) are working with Floating Power Plant to help the company adopt a proactive approach to monitoring the condition and structural health of its Poseidon off-shore plant. Critical’s work on the Poseidon prototype, situated off the coast of Lolland in Denmark, will open up an […]

  • BP, EnBW to Start Site Investigations for 3 GW Offshore Wind Project in UK

    21 June 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    A geophysical, geotechnical and environmental (benthic) survey at the sites the Crown Estate awarded to a consortium between BP and EnBW earlier this year is set to start on 27 June. The proposed 3 GW Yellow North and South offshore wind project consists of two sites in the Irish Sea, off the coasts of North […]

  • Smulders Orders Granada Cranes for Triton Knoll

    2 October 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    Smulders has awarded a contract to Granada Material Handling Ltd to design, manufacture, deliver and commission 90 davit crane units for the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm.

  • ZephIR 300 Lidar Proves Its Bankability

    2 December 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    ZephIR 300 has demonstrated its ability for providing quantitative wind speed measurements, to an industry-approved standard and is now accepted within a Technical Advisor / Bank’s Engineers formal energy assessment of a modern scale wind farm with specific site conditions forming part of the appropriate measurement methodology chosen. Further, the reduction in energy yield ‘uncertainty’ […]

  • Global Wind Power Potential (Switzerland)

    24 June 2011
    R&D

    A growing number of global wind resource assessments have demonstrated that the world’s technical potential for wind power exceeds current global electricity production. The theoretical potential for wind, as estimated by the global annual flux, has been estimated at 6,000 EJ/yr (Rogner et al., 2000). The global technical potential for wind energy, meanwhile, is not […]

  • New Platform Seeks Data to Reduce Subsea Cable Failures

    18 November 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has invited the offshore wind sector to sign up to a world-first data collection platform that aims to vastly reduce subsea cable failures. ELECTRODE will track cable failure trends and service downtime, as well as the effectiveness of current methods of monitoring, detection and response. Subsea cable failures account […]

  • Fraunhofer Commissions Bearing Test Rig for Offshore Wind Turbines

    28 February 2019
    R&D, Technology

    Fraunhofer’s test bench for rotor blade bearings of up to 6.5 meters in diameter has been commissioned at the institute’s Hamburg facility, paving the way for automated continuous operation. The accelerated tests – simulating 20 years of service in six months of testing – will enable manufacturers and operators to increase the reliability of large […]

  • RWE Looks for Offshore Wind Farm Foundation Developer (Germany)

    16 December 2011

    Essen based renewable energy developer, RWE Innogy​, is looking for a contractor to design, fabricate and supply up to 54 foundations for Innogy Nordsee 1 offshore wind farm. The contractor will deliver at least 44 and maximum 54 certifiable foundations. Each foundation will consists of four piles, a substructure (jacket) and a transition piece. Contractor will […]

  • OWI-LAB: Room for efficiency, reliability and cost efficiency

    8 October 2012

    On 27 September, Offshore WIND was present, along with other press and 250 industry representatives, at the official inauguration of the Large Climate Test Chamber which forms part of the Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab (OWI-Lab), strategically located in a warehouse on the Churchill Dock in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. This public testing and […]

  • Celtic Sea Floating Offshore Wind Surveys Kick Off

    17 July 2023
    Floating Wind

    The first in a series of specialist survey vessels have set sail from Swansea, marking an important step in the plans for the development of floating wind off the coast of Wales and South West England. Operated by Fugro with a crew of 30, the vessel will spend around 100 days at sea, using towed […]

  • 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 […]

  • Seismic+ Improves Osiris Projects Manage of Large Seismic Datasets (UK)

    21 November 2011
    Technology

    Osiris Projects prides itself on high quality reporting, an aim which can only be achieved through continuous investment in the very latest in hardware and software. The first element in the all-new Coda Survey Engine range, Seismic+ provides Osiris Projects with an excellent solution to effective and efficient seismic data processing, interpretation and reporting. The […]

  • New Initiative by Sirris Builds Strategic Bridge Between Research and Business (Belgium)

    27 January 2012

    On 24th January, Sirris launched its fourth Application Lab, the Offshore Wind Infrastructure Application Lab (OWI-Lab), in the Port of Antwerp in the presence of more than 100 wind industry representatives. This lab will make state of the art measuring and test equipment available to businesses and start innovation projects in cooperation with these companies […]

  • Vattenfall and MHI Vestas Claim World’s First with 8.8MW EOWDC Offshore Wind Turbine

    10 April 2018
    Technology, Wind Farm Update

    A hat-trick of offshore wind industry firsts has been achieved within a fortnight in North-East Scotland after the world’s most powerful single turbine was installed on Monday, 09 April, for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC).

  • Crown Estate Regulates Seabed Archaeological Discoveries

    5 September 2014

    The Crown Estate, manager of the UK seabed, has launched a Protocol for archaeological discoveries that have been uncovered on the seabed through offshore renewables activity. The offshore renewables ‘Protocol for Archaeological Discoveries’, initially implemented in draft form by Wessex Archaeology in 2010, has already helped to protect over 400 discoveries, such as peat and […]

  • Critical Group Boosts Efficiency of Poseidon, Floating Power Plant (Denmark)

    22 September 2011
    Technology

      Critical Software Technologies (UK), Critical Software (PT) and Critical Materials (PT) are working with Floating Power Plant to help the company adopt a proactive approach to monitoring the condition and structural health of its Poseidon off-shore plant. Critical’s work on the Poseidon prototype, situated off the coast of Lolland in Denmark, will open up […]