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  • Ørsted Hires Correll for Cable Fault-Finding and Repair in UK, US and Taiwan

    4 June 2024
    Cables, Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain

    Ørsted has awarded three multi-year framework agreements for fault-finding, diagnostic and dry repair of cables at its offshore wind farms in the UK, the US, and Taiwan to Correll Group. The agreements have been signed for an initial period of three years and Ørsted has also selected the UK-based Correll Group, a subsidiary of the […]

  • RWE Eyes Another Swedish Port for Baltic Sea Offshore Wind Hub

    31 May 2024
    Business & Finance, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Outlook & Strategy, Ports & Logistics

    RWE and Smålandshamnar AB, which operates the Swedish Port of Oskarshamn, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the port’s potential to become a Baltic Sea offshore wind hub. The aim of the collaboration is to explore whether the port could be a suitable harbour for the logistics, installation, loading, operations and maintenance […]

  • German Regulator Prepared to Take National Responsibility for Power Grid

    6 June 2012
    Authorities, Grid Connection

    German power network regulator, the Bundesnetzagentur, has offered to assume national responsibility for the grid encompassing 16 state borders in Europe’s biggest national power market, Reuters informed. After Chancellor Angela Merkel’s proposition to rapidly replace nuclear power with renewable sources, the government has not set out a valid plan to deal with the shift to […]

  • France Ready to Issue Floating Wind Call for Tenders

    9 July 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    French wind industry group (FEE) announced Tuesday that the country will launch a call for tenders for floating wind power projects this month. FEE believes up to three projects ranging from 15 to 60 MW with a total capacity of up to 120MW will participate, writes Reuters. The group could not specify the level of feed-in tariff subsidies the […]

  • GICON Gets Green Light to Install Floating Foundation

    9 April 2015
    Authorities, R&D, Technology

    Germany’s first floating offshore foundation, the GICON® SOF, has cleared an important hurdle on the way to the installation and testing phase by receiving its construction and operating license from the State Department of Agriculture and Environment of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On March 27, GICON received the necessary approval for “erection and operation of an offshore wind […]

  • Iberdrola’s Offshore MD Chairman of ORE Catapult’s Industry Advisory Group

    4 November 2014
    R&D

    The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult has appointed Iberdrola’s Offshore Managing Director Jonathan Cole as Chairman of its Industry Advisory Group. The Industry Advisory Group (IAG) is made up of senior representation drawn from across the offshore renewables sector, including utilities, manufacturers, supply chain and marine organisations. It provides clear, consistent and representative industry advice […]

  • RTS Wind Wrapping Up at Wikinger

    14 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    RTS Wind is currently involved in the commissioning works at the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm located in the German Baltic Sea.

  • Top News of the Week, 25 Sep – 1 Oct 2017

    1 October 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    DEME Tries to Take Possession of Unfinished Living Stone from LaNaval Shipyard Belgium’s DEME Group has attempted to take possession of the advanced cable lay vessel Living Stone, currently under construction at the financially troubled LaNaval shipyard in Bilbao, Spain, and tow the vessel to another location where the delayed construction could be completed. Wiking […]

  • Nordsee One Turbine Installation Completed

    22 September 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The 54th and final turbine was installed at the Nordsee One construction site today, 22 September. The 332MW offshore wind farm is scheduled to begin commercial operations by the end of this year.

  • GICON and Glosten Float Tension Leg Platform Partnership

    11 May 2017
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    Germany’s GICON and the U.S.-based Glosten are forming a strategic business relationship to develop a Tension Leg Platform (TLP) offshore wind foundation.

  • Siem Offshore Sticks to Ampelmann’s E1000

    3 April 2017
    Vessels

    Siem Offshore Contractors (SOC) has awarded Ampelmann with a contract extension for the E1000 motion compensated access system.

  • New European Project to Boost Offshore RE Development

    16 March 2017
    R&D

    A new European project – H2020 marinerg-i – aimed at developing an integrated infrastructure to facilitate future growth and development in the offshore renewable energy sector, was launched in Brussels on 15 March.

  • N-Sea and Bodac Form UXO All-Rounder

    20 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) provider, N-Sea, and Bodac UXO, an unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation expert, have announced an agreement to jointly market and execute marine UXO survey, identification and removal projects across Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Scandinavia. N-Sea CEO, Gerard Keser, said: “The cooperation between N-Sea and Bodac will significantly reduce […]

  • Nexans Officially Inks Deal for First OWF to Use 66kV Cable System

    15 September 2016
    Grid Connection

    Nexans has officially signed a contract for the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Wind Farm Project after VBMS selected its 66kV cable system to provide the subsea connection between the offshore turbines and the onshore grid for the project. This will be the first project to use the new 66kV cable technology. The standard voltage for array cables […]

  • nkt cables Signs USD 113 Million Submarine Contract for West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm (UK)

    18 July 2011
    Grid Connection

    nkt cables has signed a contract with DONG Energy and ScottishPower Renewables (part of Iberdrola Renovables) for supply of on- and offshore high voltage cables, including delivery and installation of accessories for the West of Duddon Sands offshore wind farm. The West of Duddon Sands project will be located 14 km. southwest of the Barrow-in-Furness […]

  • UPDATE: Cables for Connection of German Offshore Wind Farms Sinks in Italy

    7 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    A cable lay barge, carrying cables manufactured by Prysmian for the connection of Butendiek and Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farms in Germany, flipped over and sank on July 3. AMT Explorer, towed by Red Husky, was on its way from Arco Felice in Naples to Bremerhaven, when the incident occurred 50 nautical miles southwest of […]

  • Offshore Wind Services Acquires Offshore Beaver

    30 May 2014

    Offshore Wind Services (OWS) has acquired a multipurpose / diving support vessel “Offshore Beaver”, formerly known as “Union Beaver”. Before entering the fleet of OWS, “Offshore Beaver” had supported projects in the North Sea for Boskalis. With her 32 pax accommodation capacity, 25t crane, salvage winches and 4-point mooring system, she is capable of laying her […]

  • Navantia & Windar Win East Anglia ONE Foundations Contract?

    7 September 2016

    Iberdrola will today place an order with Navantia and Windar Renovables for a portion of jacket foundations that will hold Siemens 7MW wind turbines at the East Anglia ONE wind farm in the UK, according to Spanish media.  Iberdrola had split the construction of 102 foundations into three lots, with the awardees producing 28, 34 and 40 3-legged jacket foundations, and […]

  • Three Nordic Yards Shipyards Bought by Leisure Company, DolWin Gamma Construction Not Affected

    3 March 2016
    Business & Finance

    Genting Hong Kong and Nordic Yards signed a contract on Tuesday, under which the global leisure company will take over three Nordic Yards’ shipyards for EUR 230.6 million. Nordic Yards has built and delivered three offshore converter platforms to Siemens, and is currently working on the fourth one, ordered by the GE. Herbert Aly, managing director of Nordic Yards, […]

  • Top News of the Week Nov 09 – 15, 2015

    15 November 2015
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    First German Floating Foundation Secures Grid Connection German engineering consultancy Gicon has received permission from a governmental agency to feed 2.3MW of grid connection capacity through the country’s first floating offshore foundation – GICON®-SOF. RWE-Led Consortium to Bid for Dutch Borssele OW Projects RWE Innogy, EDP Renewables and Macquarie Capital have formed a consortium to […]

  • DONG Picks Van Oord to Install Foundations at Walney Extension

    5 November 2015
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Rotterdam-based dredging and marine contractor Van Oord has reached an agreement with Denmark’s DONG Energy to transport and install the 87 foundations at Walney Extension offshore wind farm in the United Kingdom. Van Oord will transport the foundations, monopiles and transition pieces, from the various suppliers in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom, and then install the […]

  • Mini SOUL Jack-Up Put Through Paces

    10 July 2017
    R&D, Technology, Vessels

    A 1:200 scale model of the SOUL wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), a joint development of SeaOwls and Ulstein Design & Solutions, is currently being tested at the PEUTZ test facility in the Netherlands.

  • Ørsted Says Recent Wind Turbine Incident Not Due to Systemic Issue

    8 April 2022
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Data from Ørsted’s fleet of Siemens Gamesa 3.6 MW – 4 MW turbines, and drone inspections of the turbine which recently suffered a loss of its rotor and blades have supported the conclusion that this was not a systemic issue, the offshore wind developer said. As reported earlier this week, the rotor and the three […]

  • Meet Offshore WIND Team at Seawork

    6 June 2014

    The visitors to the annual Seawork International event will not just be able to enjoy the good weather that is promised by some forecasters, when looking at all the new vessels and talking to the exhibitors in Southampton next week. They will also be able to attend all the naming and handing over ceremonies of […]

  • EnBW Eyeing Dutch Offshore Wind Zones

    22 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    German energy company Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW) is reportedly making preparations to participate in the Hollandse Kust Zuid offshore wind tender in the Netherlands.

  • Cuxhaven Ready For Heavy Offshore Wind Loads

    23 August 2017

    Lower Saxony’s Minister of Economics, Labour and Transport Olaf Lies has inaugurated a new berthing space and a new ramp at the port of Cuxhaven’s offshore terminal.