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  • Heli Service to Back Isolation Procedures at EWE’s Offshore Wind Farms

    21 April 2020
    Operations & Maintenance

    Heli Service International will provide a 12-passenger helicopter for isolation procedures at EWE’s offshore wind farms is Germany. EWE Offshore Service & Solutions (OSS) selected Heli Service on 16 April. The negotiations were held under an emergency procurement process and in addition to the tender closed in March. Last month, the helicopter service provider won […]

  • DEME Settles in German Offshore Wind Hub

    19 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME inaugurated its new office in Bremen, Germany, on Monday, 17 October. The Bremen office currently employs around 100 people. It will serve as the headquarters for the company’s operations in Germany, and for its subsidiaries – Nordsee Nassbagger-und Tiefbau and GeoSea. The Bremen team is currently involved in the construction of the 396MW Merkur offshore […]

  • GE Grid Solutions Completes DolWin Gamma Upgrades

    13 October 2020
    Grid Connection

    GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has completed upgrades on the offshore converter platform DolWin gamma in the German North Sea. The upgrades included enhancements to the valves and control system, which now, in addition to improving the overall performance of the grid connection system, also reduce maintenance, GE said. Located approximately 80km offshore, DolWin3 with the […]

  • Business Focus: IBG Companies in the News

    5 October 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 over the past two weeks.  Deutsche Windtechnik  Starting in January 2017, Deutsche Windtechnik will be servicing six Senvion 5M turbines at the alpha ventus offshore wind farm. The […]

  • Ulstein Painting New Bernhard Schulte SOV

    18 December 2019
    Vessels

    Ulstein is currently carrying out the paint work on Bernhard Schulte’s new service operation vessel (SOV). According to Ulstein, the SOV was docked at the Ulstein Verft dock hall on 8 December. After the hull had been towed, the exterior paint work started, while the interior work continues. To remind, the Norwegian shipbuilder and ship […]

  • EWE Picks Crew Transfer Provider for German Offshore Wind Farms

    26 March 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    EWE Offshore Service & Solutions (OSS) has awarded Reederei Norden–Frisia with a contract to provide crew transfer services for offshore wind projects in Germany. The contractor is in charge of providing transport for personnel and material from the base port in Borkum and the Riffgat and Alpha Ventus offshore wind farms, and possibly other projects. […]

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2016

    1 September 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Environment, Grid Connection, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    USA Just Got Its First Offshore Wind Farm “The Block Island Wind Farm is now fully constructed,” Jeff Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s CEO, informed via social media on 18 August. Bilfinger Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Business Germany’s VTC Group Munich has bought Bilfinger’s share in Bilfinger Mars Offshore, a Poland-based manufacturer of steel foundations for offshore […]

  • Red Rock 3D Compensated Crane Passes Harbour Acceptance Test

    24 February 2020
    Vessels

    Red Rock’s 3D compensated crane has completed the Harbour Acceptance Test (HAT) at Ulstein Verft in Norway.

  • 1 Pct of Global Offshore Wind Investments Could Restore Millions of Square Kilometres of Marine Ecosystems, Study Finds

    8 July 2025
    Business & Finance, Environment, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    Allocating just 1 per cent of the global offshore wind investments from now until 2050, which are projected to be USD 6 trillion (approximately EUR 5.1 trillion), to marine conservation and restoration could restore millions of square kilometres of marine ecosystems, a new international study has found. The scientists who conducted the study have urged […]

  • German Offshore Wind Farms Up Production in 2018

    3 January 2019
    Grid Connection

    German offshore wind farms generated over 18.8 Terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity in 2018, an over 8% increase compared to 17.4TWh generated in the German North Sea and the Baltic Sea in 2017, according to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. 

  • Viking Neptun Joins DEME Fleet

    1 February 2023
    Vessels

    DEME group has announced that the DP3 offshore installation vessel Viking Neptun arrived at its base in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, for the first time. Viking Neptun will join the installation vessel Living Stone and reinforce the company’s cable installation capacity, DEME said. Featuring the famous DEME green, the vessel has a turntable capable of handling […]

  • Aker Solutions to Set Up Standalone Offshore Wind Company

    17 July 2020
    Business & Finance

    Aker Solutions will separate its offshore wind business in a new company – Aker Offshore Wind – saying the standalone entity will have financial flexibility to raise required capital for large, capital-intensive projects. The company, which is merging with Kvaerner and is also spinning off its carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) business, will be […]

  • Hanseatic Power Cert Changes Company Structure

    18 December 2015
    Business & Finance

    Founding partners of Hanseatic Power Cert (HPC) GmbH, GuD Consult GmbH and Thomas Köther, have acquired the company’s shares held by 8.2 Consulting AG. Since 2008, HPC has provided testing and certification services to several offshore wind farm projects, including Global Tech, Dan Tysk, Merkur, Baltic Eagle and alpha ventus. “With the news that our accreditation as […]

  • FINO 1 Platform Operator Wanted

    29 August 2019
    R&D

    German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is looking for an operator for the FINO 1 research platform in the German North Sea. BMWi is extending the operational life of the FINO1 platform until 31 July 2023, with an optional one-year extension. The future operator must ensure the continuous and trouble-free operation as well […]

  • GE Preparing BIWF Nacelles for Shipping

    11 July 2016

    GE reported today that the manufacturing of the first commercial series of Haliade™ nacelles is soon to be completed at its offshore wind turbine plant in Saint-Nazaire, France, with the nacelles scheduled to begin their voyage to the U.S. in mid-July. The five 370-tonne nacelles will equip the Block Island offshore wind farm, the first of its kind in […]

  • DEME’s Living Stone Hits the Water (Gallery)

    19 September 2016
    Vessels

    DEME Group’s new multi-purpose vessel Living Stone was launched yesterday at the LaNaval shipyard in Spain by Sarah Tommelein, wife of Bart Tommelein, Vice-Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister for Energy. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered in the second quarter of 2017 and will head to its first project at the Merkur offshore wind farm […]

  • Offshore Wind Sparks Recruitment Drive at DEME

    3 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Training & Education, Vessels

    Belgium’s DEME Group is recruiting more than 200 new employees in 2017 to meet the demand driven by the growth in offshore wind energy.

  • Red Rock Delivers Nexans Aurora Cranes

    10 June 2020
    Vessels

    Norwegian company Red Rock has delivered a crane package to Ulstein for the cable-laying vessel Nexans Aurora. Red Rock was contracted by Ulstein in 2018 to provide a deck machinery package for Nexans’ vessel, consisting of knuckle boom cranes, fixed boom cranes and work baskets. The 150-metre DP3 cable-laying vessel. designed by Norwegian company Skipsteknisk, […]

  • Highlights of the Month: October 2017

    1 November 2017

    Offshore WIND’s highlights of the past month.

  • Windea Leibniz SOV to Convert Into CSOV After Upgrades

    1 November 2022
    Vessels

    The Service Operations Vessel (SOV) Windea Leibniz has returned to Ulstein Verft in Norway for an upgrade after which the vessel will be ready for assignments in the Baltic Sea as well as the North Sea, with a status as a Construction Service Operations Vessel (CSOV). Windea Leibniz, the second SOV ordered by Bernhard Schulte Offshore […]

  • Prysmian to Introduce New Subsea Cable Protection System

    27 November 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Prysmian Group is launching Power Link Cable Solutions, a new system that is said to provide a comprehensive management of subsea cable damages and minimize downtime and costs in the event of a fault.

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Preparing Beatrice for Inter-Array Cable Installation

    23 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) is set to commence the first pre-lay grapnel run campaign at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site to clear the inter-array cable routes from debris and prepare them for cable installation.

  • Northern HeliCopter on Baltic Sea Offshore Wind Rescue Duty

    14 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Environment, Operations & Maintenance

    Northern HeliCopter (NHC) has won a contract by 50Hertz Transmission (50HzT) to provide a rescue helicopter with pilots and medical crew for emergencies on offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea.

  • Offshore Wind Five for Ampelmann

    24 September 2018
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Dutch offshore access solutions specialist Ampelmann has won five new offshore wind contracts over the course of September.

  • Manor Expanding Senior Team, Appoints General Manager

    6 June 2018
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Manor Renewable Energy (MRE) is expanding its senior management team and has appointed Brett Smith at the newly created position of General Manager as part of the process being carried out to meet the demands of the offshore wind industry.

  • Borkum Riffgrund 2 Jackets Start Arriving in Cuxhaven

    2 March 2018
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    The barges and coasters carrying jacket foundations and suction buckets to be installed on Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in the German North Sea have started arriving at the port of Cuxhaven.