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  • OWP Butendiek, Ballast Nedam Donate € 20K to DGzRS

    18 September 2014
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    In acknowledgement of the emergency mission with the rescue cruiser Pidder Lüng at the beginning of July, OWP Butendiek GmbH & Co. KG and Ballast Nedam Offshore donated € 20,000 to the German Maritime Search and Rescue Association “Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger” (DGzRS). The cheque has been handed over by Achim Berge Olsen (Managing […]

  • SNP Welcomes MeyGen Deal

    18 September 2014
    Authorities

    Scottish National Party (SNP) Energy Spokesperson Fergus Ewing has welcomed the news that MeyGen has signed a multi-million pound deal to sell electricity from the planned tidal energy scheme in the Pentland Firth.  Construction on one of the world’s largest tidal power projects will begin in the Pentland Firth later this year, thanks to a £20.5 million […]

  • Highlights of the Month: August 2014

    5 September 2014

    Pontoon Loaded with OW Turbine Parts Sinks Off Germany A pontoon loaded with parts for offshore wind turbines sank on Wednesday morning (August 13) in the Baltic Sea, German media informs. Vattenfall Orders Turbines and Servicing from Siemens Vattenfall has awarded Siemens Energy an order for 72 Model SWT-4.0-130 wind turbines for its new Sandbank […]

  • WaveWalker 1 Wins Ground Engineering Award

    21 May 2014
    Technology

    The innovative walking jack-up platform WaveWalker 1 was presented with the Product and Equipment Innovation Award at the prestigious Ground Engineering (GE) Awards ceremony in London earlier last week (14th May.) The GE Product and Equipment Innovation Award is for a product or item of equipment aimed at the ground engineering or geotechnical market which has […]

  • Carnegie’s Q1 Busy and Successful

    30 April 2014
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Carnegie Wave Energy Limited (CWE) released its quarterly report today, highlighting successful project and financial activities. During the first quarter, CWE focused primarily on its Perth Wave Energy Project with the completion of the foundation and pipeline installation, delivery of the buoyant actuators and other CETO Unit components, commencement of assembly and testing phase and […]

  • HelWin Beta Jacket Fills Its Spot

    21 April 2014
    Grid Connection, Technology

    The jacket of the HelWin beta HVDC platform has been successfully placed at its position in the German part of the North Sea, Heerema Fabrication Group informed via social media. After Heerema Fabrication Group had finished building the HelWin beta jacket at its yard in Vlissingen, the structure sailed away to its location on April […]

  • CTruk to Name Sixth OTS’s Vessel

    11 April 2014

    Ctruk is about to officially name its sixth CTruk 20T MPC offshore wind support vessel intended for Offshore Turbine Services (OTS), the ‘Lieutenant P’. The naming ceremony will take place in Brightlingsea, Essex, next Wednesday afternoon. The seventh vessel for OTS is currently under construction. Both vessels were ordered last year in May and are […]

  • Osiris Settles in Grimsby

    31 July 2014

    Osiris now has the capability to support East coast offshore renewables customers locally through a new shoreside support base in Grimsby. The Port of Grimsby East was chosen due to significant investment made in the area in recent years and the growing presence of renewable energy companies as an attractive location to service their wind […]

  • Offshore Waddenzee Hits the Water

    30 July 2014

    Offshore Wind Services’ (OWS) vessel Offshore Waddenzee was launched today at Damen shipyard in Den Helder. This is the second vessel ordered by the company from Damen this year. Offshore Waddenzee was scheduled for delivery in August, but according to Workships’ twitter account, the vessel has already hit the water. The vessel is going to […]

  • Top News of the Week July 14 – 20, 2014

    20 July 2014

    Seaway Installs Sylwin Alpha Converter Platform Under the direction of Seaway Heavy Lifting, one of the world’s largest converter platforms has been installed off Sylt, an East Frisian Island. MHI Vestas Planning 10 MW Turbine? Vestas revealed it is planning to test what could be the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. VIDEO: Installation of Westermost […]

  • E.ON Recruits UK’s Youth

    5 March 2014
    Training & Education

    E.ON has announced it is to pilot a Customer Service Apprenticeship scheme, helping to support the UK’s youth unemployment agenda and nurturing talent of the future, with up to 50 apprenticeships on offer. This new innovative programme, announced during this year’s National Apprenticeship Week, will provide 16-24 year olds with the opportunity to undertake a […]

  • USA: Offshore Wind Forging Ahead

    9 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind energy projects off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts are aiming to start construction next year and bring an energy source familiar in Europe to the U.S. for the first time, company executives said this week in Atlantic City at the industry’s major annual conference. “This is the year it happens,” said […]

  • JDR Extends EnBW Baltic 2 Contract

    2 February 2015
    Grid Connection

    JDR has extended its service support operations for the EnBW Baltic 2 offshore wind farm by Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH. Under a contract, JDR is providing pre-commissioning, test and termination services for the 80 turbine project in the Baltic Sea, off the coast of Rostock (Germany). JDR’s offshore wind test and termination team was commissioned to […]

  • CorPower Ocean Awarded EUR 100K

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

    As one of four finalists of the MIT Building Global Innovators Award, the KIC InnoEnergy start-up CorPower Ocean was awarded € 100,000 in the category “Ocean Economy”. The jury considered CorPower´s Wave Energy Converters as the most competitive business idea among several hundred screened applications from more than 30 countries. CorPower has now also the chance […]

  • Scottish Renewables Displace Million Tonnes of CO2 Monthly

    12 December 2014

    Almost 12 million tonnes of CO2 emissions were displaced by green energy in Scotland in the most recent year for which data is available, figures released today show.  The reduction – an average of around a million tonnes a month – is the highest ever recorded in Scotland. The statistics were published in response to […]

  • Offshore Marine Named Broker for Severn Provider

    9 December 2014
    Vessels

    Severn Offshore Services appoints Offshore Marine Chartering to act as broker for their new build Offshore Energy Service Vessel ‘Severn Provider’. The ‘Severn Provider’ will be exclusively available through Offshore Marine Chartering and the partnership follows an initial meeting between the two companies, which took place in Cardiff earlier this year. The first of Severn […]

  • Incidents in Offshore Wind Industry

    26 December 2014

    Pontoon loaded with offshore wind turbine parts sinks off Germany A pontoon loaded with parts for offshore wind turbines sank on Wednesday morning (August 13) in the Baltic Sea. The 35×11 meters large transporting pontoon sprung a leak while being towed from Stralsund towards Kiel by Bösch tug, and sank almost four kilometers northwest of […]

  • Germany: Transitional Company for Sietas Agreed by Consensus

    26 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    In a few days, the first installation vessel for offshore wind turbines, designed and built in Germany, will be undocked at the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg. The completion and handover to the renowned Dutch engineering company Van Oord is scheduled for July 2013. In addition, the insolvent shipyard currently hasn’t got any new contracts. For […]

  • SgurrEnergy Expands into Germany

    15 January 2013
    Business & Finance

    Leading renewable engineering consultancy, SgurrEnergy, part of Wood Group, has this week announced the opening of a new international office in Hafencity in Hamburg, Germany, bringing its total number of global offices to 10. With headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland, these recent developments see SgurrEnergy’s reach within the renewables industry extend further into Europe. The move […]

  • UK: Experienced Paint Inspectors in One Place

    15 January 2013

    Paint inspectors are important to secure and maintain good standard of surface pretreatment and the application of coatings in the offshore, marine and industrial industries. New rules under the IMO Performance Standard for Protective Coatings for Dedicated Seawater Ballast Tanks (DSWBT) – General Information as per to SOLAS regulations II-1/3- 2 concerning the mandatory PSPC […]

  • Spain: GES Goes Yellow

    7 February 2013

    The world’s biggest construction and services partner in renewables, GES (Global Energy Services), is launching a new corporate identity. As a maturing industry, renewables are facing new challenges, competing for larger, more complex and risky projects in a global market. To meet its customers’ changing needs, GES is continuously striving to professionalise and align its […]

  • Taiwan Orders AXYS WindSentinel

    7 February 2013
    Business & Finance, R&D

    AXYS Technologies Inc. (AXYS) announces that they have been contracted by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan to supply the WindSentinel™ wind resource assessment buoy. The purchase has been funded by a National Science Council grant under the Master Program of the National Science and Technology Program – Energy for Offshore Wind. The […]

  • Little Dunham Substation Faces Residents’ Opposition (UK)

    19 November 2012
    Authorities

    Public inquiry regarding plans for a substation at Little Dunham, which would connect the Dudgeon offshore wind farm with the national grid, ended last week at the EcoTech Centre in Swaffham with strong public opposition.  Little Dunham Parish Council chairman Simon Fowler is cited by the EDP24 news site as saying that the residents are […]

  • UK: WFS Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary

    17 April 2013

    WFS, global leader in subsea wireless instrumentation and control solutions to the offshore Oil and Gas and Renewables industries, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Founded in 1993, the company has developed unique technology that enables subsea wireless communications, networking, location and power transfer. WFS is helping operators and service companies work around the challenges […]

  • UAE: GPC to Construct Levingston’s 320EX Self-Elevating MOU

    9 November 2012

    Levingston Middle East, FZE, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and Gulf Piping Company of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, announced today that they have signed a contract to build a Levingston 320EX liftboat with construction to start immediately. The Levingston 320EX Self-elevating, MOU (Mobile Offshore Unit) will be a world class liftboat with 320 feet (97.5 […]

  • UK: SMD Showcases QTrencher 1000

    9 November 2012

    The QTrencher 1000 has been specifically developed for cable and pipeline burial to 2000m water depth. The ROV provides a compact high powered trenching capability for the burial of cables, umbilicals and 500mm diameter pipes up to 2-3 metres deep. The use of variable high pressure jetting optimises the trenching operation to suit a range […]