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  • Geotechnical Investigations to Soon Start at Caledonia Offshore Wind Farm Site

    27 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    Fugro is set to begin a geotechnical survey campaign at the Caledonia offshore wind project site in May, following earlier geophysical investigations. According to a Notice to Mariners, the first survey vessel is expected on site no earlier than 9 May, with a second vessel scheduled to arrive from 12 May. The offshore works are […]

  • ScotWind Developers Fund Study to Find Out More About Minke Whale Activity

    11 May 2026
    Environment, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    Underwater acoustic monitoring equipment has been deployed off Scotland’s east coast as part of a two-year study aimed at improving the understanding of minke whale activity in areas being considered for offshore wind farms’ export cable routes. The work, led by the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), is focused on the Southern Trench Marine […]

  • Nature Organisations Join Forces to Scale Up Oyster Reef Development in Offshore Wind

    8 April 2026
    Environment

    Three organisations for nature conservation and restoration have launched a new collaborative project to accelerate the large-scale development of native oyster reefs at offshore wind farms in the North Sea.  The initiative, called TOPPING (The Oystrification Program for Practical Integrated Nature Gain), gathers The Rich North Sea, based in the Netherlands, the Germany-based Native Oyster […]

  • Scottish Grid Operator Trials Use of Offshore Wind to Restart Power System After Blackout

    17 December 2025
    Grid Connection, Research & Development

    SP Energy Networks will run trials to assess whether offshore wind farms could be used to restart Britain’s electricity system in the event of a national power outage. The trials are part of the BLADE project, a three-year programme supported by funding from Ofgem through its Strategic Innovation Fund. BLADE brings together Scotland’s two transmission […]

  • NKT Wins EUR 650 Million Power Cable Contract for Bornholm Energy Island

    4 September 2025
    Business & Finance, Cables, Energy Islands, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure

    NKT has signed a contract with the Danish transmission system operator (TSO) Energinet to deliver a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power cable system for the offshore interconnector linking the Bornholm Energy Island to the power grid on Zealand in Denmark. NKT’s scope of work includes the delivery of a 525 kV HVDC onshore and offshore […]

  • JERA Nex BP Acquires Full Ownership of Mona Offshore Wind Project from Partner EnBW, 1.5 GW Morgan Discontinued

    19 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    After EnBW decided to exit the Morgan and Mona offshore wind projects in the UK, totalling 3 GW, the company’s joint venture partner, JERA Nex BP, is acquiring EnBW’s stake in 1.5 GW Mona, while the joint venture will not continue with the Morgan offshore wind project. On 15 January, EnBW announced it was withdrawing […]

  • Cadeler Bags New Offshore Wind O&M Contract in Taiwan

    23 March 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Cadeler’s dedicated service platform, Nexra, has been awarded a new contract for an operations and maintenance (O&M) campaign in Taiwan. The scope covers two offshore wind farms in Taiwan and will be executed using Cadeler’s new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Maker, with the campaign set to be executed during 2026 and expected to […]

  • US Gov’t Drafting Agreements to Pay French Developer Nearly USD 1 Billion to Cancel Offshore Wind Leases – Reports

    17 March 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The US government is working on settlement agreements that involve the government cancelling TotalEnergies’ Attentive Energy and Carolina Long Bay offshore wind leases and reimbursing the French energy company USD 928 million (around EUR 806 million) for the financial bids through which it secured the two areas in lease sales during the previous administration, the […]

  • Asso.subsea Orders Second Next-Gen Trenching Support Vessel from China Merchants

    5 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Outlook & Strategy, Transition, Vessels

    Greece’s Asso.subsea has signed the shipbuilding contract with China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) for the construction of a second next-generation trenching support vessel (TSV), sister to the one announced in September 2025. The TSV Andromeda will be built at CMHI’s Shenzhen Shipyard, where the first TSV Avra and cable-laying vessel (CLV) Althea are also being […]

  • Olympic Subsea’s Methanol-Ready Vessel Duo Enters Construction

    8 May 2026
    Clean Fuels, Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    The CMHI shipyard in Shenzhen, China, has begun the construction of two methanol-ready dual-fuel multipurpose subsea vessels for Norway’s Olympic Subsea. Olympic Subsea reported that earlier in April the keel laying for the first vessel and the first steel cutting for the second vessel took place at the CMHI Shenzhen shipyard. The vessels will be […]

  • Maersk and Seatrium Settle Offshore Wind Dispute

    22 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Singapore-based Seatrium Limited and Phoenix II A/S, an affiliate of Maersk Offshore Wind, have settled their dispute over a Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) ordered at Seatrium by Maersk, with Maersk agreeing to accept the delivery of the vessel next year. Back in early October, Maersk terminated the USD 475 million (approximately EUR 409 million) […]

  • ZPMC, LD Armateurs Start Building First SOV for Vattenfall’s Offshore Wind Farms

    5 January 2026
    Operations & Maintenance, Project Updates, Vessels

    ZPMC (Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company Limited) has started the construction of the first of two service operation vessels (SOVs) for the French shipping group Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LD Armateurs), which will serve Vattenfall’s offshore wind farms in Germany. LD Armateurs ordered the vessel design at Salt Ship Design and signed a shipbuilding contract with […]

  • RWE Orders 2.76 GW of Offshore Wind Turbines at Vestas

    10 March 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    RWE has placed a firm wind turbine order with Vestas for its 1,380 MW Vanguard East offshore wind project in the UK, shortly after confirming a firm order for Vanguard West, which will have the same installed capacity.  For Vanguard East, Vestas will supply, deliver, and commission 92 of its V236-15.0 MW wind turbines, and […]

  • Another French Company In Talks with US Gov’t Over Offshore Wind Buyout

    22 April 2026
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Planning & Permitting

    French utility Engie is in discussions with the Trump administration over a potential refund for its offshore wind project leases in the United States, according to Reuters. The talks follow the company’s decision to pause three offshore wind projects under development and book impairments for its joint venture with EDP Renewables, Ocean Winds, amid challenges […]

  • Ocean Winds Adds ABL to BC-Wind Team

    10 December 2025
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Energy and marine consultancy ABL has been appointed to provide marine warranty survey (MWS) services to support Ocean Winds with the construction of Poland’s BC-Wind offshore wind farm. The BC-Wind offshore wind farm is to be constructed over an area of approximately 90 square kilometres, located within Poland’s Baltic Sea Exclusive Economic Zone, approximately 23 […]

  • Cadeler’s New M-Class Vessel Takes Over Turbine Installation in Poland as Wind Osprey Moves to UK’s East Anglia Three

    14 April 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    Cadeler’s second M-class vessel, Wind Mover, which was delivered by the South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to Cadeler in November 2025, has been deployed on its first project, the 1.2 GW Baltic Power offshore wind farm in Poland. The new vessel, designed to install the next generation of offshore wind farm components, has taken over […]

  • DEME Takes Delivery of Second New WTIV, Both Vessels to Start Offshore Wind Work in First Half of 2026

    16 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    DEME has taken delivery of its second new wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV), Norse Energi, at the CIMC Raffles Shipyard in China, after the first WTIV, Norse Wind, was delivered last year. The company’s new vessels are already contracted on offshore wind projects and will start working in the first half of 2026. Norse Energi […]

  • ABL’s Longitude, NGI Enter Offshore Wind Design Partnership

    11 September 2025
    Business development, Collaboration, Outlook & Strategy, Research & Development

    Design and engineering consultancy Longitude and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) have partnered to provide developers and operators of offshore wind farms with an integrated technical offering in offshore wind design. Under the terms of the agreement, Longitude and NGI will collaborate in applied geosciences, geotechnical design, and structural design to support the offshore wind […]

  • SMST to Deliver Mission Equipment for Marco Polo’s Next-Gen CSOV

    12 February 2026
    Equipment, Supply Chain, Vessels

    SMST has been selected by Marco Polo Marine to deliver a mission equipment package for the commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) that the Singapore-based company is building to support both offshore wind and oil & gas operations. For the vessel, dubbed CSOV Plus, SMST will supply an access and cargo tower fitted with a motion-compensated […]

  • Seatrium Contracts Mammoet for 2 GW Offshore Platform Load-Out Ops

    4 February 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Supply Chain

    Mammoet has signed an agreement with Seatrium for the load-out of three substations for TenneT’s 2 GW offshore wind grid connection programme. In 2023, TenneT signed a five-year Framework Cooperation Agreement with the GE Vernova-Seatrium consortium and awarded the consortium with contracts for three Dutch projects: IJmuiden Ver Beta, IJmuiden Ver Gamma and Nederwiek 2. […]

  • Hull Assembly Starts for Asso.subsea’s New Cable Layer

    14 April 2026
    Outlook & Strategy, Vessels

    China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) has held the keel laying ceremony for Asso.subsea’s new cable-laying vessel (CLV), marking the start of the vessel’s assembly. The keel-laying ceremony was held on 9 April at CMHI’s shipyard on Mazhou Island, Shenzhen, some five months after the start of construction of the CLV Althea, announced on 5 November […]

  • Smulders HSM Starts Building East Anglia Two Offshore Substation

    26 March 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Smulders HSM, a subsidiary of Eiffage Métal, has commenced the construction of the East Anglia Two offshore substation topside and jacket foundation. ScottishPower Renewables, part of Iberdrola, awarded an engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning (EPCIC) contract to HSM Offshore Energy for the offshore substation and jacket foundation in 2025, around the same time Eiffage […]

  • Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt Starts Building First of Four C-CSOVs

    9 March 2026
    Vessels

    This article was updated to add information about Mitsui O.S.K.’s (MOL) acquisition of a stake in Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt and shares in the company’s C-CSOVs. The first steel has been cut for the first of Deutsche Offshore Schifffahrt’s (DO) four construction commissioning service operation vessels (C‑CSOVs), ordered by Schoeller Holdings. The vessel, named DO Joule, […]

  • CWHI Delivers First Batch of Inch Cape Transition Pieces

    13 January 2026
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The first batch of 15 fully commissioned transition pieces (TPs) produced by CNOOD-Wenchong Heavy Industries (CWHI) for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm has arrived in the Port of Leith, Scotland. The transition pieces were shipped from CWHI’s yard in China in November 2025 aboard the COSCO heavy-lift vessel Hua Sheng Long. Each TP stands […]

  • First EolMed Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Heads to Installation Site

    10 December 2025
    Floating Wind, Ports & Logistics, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The first of the three Vestas V164-10.0 MW wind turbines has left the Port of Port-La Nouvelle to be installed at the EolMed floating offshore wind farm some 20 kilometres off the coast of Port-La Nouvelle and Gruissan, France. Guided by the port tugs to the exit of the port, the wind turbine was then taken […]

  • CDWE to Use CAPE Holland’s Vibro Lifting Tool at Fengmiao 1 Offshore Wind Farm

    5 February 2026
    Contracts & Tenders, Equipment, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    CAPE Holland, a Venterra Group company, has secured a contract with CSBC-DEME Wind Engineering (CDWE) to supply its CAPE VLT-640 Tandem Vibro Lifting Tool for the installation of pin piles for the offshore wind turbine and substation jacket foundations at the Fengmiao 1 project site in Taiwan. CDWE, a joint venture between Belgian offshore construction […]