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  • China Connects 16.9 GW of Offshore Wind Capacity to Grid in 2021

    25 January 2022
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Jobs & Recruitment, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    China connected 16.9 GW of offshore wind capacity to the grid in 2021, the latest data from the country’s National Energy Administration has shown. Back in 2020, China installed then record 3,060 MW of new offshore wind capacity, reaching 9,898 MW of installed capacity at the end of that year. China thus had 26,798 MW […]

  • Aker Offshore Wind Ups Stake in Principle Power

    18 November 2020
    Business & Finance, Technology

    Aker Offshore Wind has increased its ownership in Principle Power Inc from approximately 20 per cent to an expected 39 per cent, after exercising an option to buy further shares in the floating wind technology company. “Principle Power is established as the industry leading provider of floating wind foundation technology, with more than 100MW of […]

  • Floating Wind Brings Principle Power and Technology From Ideas Together

    1 October 2020
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Principle Power has partnered with Irish company Technology From Ideas (TfI) for the development of shallow-water mooring components for floating offshore wind. An international consortium led by Principle Power secured a contract by the U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC) for the Demonstration of Shallow-Water Mooring Components for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines […]

  • TenneT Selects Prysmian Cables for DolWin5

    18 June 2019
    Grid Connection

    Prysmian Group has secured a circa EUR 140 million contract by TenneT to provide cables for the DolWin5 grid connection project in the German North Sea. Prysmian will supply, install and commission an HVDC 320 kV XLPE-insulated submarine and land power cable connection, with a 900MW transmission capacity, and the associated fiber optic cable system, including […]

  • LOC Group’s Renewables Exec Takes Company Helm

    17 June 2019
    Jobs & Recruitment

    LOC Group has appointed RV Ahilan to the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who will continue leading the company’s renewables business activities. Ahilan previously held the role of Joint CEO at the company, alongside Jerome Rutler, who will take up the position of Deputy CEO overseeing Operations and Mergers & Acquisitions. The company said its […]

  • ALE and Giant Taiwan Team Up on Formosa

    19 August 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Heavy lift specialist ALE and Giant Taiwan have undertaken a joint venture to provide the onshore handling, transportation, and storage of wind turbine foundations for phase 2 of Taiwan’s Formosa 1 wind farm project. This phase is seeing 20 Siemens Gamesa 6MW wind turbines installed 6 kilometres off Miaoli County in the Taiwan Strait, raising […]

  • Mitsui O.S.K. Lines to Take 5% Stake in Seajacks

    24 February 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Tokyo-based Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) today informed it plans to acquire a 5% share in Seajacks from Marubeni Corporation.

  • Second Walney Extension Offshore Substation Leaves Hoboken

    31 March 2017
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The second offshore substation built by the Engie Fabricom/Iemants consortium for DONG Energy’s 660MW Walney Extension wind farm has set sail from the Engie Fabricom site in Hoboken, Belgium, bound for the wind farm in the Irish Sea.

  • Boskalis Starts Working on Rotterdam Offshore Center

    28 July 2017

    Boskalis has kicked off rainbowing works at the Maasvlakte 2 site, where the Port of Rotterdam is setting up the Rotterdam Offshore Center, dedicated to the offshore wind and oil and gas industries.

  • Portsmouth Fruit Specialist Diversifies Into Offshore Wind

    19 April 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Ports & Logistics, Vessels

    Portsmouth based cargo operator MMD Shipping Services has secured a 10-year agreement with international wind turbine manufacturer MHI Vestas Offshore Wind.

  • Hutchinson Engineering Secures Hohe See Contract

    24 November 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Hutchinson Engineering Ltd (HEL) has secured a contract to provide anode cage assemblies for EnBW’s Hohe See offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

  • Scaldis Trying Out Gulliver’s Mooring Capabilities

    4 April 2018
    Vessels

    The new self-propelled DP2 crane vessel Gulliver, owned and operated by Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors, is undergoing mooring trials in Alexiahaven in the Netherlands, according to Royal IHC’s social media pages.

  • Unique Opportunity with Van Oord

    16 March 2018
    Jobs & Recruitment, Training & Education

    Finding the right technical people remain a struggle in the maritime and offshore energy sectors. From mechanical engineers to project engineers and structural draftsmen. Do you know how to solve a tough logistical problem? Then present your solutions to Van Oord and impress them with your skills.

  • Expertise Hub VIDEO: From 2002 Strategic Move to 30% of Turnover from Offshore Wind (Semco Maritime)

    17 August 2017

    Semco Maritime has been working in offshore wind since 2002, so this was a strategic move made by the company a long time ago, according to Carsten Nielsen, Vice President Wind, Oil & Gas at Semco Maritime. Since it made the move, the company has been expanding its range of services and is now also eyeing non-European markets, same as a number of other European offshore wind players.

  • Fred. Olsen Presents “Game-Changing” O&M Platform

    20 November 2015
    Operations & Maintenance

    Fred. Olsen Windcarrier has developed a new operations and maintenance (O&M) platform, called the Windbase, which includes an accommodation module, a full service base and a fully operational offshore heliport, removing the requirement for an onshore quayside facility. The company’s UK General Manager David Matthews, who is also Project Director for Fred. Olsen Windbase, pointed out that […]

  • OMM Consulting WaveHub on Cable Management

    13 October 2015
    Technology

    Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has commenced delivery of a long term scope for Cable Management Consultancy services to Wave Hub Ltd, based in Hayle Cornwall. Wave Hub Ltd is the operating company that manages Wave Hub, a UK-based wave energy test site helping the marine industry harness the abundance of natural resources in the UK […]

  • UK: HiDef Achieves 99 Pct Bird Identification Success

    30 September 2013
    Environment

    Following a major investment, HiDef aerial surveying can now provide developers with bird identification rates of up to 99%. Average ID rates across all surveys in past 12 months are over 95%. This success has been achieved through new camera technology and the creation of HiDef’s own in house team of 25 leading UK ornithologists. […]

  • Tekmar Scoops Export Award

    14 March 2015

    Tekmar Energy, the cable protection specialist, has been presented with the prestigious Export Award at the North East Business Awards. The company received the recognition on Thursday night at the annual event that recognises exceptional business and innovation in the Durham and Wearside region. The award caps a remarkable 12 months for the firm that has seen it […]

  • Sabella Chooses Metocean Analytics

    22 July 2015

    Sabella has chosen Metocean Analytics for the analysis of currents on its new sites. Developed by Open Ocean, Metocean Analytics simplifies and accelerates the search and analysis process for potential sites thanks to a large catalogue of currents, waves and wind data, coupled with statistical tools analyzing precisely the locations of interest, and an editing tool providing reports […]

  • DEME Places Order for Arcadis Ost 1 Hardware in Poland

    2 June 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    DEME Offshore has signed a contract with Poland’s Energomontaż-Północ Gdynia (EPG) for the fabrication and delivery of equipped secondary steel structures for the Arcadis ost 1 offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. EPG will deliver 27 sets of equipped secondary steel structures for turbine foundations, and for one offshore substation transition piece. The […]

  • Latvia, Estonia Exploring Grid Connection Options for Joint 1 GW OWF Project

    29 April 2021
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    The transmission system operators (TSOs) in Latvia and Estonia, AS Augstsprieguma tikls (AST) and Elering AS, have signed a cooperation agreement to study possible solutions for connecting the two countries’ joint 1 GW offshore wind project in the Baltic Sea to their mainland grids. Latvia and Estonia started discussions for a joint offshore wind project […]

  • Chairman of UN IPCC Agrees with DONG Energy on Climate Strategy (Denmark)

    23 December 2011

    Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has visited a number of Danish companies during his two-day visit in Denmark to give a lecture at the University of Copenhagen. He also visited DONG Energy. On Monday, he met with Anders Eldrup, CEO, to discuss the possibilities for securing […]

  • The Netherlands: Sarens and Verbrugge Terminals form Strategic Partnership for Offshore Wind Energy

    28 June 2012

    The Belgian company Sarens and Verbrugge Terminals from Flushing (Vlissingen) in the Netherlands announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership, resulting in a synergy of know-how and capability. Both partners have signed an exclusive agreement to work intensively together for all onshore logistics related to offshore wind farms. Verbrugge Terminals is a leading […]

  • China: XEMC Installs 5MW Wind Turbine Prototype

    29 March 2012
    Technology

    According to Whats on Xiamen, the south-eastern Chinese province, Fujian got the first 5MW direct-drive permanent magnetic offshore prototype. The prototype has been installed by XEMC, in a land surrounded by the sea in three sides in Dongsha village, Sanshan town of Fuqing city, Fujian province. This step represents a follow up to the project, […]

  • DEME, Shell, Quadran to Jointly Bid for Dunkirk OWF

    22 November 2018
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    DEME Group, Shell and Quadran Energies Marines are entering an industrial partnership that will build the Dunkirk offshore wind farm in France if their offer at the recently announced tender is selected as the winning one.

  • New Offshore Wind Investments Drop 60% in 2017

    6 February 2018
    Business & Finance

    Six projects worth EUR 7.5 billion reached Final Investment Decision (FID) last year – a 60% decrease from 2016 and the first decrease in investments since 2012 – according to WindEurope, which states that the transition to auctions has resulted in a lull in FIDs and that the auctions of the last two years are expected to lead to new project FIDs in 2018.