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  • Semco Maritime and PTSC M&C Start Working on Feng Miao Offshore Substation

    24 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    The consortium consisting of Semco Maritime and PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has been awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for a 500 MW offshore substation in the Feng Miao (Fengmiao) offshore wind farm project in Taiwan. Owned and developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), the Feng Miao wind farm is located […]

  • Danish Offshore Wind Company Opens UK Office

    12 March 2015
    Business & Finance

    Danish offshore wind energy service provider All NRG has opened its first office in the UK. From its new base at the Port of Grimsby, off the Humber Estuary in North England, the company will provide dedicated preassembly, installation, operations and maintenance services to its clients developing offshore wind projects off the British coast. The […]

  • The Netherlands: BMO Software Launches Integrated Vessel Movement Monitoring System

    15 March 2013

    BMO Software, a Rotterdam-based supplier of software solutions to the offshore and wind industry, launches an integrated vessel movement monitoring system called Vessel Black Box. Vessel Black Box is a flexible, integrated and robust vessel movement monitoring system for Crew Transfer Vessels and is based on the design philosophy ‘simple installation, easy maintenance and always […]

  • LOC Strengthens Customer Support for North Sea Region with Two New Offices

    19 March 2013
    Business & Finance

    Leading global marine and engineering consultancy, LOC (London Offshore Consultants) has opened two new offices to strengthen its service delivery in the North Sea region. Complimenting existing LOC hubs in London, Aberdeen and Stavanger, the new offices – both opened on the same day (14 March) – are located in Newcastle, UK and Leeuwarden, Netherlands. […]

  • Japan: MHI Holds Class on Wind Power to Elementary School Students in Iwaki City

    3 September 2013
    Training & Education

    On September 3 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) conducted a science class by request at Yoshima Dai-ni (2nd) Elementary School in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. The class, offered to fifth graders, explained the concept behind wind power generation, including an experiment enabling easy understanding, in a […]

  • Sparrows Gives Wings to Alpha Offshore. Asia Pacific, US and More Work in Europe on the Horizon

    16 October 2018
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Following Alpha Offshore’s recent announcement on achieving a 56% increase in blade inspection operations this year, the company said the rise was mostly due to it now doing business under the umbrella of Sparrows Group, along with offshore wind sector’s progress and Alpha Offshore’s experience and know-how that are increasingly in demand. This is according […]

  • Second CWind Vessel Attains BV Classification

    14 November 2013

    CWind Resolution, which is due to be named later today in Brightlingsea, is the second CWind’s vessel that has gained the new class notation ‘Wind Farm Service Ships’ introduced by Bureau Veritas earlier this year. The CWind Resolution is only the second ever vessel to be classed under this notation to date, joining its sister […]

  • Langlee Secures Funds for New Zealand Wave Power Project

    17 October 2011

      A scheme to power Stewart Island through entirely renewable means is a step closer today as Langlee Wave Power announces that NZ $312,000 (£155,000) funding has been secured. The project, which is a collaboration between the Norwegian headquartered wave developer and New Zealand based Tangaroa Energy, received the financial backing from the New Zealand […]

  • Ocean Power Technologies PowerBuoy Still Floats After Hurricane Irene (USA)

    1 September 2011

      Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (“OPT” or “the Company”), a leading wave energy technology company, today announced that its PowerBuoy recently deployed off the coast of New Jersey successfully withstood the severe conditions experienced during Hurricane Irene. Deployed under the US Navy’s Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) program, the PowerBuoy was in the direct path […]

  • Germany: NSW to Deliver and Install Inter-Array Cables for Meerwind Offshore Wind Farm

    12 July 2011
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

      On July 8, 2011 WindMW GmbH and Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) signed a contract for the delivery and installation of 108 km medium-voltage submarine cables for the inter-array cabling of the wind farm project Meerwind. With the installation scheduled to start in the second half of 2012, completion is planned in 2013. The project […]

  • The Netherlands: TenneT Releases H1 Figures

    31 August 2012
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    In the first six months of 2012 TenneT realised a steady growth (underlying) of revenue and profit in both the Netherlands and Germany. Underlying revenue amounted to EUR 842 million (EUR 816 million reported revenue), with underlying growth both in the Netherlands (23%) and in Germany (28%). Underlying operating profit for this period was EUR […]

  • PMV Invests EUR 18.7 Million in High Wind NV (Belgium)

    9 February 2012

    PMV-TINA is investing 18.7 million euros in High Wind nv via a combination of equity participation and a deferred loan. High Wind nv is a consortium made up of GeoSea nv (DEME Group), Alstom, Iemants, G&G International, SBE and Egemin and is supported by Sirris. High Wind nv is developing a new installation technique for […]

  • UK: Maersk Training Given Go Ahead by GWO

    15 August 2012

    The stage is set for North East England to become a global leader in wind turbine training after Maersk Training Newcastle becomes the UK’s first – and one of only a handful around the world – to be given the go ahead to run courses approved by the Global Wind Organisation (GWO). Maersk Training Newcastle […]

  • Academia and industry – an essential combination

    23 August 2013

    It has become clear in the previous interviews with industry players that in certain areas of the offshore wind industry companies are ‘fighting’ over experienced and qualified people to fill their, mainly engineering related, job positions. They are not the only ones though. On an academic level, research departments of universities are also struggling to […]

  • Ørsted Reshuffling Exec Team Amid ‘Challenging Business Environment’ in the Industry

    14 November 2023
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Floating Wind, Industry

    Ørsted’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) are leaving the company, and with immediate effect, as a result of “a challenging and volatile business environment” in the industry, according to the offshore wind major. Ørsted is already head-hunting for the new CFO and COO. Daniel Lerup and Richard Hunter, Ørsted’s now-former CFO […]

  • DNV GL Presents Three OW Joint Industry Projects

    10 March 2015
    R&D

    DNV GL today announced three Joint Industry Projects (JIPs) aimed at developing recommended practices for the global wind industry to further develop industrial accepted design practices and methods, lower risks and reduce costs. 1. JIP: Coupled dynamic analysis of floating wind turbines Floating wind provides an opportunity to globalize offshore wind as a technology in a […]

  • Ernst & Young: ROVOP’s MD UK’s Entrepreneur of the Year

    7 October 2014
    Business & Finance

    On October 2, the managing director of the subsea specialist ROVOP received a prestigious industry recognition after being named as the UK’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 for international business growth. Judges singled out Steven Gray from a shortlist of the nation’s most successful and innovative business leaders, for his outstanding achievement in building […]

  • OPT Publishes Fiscal 2014 Results

    14 March 2014

    Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. announced financial results for its Fiscal 2014 third quarter and the nine months ended January 31, 2014.

  • UK: Reef Subsea Launches New Q1000 Trench ROV

    5 October 2012
    Grid Connection, Technology

    Reef Subsea has announced that its subsidiary company, Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical, based in the North-East of England, with offices in Aberdeen, has launched a new innovative subsea Trench ROV in Newcastle upon Tyne. Reef Subsea Power & Umbilical’s new Q1000 Jet Trencher was unveiled yesterday (4 October) in front of many clients and […]

  • Energy Skills Initiative Beginning to Bear Fruit (UK)

    28 May 2013
    Training & Education

    A concerted campaign across the East of England to generate the skills needed for the region’s future energy sector is beginning to bear fruit. Demand for skilled workers is rising dramatically with the new projects and development for the extended life of the Southern North Sea gas industry, the prospect of a new nuclear power […]

  • UK: Strainstall Develops New Load Measurement and Structural Monitoring Systems

    23 February 2012
    R&D, Technology

    As the UK pursues its ambition to achieve 15% of electricity demand from renewable sources by 2020, the planned increased in generation from off-shore wind, wave and tidal devices in the marine environment presents increasing technical challenges in terms of distance to shore, water-depth, local sea. In response to these challenges Strainstall, a member of […]

  • South Boats Launches Offshore Wind Farm Crew Transfer Vessel, ‘Porth Wen’ (UK)

    18 November 2011

    South Boats Special Projects Ltd. announces the launch and commissioning of its 47th offshore wind farm crew transfer vessel, ‘Porth Wen’. The vessel is a South Catamaran 16m and is the third of a five boat order from Turbine Transfers Ltd. for the 16m to be delivered. This vessel compliments the eighteen wind farm vessels […]

  • Hansen Transmissions Delivers Gearboxes for China’s First 6 MW Wind Turbine

    20 October 2011
    Technology

    Hansen Transmissions International NV announces the first deliveries of high quality 6 MW gearboxes for China’s first 6 MW wind turbine. Spearheading a new era of wind energy development in China, Hansen Transmissions has officially delivered its first made-for-China 6 MW gearboxes for the Sinovel SL 6000, the largest and most powerful wind turbine ever […]

  • Lord Heseltine to Cut Ribbon at HR Wallingford’s Marine Modelling Facilities

    30 October 2014
    R&D

    The Rt. Hon. the Lord Heseltine CH will be amongst the first to see some of the world’s most sophisticated marine modelling facilities in operation today (30 October) when he officially opens HR Wallingford’s UK Ship Simulation Centre and the Fast Flow Facility at Howbery Business Park in Oxfordshire. Developments in the ocean can be […]

  • UK: 3sun Group Shortlisted for 2013 Spirit Enterprise Awards

    4 February 2013

    3sun Group, a specialist provider of products and services to the energy industry, announced it has been shortlisted for three categories in the 2013 Spirit of Enterprise Awards, celebrating all that is outstanding in business and enterprise in the Borough of Great Yarmouth. The group received recognition in the categories of Great Manufacturing and Engineering […]

  • Maersk Launches New Company Dedicated to Offshore Wind

    3 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Industry, Outlook & Strategy, Supply Chain, Vessels

    Maersk Supply Service has launched Maersk Offshore Wind, a new company that will provide installation services to the offshore wind market based on a new offshore wind installation vessel (Maersk WIV) concept. The design and concept are estimated to reduce the installation time of offshore wind turbines substantially compared to conventional methods, thereby lowering the […]