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  • UK: ROVOP Invests in New Jobs and ROVs

    22 November 2012
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Rapidly growing and award winning energy services firm ROVOP is to create around 60 jobs to accompany the purchase of five remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The Aberdeen-based subsea specialist will invest around £15million over the next 18 months in the workclass hydraulic machines, supplied by FMC Schilling Robotics, with the first ready for use in […]

  • German Commerce and Technology Secretary Rösler to Open SMM

    28 August 2012

    At 7:00 p.m. on Monday 3 September, German Federal Secretary of Commerce and Technology Dr Philipp Rösler will officially open the SMM, shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology international trade fair hamburg at the CCH-Congress Center Hamburg. Bernd Aufderheide, Chairman of the Board of Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH, will welcome some 800 invited guests from […]

  • ELA Container and THE BLUE BEACH Come to Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference

    25 October 2021
    Business & Finance, Industry

    The Offshore Energy Exhibition and Conference (OEEC) is once again returning to RAI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 26 and 27 October. ELA Container Offshore has been a prominent part of OEEC for years and this offshore accommodation specialist is returning once again in person as one of the exhibitors. We used this occasion to […]

  • Strategic Marine Inks CTV Order with Chartwell Marine

    14 November 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels

    Strategic Marine has signed an order to build three crew transfer vessels (CTVs) from Chartwell Marine which will be progressively delivered between 2023 and 2024. The Brevity-class catamaran design vessel is 27 metres long and has a capacity of 32 personnel. Due to its signature hull form optimisation, the vessel boasts enhanced manoeuvrability and stability […]

  • UXO Surveys Underway at Hollandse Kust Noord

    13 October 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Fugro is carrying out an unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey campaign at the Hollandse Kust Noord offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The goal of the survey, which began in September, is to identify the locations of UXOs in all inter-array cable routes, corridors, and all turbine locations. The activities are supported by NjordIC, who secured […]

  • RWE Taking Majority Ownership of Rampion Offshore Wind Farm

    12 March 2021
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    German energy company RWE has taken over an additional 20 per cent stake in the Rampion wind farm off the UK from E.ON. Following the closing of the transaction in the first half of 2021, RWE will control a 50.1 per cent stake in the 400 MW wind farm off Sussex. Confidentiality has been agreed […]

  • Offshore Construction Progresses at 1.4 GW Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm

    21 April 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Well over a third out of the 165 monopile foundations have been installed at the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm located some 89 kilometres north-east of Grimsby, the U.K. The monopile foundations are being loaded at and transported from the Buss Terminal Eemshaven in the Netherlands and installed at the site by DEME […]

  • Ørsted Opens US Innovation Hub

    4 March 2020
    Business & Finance

    Offshore wind major Ørsted has opened a United States Innovation Hub in Providence, Rhode Island as part of its commitment to building an offshore wind industry supply chain in the US. With its seven work stations at Providence’s CIC workspace, the Innovation Hub will serve as the physical location for the Hub team as they […]

  • MingYang Sells Minority Stake in Demo Offshore Wind Farm

    10 June 2020
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    China’s MingYang Smart Energy has agreed to sell a minority stake in a special purpose company developing a 300 MW offshore wind project to Poly Changda Engineering. Once the transaction is completed, Poly Changda Engineering will hold a 49 per cent stake in Yangjiang Mingyang Offshore Wind Power Development, with MingYang controlling the remaining 51 […]

  • Offshore Wind Consultants Names APAC Head

    12 January 2021
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    Offshore Wind Consultants has appointed Tom Whittle to the newly created role of Asia Pacific regional director. Whittle, previously OWC’s country manager in Taiwan, has worked as a project director, project manager and package manager on a number of offshore wind projects in the UK, Europe and Asia, the company said. The APAC regional director […]

  • Ørsted Seeks Certification Services for German Offshore Wind Projects

    18 August 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    Ørsted has issued a tender seeking project certification services for the Borkum Riffgrund 3 and Gode Wind 3 offshore wind projects in Germany. The first lot in the tender concerns project certification for the wind turbines and the support structures, including the tower, substructure and foundation. Lot 2 is for Gode Wind 3 offshore substation […]

  • Jan De Nul Completes Grid Link at TPC Changhua Wind Farm

    3 August 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Jan De Nul has completed the installation of four subsea export cables and the upgrade of the onshore substation of Taiwan Power Company’s Changhua Phase 1 offshore wind project. The company’s cable-laying vessel Willem de Vlamingh installed the four cables from the site 10km off the coast to the shore where they were connected at […]

  • Saint-Nazaire Bases Start Taking Shape

    5 October 2020
    Operations & Maintenance, Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Construction has started on the operations and maintenance, and the construction base for the 480 MW Saint-Nazaire offshore wind farm in France. The O&M base is located in the Port of La Turballe. The maintenance of the 80-turbine wind farm, scheduled to be operational by 2022, is expected to create 100 permanent jobs during the […]

  • Hai Long All Set for PPA

    22 February 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The 300MW Hai Long offshore wind farm has secured all approvals and permits and the next step will be executing the power purchase agreement with Taipower, Mike Crawley, President and Chief Executive Officer of Northland Power, said. The wind farm is one of three Hai Long projects with a combined capacity of 1,044MW that Northland Power […]

  • OWA Competition Looks to Make Offshore Wind Vessels Greener

    22 January 2019
    Environment, Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Vessels

    The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) plans to start a new industry competition next month with the aim of reducing emissions and fuel consumption in offshore wind vessels. OWA is now calling on the industry to respond to a Request for Information (RFI) to inform the scope of the competition. The RFI is the first […]

  • Svenja Picking Up Third Batch of Borssele 1+2 TPs

    3 December 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    SAL Heavy Lift’s multi-purpose cargo ship Svenja has arrived at the Redcar Bulk Terminal, the UK, to pick up the third batch of transition pieces for the Borssele 1+2 offshore wind project. Svenja is picking up six transition pieces, which were produced by EEW Offshore Structures Britain (OSB) and barged down to the Redcar terminal […]

  • HSM Offshore Rolls Out Borssele Beta Topside

    2 December 2019
    Grid Connection

    HSM Offshore BV has rolled out the topside for the Borssele Beta offshore high voltage substation at its yard in Schiedam, the Netherlands. Once completed in 2020, the 700MW Borssele Beta will connect the 731.5MW Borssele 3 & 4 wind farm to the Dutch grid. The offshore construction on the wind farm started in October […]

  • Jiangsu Dafeng Three Gorges Offshore Wind Farm Goes Into Operation

    22 November 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    The China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation has commissioned the 300MW Jiangsu Dafeng Three Gorges offshore wind farm in China. According to CTG, the 300MW offshore wind farm was commissioned last week when its final 6.45MW Goldwind turbine started spinning. The Jiangsu Dafeng Three Gorges project comprises 43 Goldwind 3.3MW turbines and 17 Goldwind 6.45MW turbines installed offshore […]

  • Inter-Array Cable Burial Underway at Deutsche Bucht

    6 June 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    Van Oord has deployed its trencher Dig-It to bury the laid inter-array cables at the Deutsche Bucht offshore wind farm in Germany. The inter-array cables are being buried at the required depth of 1.5m below the seabed at the 269MW project, Van Oord said. The Dutch company reported that its cable laying vessel Nexus installed […]

  • Siemens Gamesa Completes Credit Rating Trifecta

    22 May 2019
    Business & Finance

    Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) has been assigned a BBB long-term credit rating with stable outlook by Fitch. The agency attributes the rating to Siemens Gamesa’s consolidated leading position in the wind industry, with the necessary technical capabilities and scale to compete globally in an industry that is concentrated, volatile and highly competitive, Siemens Gamesa […]

  • Windhoist Assembles Final Beatrice Tower

    10 April 2019
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Windhoist Limited has pre-assembled the 84th and final wind turbine tower on the Beatrice Pre-Assembly Project at Nigg Energy Park in Scotland. Siemens Gamesa awarded Windhoist with a contract to carry out wind turbine pre-assembly work for the 588MW Beatrice wind farm in May 2018, marking the Scottish company’s first foray into offshore wind. Under the contract, […]

  • Albatros Topside Has Landed

    27 March 2019
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The heavy-lift jack-up vessels Pacific Osprey and Innovation have transported and installed the offshore substation topside on the EnBW Albatros offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. Pacific Osprey had loaded the topside in Rotterdam. In the construction area, the Innovation lifted the topside on the monopile foundation. The Pacific Osprey will be jacked up […]

  • Heerema Bags Vineyard Wind Work

    12 July 2019
    Contracts & Tenders

    The Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) has won a contract to transport and install foundations for the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts, U.S. Under the contract, Heerema said it is in charge of the (offshore) transport and installation of 84 foundations consisting of monopiles and transition pieces and ESP platforms at the 800MW project. “We […]

  • 32 Beatrice Foundations In Place

    27 December 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov installed the 32nd jacket foundation on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in Outer Moray Firth on 24 December, a Weekly Notice of Operations shows.

  • MHI Vestas Books VOS Start for Borkum Riffgrund 2

    1 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has awarded Vroon’s VOS Start with a contract to support the commissioning phase of the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm from spring 2018.

  • Lewek Connector Secures Hornsea One Charter

    1 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Norway’s Ocean Yield ASA has entered into a time charter contract for the vessel Lewek Connector which will conduct cable lay operations for Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm project in the UK.