126 results found for 'moray west foundation'

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  • First Dajin-Built Monopiles for Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm Sail Away

    9 September 2025
    Foundations, Manufacturing, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Dajin Heavy Industry has sent away the first batch of six monopiles that will be installed at the 1.1 GW Inch Cape offshore wind farm in Scotland. The first six monopiles have set sail from Dajin Heavy Industry’s Penglai facility, according to the latest social media post by the Chinese company. Dajin cut the first […]

  • Port of Nigg’s Owner Passes the Baton to Japanese Investor

    1 August 2025
    Business & Finance, Infrastructure, Ports & Logistics

    UK energy sector construction, maintenance & enhancement solutions player Global Energy Group (GEG) has concluded an agreement with Japanese company Mitsui & Co. for the sale of its group companies, including the Port of Nigg, a multi-sector energy port and green freeport. In addition to the Port of Nigg, GEG reached an agreement with Mitsui […]

  • Moray West Officially at Full Power

    24 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The UK Secretary of State for Scotland, Ian Murray, switched on full power at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm, built by Ocean Winds some 20 kilometres off the coast of Buckie. Moray West comprises 60 Siemens Gamesa SG 14-222 DD wind turbines, each of which can generate up to 14.7 MW with […]

  • OSG Signs Seabed Deal with Crown Estate Scotland for Floating Anchorage Site

    22 April 2025
    Business development, Floating Wind, Research & Development

    UK-based Offshore Solutions Group (OSG) has signed a two-year Exclusivity Agreement with Crown Estate Scotland for areas in the Moray Firth to develop its FLOW-Park. The Moray FLOW-Park aims to provide temporary safe anchorage (wet storage) for floating offshore wind foundations, optimising risk management and logistics during assembly, wind turbine integration, and deployment, said OSG. […]

  • First Vestas 15 MW Turbine Up at EnBW’s 960 MW Offshore Wind Farm

    25 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first of 64 Vestas V236-15.0 MW wind turbines has been installed at EnBW’s He Dreiht project site offshore Germany. Completed on 24 April, the project milestone also marks the first time Vestas’s flagship wind turbine has been installed at an offshore wind farm. “With the installation of the first V236-15.0 MW, we have reached […]

  • First Turbine Up at Ørsted’s Greater Changhua 2b & 4 Offshore Wind Farm

    16 April 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first of 66 Siemens Gamesa 14 MW wind turbines that will make up the Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farm in Taiwan has been installed. The major milestone for Ørsted’s 920 MW offshore wind project also marks a milestone for Siemens Gamesa, whose SG 14-236 DD wind turbine model is installed offshore […]

  • Ocean Winds Hires Føn Energy Services in Scotland

    11 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Fixed-Bottom, Operations & Maintenance

    Ocean Winds, a 50/50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted Føn Energy Services to provide a fully integrated Balance of Plant (BoP) operations and maintenance (O&M) service programme for the Moray East and Moray West offshore wind farms in Scotland. The contract is valid for three years, with an option to extend […]

  • Global Energy Group to Provide Marshalling Services for Moray West

    5 October 2023
    Contracts & Tenders, Fixed-Bottom, Supply Chain

    Moray West, an offshore wind farm in the Outer Moray Firth, Scotland, has selected Global Energy Group (GEG) to provide pre-assembly support services for the marshalling of all 62 transition pieces (TPs) at the Port of Nigg. The transition pieces, supplied by Lamprell, will start to arrive at the Port of Nigg later this year […]

  • Orion Installs Its First XXL Monopile at Moray West Wind Farm Offshore Scotland

    20 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME’s vessel Orion has installed its first XXL monopile foundation at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. The company’s jack-up vessel Apollo is also joining the offshore work, taking care of installing the transition pieces at the construction site. Orion is performing monopile installation in addition to Bokalift 2, which kicked […]

  • DEME Returns to Scotland, Announces Offshore Wind Industry Firsts

    12 December 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    DEME has won the contract to install foundations at the 882 MW Moray West wind farm offshore Scotland. DEME Offshore’s scope on Moray West includes the installation of monopile foundations and transition pieces. The contract is valued between EUR 50 million and EUR 150 million. This marks the return of DEME to the Moray Firth, […]

  • Boskalis Installs First Monopile at Moray West Wind Farm Offshore Scotland

    5 October 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Foundations, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis’ heavy lift crane vessel, Bokalift 2, has installed the first monopile at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. The Scottish offshore wind farm will feature 60 Siemens Gamesa 14.7 MW wind turbines and two offshore substations, all installed on monopile foundations. Dajin Heavy Industry will supply 48 monopiles while Navantia Seanergies and […]

  • Last Siemens Gamesa Turbine In Place at Moray West Offshore Wind Farm

    18 November 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 60th and final turbine has been installed at the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, located in northern Scotland. The Moray West offshore wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational during 2025, in line with the originally projected commercial operations date, […]

  • Dajin Heavy Industry Hits Halfway Mark on Moray West Monopile Delivery

    20 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Dajin Heavy Industry Corporation has delivered 24 out of the total 48 monopiles that the company is manufacturing for the 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. On 14 July, the 3rd shipment of XXL monopiles, which weigh about 2,000 tonnes and have a diameter of ten metres, set sail from the Dajin […]

  • Moray West Homeports in Buckie Harbour

    1 November 2021
    Ports & Logistics, Wind Farm Update

    Moray West, an offshore wind farm planned in the outer Moray Firth, has selected Buckie harbour in Moray, Scotland, as its long-term Operations & Maintenance (O&M) base. The base will be the onshore hub from which the offshore facilities are run through its operational life. The base will include a new building to house offices, […]

  • First Moray West XXL Monopiles Arrive in Scotland

    11 July 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Last month, the first shipment of XXL monopiles, manufactured by the Dajin Penglai facility, for the Moray West offshore wind farm arrived in Invergordon, Scotland. In June 2022, Dajin Heavy Industry was contracted by the wind farm’s developer, Ocean Winds, to supply 48 XXL monopiles for the project. The monopiles weigh about 2,000 tonnes and […]

  • Wood Thilsted Wins Work on 2 GW Caledonia Offshore Wind Project

    19 August 2024
    Contracts & Tenders, Supply Chain

    Caledonia Offshore Windfarm has selected the engineering consultancy Wood Thilsted to develop the structural concept design for the 2 GW project’s turbine foundations. The Caledonia offshore wind farm is being developed in the Moray Firth by Ocean Winds and is scheduled to be operational by 2030. Wood Thilsted will use the ground and metocean data […]

  • Boskalis Wraps Up Its Part of Moray West Work, Orion and Apollo Continue Foundation Installation

    18 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Boskalis has completed the work the company was contracted to perform on the Moray West offshore wind farm. While the Dutch offshore construction company has now wrapped up its part of the job, work on Ocean Winds’ 882 MW project offshore Scotland continues with the installation of foundations and inter-array cables underway. Boskalis says that […]

  • COSCO Shipping to Transport Moray West XXL Monopiles

    3 October 2022
    Contracts & Tenders, Wind Farm Update

    COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers has been contracted by Moray Offshore Windfarm (West) to transport monopiles for the Moray West offshore wind farm in Scotland. COSCO Shipping said that it will provide two X-class type vessels in 2023 when the monopiles will be transported from China to Moray Firth in Scotland. A few months ago, Ocean […]

  • First Siemens Gamesa Blades Ready to Set Sail for Moray West Site Offshore Scotland

    20 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The first Siemens Gamesa 108-metre-long wind turbine blades have left its manufacturing factory in Hull for the Moray West offshore wind project in Scotland. Nine of the 180 blades destined for the 882 MW offshore wind farm were loaded onto the Rotra Mare transporter ship at the Siemens Gamesa blade factory in Hull, and are […]

  • Moray West Offshore Wind Farm Starts Delivering Power

    3 July 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The 882 MW Moray West offshore wind farm has delivered first power from the first series of wind turbines and exported to Scotland’s National Electricity Transmission System (NETS), Ocean Winds said. The wind farm is nearing the end of the construction phase and will become fully operational in 2025 in line with the originally projected […]

  • First Offshore Substation Soon to Be Installed at Moray West

    11 December 2023
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Work on the installation of the two offshore substations (OSS) at the Moray West offshore wind farm site has started, with Boskalis’s DP installation vessel Bokalift 1 currently moored in the Port of Nigg with the components for the first OSS on board. The Moray West project team notified about the commencement of the OSS […]

  • Final Geotechnical Surveys Wrap Up at Moray West

    10 March 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Fugro has completed the final geotechnical survey campaign at the Moray West offshore wind project in the UK. The new data will be combined with survey results from 2019 to finalize the design of the foundations for each turbine location, as well as the two offshore substations. Survey vessel Normand Flower carried out the campaign, […]

  • Geo Surveys to Start at Moray West OWF Site

    30 August 2021
    Wind Farm Update

    Survey vessels Northern Franklin and Normand Flower are set to start geophysical and geotechnical site investigation works at the Moray West offshore wind farm site at the beginning of September. Northern Franklin is scheduled to commence geophysical surveys on 4 September. The vessel will be carrying out the work within the wind farm site and […]

  • Wind Turbine Installation at Moray West to Start in April

    19 March 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Supply Chain, Vessels, Wind Farm Update, Wind Turbines

    The installation of Siemens Gamesa’s 14 MW wind turbines at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland is scheduled to start in April. The vessel chartered to install the turbines, Cadeler’s Wind Orca, has just arrived in Esbjerg, Denmark, to mobilise for the project after completing a crane upgrade in the Netherlands. In […]

  • Second Moray West Substation Platform Touches Down

    13 February 2024
    Fixed-Bottom, Grid Connection, Offshore Platforms, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The second offshore substation platform (OSP) has been installed at the Moray West offshore wind farm site in Scotland. The first OSP was installed in December 2023 by Boskalis’ DP installation vessel Bokalift 1 which also mounted the second OSP on its foundations on 10 January, according to a notice of operations from the project. […]

  • Navantia-Windar Starts Building Moray West Monopiles

    17 January 2023
    Wind Farm Update

    Spain’s Navantia Seanergies and Windar Renovables have started production of the first of the 14 XXL monopiles for the Moray West offshore wind project, with the bending of the first sheet. The monopiles will have an approximate length of 90 metres, a maximum diameter of 10 metres, and a maximum weight of 2,000 tons. This […]