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  • Waves Group on Offshore Wind Duty in Taiwan

    24 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Waves Group is currently providing marine warranty surveyor services at the Formosa 1 Phase 2 offshore wind farm in Taiwan. The UK-based company is in charge of providing the marine warranty surveyor services for the installation of turbines, foundations, and infield and export cables. According to Waves Group, the contract began in October last year and will […]

  • Spectrum Offshore Wraps It Up at Hornsea One

    3 September 2019
    Business & Finance

    Spectrum Offshore has completed its scope of work at Ørsted’s Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the UK. Spectrum Offshore was in charge of providing offshore construction support surveys on the 1.2GW project under a contract secured in April last year. According to the UK-based company, the work took 18 months and was carried out […]

  • BAM Exits Offshore Wind Foundations Market

    23 August 2019
    Business & Finance

    Dutch construction-services business Royal BAM Group nv is exiting its activities in the offshore wind foundations market as part of an ongoing portfolio review. BAM announced the decision in its results for the first half of 2019 where the Bunnik-headquartered group also reported an impairment charge of EUR 10.3 million which represented the impairment of intellectual […]

  • SSE Renewables Looking For Offshore Survey Squad

    22 June 2020
    Contracts & Tenders

    SSE Renewables has issued a contract notice seeking providers of geotechnical and geophysical services offshore the UK and Ireland. The offshore wind developer intends to sign a number of framework agreements that cover a range of geotechnical and geophysical services. The overall value of the framework agreements is EUR 78 million. The framework agreements will […]

  • Triton Knoll East Topside Heads Offshore

    11 June 2020
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    The topside for the Triton Knoll Offshore Substation Platform (OSP) East has left Vlissingen in the Netherlands and is en route to the installation site off Lincolnshire, UK. Once there, the topside will be lowered onto its monopile foundation by Seaway 7’s installation vessel Seaway Strashnov. Seaway Strashnov installed the Triton Knoll OSP West topside […]

  • Scottish Offshore Wind Sites on Wildlife Watch

    17 July 2019
    Environment

    Marine Scotland Science (MSS) and the University of Aberdeen (UoA) carried out a multi-disciplinary survey within the Moray Firth wind farm sites in June 2019. MSS colleagues and UoA postgraduate students set sail on the Alba na Mara to characterise the distribution of the prey species (fish schools, zooplankton patches) across the Smith Bank in […]

  • Connecticut Releases Draft Offshore Wind RFP

    3 July 2019
    Authorities

    The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the Bureau of Energy Technology Policy have issued a Draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 2,000MW of offshore wind energy. The RFP comes as Connecticut’s Governor Ned Lamont signed into law the House Bill 7156, An Act Concerning the Procurement of Energy Derived From Offshore […]

  • Equinor Talks Norwegian Floating Offshore Wind

    2 July 2019
    Business & Finance

    Equinor has met with the supplier industry in Norway to discuss cost-effective solutions for floating offshore wind farms on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Equinor got together with Global Center of Expertise (GCE) NODE companies in Agder to talk about finding cost-optimal solutions related to designing floating foundations for turbines in the 10-15MW range. Additionally, the meetings were […]

  • Royal Opening for Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm

    29 July 2019
    Wind Farm Update

    HRH Prince Charles of Wales officially opened the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm in the Moray Firth, Scotland, on Monday, 29 July. Located 13 kilometres off the coast of Caithness in the North Sea, the 84-turbine Beatrice – the fourth largest offshore wind farm in the world – was completed in June 2019, following ten years of development and […]

  • Scotland Bankrolls Offshore Wind Accelerator Programme

    2 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The Scottish Government has invested a further GBP 1.5 million in the Carbon Trust’s collaborative research, development and demonstration (RD&D) programme – the Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA).

  • Dominion and DONG Partner Up Offshore Virginia

    11 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    US electric utility company Dominion Energy Virginia has signed an agreement and strategic partnership with DONG Energy to build two 6-megawatt (MW) turbines off the coast of Virginia Beach.

  • Northern Offshore Services to Manage OOC Nerz

    4 July 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Denmark’s Northern Offshore Services has entered into a commercial agreement with the Hamburg-based Opielok Offshore Carriers to take on management of the company’s only crew transfer vessel (CTV) – OOC Nerz.

  • Danes Explore Wind Potential Offshore Funen

    15 June 2017
    Authorities, Environment, R&D, Wind Farm Update

    The Danish Energy Agency has granted a permission to Sønderborg Forsyningsservice A/S to explore the possibility to develop an offshore wind farm in an area between Als and Helnæs in Funen.

  • PSA Marine Takes Stake in Njord Offshore

    12 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    PSA Marine has acquired shareholding in Njord Offshore, which has been managing the crew transfer vessels of PSA Marine’s subsidiary Ventus Marine Limited since 2015.

  • Ireland Reveals Big Offshore Wind Plans

    4 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Ireland’s state owned electricity company Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is seeking expressions of interest for the provision of renewable energy marine services related to offshore wind farms.

  • Jiangsu Yangzijiang Sets Sights on Offshore Structures

    23 August 2017

    Jiangsu Yangzijiang Offshore Engineering, a subsidiary of Yangzijiang Shipbuilding, has entered into agreements with strategic partners to establish a joint venture company in China for offshore structure construction.

  • U.S. Offshore Wind Pipeline Tops 24GW

    9 August 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D

    As of June 2017, the U.S. offshore wind project development pipeline includes 24,135MW of potential installed capacity, according to a report by the U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

  • Orca Offshore Finalist for Bentley “Be Inspired” Award

    5 November 2014
    Business & Finance

    Orca Offshore has been made finalists for the upcoming Bentley “Be Inspired” awards category Innovation in Offshore engineering – part of “The Year In Infrastructure 2014 conference”. The nomination for this prestigious award comes from the work performed for the Centrica F3-Fa self installing platform. For this project Orca Offshore performed transport and installation analyses […]

  • New Offshore Wind Farms Lift RWE

    12 May 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    Germany’s RWE Group recorded an operating result of EUR 154 million at its renewables division in the first quarter of 2016, a slight increase compared to EUR 153 million reported for the same period a year earlier, with two newly commissioned offshore wind farms in the UK and Germany helping offset a one-off income included in […]

  • Glomar Offshore and GEOxyz Form Strategic Partnership

    10 May 2016
    Business & Finance

    Dutch company Glomar Offshore and Belgian GEOxyz have signed a strategic partnership agreement. The companies stated that the new venture will allow both of them to benefit from each other’s strengths, equipment and client base. “Together we will target the Oil and Gas industry and the Renewable Energy sector situated within Europe. Our main objective is to […]

  • Industry to Put Offshore Wind Safety in the Spotlight

    2 May 2016

    Keeping offshore wind workers safe is of paramount importance. What needs to be done to aim for the ‘holy grail’ of zero incidents? Are there lessons that can be learned from the offshore oil and gas industry? Is there guidance, and also safety procedures, already in existence that means there is no need to re-create […]

  • The Netherlands: Social and Political Discussion on Offshore Wind

    7 October 2014
    Authorities

    Wind energy, and notably offshore wind energy, is the subject of a hot debate in the Netherlands. The Dutch Top consortium Knowledge and Innovation Offshore Wind Energy (TKI-WoZ) commissioned Ecofys and CE Delft to carry out a study that addresses the key discussion items in the societal and political debate. While proponents of offshore wind […]

  • Ports of Zeeland Showcase Their Offshore Wind Expertise

    3 October 2014

    The ports of Zeeland developed themselves into the largest port in Europe concerning offshore wind industry. The monopiles for more then 25 windmills are transported from there. The strength of the ports are the presence of a strong offshore cluster with specialised terminals and industry. The Dutch Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) made two brochures to […]

  • Regen SW Analyses Offshore Renewables Sector

    27 February 2015

    Following yesterday’s CfD awards, Regen SW, an energy-focused independent not for profit organisation that uses its expertise to work with industry, communities and the public sector, issued an article that analyses offshore renewables sector: Two offshore wind farms have been awarded contracts in the first allocation round of the new Contracts for Difference (CfD) subsidy mechanism brought in under […]

  • SMart Wind Engages Students in Offshore Wind

    18 February 2015
    Training & Education

    SMart Wind’s SMart Futures team visited Hornsea College and Language school last week to transfer the knowledge about offshore wind power to students and to talk to them about the proposed Hornsea Project Two Offshore Wind Farm. SMart Wind held the event to help students understand more about interconnecting offshore wind farms and how they can help contribute […]

  • FLiDAR Looking for Offshore Logistics & Technical Manager

    17 February 2015
    Business & Finance, Jobs & Recruitment

    To support the ongoing contracts and foreseen commercial opportunities, FLiDAR has announced that it aims to strengthen its team with an offshore logistics & technical manager. The ideal candidate has relevant offshore experience to oversee the deployment of FLiDAR devices. He adopts existing procedures quickly and creates new ones where necessary, taking safety standards into account. During interventions he will be […]