10000 results found for 'offshore'

10000 results found for 'offshore'
Order results by

A list of search results

  • Germany’s First Offshore Trade Fair and Conference: WINDFORCE 2012

    6 December 2011

    The German WINDFORCE 2012 – Offshore Conference & International Trade Fair will take place for the first time in Bremen in coming June. Messe Bremen will be the focus of the offshore sector from June 26 – 29, 2012. Bremen, Bremerhaven and the Northwest Region together form the competence center as far as offshore wind […]

  • UK: Narec Submits Application for Blyth Offshore Demonstration Project

    28 March 2012

    Narec is seeking consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) to construct and operate, for up to 22 years, a 99.9MW offshore wind demonstration site at Blyth, Northumberland. The proposed project will comprise a maximum of 15 turbines, to be constructed across 3 arrays, with a maximum number of 5 turbines in each array, at water […]

  • Cathie Associates Backs EDF’s Blyth Offshore Wind Demo

    25 June 2015
    R&D

    Following on from years of work with Narec, Cathie Associates reported that its expertise is now being utilised by EDF Energy Renewables in the development of the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstration Project. The company is delivering geoscience and geotechnical engineering consultancy to the project from geophysical and geotechnical survey design, supervision and management to geological GIS […]

  • Petrofac Gets Its Largest EPCI Project in Offshore Wind

    24 June 2014
    Business & Finance

    Petrofac has issued the its pre-close trading update ahead of the announcement of its interim results for the six months ending 30 June 2014 on 26 August 2014.   Good operational performance from ECOM with good progress being made across the EPC portfolio; focused on delivering improved operational performance on certain IES projects ECOM order intake of […]

  • Eneco Moves Its Offshore Wind Division into New Office

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Eneco’s Dutch offshore wind division has moved into a new office at the Vlissingenstraat 43 from its old building at Industriestraat. Currently, Eneco is building its second offshore wind farm, Eneco Luchterduinen together with Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation, which is leading to a significant expansion of work in IJmuiden. Therefore, the construction team of Eneco Luchterduinen […]

  • TenneT Offshore Eyes Subsea Cable Installation Contractor (Germany)

    13 January 2012
    Wind Farm Update

    TenneT Offshore GmbH eyes subsea cable installation contractor. The contractor will be in charge of establishing a grid connection between an onshore transformer substation and one or several offshore Wind farms located in the offshore wind farm cluster BorWin on the North Sea. The services include in particular the financing, design, construction, planning and maintenance […]

  • TÜV SÜD PMSS to Advise on Offshore Wind Cable Spacing

    31 July 2014
    Grid Connection

    PMSS America, Inc., the US division of global renewable energy consulting firm TÜV SÜD PMSS, supported by submarine cable specialists Red Penguin Associates Ltd. of the U.K., has been selected to provide strategic guidance to the US Department of the Interior and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on cable spacing for U.S. offshore wind projects. […]

  • MHI Vestas Launches 9.5 MW Offshore Wind Turbine

    6 June 2017
    R&D, Technology

    MHI Vestas Offshore Wind has launched the V164-9.5 MW wind turbine to re-affirm the company’s drive to lower the cost of energy for offshore wind.

  • K2 Management to Develop Global Offshore Wind Installation Database

    24 April 2014
    Business & Finance, R&D

    The U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has engaged K2 Management to build a global installation database for offshore wind. The objective is to provide NREL and thereby the US wind industry with easy accessible data on installation times, correlation effects, implications and processes to secure use of best practice and avoid delays […]

  • TenneT Chooses ZTT for Two German Offshore Wind Connections

    15 December 2020
    Contracts & Tenders, Grid Connection

    TenneT has commissioned subsea cable manufacturer Zhongtian Technology Submarine Cable (ZTT) for two offshore wind connections in Germany. ZTT will deliver cable systems to link offshore wind farms to HelWin beta and DolWin kappa converter platforms in the North Sea, with the cable routes being five and 16 kilometre respectively. The cable systems will be […]

  • Kaskasi Offshore Wind Farm Hooked to HelWin Beta Platform

    14 July 2022
    Grid Connection, Wind Farm Update

    TenneT has connected RWE’s Kaskasi II offshore wind farm to the HelWin Beta platfrom, the heart of the HelWin2 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore grid connection in the German North Sea. Kaskasi II, located 35 kilometres north of the island of Heligoland, is currently under construction with the wind turbine installation work to commence soon. […]

  • UK: Carbon Trust to Issue Warning to Offshore Wind Industry

    12 June 2013

    Carbon Trust will today issue a warning to the offshore wind industry that important new innovations to slash the cost of offshore wind power are at risk of remaining on the drawing board as the UK currently has nowhere to demonstrate new lower-cost foundations with more powerful offshore wind turbines. The issue has become so […]

  • WindEurope CEO: The Future of Oil and Gas Sectors Is in Offshore Wind

    2 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Companies across the oil and gas value chain stand to benefit significantly from the further development of offshore wind industry, WindEurope CEO Giles Dickson said in his speech at the annual Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) event in Stavanger, Norway. In his speech, Dickson described how some oil and gas companies are already playing an active role in offshore wind in areas […]

  • First Turbine Assembled for French Floating Offshore Wind Farm

    25 July 2023
    Floating Wind, Wind Farm Update

    The first Siemens Gamesa wind turbine for the 24 MW Provence Grand Large floating offshore wind farm has been assembled in France. The floating wind farm will comprise three Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines installed on tensioned line floats and designed by SBM Offshore and IFP Energies Nouvelles. The turbine components, manufactured at Siemens Gamesa’s factory […]

  • C-bed Presents New Offshore Wind Hotel Vessel

    6 October 2015
    Vessels

    Dutch offshore accommodation specialist, C-bed, has presented a new tailor-made offshore wind hotel vessel, Wind Innovation. The vessel was built for optimising the installation and commissioning stages for offshore wind farm operators. “With her DP2 capacity and Comfort Class 3 certification, she is the most advanced offshore hotel vessel ever in the C-bed fleet. Wind […]

  • Fully Autonomous Offshore Wind O&M Solution on Horizon

    28 May 2019
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology

    A new GBP 4 million cross-sector project is set to develop the world’s first fully autonomous robotic inspection and repair solution for offshore wind farms. The Innovate UK-funded MIMRee (Multi-Platform Inspection, Maintenance and Repair in Extreme Environments) is a two-year project bringing in expertise from the fields of robotics, non-destructive testing, artificial intelligence, space mission […]

  • ELWIND Cross-Border Offshore Wind Project Moves Forward

    1 April 2024
    Authorities, Planning & Permitting

    Estonia’s Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (CPTRA) has initiated superficies licence proceedings and an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for ELWIND, an Estonian-Latvian cross-border offshore wind project, based on the application submitted by the Environmental Investment Centre (EIC). The aim of the ELWIND project is to pre-develop the sea area specified in the application. This […]

  • Fugro Bags Offshore Wind Contracts in South Korea and US

    22 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders

    Fugro has been awarded contracts in the offshore wind sector in South Korea and the U.S., according to the company’s results for the first quarter of 2021. In South Korea, Fugro has won a contract for a site investigation programme for a floating offshore wind farm. The company did not disclose any further details about […]

  • 3sun: Offshore Wind Presents Powerful Opportunities, Gusty Challenges

    2 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    As an alternative to fossil fuels, wind power is plentiful, renewable, clean and produces no greenhouse gas emissions during operation. The effects on the environment are generally less problematic than those from other power sources. In 2010, wind energy production was more than 2.5 percent of total worldwide electricity usage, and growing rapidly at more […]

  • Belgium: European Commission to Make Offshore Wind Data Public

    29 August 2012

    The European Commission is opening a public consultation on “Marine Knowledge 2020: from seabed mapping to ocean forecasting”, reported Utility Week. Namely, the EU Commission wants to make private marine data public. For example, seabed surveys used by companies to obtain licenses for offshore wind development could be used publicly. The Commission thinks that the […]

  • Crown Estate Publishes UK Offshore Wind Speed Data

    9 June 2015

    The Crown Estate has released new new offshore wind speed and direction data on its online Marine Data Exchange (MDE). The data added to the MDE has been collated from several meteorological masts, buoys and LiDAR (remote sensing technology) around the UK, including The Wash, Thames Estuary and the Irish Sea, covering a period from […]

  • Photo of the Day: Maintenance at Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm

    6 June 2014
    Operations & Maintenance

    Offshore WIND’s photo of the day: Wind turbine technicians carrying out maintenance work at Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm.  Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm comprises 88 Siemens 3.6MW turbines, which are 132m high. The turbines are located between 17 and 28 km off the Norfolk coast in England. The wind farm became fully operational in the summer […]

  • Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016 Looking For a ‘Cover Girl’

    15 April 2016
    Vessels

    The offshore wind industry will have a new reference directory at Seawork International in June: the Offshore WIND Vessel Directory 2016. This third edition of the directory offers an updated overview of available vessels in the market, including a new category: the Multicat work boats. For this third edition of the vessel directory we are […]

  • UK: Enventi Completes Analysis of Offshore Wind Cable Installation

    8 May 2012
    Grid Connection

    Enventi announces the completion of its comprehensive investigation into power cable installation in the offshore wind industry which forms part of the company’s strategic move into the design of offshore wind farm infrastructure. Enventi’s General Manager, Scott Macknocher commented on the findings: “Until now, we have found it difficult to understand why power cable installation […]

  • Northeast Ohio Institutions to Develop Offshore Wind Energy (USA)

    12 September 2011
    R&D

      Three Northeast Ohio institutions will receive new federal resources to develop offshore wind energy.  (onlinetes) [mappress] Source: onlinetes, September 12, 2011

  • Ørsted and Partners Secure Funds for Offshore Wind to Hydrogen Project

    20 December 2019
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology

    The H2RES project, for which Ørsted and partners have just now received funding, will be using power directly from Ørsted’s two Siemens Gamesa 3.6MW offshore wind turbines at the Avedøre Power Station.