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  • Offshore WIND Announces 2017 Conference Programme

    20 June 2017

    The Offshore WIND Conference 2017 programme has been announced in further detail. As well as the very first speakers from Siemens, Falck, TNO, and the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.

  • DTU Developing Underwater Offshore Wind Robot

    21 June 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The Technical University of Denmark DTU has inaugurated a laboratory where researchers will complete a modular underwater robot for use on offshore wind farms.

  • Offshore Wind in Northeastern USA Powerful but Unstable

    15 August 2016
    R&D

    University of Delaware (UD) researchers, who studied wind conditions at the Cape Wind offshore site, have found that offshore wind in the northeastern United States may be more powerful, yet more unstable than expected.  The findings could have important implications for the future development of offshore wind farms in the U.S., including the assessment of how much […]

  • Offshore construction: It takes a giant to know a giant

    8 August 2016

    For the second 2016 edition of the Offshore WIND Magazine, we spoke to Blair Ainslie, CEO of Seajacks, on the company’s past and future projects, as well as the industry in general. Seajacks made its first dive into the offshore wind industry in 2009, when its jack-up vessel Seajacks Leviathan carried out the installation of Siemens’ 3.6MW turbines […]

  • MeeMaken Acquires Offshore Lifting System Provider

    15 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    MeeMaken BV, an owner of several companies providing services to the offshore energy industry, has taken over the Kenz Figee Group, a specialist in design, manufacturing and maintenance of offshore lifting and hoisting systems. The former senior management at Mammoet, Roderik van Seumeren and Natasja Sesink will be the new owners of Kenz Figee as partners of […]

  • Offshore Wind Investments Drop in Q1 2017

    12 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    The first quarter of this year saw a 60% year-on-year decrease in offshore wind financings, from USD 11.5 billion in Q1 2016 to USD 4.6 billion in Q1 2017, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF) report on global clean energy investment.

  • Aqualis Offshore Backs OWC’s Taiwan Development

    11 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Aqualis Offshore has opened an office in Taiwan to support local offshore wind and oil and gas markets, as well as the development of its sister company Offshore Wind Consultants’ offshore wind energy projects in Taiwan.

  • A1 Offshore Solutions Buys Ocean Zephyr

    7 April 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels

    Emden-based OWS Off-Shore Wind Solutions has sold the DP2 walk-to-work vessel Ocean Zephyr to Denmark-based A1 Offshore Solutions.

  • Norwegian Shipowners Make Case for Offshore Wind

    30 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Some 90% of Norwegian shipowners find the offshore wind industry as interesting for their activities in the future, according to a diagram published by the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association.

  • Mauritius Looking For Seasoned Offshore Wind Consultants

    9 March 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Environment, R&D, Technology

    The Mauritius Research Council (MRC) has invited expressions of interest for the development of offshore wind farms for the Republic of Mauritius.

  • Offshore Marine Management Bolsters Management Ranks

    16 January 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    Bristol-based subsea specialist Offshore Marine Management (OMM) has added two new members to its team this January. Perry Symons has joined OMM as chief operating officer. Overseeing OMM international offshore projects, he will also co-ordinate service development at a strategic level. Symons is said to bring over twenty years’ experience and knowledge of the marine and subsea industry […]

  • Swedish Offshore Wind Project Dead in the Water

    22 December 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, Wind Farm Update

    The Government of Sweden has decided not to issue a permit to Blekinge Offshore AB for the construction of an offshore wind farm in Hanöbukten. The government ruled that the wind farm is proposed to be built in a strategically important practice area for the country’s Armed Forces. Blekinge Offshore AB had applied for a permit to […]

  • Offshore Technicians Get Special IMO Treatment

    28 November 2016
    Vessels

    On Friday, Maritime Safety Committee of the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted interim recommendations on safe carriage of offshore technicians and agreed on a definition of these technicians – so-called industrial personnel – under which wind turbine technicians and installation personnel with proper training in maritime safety are no longer considered as ordinary passengers. The […]

  • Wiking Gets First Airbus Offshore Chopper

    27 October 2016
    Operations & Maintenance, Technology

    German offshore flight specialist Wiking Helikopter Service GmbH has taken delivery of the first of two Airbus H145 helicopters configured for offshore use. The two helicopters will be used to drop off harbour pilots, fly air rescue missions over the North Sea, and transport service technicians to offshore wind farms, Wiking said. Crewed by two […]

  • OEEC: Future Looks Bright for Offshore Renewables

    26 October 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    The offshore renewable industry will be a valuable ingredient in the future energy mix but it is highly unlikely that it will ever be as big as the oil and gas industry, according to speakers and participants of a technical session titled ”Offshore Renewables“ which was held on Wednesday, 26 October,  at the Offshore Energy Exhibition & […]

  • GE Bolsters Offshore Wind Links in China

    19 October 2016
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection, Technology

    GE’s Power Conversion business, a sub-business of GE Energy Connections, is set to provide its 5-megawatt (MW) medium-voltage (MV) converter based on the MV7000 product platform to China’s offshore wind original equipment manufacturer – XEMC Windpower. All converters will be manufactured in GE’s factory located in Shanghai. With prototypes of similar technologies already installed and operational […]

  • Taiwan Seeks Seismometers for Offshore Wind Farm

    6 October 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Wind Farm Update

    The government of Taiwan is looking for suppliers of seismometer monitoring equipment as part of an unnamed offshore wind project.  The local company is looking for three to four seismometers to be used on an unidentified offshore wind farm, according to the UK’s Exporting Is Great programme. Seismometers are to monitor the natural frequency (fn) of offshore […]

  • US Offshore Wind Advocates to Visit Humber

    15 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    A US delegation of offshore wind advocates will arrive in Humber, UK, this week and visit offshore wind businesses and organisations in Hull, Grimsby and Scunthorpe on September 21 and 22. The visit is being organised by Team Humber Marine Alliance (THMA) and builds on Memoranda of Understanding signed between THMA and two offshore wind organisations in […]

  • Swan Hunter Dives Into Offshore Wind Sector

    12 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    The former Tyneside shipbuilding and engineering company, Swan Hunter, has informed that it moved into the offshore energy sector and is now providing equipment necessary for subsea operations in both oil and gas and renewable energy sectors. The offshore equipment is specially built for the installation of power cables, umbilicals, and flexible pipelines, and includes carousels, reel drive systems […]

  • Statkraft Setting Stage for Offshore Wind Brexit

    9 September 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Norway’s Statkraft is preparing a possible divestment of its shares in the operational Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farm, as well as the Dudgeon and the Dogger Bank projects.  The revised strategy follows the announcement in December 2015 that Statkraft would make no new investments in offshore wind. Preparations for the divestment will be carried out in […]

  • Edition 3 of Offshore WIND Out Now!

    31 August 2016

    Have you seen the latest edition of Offshore WIND? It is out now. Offshore WIND Conference speaker Didi te Gussinklo Ohmann provided the guest column, where she says: “Offshore wind energy is facing exciting times these days. The Dutch Gemini project is well underway and will deliver sustainable energy for almost 800.000 households end 2016. […]

  • Ardmore Craig Ropes In Offshore Wind Contracts

    30 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Technology

    UK-based engineering company Ardmore Craig has been awarded numerous contracts for detail design and seafastening work associated with summer campaigns in the offshore wind sector over the past few months. Projects include vessels destined for Burbo Bank, Bligh Bank, Race Bank, Rampion, Wikinger and Kriegers Flak, the company said. Work has included design of vessel specific grillages, […]

  • European Ports to Discuss Offshore Wind in Oostende

    25 August 2016
    Business & Finance, R&D

    Belgium’s Port of Oostende and renewable terminal operator REBO have invited representatives from European ports and the offshore wind industry to join them on 7 September in a forum aimed at encouraging ports to work together on offshore wind deployment, WindEurope reports. Ports are expanding facilities to accommodate a growing offshore wind industry that must service thousands of turbines in […]

  • Nobelwind Offshore Wind Farm Officially Opens

    24 May 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    The 165MW Nobelwind wind farm has been inaugurated in Oostende, Belgium, MHI Vestas Offshore Wind reports.

  • U.S. Offshore WIND Act Back on the Table

    12 May 2017
    Authorities, Business & Finance

    U.S. Democratic Senators Edward Markey, Sheldon Whitehouse, and Congressman Jim Langevin have reintroduced legislation that would extend tax credits for the offshore wind industry beyond 2019.

  • WindEYE LiDARs for Chinese Offshore Wind Farm

    27 April 2017
    R&D, Technology

    Danish technology group Windar Photonics plc has received a new order for 15 of its WindEYE LiDAR units from a newly appointed regional distributor focused on potential specific IPP customers in China.