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  • DONG Energy Returns to CWind with TP Gate Contract

    8 September 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has been awarded a contract by DONG Energy to install new and retrofit existing gates on the transition pieces (TPs) at the Gode Wind and Borkum Riffgrund offshore wind farms in the German North Sea.

  • BOWL Starts Prepping Beatrice Crew Transfer Vessel Base

    9 November 2017
    Operations & Maintenance, Wind Farm Update

    Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd. (BOWL) has begun the works on the disused corner of Wick Harbour which will become the base for the crew transfer vessels (CTVs) working on the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm.

  • Seaway Heavy Lifting Preparing Beatrice for Inter-Array Cable Installation

    23 October 2017
    Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) is set to commence the first pre-lay grapnel run campaign at the Beatrice offshore wind farm site to clear the inter-array cable routes from debris and prepare them for cable installation.

  • Top News of the Week, 25 – 31 December 2017

    31 December 2017
    Contracts & Tenders

    Germany Confirms Two Additional Offshore Wind Farm Links The German Federal Network Agency has added two more offshore wind farm connection systems to the revised Offshore Grid Development Plan (O-NEP) 2030. 32 Beatrice Foundations In Place Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov installed the 32nd of 86 jacket foundations on the 588MW Beatrice offshore […]

  • ZTT Enters Offshore Wind Construction Market, Orders Three Vessels

    20 November 2017
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Zhongtian Technology (ZTT) has signed an agreement with China Merchants Heavy Industry for the construction of two wind turbine installation vessels (WTIVs) and one crane vessel, after the Chinese power cables manufacturer entered the offshore wind construction market this summer.

  • Manor Venture’s First Galloper Push

    3 May 2017
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    The Manor Venture, Manor Renewable Energy’s new wind farm service vessel, has performed the first push test on the 336MW Galloper wind farm off Suffolk.

  • Siemens Gamesa Reports Revenue Drop, Expects Market Demand Increase by 2020

    27 July 2017
    Business & Finance

    In the third quarter of fiscal year 2017 (from April to June 2017), Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy’s revenues were down 7% year-on-year. Revenue from the sale of wind turbines decreased by 9%, reflecting lower sales volumes of 1,950W (-25%), as a result of temporary market conditions in the onshore business, as well as normal business volatility in the offshore market, the company said.

  • Stanislav Yudin In Charge of Beatrice Jacket Installation

    3 April 2018
    Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Stanislav Yudin has been deployed on the jacket installation at the Beatrice offshore wind farm as the heavy lift vessel Oleg Strashnov left the site to handle the substation installation at the Arkona offshore wind farm in the German part of the Baltic Sea.

  • Ideol, CSC Hook Up for Taiwanese Floating Offshore Wind

    13 November 2015

    Ideol and Group China Steel Corporation (CSC) have agreed to collaborate on floating offshore wind projects in Taiwan. The collaboration includes designing, engineering and constructing floating offshore wind turbines by using the Damping Pool technology, developed by the French floating foundation specialist. Areas that have been identified for the first offshore wind projects in Taiwan have water depths ranging […]

  • BWS Backs Van Oord’s Foundation Work

    8 October 2015

    Blue Water Shipping (BWS) is transporting 76 wind turbine foundations for Van Oord Offshore Wind Projects for the Gemini Offshore Wind Park. “Our own naval architect has together with the shipping line come up with a change in construction of the chartered vessel so that it can accommodate the foundations. After ten days’ dry-docking in […]

  • MHI Vestas, Eneco Get Their Own Boat Landings in IJmuiden

    21 January 2015
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Vessels, Wind Farm Update

    Port Authority Zeehaven IJmuiden N.V. has constructed three new boat landings for MHI Vestas Offshore Wind and Eneco, as a response to the major increase in the transport of the two companies’ maintenance crews and staff to and from their offshore wind farms.  These new boat landings make it easy and safe to step from the […]

  • Rhode Island Utility Commission Approves Block Island Wind Farm (USA)

    13 August 2010
    Authorities

    Deepwater Wind’s efforts to build an offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island have received a boost following the approval by the Public Utilities Commission of its power purchase agreement (PPA) with National Grid. The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission has approved a power purchase plan for a wind farm off the coast […]

  • Seajacks 3 LTD Allows Option for a Second Vessel (UK)

    17 February 2011

    Lamprell plc has been notified by Seajacks 3 LTD that it is allowing the option for a second vessel, negotiated as part of the original transaction to construct a self-elevating and self-propelled offshore wind turbine installation vessel entered into in June 2010, to lapse. In addition, the first option for a self-elevating and self-propelled offshore […]

  • VolkerWessels Wins Cabling Contract for German Meerwind Offshore Wind Farm

    29 June 2012
    Business & Finance, Grid Connection

    VolkerWessels subsidiary Visser & Smit Marine Contracting (VSMC) has been awarded a contract from WindMW GmbH for the installation of cables for the Meerwind Offshore Wind Farm which is currently under construction in Germany. The award of the contract consolidates VSMC’s position as market leader in cable installation for offshore wind farms. Wind Turbines The […]

  • Jiangsu Rudong Offshore Wind Farm Begins Operation in China

    31 May 2012

    The Jiangsu Rudong Offshore Wind Power Plant began operation in May 2012 and is Siemens’ first order for offshore wind power outside Europe. Siemens has installed 21 SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines off the coast of the Rudong district in the East China Sea having a total output of approximately 50 megawatts (MW). Completion of the project […]

  • RenewableUK Welcomes GBP 20 Million MEAD Scheme

    8 April 2012

    RenewableUK, the trade association for the wind, wave and tidal industry, has welcomed the launch of the Marine Energy Array Demonstrator (MEAD) scheme, which will provide £20 million of funding for the first marine arrays. An ‘array’ is an arrangement of multiple wave and/or tidal power devices, analogous to multiple wind turbines arranged into a […]

  • Delaware Senate Passes Bill that Could Override County’s Permit Denial to US Wind

    12 June 2025
    Authorities, Grid Connection, Onshore Infrastructure, Planning & Permitting, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    The Delaware State Senate has passed a bill which would allow US Wind to continue planning its onshore substations for the Maryland offshore wind project in Delaware’s Sussex County, whose council denied US Wind the permit last year. Senate Bill 159, introduced in the Delaware Senate on 21 May and discussed by the Senate Environment, […]

  • Siemens Leaves Heavy Lifting to ALE

    3 June 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Siemens has awarded a four-year crane framework agreement to UK heavy-lift specialist ALE for the supply and deployment of cranes, specialised transport equipment and personnel. The contract is for the period 2016-19, and has a value in excess of GBP 43 million (EUR 55m). It covers Siemens’ harbour-based offshore wind sites in the UK and Germany, […]

  • Belgian Start-Up Develops Monitoring System for Offshore Assets

    30 June 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, R&D

    Zensor, a start-up company from Brussels, has developed a device that enables companies to monitor gas stations, offshore wind turbine foundations or buried pipelines. The company now has its first customer – the Dutch gas infrastructure company Gasunie.  The company offers full, integrated, autonomous and robust monitoring solutions for the foundation structures of offshore wind turbines as well as transformer stations, both for […]

  • ZTT’s Zhongtian 39 Completes Piling Work at 204 MW Chinese Offshore Wind Expansion Project

    26 May 2025
    Fixed-Bottom, Project Updates, Wind Farm Update

    ZTT’s flagship monopile installation vessel Zhongtian 39 has completed the foundation piling for China Resources Power’s Cangnan No.1 Phase II offshore wind farm expansion project. The 215-metre-long Zhongtian 39 has installed all 13 foundation piles for the 204 MW Cangnan No.1 Phase II offshore wind project in China. This was the first project undertaken and […]

  • Hull College Teaching Siemens Workers about Composites

    7 March 2016
    Authorities, Business & Finance, R&D, Technology, Training & Education

    Hull College Group (HCG) has launched the Hull College Group Composites Training Centre to help Siemens’ wind turbine blade factory workforce master manufacturing skills using composite materials.  Around GBP 500,000 has been invested to convert a former construction skills facility on Hull’s Preston Road estate into one of only two centres in the UK which specialise in composite manufacture. Facilities […]

  • Corrosion and fouling prevention

    21 June 2013

    Corrosion to many people is the mysterious manifestation that those in the maritime industry all have to deal with at some point or other. It is often misunderstood and because it appears at first sight – in theory at least – a somewhat simple to explain electro-chemical action its understanding and methods of dealing with […]

  • Germany: Voith Gets First VLJ Order

    28 February 2012

    Voith has received the first Voith Linear Jet order with Turbine Transfers UK for a 19 meter BMT Nigel Gee designed Wind Support Vessel. The Voith Linear Jet will provide for this application a substantial higher bollard pull without a requirement for increased installed power. This higher bollard pull will allow Turbine Transfers the safe […]

  • Germany: ContiTech Presents Scour-Protection System

    7 August 2012
    Operations & Maintenance

    The new offshore rubber mats from ContiTech fit the contours of the seabed perfectly, and their elasticity allows them to absorb the energy of waves and vortices to prevent sand from being washed away around the foot of the turbine. These firm foundations for the piles that support them are absolutely vital. Electric power from […]

  • Delmar Adds Lankhorst to Culzean Floating Wind Team

    18 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Contracts & Tenders, Floating Wind, Supply Chain

    Lankhorst Offshore has been awarded a contract by Delmar Systems to supply mooring lines to Archer Wind for their work on TotalEnergies’ Culzean floating wind project offshore Aberdeen, Scotland. Delmar Systems will provide the total mooring solution for the floating wind turbine, which will moor the modular, light, semi-submersible floater hull, designed by Ocergy, to […]

  • Purus Inks Multi-Year CSOV Deal with Vestas

    30 October 2024
    Business & Finance, Vessels

    Vestas has signed a multi-year service contract with Purus to utilise the company’s commissioning service operation vessel (CSOV) newbuild which is currently under construction at Vard’s shipyard in Norway. The contract with the Danish wind turbine manufacturer will commence immediately after the vessel’s launch in 2025, Purus said. The Purus Chinook vessel can house up […]