The Ørsted-led PISA (Pile Soil Analysis) project has won the Fleming award from the British Geotechnical Association for the new shorter design of monopile foundations said to reduce green energy costs.
Siemens Convergence Creators has signed an eight-year frame agreement with Ørsted for the supply and maintenance of SCADA Networks and Telecommunication Systems for Ørsted’s current and future offshore wind farms, with the offshore wind giant immediately placing its first order for Borssele 1 & 2.
On 18 December, the European Council adopted its position on a directive of reaching at least 27% of renewable energy share in the European Union’s energy consumption by 2030.
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed one third of the jacket foundations at the 588MW Beatrice offshore wind farm located in the Outer Moray Firth off Scotland.
Statkraft has now divested all holdings in offshore wind with its stake in the Dudgeon offshore wind farm being acquired by a consortium led by China Resources (Holdings) Company Limited, who will buy Statkraft-owned 30% for GBP 555 million.
C-bed’s offshore accommodation vessel Wind Innovation will be deployed at the Walney Extension offshore wind farm as of 1 January 2018, the company informed on 18 December.
Nexans, using Boskalis’ fallpipe vessel (FPV) Rockpiper, is set to commence the rock emplacement campaign for the installation of the first of two export cables (EC1) in the Beatrice offshore wind farm export corridors on 21 December.
Open Ocean and VORTEX have teamed up to create what will be, according to the two companies, the most complete online solution for site analysis during offshore wind project development, based on the Metocean Analytics platform.
A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer has installed the last turbine at Ørsted’s 573MW Race Bank offshore wind farm located off the North Norfolk coast in the UK.
SGS Germany has awarded the 402MW Veja Mate offshore wind farm with the project certificate, marking the wind farm’s final milestone.
The 111MW Nordergründe offshore wind farm is now officially in full operation, after the last of the total of 18 Senvion 6.2M126 wind turbines was connected to the grid yesterday, 17 December.
Atlas Professionals has officially acquired Programmed Marine offices in Houston, Aberdeen, Dubai and Singapore, while the joint venture in Australia and New Zealand will remain as Programmed Marine.
Osbit has reported a 59% increase in its overall profit for the fiscal year ending 30 September, amounting to GBP 1.3 million, which enabled the company to make bonus payments to its 60-strong workforce.
Red Nine, a company providing solutions in the inhospitable and remote locations for the oil and gas sector, has set up an office at the OrbisEnergy hub at Lowestoft in Suffolk, UK, in order to offer its services to the offshore wind sector.
