Japan’s Kokusai Cable Ship will add a new Vard-designed cable laying vessel to its fleet in 2019. The vessel, currently being built at Colombo Dockyard in Sri Lanka, will be capable of carrying out cable installation for future offshore wind projects in Asia.
3sun Group has invested more than GBP 1.4 million in staff training to fulfil existing contracts and in anticipation of a record work pipeline for 2018. 3sun Group said its business shifted from 50% oil & gas and 50% renewables in 2015 to about 85% renewables and 15% oil & gas in 2017.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved project financing for the Blauwwind offshore wind farm located in the Borssele III and IV zones in the Dutch part of the North Sea.
Production problems and cost overruns related to the Beatrice jacket foundations order are at the root of financial issues that the Scottish company BiFab is currently facing, resulting in its staff coming to work as usual despite the company having no money to pay their wages, just so the Beatrice
NRG Systems has appointed Barry Logue as the company’s Lidar Wind Energy Solutions Manager responsible for all sales and account management for NRG’s Lidar products and services in North America.
The Regional Administrative Tribunal of Sicily (Il Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale per la Sicilia – TAR) has revoked a construction permit granted by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea (IMELS) for the 137MW offshore wind project in the Gulf of Gela off Sicily’s southern coast.
The BiFab management informed trade unions on 13 November that there was no money to pay the wages of their staff. Problems that led BiFab to being a few steps away from going into administration have emerged from a dispute over payments with Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL), who awarded BiFab with the fa
RTS Wind is currently involved in the commissioning works at the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm located in the German Baltic Sea.
DHI Group has unveiled a new MetOcean Data Portal which is said to deliver validated metocean data and analytics within minutes.
OOS Energy has unveiled a new vessel design that will serve the offshore wind sector, in addition to oil & gas. The company will build two units of the vessel and is now in final talks with shipyards for the construction with an expected delivery in 2020/ 2021.
RenewableUK and Scottish Renewables met in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday, 14 November, to debate future opportunities for UK’s floating offshore wind.
The Offshore WIND International Business Guide 2018 will be launched in February 2018 and will continue to successfully display many companies active in offshore wind industry.
Seaway Heavy Lifting’s (SHL) vessel Oleg Strashnov will return to the Beatrice site on 16 November and will continue installing jacket foundations until mid-December, when it will leave the site once again and SHL’s vessel Stanislav Yudin will take over.
As announced earlier, Vattenfall has now started holding public consultation to discuss its preliminary environmental information report (PEIR) for the Norfolk Vanguard offshore wind farm. On 11 November, a session which saw a record turnout was held in Happisburgh, where some of the residents voice
