A Dutch subsea engineering company, Seatools, has launched a pile cleaning and dredging tool. The Pile Dredge Tool (PDT) is capable of removing soil plugs and cleaning pre-piled jackets, such as those used in the offshore wind industry. The system can also be used for other pile excavation operation
Atlantic Marine has completed the removal of boulders from the seabed where export cables for DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank offshore wind farm will be laid. The company used the ROV/boulder & UXO removal vessel Atlantic Explorer to carry out the task over a four-month period. Race Bank is located so
DONG Energy and Seacat Services have signed a two-year contract for four crew transfer vessels to support construction operations at the Race Bank offshore wind farm. Ian Baylis, Managing Director of Seacat Services, said: “Our work with DONG Energy on Race Bank over the coming months will enable us
Bureau Veritas has developed guidelines for walk-to-work (W2W) motion compensated Offshore Access Systems (OAS), which are used to transfer personnel to and from offshore installations. Matthieu de Tugny, Senior Vice-President and Head of Offshore, Bureau Veritas, said: “With these new guidelines th
Galloper Wind Farm Limited (GWFL), the developers of the 336MW Galloper offshore wind farm, have teamed up with EDF Energy’s Sizewell B nuclear power station to launch a new community fund in Suffolk. The Leiston and Sizewell Community Fund will be distributed over a seven year period. Over GBP 85,0
On 28 April 2016, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold a New York Renewable Energy Task Force meeting to provide an overview of recent and upcoming activities regarding the wind energy development offshore New York. Janice M. Schneider, Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Man
Operational offshore wind projects may be rated investment-grade, subject to adequate mitigation of technical and operational performance risk, Fitch Ratings said in a report. Offshore wind farms under construction are exposed to materially greater challenges compared with onshore projects and their
Sembmarine SLP, which has designed and built the offshore substation for the Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is preparing for the sail away of its jacket to the project construction site. The 1,500-tonne jacket will be loaded onto a barge in Lowestoft tomorrow (20 April), and ready to be towed 100km up t
Some 14,500 people have applied for 420 job positions advertised so far for Siemens’ Hull wind turbine facilities. While six new job vacancies for crane operators will be announced this week, the company had already accepted 309 offers, 90% of which are from and around Hull. “There is lots of excite
Two multi-billion dollar offshore wind projects have turned Europe into the strongest performing region in terms of clean energy investments in the first quarter of 2016, according to the data compiled by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The two projects, the 1.2GW Hornsea Project One and the 71
South Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) is hosting meetings on Jeju Island this week, in an effort to obtain international certification for the country’s renewable energy technology from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). On Thursday and Friday, IEC will hold a mee
Associated British Ports (ABP) allotted GBP 15,000 for a project to reintroduce salmon to a stretch of river in North Yorkshire through a partnership established to support populations of migratory fish in the Humber as part of the Greenport Hull Alexandra Dock development. The Greenport Hull Alexan
Danish shipping company Blue Water Shipping (BWS) has won a contract to handle and transport jackets and piles constructed for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm in the German sector of the Baltic Sea. The wind farm comprises 70 turbines with four-legged jackets fastened to the seabed with four p
Antwerp-based Scaldis Salvage & Marine Contractors N.V. has chosen the name of Gulliver for its heavy lift, DP2 vessel currently under construction in China. Gulliver, formerly known as RAMBIZ 4000 due to its lifting capacity, got its name following the keel laying ceremony held at the Hong Qiang sh
