The Port of Virginia has reached an agreement to lease a portion of the Portsmouth Marine Terminal to Dominion Energy for the development of the 2.6 GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Under the agreement, Dominion Energy will use 72 acres of the deep-water, multi-use marine cargo Port
Peel Ports Clydeport, owner of Hunterston Port and Resource Campus (Hunterston PARC), has signed an option agreement with XLCC for two factories in Ayrshire, Scotland, that would produce high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables. The overall agreement includes building a 70-acre facility that
UXOcontrol has completed the unexploded ordnance (UXO) identification and disposal campaign at the Hollandse Kust Zuid 3 and 4 offshore wind project in the Netherlands. The campaign, which ran from early February till July, saw a total of 1,350 targets investigated, with 19 being highlighted as UXOs
Marine Scotland has launched consultation on the potential opportunities for offshore wind innovation and projects to assist in decarbonising the oil and gas sector, which could be included in the future leasing process. Namely, the Scottish Government has started working on a new Sectoral Marine Pl
GE Renewable Energy and Poland’s PKN ORLEN have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore ways to work together to support the development of offshore wind projects in Poland. GE Renewable Energy is already an active player in the Polish wind market with over 300 onshore wind turbines deliveri
DNV has updated the DNV-ST-0119 standard for floating wind turbine structures. The updated standard is said to include technical improvements that would allow the industry to further optimize floating wind turbine structures while maintaining a sufficient level of safety. The main change is a comple
Van Oord has awarded TKF with a contract to provide the inter-array cables for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind project in Germany. TKF is in charge of the production and delivery of approximately 79 kilometers of 66 kV inter-array cables and corresponding accessories. Van Oord’s cable-laying vessel N
BP has awarded Global Maritime with a framework agreement for the provision of specialist marine services that will support BP’s oil and gas and renewable energy projects, including offshore wind. The three-year agreement will start immediately and covers marine vessel assurance, engineering, projec
Marmen Welcon, a joint venture between two manufacturers of onshore and offshore wind towers, has entered a strategic alliance with Smulders to produce transition pieces (TPs) for the US offshore wind market at Marmen Welcon facility which will be built in the Port of Albany. The companies will be t
Installation of the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm, the Kincardine Offshore Wind, has been completed. The 50 MW project is located approximately 15 kilometres off the southeast coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The wind farm’s five Vestas 9.525 MW wind turbines and one 2 MW Vestas unit
North Star Renewables has secured a loan of GBP 96 million (approximately EUR 112 million) from Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) to build the three Service Operations Vessels (SOVs) that will serve the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. The vessel owner said the loan added to its own balance sheet
Deutsche Windtechnik has established an offshore wind maintenance business unit in the UK, following the same move the company did in the onshore segment in 2016. The German company’s new unit in the UK, Deutsche Windtechnik Offshore Ltd., began operations on 1 August and is managed as an independen
Cadeler’s wind farm installation vessels Wind Orca and Wind Osprey have achieved 87 per cent utilisation, and at competitive market rates, in the first half of this year, bringing the company a 253 per cent increase in revenue compared to the same period in 2020. Last year, Cadeler reported a EUR 9
Denmark’s Port of Roenne A/S has been selected as an installation port for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm in the German Baltic Sea. Iberdrola and Vestas have signed a contract to supply 50 units of the V174-9.5 MW offshore wind turbine for the Baltic Eagle project situated in German waters 40 k
