The jacket foundations for the Hornsea Two offshore substation and reactive compensation station (RCS) have set sail from Indonesia towards the project site in the UK. The structures weighing over 10,000 tons departed Batam on 13 August onboard heavy transport vessel (HTV) Big Lift Barentsz. The jou
The jacket foundation for the second of the three Moray East’s Offshore Transformer Modules (OTMs) was installed on 10 August, according to the project’s Notice of Operations. Siemens Energy shipped out the first OTM, ME OSP2, on 30 June. However, this was not the first OTM to have been installed. A
The Massachusetts-based Bristol Community College has entered a global partnership with Maersk Training to develop new courses for students seeking employment in the offshore wind industry. The college’s National Offshore Wind Institute (NOWI) currently offers basic safety training modules which inc
Vattenfall has issued a tender for inter-array cable replacement at the DanTysk offshore wind farm in the German North Sea. The tender also concerns cable protection system (CPS) replacement, including the design, supply and installation of CPS and CPS stabilization. Vattenfall said it had conducted
NASH Maritime has been selected as the shipping and navigation consultant for the 96 MW Erebus floating wind project in the Celtic Sea offshore Wales, UK. NASH Maritime’s scope includes the delivery of radar vessel traffic surveys, which commenced this month, a Navigation Risk Assessment (NRA) and i
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind, the developer holding an offshore wind lease off New Jersey, has launched a study on red knots, an endangered shore bird. The developer plans to bid at the state’s next solicitation for offshore wind energy this year. For the study on red knots, Atlantic Shores has par
The Danish Energy Agency and Energinet have made available the first results and data from site investigations carried out at the Thor offshore wind farm site. As part of the preliminary investigations for the site in the Danish North Sea, Energinet is conducting preliminary geotechnical, geophysica
MMT’s DP2 multipurpose support vessel Stril Explorer is on its way to the Beacon Wind project site offshore Massachusetts, where MMT will carry out geophysical survey. In April, Equinor Wind US awarded MMT US with a contract for survey work at its offshore wind lease area off New England. The contra
Ørsted has launched a recruitment campaign that will see the offshore wind developer employing 23 wind turbine technicians. The new employees will work out of the East Coast Hub in Grimsby on Ørsted’s offshore wind farms, including Hornsea Project Two. “Over half of Ørsted’s Grimsby based employees
Xodus Group has launched a three-year collaborative research project on the costs around floating offshore wind. The Improving the Bankability of Floating Offshore Wind Projects study, led by Xodus through the IDCORE program, is a collaborative partnership between the Universities of Edinburgh, Stra
Jan De Nul has installed nine of the 21 jacket foundations at the Taiwan Power Company Offshore Windfarm Phase 1 Project – Demonstration offshore Taiwan. Offshore installation vessel Aegir, which Jan De Nul Group chartered from Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors, is installing the 1,100 metric tonne j
UK-headquartered consultancy company BVG Associates has been awarded a contract by the North Carolina Department of Commerce to assist the agency with an offshore wind industry supply chain and infrastructure assessment. BVG Associates will help the Department research and develop an inventory of bu
Ventus Marine has taken delivery of crew transfer vessel (CTV) Ventus Lugang which will service the Formosa 1 offshore wind project in Taiwan. Ventus Lugang was delivered on 1 August at the Port of Kaohsiung and will join its sisters CTV Ventus Beigang and service accommodation transfer vessel (SATV
The CrossWind consortium of Shell and Eneco has awarded Fugro with a contract to deliver geotechnical site investigation solutions for the Hollandse Kust (noord) offshore wind farm. The site investigation solutions will comprise an unexploded ordnance (UXO) site clearance survey followed by a seabed
