Boskalis’s new subsea rock installation (SRI) vessel Windpiper has departed the Port of Rotterdam to pick up its first load and sail to an offshore wind farm site in the Polish sector of the Baltic Sea. In an update posted on social media, Boskalis said the SRI vessel will load 45,500 tonnes of rock
Seatrium Offshore Renewable Services (ORS) has started construction of a new offshore wind operations hub in Lowestoft, UK. The company says the investment strengthens Seatrium ORS’ operational capability as demand grows for offshore project delivery, hook-up, commissioning, logistics and lifecycle
CS Wind Offshore has sent off the first batch of transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm from its site at the Port of Aalborg to Germany. Weighing around 362 tonnes each, the transition pieces will be transported and installed at the project site in the German North S
The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) has published an indicative timeline for the recalibration of the fifth round of its Green Energy Auction Program (GEA-5), the country’s first for offshore wind, with the auction now tentatively scheduled for 1 December 2026. The DOE issued the official Noti
PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has completed the construction and loadout of the offshore substation structures for the Fengmiao offshore wind project in Taiwan, comprising a 3,400-tonne topside and an 8,000-tonne jacket and the accompanying piles. “Delivered on schedule with more than 2.
RWE has raised its full-year 2026 earnings outlook for its Offshore Wind division after the business delivered stronger-than-expected results in the first half of the year, driven by higher electricity generation under more favourable wind conditions, according to the company. Based on preliminary f
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has launched a tender for a benthic survey of the Doordewind Wind Farm Zone. The survey, commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), will collect factual benthic data to verify the findings of a desktop reef detection study, the results of which ar
The Romanian Ministry of Energy has published a list of six offshore wind development areas, and its decision approving the list, for public consultation. The proposed areas, estimated to be able to accommodate a total of 11.5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity, are planned according to a phased
German Federal Police has recovered a detached wind turbine rotor blade that was drifting in the North Sea between the operational Hohe See offshore wind farm and the He Dreiht project, which is currently under construction. According to the Federal Police Inspectorate in Cuxhaven, authorities were
Port of Tyne has launched what it says is a major recovery and clean-up operation after Cadeler’s wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) Wind Orca allided with another vessel and a shoreside crane at the port, leaving one person injured. “The crane operator was injured and has been taken to hospita
The Crown Estate has launched an accelerated tender process to select a new developer for the up to 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind project in the Irish Sea after the previous developer discontinued the project earlier this year. The Morgan site was originally awarded through Offshore Wind Leasing Round
A proposed merger between Saipem and Subsea7 is facing deeper scrutiny in the European Union (EU) over offshore market concentration due to subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) market dominance, potentially threatening to undermine competition, raise c
The Swedish government has approved two offshore wind projects in the country’s exclusive economic zone while rejecting eleven others, completing decisions on all offshore wind permit applications that had been under review. The approved projects are Fyrskeppet Offshore, located around 54 kilometres
The Belgian federal government has approved a new regulatory framework for relaunching the tender for the first offshore wind site in the Princess Elisabeth Zone (PEZ 1) and set 1 October 2031 as the deadline for commissioning the first phase of the Princess Elisabeth energy island (MOG II). The rev
