IVB (Inspection Verification Bureau), which provides inspection and verification services to the oil, gas and renewable energy sectors, has opened a new office in Aberdeen. Director Derek Lockwood said the company’s profitability was holding up in the offshore downturn with a steady stream of work.
SeaRoc, the company behind the SeaPlanner marine management software, said it is looking ahead to a much more active offshore wind market in the following three years, after a relatively slow 2015. SeaRoc Group’s Managing Director Steve Pears said: “2015 has brought both challenges and opportunities
A report on the global wind farm operations and maintenance market, with a special focus on China, has been released. Reportbuyer has informed it added the “Global and China Wind Farm O&M Industry Report, 2015-2018” by ResearchInChina to its offering. In 2014, the global wind farm O&M market size hi
Hull-based company Composite Panel Services has won a contract worth more than £500,000 to work on Siemens’ new offshore wind turbine blade factory in Alexandra Dock. The east Hull plant, part of a site that will eventually employ more than 1,000 people, is being built by national company VolkerFitz
COWI A/S has acquired Norwegian engineering firm Teknisk Data A/S (TDA), a company that specialises in the design of offshore wind foundations and high technology floating bridges. In October, TDA reported that it has won several major design contracts for the design of offshore wind turbine foundat
At its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of RWE AG unanimously approved the Executive Board’s plans to restructure the Group. The company will transfer its renewables, grid and retail operations in Germany and abroad to a new subsidiary, which it intends to list on the stock market towards the en
Indian Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the United Kingdom on cooperation in the energy sector, including offshore wind energy. The areas of cooperation also include market reforms, regulatory structures and the r
Kristian Ravn has been appointed as Managing Director of Universal Foundation, a Fred. Olsen related company. Ravn has joined Universal Foundation, the engineering and installation service provider for the Mono Bucket foundation, from the position of Managing Director at Semco Maritime Norway, an EP
Ofgem yesterday issued a notice of consultation to modify conditions of the transmission licence proposed to be granted to the successful bidder for the Westermost Rough project. The proposed modifications are related to certain standard conditions of the transmission licence that may be granted to
SeebaWIND Service GmbH will trade under the new name of Deutsche Windtechnik X-Service GmbH as of 01 January 2016. This means that the company, which has has been a part of Deutsche Windtechnik AG since June 2015, is now fully affiliated to the independent provider of wind technology. The renaming d
DEME is wrapping up a series of nationwide offshore wind supply chain events in the UK with a closing event in London today. Each of the 13 events, organised between November and December 2015, were well attended with over 500 delegates registered in total, the company informed. DEME’s offshore wind
Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) have announced the appointment of John MacAskill as the company’s first business development manager. MacAskill will be responsible for leading OWC’s entry into new markets and will assist Aqualis Offshore, OWC’s sister company, to grow its business in the European oi
French branch of the insurance specialist Swiss Life and Natixis, a French corporate and investment bank, will co-finance an offshore wind project, as part of an infrastructure debt cooperation agreement signed on 9 December. “Under the terms of this agreement, Swiss Life will invest €300m, benefiti
The wind tower market will reach a value of more than USD 19 billion by 2019, a new report says. The report published by Infiniti Research Limited names factors that are expected to stimulate the prospects for growth in this market, including some positive trends, including growing support from gove
