The substation platform and jacket foundation for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm have departed from the Smulders yard in Wallsend, Newcastle, and are en route to their site off the Angus coast in Scotland. The Siemens Energy Offshore Transformer Module (OTM) and its jacket foundation sailed at sun
SeAH Wind has commenced commercial production for its inaugural project, delivering monopile foundations for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK. The milestone was marked by cutting the first steel plates. This signifies the beginning of operations at SeAH Wind’s facility on Teess
UK-based Inyanga Marine Energy Group has assumed operational management of the newly built Tor Boreas, a hybrid utility vessel developed for offshore wind operations. According to Inyanga, the 26.95-metre vessel will be operated in partnership with compatriot company, Tor Group, and is designed for
The Port of Great Yarmouth in the UK is set to undergo a major expansion, with plans announced to develop a new deep-water terminal at the port. The port operator is moving forward with plans to develop the southern terminal of its outer harbour in response to growing demand from developers and cons
Geotechnical survey work will soon commence along the North Falls export cable route and wind turbine array area in the southern North Sea. Mobilisation will commence on 3 August, with the survey lasting approximately two months. The planned survey is expected to conclude no later than 30 September,
UK-headquartered Acteon, through its marine foundations business line, MENCK, has secured a contract to supply pile-driving equipment and operational services for the installation of the 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. Acteon will supply its MENCK MHU4400S hydraulic hammer, along with a pile sl
Subsea7 and Saipem have signed a binding merger agreement, kicking off the process of combining the two companies, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026 and result in a new offshore energy player named Saipem7. The companies revealed plans to merge in February this year, when
A new project has been launched in the UK to improve the effectiveness of mooring lines and dynamic cables on floating offshore wind farms. Historically, mooring repair costs for oil production assets have exceeded GBP 400 million (approximately EUR 461 million) for a single incident, while cable fa
Fugro has completed the first phase of geotechnical site investigations at the Dogger Bank South (DBS) East offshore wind farm site, located over 100 kilometres off the northeastern coast of England. The first round of geotechnical surveys started in May and was carried out by the vessel Fugro Revel
A research project carried out by The Oyster Restoration Company (TORC) and supported by RWE has established that large-scale native oyster reef restoration at offshore wind farms in the North Sea is feasible. “Flat oysters are an important species because they can create reefs that provide food and
Cierco Energy and Marine Power Systems (MPS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which is said to be the first step towards deploying MPS PelaFlex technology at one of the Llŷr demonstration project sites in the Celtic Sea. Cierco Energy was chosen to build the Llŷr 1 and Llŷr 2 floatin
The first section of the export cable for the 1.4 GW East Anglia Three offshore wind farm has been pulled ashore, making landfall at Bawdsey in Suffolk. NKT, which is supplying and installing the export cable for the project under a turnkey contract secured in 2022, started working on East Anglia Th
Ørsted has selected Steel River Quay on the Teesworks site on the south bank of the River Tees in the northeast of England as the construction base for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm. Ørsted signed a lease agreement for up to 300,000 square metres at Steel River Quay, which will be used to collect
