Aberdeen-based ROV operator ROVOP has won several contracts across the offshore wind and oil and gas sectors with a combined value of USD 4 million (EUR 3.6 million). The contracts are with new clients and include construction support, cable lay and protection, survey, and inspection repair and main
Dutch Sif Holding N.V. has been awarded a contract for the production of all tubular components for the jacket of the BorWin gamma platform. The contract includes the production of legs, bracings, pile sleeves and pin piles for the jacket. The project is being undertaken by Petrofac in consortium wi
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed the new energy legislation which calls for development of 1,600MW of offshore wind capacity by 2027 into law on Monday, 8 August. An Act Relative to Energy Diversity (H. 4568) requires utilities to competitively solicit and contract for approximately 2,800
Iberdrola, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, and Navantia hosted the delivery ceremony of the substation built for the 350MW Wikinger offshore wind farm at Navantia’s premises in Cadiz, on Monday, 8 August. The substation was christened as Andalucía and was built by Navantia entirely at the company’s Puert
Seaway Heavy Lifting (SHL) has completed its work on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm by installing the topside for the wind farm’s offshore substation on Sunday, 7 August. SHL utilised its crane vessel Oleg Strashnov to install the topside. Prior to that, Oleg Strashnov installed the wind farm’
Siem Offshore’s recent additions to the fleet, the installation support vessel Siem Moxie and the cable lay vessel Siem Aimery, are expected to install all of the 59 inter-array grid cables for the 332MW Nordsee One offshore wind farm by the end of August. Siem Offshore Contractors GmbH (SOC), a who
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is expected to sign the state’s landmark energy bill which calls for public utilities to buy 1,600 MW of power generated from offshore wind farms over the coming decade on Monday, 8 August. The legislation directs companies engaging in the distribution of electri
Breaking: First US Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Tall Deepwater Wind’s CEO Jeffrey Grybowski has shared images of the the jack-up installation vessel Brave Tern as it attaches the final blade and completes the installation of the first offshore wind turbine in US waters, and the first of five wind tu
The 1,700-ton topside built by Sembmarine SLP for the offshore substation of the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm has sailed out of the port of Lowestoft, UK. The four-deck topside will be installed on a 1,500-tonne steel jacket which was put in place some 32 kilometres off Cromer, Norfolk, at the b
Dutch energy company Eneco Group recorded EUR 139 million profit after income tax , slightly less than the EUR 144 million made by the company in the same period last year, as a result of lower prices for gas and, to a smaller extent, for electricity. The group’s grid operator, Stedin, and the energ
DONG Energy has filed an Interconnection Request Application with ISO-New England to use 800MW of interconnection capacity of Brayton Point power station in Somerset, Massachusetts, for bringing offshore wind energy generated by the Bay State Wind farm onto the grid. Given upcoming retirement of the
Sedgefield-based energy industry software specialist Quorum Development has been appointed by Statoil to provide software to enable the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm and the 30MW Hywind Scotland Hywind Scotland Pilot Park to interface with National Grid and participate in the GB energy market. Th
UK’s energy market regulator Ofgem plans to launch Offshore Transmission Owner (OFTO) Tender Round Five (TR5) in October 2016 which will enable bidders to compete to own the transmission assets of five offshore wind farm projects. The five offshore wind projects have a combined capacity of 2.3GW. Th
VBMS has shared a video showing the export cable for the Nordergründe offshore wind farm being pulled to the onshore substation near Inhausen, Germany. The company completed the installation of the 26.5 kilometre export cable in June. The video shows the pull-in of the cable through the BSS-II to th
