With wind energy capacity growing at a rapid pace, the value of the operations and maintenance (O&M) market is expected to increase from $3 billion in 2008 to $19 billion by 2020, says research and consulting firm GlobalData. According to the company’s latest report, more than 191 GW of wind power c
E.ON today started construction of its operations and maintenance building on the North Sea island of Helgoland. The company will use Helgoland as an offshore operations base for its Amrumbank West offshore wind farm. The 1,800 square metre building will provide space for offices, changing rooms and
Comfort-at-Sea – the joint venture between Blue Water Shipping and International Shipping Partners has made an agreement with Areva to deliver two accommodation vessels for wind-projects in the German part of the North Sea. The vessels ‘Ocean Atlantic’ and ‘Sea Discoverer’ will operate on the offsho
A team of specialized experts, consultants and manufacturers based in Seoul, South Korea, have developed Coordinated Offshore Energy Extraction (COEE) and Floating Wind Turbine Foundations and Bridges. The COEE extracts offshore renewable energy; Wave, Tidal, Wind and Solar. The COEE construction un
Statkraft will take over responsibility as Operation and Maintenance (O&M) operator of Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm in January 2014. The current operator, Scira Offshore Energy Ltd, will remain as the legal entity while employees will be transferred to Statkraft. The joint venture company is
Hundreds of new jobs are set to be created in North East Lincolnshire after Danish utility giant DONG Energy was awarded up to £1.1m from the ‘Growing the Humber’ Regional Growth Fund. The fund is run by the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership and North East Lincolnshire Council and supported by the
Royal Dirkzwager and VisSim have announced that the Maritime Control Room for Remote Offshore Asset Monitoring has become operational. This Maritime Control Room, located in Maassluis, is the first independent third party Monitoring center in Europe. The dedicated 24/7 team of Dirkzwager’s Offshore
German Renewables Shipbrokers (GRS) is one of the first brokers to specialize in the use of BIMCO’s WINDTIME. GRS is set to further increase its use of the specialised time charter party called WINDTIME, designed and tailor-made for the offshore wind industry. WINDTIME mainly addresses the requireme
A new multi-million pound redevelopment at mainland Scotland’s most northerly port, Scrabster Harbour, is already reaping the benefits, only two months after coming into operation. Scotrenewables Tidal Power Ltd, based in Orkney, has chosen Scrabster as the location for their most recent operations
This week, Maritime Craft Services (MCS) will take delivery of one of the two additional Twin Axe Fast Crew Suppliers 2610 ordered from Damen, The Scotsman reports. After MCS took delivery of three Damen Twin Axe FCS 2610s last month, it ordered two more, named MCS Coromell and MCS Boreas. The compa
Pharos Offshore Group is currently refitting its newly acquired subsea cable trencher at Tees Offshore Base in Middlesbrough, Gazette Live informs. The company finds the facilities at Tees Offshore Base an ideal location to refurbish its cable trencher, as it is contracting local companies to provid
Bond Air Services (Bond) will provide helicopter support to deliver maintenance technicians by hoist to the Greater Gabbard’s 140 turbines – the first helicopter operation of its kind in the UK. The wind farm has a generation capacity of around 500MW, enough to power approximately 530,000 homes. The
TenneT Offshore GmbH is seeking a contractor who will undertake maintenance of the stored parts and SLA for the repair of the high voltage cable systems alpha ventus (Lot 1) and BorWin1 (Lot2) maintenance. This involves regular inspection and maintenance of embedded parts for the high voltage cable
SeaEnergy PLC and Robert Gordon University (RGU) have jointly launched a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop an operational and economic model for life cycle cost of operations and maintenance (O&M) strategies in offshore wind farms. This KTP is supported by the Technology Strategy Board
