The first service operation vessel (SOV) built for the Asian offshore wind market completed six days of sea trials offshore Vietnam back in January. The SOV, to be named TSS Pioneer, is being built by Vard at the Vung Tau shipyard in Vietnam. The vessel will soon be delivered to Ta San Shang Marine,
Inch Cape Offshore Limited, a joint venture between the Edinburgh-based Red Rock Power Limited and Ireland’s energy company Electricity Supply Board (ESB), has selected Montrose Port as the future operations and maintenance (O&M) base for the Inch Cape offshore wind farm. Should the Inch Cape projec
UK-based Specialist Marine Consultants (SMC) has won contracts with Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa to provide support on wind farms offshore the UK. Ørsted awarded SMC with a framework agreement to provide statutory inspection and auxiliary services to its sites across the UK. This is the second multi-ye
Norwegian company Norside Wind AS has given SMST a contract for the delivery of a motion compensated gangway joined with an Access & Cargo Tower to be installed on a platform supply vessel which will be converted to a walk-to-work vessel for the offshore wind industry. Back in January, Norside acqui
Edda Wind has ordered three more Commissioning Service Operation Vessels (CSOV) in addition to the six vessels the company has under construction. The vessels are specially designed for service operations during the commissioning and operation of offshore wind farms. The three CSOVs will be prepared
Ørsted and Eversource have selected two vessel operators in Northeast US that will partner with Rhode Island shipyards to build crew transfer vessels (CTVs) serving the two companies’ offshore wind farms in the region. Joint venture partners Ørsted and Eversource will charter five new offshore wind
SSE Renewables is about to kick off further geotechnical survey work at the Berwick Bank Wind Farm located off the east coast of Scotland. The first phase which will include a borehole survey is planned to mobilize between 29 January and 1 February, with the completion expected by 22 February. The s
Equinor has awarded Certex UK with a three-year contract for inspection and maintenance of over 150 turbine generators across two wind farms offshore the UK. The contract covers the Dudgeon and Sheringham Shoal offshore wind farms off the Norfolk coast. The full scope of work covers the statutory in
China connected 16.9 GW of offshore wind capacity to the grid in 2021, the latest data from the country’s National Energy Administration has shown. Back in 2020, China installed then record 3,060 MW of new offshore wind capacity, reaching 9,898 MW of installed capacity at the end of that year. China
Maersk Supply Service and Ørsted plan to launch the world’s first full-scale offshore charging station for vessels, at an offshore wind farm, in the third quarter of 2022. As part of the project, Maersk Supply Service has now launched its offshore vessel-charging venture, Stillstrom, to support the
Spanish companies Navantia, EOLOS Floating Lidar Solutions, and Alerion, together with the University of Seville, have completed pilot and demonstration tests of an unmanned vehicle platform paired with data acquisition systems and drone technology in the Port of Ceuta as part of a project developin
Denmark’s Energinet has awarded MMT with a contract to carry out cable route surveys at the planned energy island in the Baltic Sea and associated offshore wind projects. The Energy Island, located on the island of Bornholm, some 15 kilometres offshore, will connect Germany and Denmark to an offshor
Dogger Bank Wind Farm will hold a series of supply chain events throughout 2022 aimed at showcasing opportunities during the operations and maintenance phase of the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank offshore wind farm. Dogger Bank is located more than 130 kilometres off the north-east coast of England and is being
Private markets firm Partners Group has agreed, on behalf of its clients, to acquire North Star, an operator of specialized vessels that offers emergency response and rescue and essential offshore wind maintenance services, from Basalt Infrastructure Partners. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, No
