The Dutch/German offshore transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT has awarded ABL a contract to provide marine warranty survey services for the installation of three 2 GW export cable systems in the Netherlands. Under the contract, ABL will work on the IJmuiden Ver Beta, IJmuiden Ver Gamma, and Ne
RWE and TotalEnergies, through a joint venture that will soon start building the OranjeWind project off the Dutch coast, have signed a lease agreement with the co-operative association Blue Port Centre, the owner of the former fish auction building at the port of Den Helder, to use the facility as t
NHV Group has been awarded a multi-year contract by Vestas to provide offshore wind operations in the North Sea with the super medium helicopter, the Airbus H175. Under the contract, Belgium’s NHV will provide dedicated crew changes and hoisting operations for the offshore wind industry, starting in
Ocean Winds, a 50/50 joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has contracted Føn Energy Services to provide a fully integrated Balance of Plant (BoP) operations and maintenance (O&M) service programme for the Moray East and Moray West offshore wind farms in Scotland. The contract is valid for
Ørsted has selected Atlas Services Group Energy, UTM Consultants, Boston Energy, and Connected Wind Services Danmark for above-water wind turbine services on its operational offshore wind farms in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. The companies signed five-year framework agreements with Ørsted a
Ocean Winds has extended its operations and maintenance (O&M) long-term contract with Principle Power for the 25 MW WindFloat Atlantic project, the world’s first semi-submersible floating offshore wind farm. Since the project’s first WindFloat unit was installed in 2019, Principle Power has provided
Briggs Marine has secured a contract to provide crew transfer vessel (CTV) services to the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm in Scotland as it progresses from the construction phase into the operations and maintenance (O&M) phase. Under the three-year contract, Briggs Marine will continue to
Decommissioning specialists, led by Offshore Energies UK (OEUK), have produced a “pioneering” set of guidelines for the removal of offshore wind turbines that have reached the end of their useful life. Decommissioning of the first generation of wind turbines is already in progress, and as the offsho
UK-based high-voltage engineering company Ventus Energy has launched its US entity with two East Coast locations to further support the growing offshore wind industry in the country. Operating as Ventus Energy Incorporated, the primary office is located in Brooklyn, New York, within the Industry Cit
MFW Bałtyk II sp. z o.o. and MFW Bałtyk III sp. z o.o. project companies have signed agreements with Equinor Polska to provide operation and maintenance services to the two offshore wind farms in Poland. Polenergia and Equinor hold 50 per cent stakes each in MFW Bałtyk II Sp. z o.o. and MFW Bałtyk I
The following is a press release from Navingo BV, the owner of offshoreWIND.biz and organiser of the annual Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC). More than 400 exhibitors and co-exhibitors booked their spots at OEEC 2024 Businesses and organisations from across the offshore energy sector a
Netherlands-headquartered Mammoet has signed a contract with Buss Ports to handle the marshalling of the monopile foundations for RWE’s Nordseecluster A offshore wind project in Germany and the Thor wind farm in Denmark. Mammoet will manage the phased load-in, temporary storage, and load-out of 116
Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference 2024 (OEEC 2024) is coming up this month. Work on the event is at full steam at Navingo (the company behind OEEC and offshoreWIND.biz brands) with final tweaks and preparations underway. The exhibition floor has been almost completely booked and visitors are n
The construction of the operations & maintenance (O&M) base for RWE’s Thor offshore wind farm has officially started with a ground-breaking ceremony at the Port of Thorsminde. The construction works on the new base are scheduled to take around twelve months. A team of 50 to 60 people will work from
