Vroon Offshore Services and Rhenus Offshore Logistics B.V. have been working together on a maintenance campaign at two offshore substations on the 600MW Gemini offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea.
Offshore wind farms in Germany generated 8.8 billion kWh of electricity in the first six months of 2017, a 47.5 percent increase compared to 5.9 billion kWh of electricity generated in the first half of 2016.
Galloper Offshore Windfarm Limited has chartered Seacat Services’ windfarm support/crew transfer vessel (CTV) Seacat Ranger.
RES (Renewable Energy Systems) has been awarded a fifteen year contract to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services to the Walney 2 offshore transmission (OFTO) asset owned by Blue Transmission Walney 2 Limited (BTW2L).
C-Job Naval Architects has unveiled an initial design of an offshore wind Operations & Maintenance (O&M) vessel capable of servicing the needs of next generation far offshore wind farms.
Vroon’s offshore support vessel VOS Start has become the first vessel to feature a new motion compensated gangway launched recently by Barge Master and Bosch Rexroth.
Although Europe has experience and knowledge in O&M of offshore wind farms, the O&M strategies employed in Europe cannot be copied one-on-one in the U.S. or Asia, a recent study carried out by the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) shows.
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has launched a competition targeted at finding new ways to inspect offshore wind substructures and reduce the cost of offshore wind.
Burntisland-based Briggs Marine Contractors has deployed a recently purchased dual basket diver Launch and Recovery System (LARS) on an offshore renewables project.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority and PUMA, a joint venture between Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Van Oord NV, signed a contract for the construction of the the Rotterdam Offshore Center Maasvlakte 2.
DONG Energy has awarded Atlas Professionals with a 2 year deal to support the Danish energy company’s Heavy Lift Operations and Support activities across the UK, Germany and Denmark.
The Netherlands-based Observator Group has won a contract to supply a Helideck Monitoring System for the Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore substation in the German North Sea.
Holland-based Barge Master and Bosch Rexroth have jointly introduced a new motion compensated gangway to the offshore wind market.
The 42MW Tahkoluoto wind farm off Pori, Finland will enter commercial operation in September, Jan De Nul, the project’s main contractor for marine construction, said.
