Floating wind specialist BW Ideol has joined two commercial-scale floating wind projects in Taiwan and in Italy. In July, BW Ideol signed a design and engineering services contract with an undisclosed leading party for a commercial-scale floating wind farm in Taiwan. And in August, the company signe
Cyprus-headquartered SeaBird Exploration, which recently won its first contract in offshore wind, will be looking to deploy its seismic research vessel Petrel Explorer on further projects within the sector after the vessel’s contract for an offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea was extended for anoth
Jan De Nul Group, together with JDR Cable Systems as a subcontractor, will supply and install the inter-array cables for the Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind farm in Massachusetts. Jan De Nul and the TFKable Group-owned JDR will deliver almost 210 kilometres of 66 kV cables that will connect the projec
Fugro and Fraunhofer IWES are set to carry out the geophysical investigation of offshore wind areas in the German North Sea. Fugro will perform the positioning and sub-bottom profiling recording and interpretation, while Fraunhofer IWES will focus on the seismic survey and interpretation. Work on th
Swire Pacific Offshore’s platform supply vessel (PSV) Pacific Hornbill has been deployed on the Greater Changhua 1 & 2a offshore wind project in Taiwan to support the ongoing construction activities. The vessel, which departed from the Port of Taichung to the project site on 16 August (according to
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is considering a lease sale for the Wilmington East wind energy area located in the Long Bay, offshore North and South Carolina. BOEM is now preparing a supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) to consider additional wind leasing options offshore Nor
Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) has joined Vårgrønn and Agder Energi in a bid to develop offshore wind in Norway’s Sørlige Nordsjø II zone.Vårgrønn and Agder Energi have worked together for the initial development activity and are now announcing a broadening of the partnership as GIG ente
Danish transmission system operator Energinet has awarded the assignment of conducting environmental studies at the energy islands to Niras and Rambøll. The two companies will, among other activities, map and study marine mammals, fish stocks, and birdlife at different times of the year until 2024.
Huisman has signed a contract with DEME for the delivery of a 2,300mt Lifting Spreader and a set of adaptive Damping Tugger Winches to be installed onboard the offshore installation vessel Orion. Huisman and DEME have worked together on the optimisation of the spreader’s design in order to increase
Dutch offshore access provider Ampelmann has signed 13 contracts in European offshore wind in the first half of 2021. With these contracts, the company enables the installation and maintenance of wind farms by providing motion compensated gangway solutions for both personnel and cargo transfer. ”Sec
AqualisBraemar LOC (ABL) has secured a contract to deliver Marine Warranty Survey (MWS) services for the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm. As part of the contract, ABL will provide expert technical review and approval of documents, operations and vessels relating to both transportation and installati
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has made available the draft environmental assessment (EA) for the New York Bight offshore wind lease areas. The EA assesses the potential impacts of the issuance of commercial and research leases within the nearly 800,000-acre wind energy areas (WEAs) of
CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd. (CLP Power) has selected Ramboll as the owner’s technical engineer and advisor for the pre-development phase of their Hong Kong offshore wind farm off the coast of Sai Kung, Hong Kong. CLP Power has started the preliminary engineering studies, collection of environmental dat
Taylor Hopkinson has been awarded a contract to supply freelance personnel to the Codling Wind Park offshore wind project in Ireland. With a potential capacity of up to 1,500 MW Codling Wind Park is set to be one of the largest offshore wind projects in Ireland and is located in the Irish Sea, appro
