Two offshore construction milestones have been completed at the 495 MW Fengmiao 1 offshore wind farm in Taiwan, with Jan De Nul finalising the export cable connection to the offshore substation and CDWE completing the installation of the offshore substation and its foundation. Jan De Nul said on 5 A
Steelwind Nordenham has completed the delivery of all monopiles under its contract for the 1.5 GW Baltica 2 offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea, with the final two foundations shipped from the company’s port facility. Under its scope, Steelwind manufactured and delivered 34 monopiles for the
Danish construction company Per Aarsleff A/S has been awarded a design-and-build contract by Energinet for the onshore infrastructure of Denmark’s Bornholm Energy Island project, which will connect future offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea to the Danish and German electricity grids. The contract,
Decommissioning work has started on the TetraSpar Demonstrator floating wind project at the Marine Energy Test Centre (METCentre) site off Karmøy, Norway, with the dynamic export cable disconnected and placed in wet storage, clearing the site for the next demonstrator project. The decommissioning ca
South Korean offshore wind foundation manufacturer SK oceanplant has secured a contract from Seatrium to manufacture and supply the jacket foundation and piles for TenneT’s BalWin5 high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore converter platform in the German North Sea. The contract will see SK oceanp
The Culzean floating wind turbine, which will supply electricity to the Culzean gas platform in the North Sea, off the coast of Scotland, will soon be towed to its offshore location as the integration of the wind turbine with the floating foundation has been completed. Archer, the engineering, procu
Seatrium Offshore Renewable Services (ORS) has started construction of a new offshore wind operations hub in Lowestoft, UK. The company says the investment strengthens Seatrium ORS’ operational capability as demand grows for offshore project delivery, hook-up, commissioning, logistics and lifecycle
CS Wind Offshore has sent off the first batch of transition pieces (TPs) for Vattenfall’s Nordlicht I offshore wind farm from its site at the Port of Aalborg to Germany. Weighing around 362 tonnes each, the transition pieces will be transported and installed at the project site in the German North S
PTSC Mechanical & Construction (PTSC M&C) has completed the construction and loadout of the offshore substation structures for the Fengmiao offshore wind project in Taiwan, comprising a 3,400-tonne topside and an 8,000-tonne jacket and the accompanying piles. “Delivered on schedule with more than 2.
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs has launched a tender for a benthic survey of the Doordewind Wind Farm Zone. The survey, commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), will collect factual benthic data to verify the findings of a desktop reef detection study, the results of which ar
German Federal Police has recovered a detached wind turbine rotor blade that was drifting in the North Sea between the operational Hohe See offshore wind farm and the He Dreiht project, which is currently under construction. According to the Federal Police Inspectorate in Cuxhaven, authorities were
A proposed merger between Saipem and Subsea7 is facing deeper scrutiny in the European Union (EU) over offshore market concentration due to subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF) and carbon capture and storage (CCS) market dominance, potentially threatening to undermine competition, raise c
