40 out of the 100 Vestas V164-9.5MW wind turbines have been installed at the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The 40th turbine was installed at the site some 22 kilometres off the Aberdeenshire coast on 20 May, the project’s latest Notice of Operations shows. Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s
North Falls Offshore Wind Farm has kicked off the first offshore environmental and geophysical surveys on its array site and along potential cable routes offshore the UK. A trio of wind farm survey vessels will be busy in the Southern North Sea for the next three months on this UK extension project,
Seacat Services’ vessel Seacat Enterprise has completed her journey to and first operational assignments at Triton Knoll offshore wind farm using Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO). Following a scheduled refit at the Alicat yard in Great Yarmouth, which saw Seacat Enterprise undergo a number of modifi
Offshore energy support vessel (OESV) operator Seacat Services has signed a long-term charter for catamaran Seacat Magic with Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm Ltd. Seacat Magic will support Operations & Maintenance (O&M) activity for the Greater Gabbard service team working at the 504 MW wind farm
32 out of the 100 Vestas V164-9.5MW wind turbines have been installed at the 950 MW Moray East wind farm offshore Scotland. The wind turbine installation is being carried out by Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up vessel Bold Tern. The first turbines were installed some 22 kilometres off the Aberdeens
Japanese shipping company NYK and Sweden’s Northern Offshore Service AS (N-O-S) have concluded a bareboat charter contract for a crew transfer vessel (CTV) to service offshore wind farms. The CTV, named Energizer, is owned by NYK and will be chartered to N-O-S through a 10-year bareboat charter cont
Well over a third out of the 165 monopile foundations have been installed at the 1,386 MW Hornsea Two offshore wind farm located some 89 kilometres north-east of Grimsby, the U.K. The monopile foundations are being loaded at and transported from the Buss Terminal Eemshaven in the Netherlands and ins
HST Marine has placed an order for one further Chartwell 24 Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV) to be built at Diverse Marine on the Isle of Wight. The deal will also see HST Marine place an order for two BARTech 30 CTVs from the marine engineering consultancy, BAR Technologies. The two BARTech CTVs will als
Survey company HydroSurv has developed two autonomous surface vessels that are predicted to reduce the cost of offshore surveys and inspections at sea by up to 60 per cent, according to the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult. Exeter-based HydroSurv worked with the ORE Catapult and project part
Aberdeen-based company North Star Renewables has won the tender for the delivery of three service operation vessels (SOVs) for the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank project, which is set to become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm. Under a contract worth approximately GBP 270 million (around EUR 316 million),
Seacat Services’ newly launched catamaran, Seacat Rainbow, has gone straight on to a long-term charter with Beatrice Offshore Windfarm Ltd (BOWL). Seacat Rainbow will support operations & maintenance activity for the service team working at the 588 MW Beatrice wind farm offshore Scotland, joining he
Turner Iceni has been awarded a crew transfer vessel (CTV) contract for the Galloper offshore wind farm. The company started operations on 1 March. Under the initial two-year contract with Galloper Wind Farm, Turner Iceni is providing 24/7 support in the form of vessels and crew, which led to the cr
Equinor has extended a contract with Esvagt for its Esvagt Njord Service Operation Vessel (SOV) at the Dudgeon offshore wind farm. The five-year contract extension will see the vessel resuming its deployment at the 402 MW wind farm off Norfolk in the UK until 2026, which will bring Esvagt Njord to b
CWind, part of the Global Marine Group, has launched its CWind Poineer vessel, the world’s first hybrid-powered Surface Effect Ship (SES), according to the company. The vessel was developed in response to an industry-wide push to develop and deploy innovative technologies that reduce CO2 emissions,
