Piling work to install wind turbine foundations at the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm has recommenced this week, following the black bream spawning season coming to a close, E.ON said. 20 monopile foundations, each weighing between 500 and 800 tonnes depending on water depth, have already been ins
Severn Offshore Services’ 26-metre Crew Transfer Vessel (CTV), Severn Provider, has completed 5,000 safe passenger transfers since starting her charter at the 288MW Meerwind offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea in April 2015. The Severn Provider is now in her second season of opera
Bernhard Schulte Offshore has held a naming ceremony for the first wind farm service vessel built by Ulstein Verft and chartered out to Siemens in Hamburg. The vessel’s godmother Sophie Schulte named the vessel WINDEA LA COUR, a tribute to Poul la Cour, Danish meteorologist and wind turbine innovato
GeoSea’s jack-up vessel Innovation has installed the first of 91 monopile foundations at DONG Energy’s 580MW Race Bank wind farm located approximately 17 miles off the coast of North Norfolk, UK, according to local media. The foundations, manufactured by Bilfinger Mars Offshore in Poland, will be sp
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier will transport and install 56 MHI Vestas 8MW turbines at the Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm. The turbine installation is set to start in the second quarter of 2018. “This is our second contract signed with DONG Energy and our first project installing the Vestas 8MW turbines, it
Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm) has completed a major modification and maintenance project on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Installer. The principle scope of work involved the extension of the main crane boom, giving the Sea Installer increased reaching capacity. Other work comprised structural modif
HBC Offshore Solutions Ltd, part of the HBC Group, has been awarded with the contract to support Fugro with the installation of the array cables on the 400MW Rampion offshore wind farm. Fugro will lay and bury 122 array cables with its construction and installation vessels Fugro Symphony and Fugro S
Blue Water Shipping and A2SEA have completed the loading, transportation and installation of three transformer units at the 400MW Horns Rev 3 offshore wind farm in the Danish part of the North Sea. Blue Water loaded the three transformer units onto A2SEA’s installation vessel, Sea Installer, in the
Subsea-support vessel (SSV) VOS Star was christened on 27 June in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. The vessel was named by Mrs Lianne Maandag, wife of Evert Maandag, Vroon Head QHSE. VOS Star is a DP2, SPS-coded, 68-metre vessel and one of two newbuilding SSVs to have been constructed at Fujian Southeast
Jan De Nul’s vessel Vole au vent will install MHI Vestas 8MW wind turbines at the Blyth Offshore Demonstrator Project. “Jan De Nul is one of the first to install this new mega turbine and is of course very proud to be a part of this innovative demonstrator project and to work for one of the [&hellip
C-bed’s floating hotel Wind Ambition has been assigned for a new offshore wind project in the German Baltic Sea. The company left the wind farm in question unnamed, however, according to the press release, Wind Ambition will assist during installation and commissioning of 70 offshore wind turbines a
Esvagt plans to deliver its Service Operation Vessel (SOV) for the Dudgeon offshore wind farm ahead of schedule, the company reported in its newsletter. The company has made an agreement with Havyard Ship Technology in Leirvik to speed up the process and have the vessel ready a week earlier than ini
The Saint Nazaire-based startup Geps Techno, the developer of the MLiner independent offshore platform project, has recently adopted new financial sources with a fund raising campaign and Bpifrance grants to offer its line of products on international markets. The MLiner, also known as the ”Swiss Ar
Siemens Lays Out Cost Cutting Strategy Siemens stated that its offshore wind projects from 2025 onward will be capable of generating electricity at a Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) level below eight euro cents per kilowatt hour (kWh), with the price also including the costs for grid access to shore
