The Navantia-Windar consortium has started loading out of the first jacket foundations for the Saint-Brieuc offshore wind farm and will soon send them to France from Navantia’s yard in Fene, Spain. The first shipment for the French project will contain four jackets of the total of 62 that the Spanis
The first of the 11 Siemens Gamesa 8.6 MW floating wind turbines has started its journey from the Wergeland Base in Gulen towards the installation site some 140 kilometres offshore the Norwegian coast. The wind turbines are being assembled at the Wergeland Base in Gulen in western Norway prior to be
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate has granted ONE-Dyas the permits for the development of a gas field whose platform will run entirely on the electricity from the Riffgat offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. The final permit greenlights the production of natural g
Fugro has started geotechnical site drilling in the southern portion of the OCS-A-0534 lease area offshore Massachusetts, owned by Avangrid, a US arm of the Spanish energy giant Iberdrola. The company, using the vessel M/V Regulus, will be performing the work from 3 June until 31 August 2022, accord
Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP Renewables and ENGIE, has opened public consultation for the development of its proposed Réalt na Mara wind farm offshore Ireland, for whose Maritime Area Consent (MAC) the developer plans to apply early next year. The first phase of the wind farm’s public co
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) plans to publish a call for tenders for geotechnical investigations at IJmuiden Ver V and VI offshore wind sites around the end of June 2022. Together with the two sites, the agreement with a successful tenderer will also include two other investigation areas,
Vos Prodect has won a contract with JDR Cable Systems to supply the cable hang-off systems for the Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in Germany. Vos Prodect will deliver the sealed cable hang-off systems by the end of the second quarter of 2022, securing the subsea power cables to the top of the mono
Based on current targets and tendering activities for floating wind in several European countries, WindEurope expects the continent to have more than 10 GW of installed floating wind capacity by 2030. “Floating wind energy is about to take off big time in Europe. Over 100 MW is already in operation.
Norway-based DeepOcean has been awarded a contract to provide subsea services to Vineyard Wind 1, the first utility-scale offshore wind project in the US. Under the contract, DeepOcean will provide a range of subsea services including project management, engineering, ROV, tooling, and survey activit
Saitec Offshore Technologies wants to build a 50 MW pre-commercial pilot floating wind farm in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Costa Brava, by 2025. The Spanish engineering company plans to deploy five 10 MW wind turbines installed on its proprietary SATH floating foundations at a site located some
Korea Floating Wind (KF Wind) has signed a Joint Development Agreement Term Sheet with Korea East-West Power, a state-owned generation company in Korea, for a collaboration on the development of floating offshore wind sites off the coast of Ulsan. As reported, KF Wind, a joint venture between OW Oce
Heerema Marine Contractors, using the world’s largest crane vessel Sleipnir, has completed the installation of the three-legged offshore substation (OSS) jacket foundations and the South OSS topside on the 450 MW Neart an Gaoithe (NnG) wind farm offshore Scotland. The commissioning of the substation
Cbus Super, Australia’s building and construction industry superannuation fund, has acquired a 10 per cent interest in Star of the South, the country’s most advanced offshore wind project, after investing into Copenhagen Infrastructure IV (CI IV), the majority owner of the project and the flagship f
Clinton Marine Survey, on behalf of wpd offshore GmbH, has completed a comprehensive geophysical survey at the planned site of the Eystrasalt offshore wind farm in Sweden. The study was conducted over the past six months by the vessel, Northern Storm, which wpd says emitted 1,723 tonnes less of CO2
