Equinor and its partners in the Snorre and Gullfaks licences have secured a portion of funding necessary for the project to power these two oil and gas fields on the Norwegian continental shelf with floating offshore wind turbines.
Ørsted and innogy have entered a power purchase agreement (PPA) under which Ørsted will offtake 100% of the power generated by the Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, for which innogy has now reached financial close.
German-based offshore wind developer innogy has reached financial close for the 860MW Triton Knoll offshore wind farm in the UK, worth around GBP 2 billion, and moved the project towards construction that starts with the onshore electrical system in September.
Walney Extension, a 659MW wind farm in the Irish Sea, is scheduled to become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm in a few days and throw the 630MW London Array off the throne.
The heavy-lift vessel Oleg Strashnov has installed the offshore substation for the East Anglia ONE wind farm in the southern North Sea, some 59 km from the coast of Lowestoft.
Ørsted has awarded a multi-million pound contract to JDR Cables for the supply of inter-array cables and termination work for Hornsea Project Two, which will become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm, once operational in 2022.
Huadong Engineering Corporation, which plans to set up a 1.1GW wind farm off China’s Jiangsu Province, has contracted DNV GL to support feasibility studies for the project’s HVDC offshore substation, first of its kind in China.
Prysmian Group has secured inter-array cable contracts worth over EUR 220 million for three offshore wind farms in France.
As of 24 August, Japan-based Sumitomo Corporation holds a 30% stake in the Northwester 2 offshore wind project, developed by Parkwind in the Belgian sector of the North Sea.
Norway could become the home of the first offshore wind farm directly connected to oil and gas platforms, as Equinor and its partners at Gullfaks and Snorre have decided to explore the possibilities of supplying the five platforms at the oil and gas fields with power from a floating offshore wind.
BARD Offshore 1, the first commercial offshore wind farm in Germany, marked five years of service on 26 August.
Fred. Olsen Windcarrier’s jack-up Bold Tern left Esbjerg on 26 August with the final four MHI Vestas 8MW turbines for Borkum Riffgrund II. According to the vessel’s AIS data, Bold Tern is now at the construction site.
The Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) has designed and installed Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems on two of 20 suction bucket jackets at Ørsted’s Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm.
On the evening of 22 August, the offshore high-voltage station (OHVS) for Belgian Norther offshore wind farm was placed on top of its monopile foundation that was installed earlier at the project site located some 23km off the port of Zeebrugge.
